Lichttürme

Thorsten Töpp is actually quite the connoisseur. He loves Southern French cuisine, fi ne wine, acoustic guitar music, comfortable sandals, a good conversation about Beethoven, Mahler, Rihm or even Ustvolskaya, and he cannot bring himself to harm a fl y. Alas – and this is really odd: as soon as Björn Höcke spouts some history-distorting nonsense on some random alternative media outlet – HATE’nHETZ! – Thorsten transforms into the colossal (and still growing) Professor Quintus Goldschnitt, who uses mighty electronically amplifi ed tone fi elds – ZOOOOOM! – subtle tapping noises and a gigantic, free-ranging swarm of overtones to generate sonically dazzling towers that abruptly render in particular the notes A, F and D completely inaudible throughout Germany. Crazy! And there‘s another odd thing here: the Professor‘s light towers only manifest for 33 minutes a decade! When they‘re done, the powerful Professor Quintus Goldschnitt suddenly vanishes, leaving Thorsten Töpp behind in his place, looking like he didn‘t have to make much of an eff ort at all (was it even one and the same person in the end?!). In sandals. Captain Niederrhein grins to him as they do their evening tour together, in a white rowboat floating on the Nieper Kuhlen: „First off, good footwear. And then a warm bowl of soup!“ – W-HUESH! – So, NOTHING all that EARTH-SHATTERING…