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How to Grow Old with Dignity and a Wink

Reflecting on aging in an authentic and entertaining way

A worthwhile, light-heartedly ironic book by a first-rate charmer.

He is old. He is well-known and beloved. Now, actor Joachim Fuchsberger encourages his peers and all the younger ones who will eventually grow old to approach this inevitable process of life with ease:

"I think it's time for the elderly to stop pulling their wrinkled skin over their ears. Let's stop listening in silence to the chatter from the offices, and let’s not be intimidated by the know-it-alls, no matter where they sit."

Witty and charming, thoughtful but never weepy, the great old man of German entertainment films chats about the prime of his life and how it feels as it slowly fades away. Fuchsberger speaks candidly and advises not to let demographic doom and gloom ruin one’s twilight years.