Who is Wilhelm Busch

Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (14 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter. He published wildly innovative illustrated tales that remain influential to this day.

Busch drew on the tropes of folk humour as well as a profound knowledge of German literature and art to satirize contemporary life, any kind of piety, Catholicism, Philistinism, religious morality, bigotry, and moral uplift.

His mastery of drawing and verse became deeply influential for future generations of comic artists and vernacular poets. Among many notable influences, The Katzenjammer Kids was inspired by Busch's Max and Moritz. Today, the Wilhelm Busch Prize and the Wilhelm Busch Museum help maintain his legacy. The 175th anniversary of his birth in 2007 was c...
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Wilhelm Busch Poems

  • The Mole Part One
    In seinem Garten freudevoll
    Geht hier ein Gärtner namens Knoll.
    Doch seine Freudigkeit vergeht,
    Ein Maulwurf wühlt im Pflanzenbeet. ...
  • Hans Huckebein (the Unlucky Raven) Prologue
    Sosehr sein Ende mich bewegt,
    Ich durft' es anders nicht vermelden. -
    Er stirbt - denn tragisch angelegt
    War der Charakter dieses Helden. ...
  • Hans Huckebein Part One
    Hier sieht man Fritz, den muntern Knaben,
    Nebst Huckebein, dem jungen Raben.

    Behold young Fritz, a lively lad, ...
  • Impending Doom
    Es machen sich die Fliegen
    Ein luftig Tanzvergnügen.
    Der Frosch, der denkt: Nur munter!
    Ihr kommt schon noch herunter! ...
  • Max And Moritz Fishing
    Eben geht mit einem Teller
    Witwe Bolte in den Keller,
    DaÃ? sie von dem Sauerkohle
    Eine Portion sich hole, ...
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Frog 2 High 2 Raven 2 Black 2 Bird 2 World 2 Tree 2 Spring 1 Song 1 Joyful 1


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Comments about Wilhelm Busch

Sammisu8: your key seems to me to fit many doors in the enchanted lock of this world, just not the exit door. wilhelm busch
Strau_sebastian: sidenote: the conference room was called "lehrerzimmer" and was themed after the 4th episode of max & moritz, an infamous german childrens' story by wilhelm busch. to find out what max & moritz did to teacher lämpel
Ruckzenknupp: "tolerance is good, but not towards the intolerant." — wilhelm busch 1832 - 1908
Rudigersinger: squirrels, of course here's a german variation on the same theme: wilhelm busch delighting in the idea of "monsieur jaques" who is starving during the paris siege of 1870.
Goldenrendezvou: wilhelm m busch was a german painter and poet.
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Hem and Haw were the sons of sin,
Created to shally and shirk;
Hem lay 'round and Haw looked on
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