Kaffee

At the fire department, the coffee gets cold – known to many as the (East) German children's book classic by the author Hannes Hüttner and the illustrator Gerhard Lahr from 1969 - is darn funny: the firefighters just want to recover from their strenuous work with a good cup of coffee, the phone is ringing again and calling for the next operation. The coffee stops untouched and Wachtmeister Meier, Löschmeister Wasserhose and the rest of the troops rush to Grandma Eierschecke in Kaffeestraße 13, where an open oven door has just set the apartment on fire. Fortunately, nothing happened to anyone. As a thank you Grandma Eierschecke puts the after all not charred cake in the bag. But who thinks that this can be eaten comfortably for the next coffee break, of course, was wrong!

Alle zwei Wochen trafen sich Loki Schmidt und Reiner Lehberger zum Gedankenaustausch. Im Wohnzimmer in Hamburg-Langenhorn sprachen sie bei einer Tasse Kaffee (und einigen Zigaretten) über die großen und kleinen Dinge des Lebens. Die hier versammelten zwanzig Gespräche zeugen vom facettenreichen Leben und Denken einer großen Persönlichkeit.