Stories That We’d Never Tell While Sober

With 100,000 downloads per week, “Herrengedeck” is one of Germany’s most successful podcasts. Its creators pick up their readers where stereotypes and embarrassment leave off!

The authors may live in Berlin and do something media related, but hippie flower garlands are verboten, they don’t ride fixed-gear bikes to work and, to them, unicorns aren’t cute, but just horses with a genetic defect. On Saturday night, they don’t drink Prosecco, but beer and Korn. The two of them report on Tinder dates that end up in fetish clubs and extreme fear of shower stalls, on being cat haters and police lovers. Of course, random facts and schnapps recipes are always de rigueur: Did you know that there are three golf balls on the moon and that all swans that live in England belong to the queen? Let’s drink a “Gisela” to that – cheers!

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  • Publisher: KiWi-Taschenbuch
  • Release: 22.08.2019
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-05166-7
  • 208 Pages
  • Authors: Ariana BaborieLaura Larsson
Stories That We’d Never Tell While Sober
Ariana Baborie Laura Larsson Stories That We’d Never Tell While Sober
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Ariana Baborie

Ariana Baborie has been keeping to-do lists ever since she learned to think – and has already been able to check off quite a few items: appearances in the Quatsch Comedy Club, on NightWash, with Dieter Nuhr on TV and on several late-night talk shows on Sat.1, and co-host of one of Germany’s most listened to podcasts. In 2018, she and Laura Larsson received the German Podcast Prize for Herrengedeck , the Digital Female Leader Award from Microsoft in Berlin and a positive customer review on eBay.

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Laura Larsson

Laura Larsson may be 30, but she still wonders every day whether she still has a chance to become a prom queen in California. Never mind that she’s from the small city of Parchim and moved to Berlin to become as famous as Beyoncé. Since she only ever made it as far as becoming a radio host, where she was constantly interrupted by the music, she and her colleague Ariana created the podcast Herrengedeck , named after a drink that mixes beer and Korn (grain brandy).