Those who reduce him to a cat litter box and only know his TV talks miss the most important thing: Helge Schneider is not only a gifted singer, multi-instrumentalist, author of novels and radio plays, but he is also an actor, illustrator, and filmmaker – and always a surprising master of language and logic. Peter Kemper, through his extensive knowledge gained from numerous interviews and personal meetings, reveals for the first time where the roots of this multi-talent lie: in the everyday culture of the Ruhr area, with Jürgen von Manger, the clown Grock, the jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, but also in the cynical rhetoric of a Diogenes.