History Creator / WilhelmBusch

* AnAesop: Many, against alcohol and mischief. Several stories end with "Und die Moral von der Geschicht..." (and the moral of the story is: ...)
** Although very often parodistically such as "Und die Moral von der Geschicht/ Bad' zwei in einer Wanne nicht!" (And the moral of the story: don't bathe two boys in one tub!)

* ''The Virtuoso'': A short story without talking about a truly awesome piano player. Uses several comic tropes long before they became mainstream.

* ''Hans Huckebein'': A raven is caught by a boy, causes a lot of havoc [[spoiler:but dies after drinking alcohol at the end.]]
* ''Saint Anthony of Padova'': A young man decides to become a monk after having trouble with his girl (and another guy who also loves her). Has visions of Mary, resists Satan, and does other saintly things. The strip makes fun of the Catholic church (Busch was Protestant, and you find this topic throughout his work), although Anthony himself isn't exactly unsympathetic.
* ''Pious Helene'': The story of a girl who's sent to the countryside where people are supposedly better than in the city. However, Helene is more hypocritical than pious and likes to play pranks on her relatives. Not however on her cousin Franz, with whom she falls in love, despite the fact he's supposed to become a Catholic priest. They keep up their relationship even after she marries, and he becomes the real father of her twins. [[spoiler:Then, in short order, her husband and lover die, and she becomes an alcoholic. This leads to an accident in which she dies. Afterwards, she goes to hell.]]
* ''Pictures for the 'Jobsiad''': Differs from the other stories insofar as Busch just drew the pictures to a (much) older story. Tells the biography of Hieronymus Jobs, son of rich parents, who becomes a failure in every possible way.
* ''Father Filucius'': A SinisterMinister (and Jesuite) tries to get influence on the family of Gottlieb Michael. [[spoiler: It doesn't end well for him, and he gets his ass kicked.]]
* ''The Birthday, or The Particularists'': Some villagers try to make a present for the exiled Hannoverian king. [[spoiler:They fail several times; the only one profiting is mother Köhm, owner of the local pub, since the guys are heavy drinkers.]]
* ''The Knopp Trilogy'': The life of Tobias Knopp, [[FlatCharacter a fat bald guy]].
** ''Adventures of a Bachelor'': Knopp feels depressed from his single life, so he goes to the world to visit old friends and find a wife. Several kinds of funny mischief occur to him, but at the end, at least he finds a wife - his until then housekeeper.
** ''Herr and Frau Knopp'': The married life of Knopp and his Dorothee with its ups and downs. Essentially, a DomCom, except not being on TV. Ends with the birth of Julchen (lil' Julia), their only child.
** ''Julchen'': The third part centers on Julchen growing up from a baby to a young woman. At the end, [[spoiler:she marries the hot forest warden Fritz; Knopp feels that his duty on this world is done, and dies soon afterwards.]]
* ''Fipps the Monkey'': How he's caught in Africa, brought to Germany, and creates a lot of mischief. But also saves a baby from the fire once.
* ''Plisch and Plum'': Two young dogs are thrown into the water by the evil guy Schlich, but they're saved by two boys. Much mischief happens, but things turn out quite well, [[spoiler:except for bad guy Schlich who [[KarmicDeath drowns in a pond.]]]]
* ''Balduin Bählamm[[note]]"Baa-lamb", so to spea[[/note]], the Would-Be Poet'': A man hopes to become a famous poet, but the circumstances prevent him from creating any art.
* ''Klecksel the Painter'': Boy Kuno becomes a painter, plays some pranks on other men, literally fights a critic who ripped apart his work, has some affairs with women, but ends up [[spoiler:taking over the pub of his father.]]

* ConMan: A hunter named Schmitt. He enters the scene barefoot and crying as if in pain. Then he puts on his boots and suddenly becomes happy. Then he seemingly goes away, but leaves a smaller pair behind - just the right size for a monkey. Fipps has seen this and, being CuriousLikeAMonkey, puts them on. Only to find that they were filled with pitch so he can't climb on trees anymore. So Schmitt has no problem catching Fipps.

