MANUEL ANDRACK - THE COMEDY
A hiking joke: The Wandervögel have split up. One half just wanted to hike. Pruha, a thigh-slapper, a downer, a hoot, the shortest hiking joke in the world! Not funny? I think so. The fundamental question is: are there funny, humorous aspects to hiking? I think so. In principle, of course, it's not funny to put one step in front of the other or to look at the landscape. It's quite another thing to be out on the Moselle with a group of hikers from Luxembourg and pass a cattle pasture. The cows approach curiously and then the twenty or so people start to sing. And the cattle listen with rapt attention; if they could applaud, they would, no question about it. I found that very funny.
Of course, I'm always happy when I see a hiking parking lot sign. The man hiker with hat and stick walking ahead. The woman hiker, what am I saying, the lady hiker behind, without hat and stick, but with a super short skirt, handbag and flowing hair. The two of them set an incredible pace, the sign is definitely the funniest road sign in Germany. Interestingly, there is a Baden version of the sign, a more chaste version: the lady hiker has an ankle-length skirt and her flowing hair is knotted into a tight bun. That's the way to do it.
challenge him, not to say overtax him. Hiking 82 kilometers in one go. Being a member of the Swabian Alb Association. Hanging on the steep face of the Watzmann east face. It's a kind of mathematical humor calculation: the difference between wanting to and being able to is the germ line of comedy. When sentences like: "I know my way around here, I don't need a hiking map!" or "There's definitely not going to be a thunderstorm today" collide with reality, it's always pretty funny. Or you just tell another hiking joke, I have one more: Why did Moses wander through the desert with the people of Israel for forty years? - Men don't ask for directions.
Yours, Manuel Andrack