A valuable advice book for cheerful days at the office, in more than 100 sketches. On carefree communication with subordinates and superiors, special kinds of customer contact, and calmly undermining one’s dear colleagues. With tips and tricks for work life balance – »enjoyable physical diversions can make the debilitating office hours between meals much less horrific.«

Every single year! Even if there used to be more tinsel, Christmas is still at its most beautiful with Loriot. Alongside the legendary Advent story, this volume collects together more than 100 illustrations about industrious party preparations, presents that are guaranteed to delight and contemplative moments on Christmas Eve.

Please note: A calm Christmas is the result of a lack of imagination. A deafening racket is proof that Christmas isn’t just an empty word for you.

Home sweet home: A cosy, stylish home is the best guarantee of relaxation and mental peace. The road to that peace can be rocky at times, though. Loriot shares the traps of buying a house, the pitfalls of renovation and the trials of moving home in over 100 pictures and cartoons. But also the joys of interior design: our home shall be a mirror of our inner life.

The modern individual is constantly travelling, be it in their professional life or on vacation. In over 100 pictures and cartoons, Loriot illustrates how not to lose one’s head on car, train, sea or air trips, and how to demonstrate one’s worldliness on the beach, in a tent, at a hotel and in exotic locations.

We all need to eat. What matters is the what and the how of it. In 100 pictures and cartoons, Loriot introduces us to the secrets of German cuisine, teaches us table manners, correct behaviour in a restaurant and responsible dealings with alcohol and other enjoyable substances.

Loriot’s legendary television sketches in an opulent four-colour printing luxury volume. Loriot’s sketches wrote television history. Millions of Germans know entire dialogues by heart, quotes such as »my duck will not share the bathwater with you« have become common parlance. When Loriot gave his collected sketches the title Dramatic Works, he had no idea that he really would become one of the most-performed German dramatists of his time. Now this essential volume is finally available in an expanded edition with a modern layout and colour stills from the television sketches and animated films.

Even before the volume ›Useless Thoughts‹, word got around that Tomi Ungerer was just as virtuous with a pen as with a pencil. He coaxes the deeper meaning from language, makes ludicrous connections, and twists and turns words come hell or high water. Wise jokes, revealing wordplay, pointed paradoxes – there is nothing more thoughtprovoking than reading these Tom-isms.

Why are sea horses always fidgety on Fridays? And how can you tell when a Rolls-Royce is hungry? You don’t know? Don’t worry, because it turns out the whole world is a question mark. Or at least the world created in this book of questions by Tomi Ungerer’s ingenious drawings: never before has someone created such cryptic but beautiful shenanigans with a punctuation mark. Pictures you will wish to look at again and again, absurd questions without answers, illustrations of unique beauty: this book is sure to leave all questions open!

»One, Two, where's my Shoe? – Three, Four, on the Floor!« – These are the only words Tomi Ungerer needs for a story. The rest is told by his subtle and shrewd pictures, which seem to take the viewer for a fool – until he can't help but smile in recognition: Across the book's pages, Tomi Ungerer's pencil conjures up dragonflies, soldiers, scarecrows, a pig and even an ocean liner. And the line is always: ›One, Two, where's my Shoe?‹

Discover a new side to Germany's most famous comedian and caricaturist. ›Spätlese‹ collects previously unknown gems from his estate: early picture stories, sketches for friends and acquaintances and the surprising ›nightshades‹ which Loriot created in the sleepless hours of his final years. A feast for all lovers of fine humour. The first Loriot book with unpublished drawings to be released in 30 years!

Who isn't familiar with it, that irksome obligation of immortalising oneself in guest books when visiting people? Loriot's guests had an easier run of it. The master of the house would photograph them instead, always against the same backdrop, and in a variety of poses. Friends, relatives, colleagues and fellow artists posed for Vicco von Bülow, alongside a pillar and in front of a curtain. Over the years, an extensive photo gallery came into being. Loriot's ›Guestbook‹ is a personal document, an amusing panorama of society and a condensed chronicle of changing fashions.

Apart from ideas, sketches and drawings, Tomi Ungerer's notebooks show his predilection for aphorisms, puns and little stories. Out of this reservoir, a book has emerged for the first time which shows Tomi Ungerer's unusual side, which, however, is perhaps not that unusual after all: »I am a note-taker. I draw what I write down and I write down what I draw in order to express my thoughts clearly and succinctly«, as Ungerer himself puts it.

The best dramatic stories by Loriot accompanied by colour images from the animated films: ›Gentlemen in the Bath‹, ›Where Are They Running?‹, ›The Interview‹, ›Television Night‹, ›The Breakfast Egg‹, ›The Talking Dog‹ and ›Work's Over‹.

We are all alive and yet we are all dilettantes, finding it hard to cope in a world where yesterday everyone was dancing to techno music and now the tango is all the rage, where one is either unemployed or working oneself to death, where footballers suddenly start to look like women and Germany's women's team performs better at the Football World Cup than the ›stronger sex‹. In times such as these, we need help. With humour and a refined turn of phrase, Mrożek tackles the absurdity of our existence. The more grotesque and absurd his tips are, the more they are tangible and concrete – and the more amusing for the reader!