Hugo Ball's novel about Flametti's variety ensemble - world-famous at Zurich's Fuchsweide: featuring escape artists, fire swallowers, the last Indians from the Delaware tribe, Tyrolean yodelers, and other picturesque characters: the exuberant Mother Dudlinger, the crematorium attendant, and his girlfriend Madame Dada. It is his most charming and witty book - and therefore largely forgotten, but for the "happy few," it remains timeless. It is published here for the first time with the previously unpublished preface and proves, even 100 years after its creation: "It is a pleasure to live" or rather to read. Do it: It will enrich your life in unimaginable ways. A great Indian's honor.