Endlich Kanzler! - Die endgültige Autobiografie von Friedrich Merz

In the organizer's words:

Three satirical professionals portray the new German Chancellor in words and pictures, accompany him from his childhood and youth in the Sauerland region, go with him through the artillery of first love, through his most difficult exams (A-levels, constitutional law, Angela Merkel) and from Blackrock to Berlin and into the Chancellery. Who is Friedrich Merz anyway? Apart from "the new guy" in the chancellor's office? Nobody knows that as well as Fabian Lichter, Sebastian Maschuw and Leo Riegel.

They have it in their satirical blood, because they all worked and still work on the number one satirical battleship, Titanic, but also for extra 3, heute show and other formats. They were there when little Friedrich sat in the Franz-Josef-Strauß reading circle, rebellious and fuming, and heroically saved the boy next door, Rüdiger, from voting for the SPD. You accompanied the ambitious lawyer in the New York jet set. How did he feel as a small millionaire surrounded by multi-billionaires? What was going on in the antechambers and lobby basements of the financial world? And what was Olaf Scholz's Bitcoin password again? This "ultimate biography" traces Merz's inevitable rise. Truthful, honest and guaranteed unauthorized.

About Fabian Lichter: Fabian Lichter (born 1987 in Singen Hohentwiel) was an editor at Titanic magazine and lives as a columnist and freelance TV author in Frankfurt am Main. He has written for programs such as "Late Night Berlin", "ZDF Magazin Royale", "heute show" and "extra 3".

About Sebastian Maschuw: Sebastian Maschuw (born 1986 in Koblenz) is an editor and online editor at Titanic. He also works as an author and editor at WDR in Cologne. As one half of the duo Creamspeak, he maintains a loyal and ever-growing following on X, Instagram and BlueSky; their podcast has been listened to by 30,000 people.

About Leo Riegel: Leo Riegel (born 1983 in Göttingen) is a cartoonist, illustrator and editor at the satirical magazine TITANIC. His work has received several awards, including the Sondermann Prize for Comic Art (2015) and the German Cartoon Prize (2016), and has appeared in Titanic, taz and his book "Seltsam verschlüsselte Botschaften aus dem All" (2018), among others. He lives in Frankfurt am Main.

Voices:

"This book is already the best and funniest thing the Merz government has produced."

Klaas Heufer-Umlauf

"I wouldn't have thought Friedrich Merz capable of so much eloquence, wit, wisdom and memory!"

Ella Carina Werner