The writer Marcel Beyer makes us witnesses to an evening filled with celebrities at the Wolfsburg Art Museum in honor of Andreas Gursky. The sharp-tongued descriptions of the images by the author, who relies on widely available and accessible photographic material, take issue with the way chairpersons, football coaches, and actresses confidently position themselves in front of the art, simultaneously providing an ironic commentary on Gursky's large-format serial-decorative images. Marcel Beyer's essay is based on a lecture he gave in the spring of 2017 for the opening of the DFG Graduate School 2132 "The Documentary. Excess and Withdrawal" at Ruhr University Bochum. The audience from that time now responds in writing: with comments, notes, and counterarguments.