We had nothing, but much more of it. Actually, it was a wonderful time. Is that really true? Or have our gracious brains simply deleted a few unpleasant details from the memory album called 'The Good Old Days*'* from the mental hard drive? Such as the physically palpable boredom, the cigarette smoke in the animally cramped holiday car, mullet and perm on everyone's heads, musty panelled party cellars, Mettigel as a pet and only two television programmes with the end of the broadcast. A fabulous boomer boy on the trail of time - the new book by the SPIEGEL bestselling author In his new book, Oliver Kalkofe opens his boomer heart and his personal photo albums. He takes us on a journey back in time to our own youth and asks himself on behalf of all baby boomers: Was there really more tinsel in the past? What does the past have to do with the present - and can the present be understood at all without the past? Personal and funny: a satirical parody with heart Oliver Kalkofe analyzes the supposedly golden boomer times with proven drastic comedy and sophisticated wordcraft. In doing so, he puts himself and an entire generation in front of the mirror: Were the idiots really smarter back then than they are today? Are we ultimately just drinking the 70s, 80s and the years around them - or were we lucky enough to become big in the best decades at all? *We sat for days in Kalk's student apartment, functionally furnished exclusively with Billy shelves full of VHS cassettes and were able to convince ourselves that watching the "A-Team" and eating pizza was scientific work.*Oliver Welke Biography Oliver Kalkofe, born in Hanover in 1965, discovered his humorous talent in the program "Frühstyxradio" on Radio ffn and created the award-winning TV satire "Kalkofes Mattscheibe" in the mid-nineties (Premiere, ProSieben). In the cinema, he landed two surprise hits with the Edgar Wallace parodies "Der Wixxer" and "Neues vom Wixxer". For the program magazine TV Spielfilm, he writes his media-critical column "Kalkofes letzte Worte" every 14 days. New product