Underdog Comedies

We all live in a “glasshouse” of our own, knowing very little about the other “glasshouses” around us. Let’s get out of our “glasshouses" and learn more about life in other professions and recognize that we are all “underdogs”. The comedy doesn’t take only this into account, but it also invites us to look at life with a smile, because those, who smile, live longer. When we ask ourselves who the underdogs in our society are, who comes into our mind? When we think of the “social ladder”, maybe we come to the lower areas of that ladder: beggars or garbage collectors maybe, but surely no solicitors, doctors and certainly not a king or a queen … But when we look closer, isn’t everybody an underdog, concerning obligations and dependencies each and every one of us has to other people? Ten comedic but still thought-provoking stories about very different lives tell us, that even if the jobs are so much different, yet the people are always the same. As a result a beggar can be more free and unbound than a king – so who’s the underdog now? Born in Transylvania during world war II, Martin Kari’s life followed many pathways. Technical and then formal higher education prepared the author for a life with a sense of exploration, adventure, intellect and humanity. Having worked and lived on four continents as a global citizen, he settled in Australia with his wife and six children in 1981. It was only in retirement that he found the time to take up the pen again, proving that it is never too late to take on something new in life. Martin has published worldwide 12 books so far ranging from politics, novels, travel stories, biography to practical philosophy (in English and German).

Martin Kari wurde im Zweiten Weltkrieg in Siebenbürgen-Transylvanien als zweiter Sohn des Weinbauers Michael Lutsch und seiner Frau Sara geboren. Der Autor folgte in seinem Leben verschiedenen Wegen; ein Weg begann mit der Flucht seiner Adoptiveltern Reissenberger nach Deutschland. Seine schulische, technische und höhere Ausbildung bereiteten den Autor auf ein Leben mit Entdeckungen, Abenteuer, Intellekt und Menschlichkeit vor. Der Autor hat in vier Kontinenten gelebt, gearbeitet und sich 1981 in Australien erfolgreich niedergelassen mit seiner finnischen Frau Arja, geborene Kari, und ihren sechs Kindern. Im Alter von 65 Jahren verließ der Autor im Jahr 2006 die „berufliche Tretmühle“. Erst dann fand er zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben die Zeit, um die Schreibfeder herauszuholen. Es ist nie zu spät im Leben etwas Neues zu beginnen; ist die Botschaft des Autors an seine Leser und Mitmenschen.