We didn’t have much, but we had plenty of it – or did we? Oliver Kalkofe, SPIEGEL bestselling author and Boomer boy through and through, embarks on a journey back in time to his own youth in his new book. Between mullets, perms, hedgehog meatballs and the end of broadcasting, he asks himself – and an entire generation – the crucial question: Was there really more tinsel back then, or have our memories simply deleted a few unpleasant details?

With his trademark drastic comedy and sharp powers of observation, Kalkofe takes apart the supposedly golden Boomer decades – personally, satirically and with a lot of heart. In doing so, he not only opens his own photo album, but holds up a mirror to the entire generation: Were the idiots really smarter back then than they are today, or are we just drinking our way through rose-tinted memories of the 70s and 80s?

An evening full of nostalgia, self-irony and biting humour – Oliver Kalkofe live, as he opens his Boomer heart for us