When it comes to pleasure as an art form, Hanns Dieter Hüsch must not be forgotten: a furious wordsmith and provocateur, a humorist par excellence, and in his best moments just as good as Thomas Bernhard. Hanns Dieter Hüsch will be remembered as an unwavering humanist, whose name will forever be associated with literary cabaret. With the necessary distance and linguistic precision, he provided accurate assessments of the German psyche. He found truth in the seemingly banal and absurd.