* WhipItGood: The boys Peter and Paul use their toy whips first to whip their dogs and then each other. A big fight ensues.

* OverprotectiveDad: Knopp becomes this. Justified because three of the suitors of his daughter aren't exactly {{Nice Guy}}s.

A list of his works:

* ''Literature/MaxAndMoritz'': Two boys play pranks on a widow (twice), a tailor, a teacher, uncle Fritz, a baker and a peasant. [[spoiler:But he catches them, brings them to the mill and has them grinded to grit. And after that, two ducks eat their remains.]] Busch's single most famous story.

* ''Saint Anthony of Padova'': A young man decides to become a monk after having trouble with his girl (and another guy who also loves her). Has visions of Mary, resists Satan and does other saintly things. The strip makes fun of the Catholic church (Busch was Protestant, and you find this topic throughout his work), although Anthony himself isn't exactly unsympathetic.
* ''Pious Helene'': The story of a girl who's sent to the countryside where people are supposedly better than in the city. However, Helene is more hypocritical than pious, and likes to play pranks on her relatives. Not however on her cousin Franz, with whom she falls in love, despite the fact he's supposed to become a Catholic priest. They keep up their relationship even after she marries, and he becomes the real father of her twins. [[spoiler:Then, in short order, her husband and lover die, and she becomes an alcoholic. This leads to an accident in which she dies. Afterwards, she goes to hell.]]
* ''Pictures for the 'Jobsiad''': Differs from the other stories insofar as Busch just drew the pictures to a (much) older story. Tells the biography of a Hieronymus Jobs, son of rich parents, who becomes a failure in every possible way.

* ''Fipps the Monkey'': How he's caught in Africa, brought to Germany and creates a lot of mischief. But also saves a baby from the fire once.
* ''Plisch and Plum'': Two young dogs are thrown into the water by evil guy Schlich, but they're saved by two boys. Much mischief happens, but things turn out quite well, [[spoiler:except for bad guy Schlich who [[KarmicDeath drowns in a pond.]]]]

And several smaller stories.
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!!Works by Wilhelm Busch with their own page include:

* ''Literature/MaxAndMoritz''

!!Other works by Wilhelm Busch contain examples of:

A list of his works ([[http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/autor/wilhelm-busch-88 here]] are many to find):

* ''[[http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/4201/1 The Virtuoso]]'': A short story without talking about a truly awesome piano player. Uses several comic tropes long before they became mainstream.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The story about Fipps.

* BeeAfraid: [[http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Kleine_honigdiebe.jpg&filetimestamp=20050904002501 As these boys learn.]]

* ''Fipps the Monkey'': How he's caught in Africa, brought to Germany and creates a lot of mischief. But also [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments saves a baby from the fire once]].[[invoked]]

Wilhelm Busch was a 19th century [[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker German painter and poet]], who became famous for his (black and white) picture stories, done as wood engraving or zincography. with rhymed texts (mostly four-trochees). He's still widely known today, especially for his children's stories, like ''Literature/MaxAndMoritz'', the success of which has made him one of the most-quoted poets in the German language right next to Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe and Schiller. He's not however the author of ''Literature/DerStruwwelpeter'', which is yet a bit older, although from the 19th century too.

* ''Fipps the Monkey'': How he's caught in Africa, brought to Germany and creates a lot of mischief. But also [[HeartwarmingMoment saves a baby from the fire once]].[[invoked]]

A list of his works:

* GermanDialects: Wilhelm Busch came from the northern part of Germany, and some characters speak the local dialect.
** Which is actually a dialect of Low German. Since Busch lived in UsefulNotes/{{Munich}} for a time and worked for some Munich-based publications, there's also a bit of Bavarian in some of his stories and cartoons.

