90th birthday of Dieter Hildebrandt on May 23, 2017. The life’s work of the great cabaret artist is published as a book for the first time. No one shaped and accompanied the public debate in Germany like Dieter Hildebrandt, from the early 1950s until his death in 2013. What remains gathers, for the first time, a selection of his most important texts from his beginnings as a student, the Munich Laughing and Shooting Society (1956-1972), the Notes from the Province (1973-1979), the Windshield Wiper (1980-2003), and the last twenty years of his life. Dieter Hildebrandt's assessments of the state of the nation will endure, and they remain relevant: "You can't pound your fist on the table when you have your fingers in everything." "Politicians usually have clean hands. That's clear, because it explicitly says: One hand washes the other." "Grand coalitions are not there.".