Forty years of taking the piss
What would reunification have been without East German Gaby and the banana joke? And what of German history without a pear-shaped Helmut Kohl? And Germany without Titanic?
These are the burning questions for the occasion of a 40th birthday. This book provides definitive answers, in the finest Titanic tradition, rich in text and image. For the first time ever, all 480 Titanic covers have been lavishly restored and are presented here in an exclusive edition. Nothing is off limits: neither elected dictators, nor immovable democrats; not politicians, priests, popes and celebrities; not Hitler or Merkel, not even Jesus, Buddha, Krishna and the one from Islam. And certainly not Germany. Always flying in the face of clichés, always under the guiding (contrary) principle: “The ultimate division of Germany – that is our task.” Chlodwig Poth (1930-2004, Titanic co-founder).
