On average, a person lies 200 times a day. It all started with the serpent in paradise, and since then we haven't been able to stop. Lies are the glue of world history. The documents that established the Papal States and made Hamburg a Hanseatic city are forged! Perhaps even half of the Middle Ages is a fabrication. And then there's the 19th century - the great era of con artists! They sell the Eiffel Tower, non-existent salad oil, and the city of London in parts. Not to mention that in the 20th century, of course, no one intended to build a wall in Berlin or had a "sexual relationship with that woman." Finally, the truth about lies! A witty, absurd tour de force was the program that Dieter Hildebrandt and Roger Willemsen presented at the lit.COLOGNE 2007 in Cologne to an enthusiastic audience: informative and entertaining.