Studiointerview

Studiointerview (also The interview or Plastology)^[1] is a cartoon sketch by the German humorist Loriot. Divided into four individual sections, it is part of the first episode of the television series Loriot, which was first broadcast in March 1976. The content of the sketch is a television interview with a scientist who is able to enlarge his own body parts using breathing techniques. With the television and science parody as well as the depiction of failed communication, the sketch takes up three basic motifs of Loriot's television work. It also contains a number of sexual allusions, a typical creative device for Loriot.

Studiointerview was also shown in the re-edited version of the series Loriot from 1997. The text of the sketch first appeared in 1981 and has since been included in several Loriot anthologies.

^ In Loriots Dramatische Werke und Gesammelte Prosa erschien der Text als Studiointerview. In Das Frühstücksei erschien der Text unter dem Titel Das Interview. This is also the name of the cartoon in the VHS collection Loriots Vibliothek. In the DVD collection Sein großes Sketch-Archiv, the sketch is called Plastologie. In the complete DVD edition The Complete Television Edition, it is called Plastology (studio interview). The website loriot.de, run by Loriot's heirs, writes "Studiointerview (also: Plastologie)". As with most of Loriot's contributions, no title is given in the episode itself. Felix Christian Reuter calls the sketch Studiointerview in his dissertation, Stefan Neumann uses the title Das Studiointerview and Uwe Ehlert titles his analysis Studiointerview Pneumatische Plastologie.

[1] In Loriots Dramatische Werke und Gesammelte Prosa erschien der Text als Studiointerview. In Das Frühstücksei erschien der Text unter dem Titel Das Interview. This is also the name of the cartoon in the VHS collection Loriots Vibliothek. In the DVD collection Sein großes Sketch-Archiv, the sketch is called Plastologie. In the complete DVD edition The Complete Television Edition, it is called Plastology (studio interview). The website loriot.de, run by Loriot's heirs, writes "Studiointerview (also: Plastologie)". As with most of Loriot's contributions, no title is given in the episode itself. Felix Christian Reuter calls the sketch Studiointerview in his dissertation, Stefan Neumann uses the title Das Studiointerview and Uwe Ehlert titles his analysis Studiointerview Pneumatische Plastologie.

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