Adolf Holl has held many professions: priest, scholar, prophet, heretic, writer, provocateur, and eroticist. Born in Vienna in 1930 and ordained as a priest in 1954, his international bestseller "Jesus in Bad Company" (1971) brought him into conflict with the Catholic Church. As a result, he was stripped of his teaching credentials and suspended from the priesthood. Holl gained significant notoriety through his witty, yet non-conformist questions. Harald Klauhs, a knowledgeable expert on Holl's work, has now written a biography of this wild thinker: Holl's life as a wild ride through Western intellectual history and at the same time a portrayal of the moral landscape of the Second Republic.