Who could give a more authentic and vivid account of Hohl's life and work than the well-known painter and femme de lettres Hanny Fries, whom Hohl met in 1940 and who subsequently became his companion? The young artist and the solitary poet and thinker pursued their respective métiers under materially meagre circumstances. All the more reason for them to be - according to a quote by Émile Verhaeren - "the most reliable joy" to each other. In the conversations Werner Morlang had with Hanny Fries, the bohemian Hohl unexpectedly proves to be a dutiful contemporary, blessed with various housewifely virtues and sometimes amiable, who applied his intellectual obstinacy to everyday life in a way that was as practical as it was original.