"I think - except perhaps for Lichtenberg - there has been no equal in the German language!" Albert Einstein on Wilhelm Busch. In fact, he was a melancholic man plagued by self-doubt, who spent his life trying to establish himself as a "serious" artist: Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), the creator of Max and Moritz and many other delightfully dark and frivolous picture stories and poems, which captivate with their intellectual freshness, their satirical yet never ordinary tone, as well as the sensitive and profound sharpness of observation that evokes the desire to read them again and again. This anthology includes: poems from the Fliegende Blätter, Dideldum, Schein und Sein, early verses, and more.