“Men and women just don’t mix…”—and yet they have to get along every day. When the breakfast egg has been overcooked first thing in the morning and opinions differ in the evening about how to spend the rest of the night, things get critical. This is exactly what Loriot captured so perfectly in his legendary *Scenes from a Marriage*, published in 1983. His keen sense of human interaction and the humor of everyday communication reveal Loriot as a sharp-witted connoisseur of all-too-human comedies.

As a tribute to the grand master of humor, two giants of stage and film—Senta Berger and Friedrich von Thun—come together to breathe life and laughter into these scenes. Together and against each other, they grapple with the stumbling blocks that everyday life throws in their path, and of course with the insurmountable pitfalls of a relationship. Because as Loriot himself said: