Chance brought them together in the early 1960s at the editorial office of the satirical magazine 'Pardon': the members of what would later be known as the New Frankfurt School (NFS) for high comedy, who, among other things, demonstrate in their own publication 'Titanic' that comedy can be a great art. This volume analyzes the works of the most important representatives and successors: F. W. Bernstein, Robert Gernhardt, Eckhard Henscheid, F. K. Waechter, Ror Wolf, Wilhelm Genazino, Max Goldt, and Wiglaf Droste.