Oh dear, I'm not even shaved. I actually shave before appointments like this. Otherwise, I've invested a lot of money in my new teeth."

The man with the new teeth is the professional boxer Axel Schulz, he had an appointment with the two authors Luzia Braun and Ursula March. Right at the beginning of their meeting, they held up a small hand mirror to him and asked him to describe his face. The philosopher Peter Sloterdijk hardly looked and said succinctly: "There had to be someone who looks like that."

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