ARD comedy “Kroymann”
“I don’t believe in mathematics”: Maren Kroymann demonstrates the absurdity of “lateral thinkers”
Jasna Fritzi Bauer as a bookseller who despairs of a lateral thinking customer (Maren Kroymann).
© Radio Bremen / Frank Dicks / ARD
Alternative facts and brazen science denial: In a sketch, Maren Kroymann demonstrates the infantile behavior of lateral thinkers using mathematics as an example – without exaggerating too much.
Germany is not getting any further with the vaccination campaign: Millions of Germans are still unvaccinated. The so-called lateral thinkers play an important role in public – who play down or even deny the corona virus and question the knowledge of science.
In a new sketch from her comedy show “Kroymann”, Maren Kroymann shows how absurd the argumentation patterns of corona deniers can be. There a lateral thinker wants to buy books in a shop – but instead of the required 44.90 euros, she only wants to pay 15.70 euros. “You miscalculated,” she accuses the saleswoman.
It does the math again – but comes back to 44.90 euros. That’s when the discussion starts: “For you – and perhaps for your system-based capitalism machine.” The bookseller played by Jasna Fritzi Bauer insists on the correctness of her calculated sum.
Maren Kroymann as a “cross calculator”
But with that she really challenges the “transverse computer”: “You don’t have to yell at me just because I don’t share your mainstream opinion,” she replies. “In contrast to you, I do not accept every first truth that the government and state radio present. I make my own picture.”
And then he goes on to say that mathematics is “a fake science with which those up there want to cup us”. The saleswoman explains that the rules by which we calculate are not made by the government, they have existed since Pythagoras.
But the customer does not accept that either: “Were you there when this alleged Pythagoras set his rules?” In general: Why should your own calculation result be worth less than that of the saleswoman? You just argue on the basis of other facts.
Misunderstood tolerance
As if the dialogue weren’t already absurd enough, another customer jumps in on the computer: “I also think it’s important to allow other perspectives,” he says, very tolerantly.
When the retailer picks up the cell phone to prove the correctness of her invoice, the next punch known from circles of lateral thinkers comes: “Ah, you don’t think at all. You trust your cell phone. Best wishes to Bill Gates – he’ll hear anyway always closed. “
To round off the picture, the customer also unpacks a conspiracy theory before being expelled from the store: “I have information that proves that mathematics is a global conspiracy to turn us into underage sheep.”
But in the end this sketch still has a punch line ready: Because now it is the turn of the customer who has previously shown so much understanding for the alternative calculation methods. But the saleswoman has mastered that too: “That’ll make 2000 euros.”
The current edition of the comedy show “Kroymann” is in the ARD media library retrievable.