History Creator / WilhelmBusch

* ''Plisch and Plum'': Two dogs are thrown into the water by an evil guy, 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.]]]]

* FunnyForeigner / CloudCuckoolander: The Englishman Mister "Pief" (Peeve?) who walks around while always looking through a telescope.

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Hieronymus Jobs

* OlderThanTheyThink: The Virtuoso, as pointed out above. A satirical compilation to his anniversary "showed" that he even predated several art schools, and a few surplus individual artists.

* NapoleonBonaparte: [[http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/4129/1 How do draw him.]]

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

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* 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 {{Ramayana}}...[[/note]]

* BadassBeard: Just look at his [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Wilhelm_busch.png self-portrait]]!

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** Which is actually a dialect of Low German. Since Busch lived in 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.

* ''Max and Moritz'': 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; can be read in English online [[http://davidgorman.com/maxundmoritz.htm here.]]

* RavensAndCrows: Hans Huckebein, the unlucky raven

* 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 ''Ramayana Surpanakha''.[[/note]]

* 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 {{Literature/Ramayana Surpanakha}}.[[/note]]

* 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 [[Literature/Ramayana Surpanakha]].[[/note]]

* 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.

* ''Balduin Bählamm[[hottip:*:"Baa-lamb", so to speak.]], the Would-Be Poet'': A man hopes to become a famous poet, but the circumstances prevent him from creating any art.

* NamesToRunAwayFrom: [[SarcasmMode Surely]] you can trust someone who is called "Father Filucius".

* EverythingsWorseWithBears: A bear eats the donkey of Saint Anthony, but Anthony makes the bear carry him instead.

'''Wilhelm Busch''' was a 19th century [[DichterUndDenker German painter and poet]], who became famous for his (black and white) picture stories with rhymed texts. 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.

* ''Max and Moritz'': 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; can be read online [[http://davidgorman.com/maxundmoritz.htm here.]]

* ''The Knopp Trilogy'': The life of Tobias Knopp, a fat bald guy.

* HeroicSociopath: Max and Moritz

** 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 (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 recommding to end the interdenominational strife by establishing something like the Church of England in Germany).

* NamesToRunAwayFrom: Surely you can trust someone who is called "Father Filucius".

* ButYouScrewOneGoat / 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...

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: Killing her chickens was mean, but the widow reacts in a way you could think they had killed her children.

** "Klickeradoms" actually was used as a sound effect in the German translation of [[DisneyDucksComicUniverse Donald Duck comics]]; for a time it was falsely credited to the legendary translator Dr. Erika Fuchs.

** Although very often parodistically such as "Und die Moral von der Geschicht/Ist: Bad' zwei ein einer Wanne nicht!" (And the moral of the story is: don't bath two boys in one tub!)

* CuteKitten: Helene has one. Though the trope gets subverted when [[http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/gutenb/wbusch/helene/bilder/helen703.gif her cat and]] [[http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/gutenb/wbusch/helene/bilder/helen705.gif another one (a tom)]] first kill Lene's canaries and then wreak havoc in the house.

** "Klickeradoms" actually was used as a sound effect in the German translation of [[DisneyDucksComicUniverse Donald Duck comics]]; for a time it was falsely credited to the legendary translater Dr. Erika Fuchs.

Recurring topics in his work: Naughty boys playing pranks (not always going unpunished, however); mischievous animals; alcoholism; failing would-be artists; and anti-Catholicism. Still BetterThanItSounds.

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

* ''Hans Huckebein'': A raven is caught by a boy, causes a lot of havoc [[spoiler:but dies after drinking alcohol at the end.]]