The self-experiment: being funny by Anke Engelke

Created: 09/28/2022, 11:03 am

By: Katja Kraft

Sensitive and funny: comedian Anke Engelke on "Meet your Master" © MM

At Viktoria and Heiner Lauterbach's online seminar "Meet your Master" you can learn from the best.

We tested it.

Today: Comedy lessons with Anke Engelke.

Unintentionally funny I can.

Funny works too;

when the environment is right.

If I feel good and I have the right, quick-tongued people around me, it can be very, very funny.

But: How nice would it be if you were as quick-witted and sure of your punches in situations in which you are unsure as you are on familiar terrain?

Anke Engelke claims: You can learn that.

Ever since I attended her online seminar "Meet your Master", I've been saying: true.

Basically, as the comedian conveys in her approachable way, "only" three things matter: attention, belief in yourself and: practice.

Everything is connected with each other.

If you want to learn to parody, for example, you have to observe your surroundings carefully.

Must collect behaviors.

“How do people make phone calls, how do people behave when they are stressed, when they are happy?” In short: what are people like?

Then practice imitating at home, so you get more and more confidence - and thus the courage to use what you have practiced in a large group.

Katja Kraft wanted to learn how to be funny from Anke Engelke at "Meet your Master".

© Klaus Haag

The funniest minutes are when Anke Engelke goes into practice and improvises.

Or when she shows scenes from her career in which a live show didn't go as smoothly as expected.

Then: address your own quirks with humor, say what everyone else is thinking.

Playing with expectations is important.

The familiar, a running gag, just turn it up a notch.

A running gag in the "Wochenshow" helped promote Engelke's career.

One likes to do it again after this witty, empathetic, profitable workshop: Thank you, Anke!