Last weeks we had the advice for a bad speaker from Kurt Tucholsky. Today follows the – much shorter – advice for a good speaker.
Main sets. Main sets. Main sets.
Clear disposition in the head – as little as possible on paper.
Facts, or appeal to emotion. Slingshot or harp. A speaker is not an encyclopedia. That’s what people have at home.
The sound of a single speaking voice tires; never speak for more than forty minutes. Do not seek to achieve effects that are not in your nature. A podium is a ruthless thing – there a person stands more naked than in a sunbath.
Remember Otto Brahms’ saying: Wat jestrichen is, kann nich durchfalln.
1930
If you want the advice as a book: go to Amazon here. Tucholsky gives fantastic rhetoric training in these texts. It really only takes three things to become a really good speaker: Practice, practice, practice.
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