** Pater Filucius abounds with this, especially as it is to a large extent an allegory of religious conflicts of the era. Thus Gottlieb Michael is Germany ([[GermanPeculiarities Der deutsche Michel]] - the German Michael is the German counterpart to John Bull or Uncle Sam, named after the Archangel Michael, patron saint of Germany), his aunts Petrine and Pauline (named after St. Peter and St. Paul) represent the Catholic and Protestant churches, and his lady love, Angelica, refers to the Anglican church (Bush recommending to end the interdenominational strife by establishing something like the Church of England in Germany).

* AmusingInjuries: Up to Amusing Death. Note that these stories are more than 100 years old, and even decades older than ''ComicStrip/TheYellowKid'', often said to be the first comic. [[note]]Especially nose violation is a so extremely recurring motif, that one speculates whether FreudWasRight. Or maybe he was secretly in love with Surpanakha from the Literature/{{Ramayana}}...[[/note]]

* AmusingInjuries: Up to Amusing Death. Note that these stories are more than 100 years old, and even decades older than ''ComicStrip/TheYellowKid'', often said to be the first comic. [[note]]Especially nose violation is a so extremely recurring motif, that one speculates whether {{FreudWasRight}}. Or maybe he was secretly in love with Surpanakha from the Literature/{{Ramayana}}...[[/note]]

'''Wilhelm Busch''' was a 19th century [[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker German painter and poet]], who became famous for his (black and white) picture stories, done as wood engraving or zincography. with rhymed texts (mostly four-trochees). He's still widely known today, especially for his children's stories, like ''Literature/MaxAndMoritz'', the success of which has made him one of the most-quoted poets in the German language right next to Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe and Schiller. He's not however the author of ''Literature/DerStruwwelpeter'', which is yet a bit older, although from the 19th century too.

'''Wilhelm Busch''' was a 19th century [[DichterUndDenker German painter and poet]], who became famous for his (black and white) picture stories, done as wood engraving or zincography. with rhymed texts (mostly four-trochees). He's still widely known today, especially for his children's stories, like ''Literature/MaxAndMoritz'', the success of which has made him one of the most-quoted poets in the German language right next to Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe and Schiller. He's not however the author of ''Literature/DerStruwwelpeter'', which is yet a bit older, although from the 19th century too.

!!Examples:

** Including '''M'''ax and '''M'''oritz.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: After Max and Moritz put gunpowder into the teacher's pipe and it explodes, the author (or Lämpel?) muses: Who shall teach the children now? Who shall multiply the knowledge? What should the teacher use for smoking now?
* {{Ashface}}: Happens to Lämpel the teacher.
** Also one picture in-story, by Kuno Klecksel, depicting the legendary inventor of gunpowder, the monk Berthold Schwarz, after using his powder for the first time.

* BestialityIsDepraved / GetTheeToANunnery: Max and Moritz provoke a tailor by calling him "goat-Böck". Nowadays it just sounds like a pun on his name (well, in German). At this time though, it implied he was doing improper acts with goats...

* DeclarativeFinger: [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Lämpel.jpg This]] iconic illustration of teacher Lämpel.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Worst things Max and Moritz do: Putting gunpowder into the pipe of the teacher (OK, that's pretty harsh, but he survives.) Their punishment at the end (not by him): [[spoiler:They're killed in the mill.]]

* HeroicComedicSociopath: Max and Moritz

* ThemeNaming: Max and Moritz; dogs Plisch and Plum; Hiebel, Fibel and Bullerstiebel, the friends of Gottlieb Michael; the aunts Petrine and Pauline from the same story; and more.

* AmusingInjuries: Up to Amusing Death. Note that these stories are more than 100 years old, and even decades older than ''TheYellowKid'', often said to be the first comic. [[note]]Especially nose violation is a so extremely recurring motif, that one speculates whether {{FreudWasRight}}. Or maybe he was secretly in love with Surpanakha from the Literature/{{Ramayana}}...[[/note]]