Grown up on “RTL Saturday Night”, later passed on to medium entertainment: Mirco Nontschew tore himself apart for his audience. The audience, unsuspecting how they had always reacted to great art, did not thank him.
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Willi Winkler
Except maybe Chancellor, nothing in Germany is as difficult as being funny. Anyone can talk stupidly, crack jokes, peddle gossip, down to the bottom, everything is child’s play compared to being asked to be really funny. Mirco Nonchev could do that, and the way he could was terrifying.