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Jürgen von der Lippe welcomes none other than Harald Schmidt as the first guest of the 2006 "What are you reading?" season. He recommends the book of a particularly eloquent colleague to the audience: Sarah Kuttner's "The wafer-thin ice of half two-thirds knowledge", an anthology of columns from the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Musikexpress. With a pronounced preference for astonishingly obvious neologisms and extremely daring chains of thought, the TV presenter addresses the important questions of life: Is barbecuing a popular sport or a tradition? Can you really recognize the silhouette of the Klitschko brothers after a fight in a pea soup bought on eBay? And which is better? There is actually a serious indication that Harald Schmidt has actually read the book: he wrote the blurb or dictated it to the author's answering machine. His conclusion: "Sarah Kuttner is proof that there are women who can do it too." Jürgen von der Lippe, meanwhile, is also cultivating his reputation as a hypochondriac in the new season of "What are you reading?" and recommends Tilman Spengler's "When men overextend themselves. A story of suffering in 24 vertebrae" to interested viewers. Spengler ("Lenin's Brain"), who suffers from lumbar spine syndrome - or more simply: LWS syndrome - goes through the stages of his suffering vertebra by vertebra in literary terms, reports knowledgeably on the most adventurous methods of fighting the pain, and provides profound insights into the soul of a bent man. After all, it is not only physically extremely stressful when the lumbar spine goes out of joint and once upright guys have to soberly realize: turning the world upside down is a thing of the past - today my life revolves around angora furs, aerobic exercises and Feldenkrais cassettes. (Text: WDR)