Emma Hauck

[1] On February 7, 1909, she was admitted to the psychiatric hospital at the University of Heidelberg at the age of 30, diagnosed with dementia praecox[2][3] due to severe psychosis.

Hauck's motivation for writing these letters is unknown; they are thought to be an expression of her loneliness due to her constant discussion of her family while institutionalized.

[citation needed] Hauck's letters were included in the 2000 exhibition The Prinzhorn Collection: Traces Upon the Wunderblock at the Drawing Center, New York.

[10][11][12] It was included in the 2013 exhibition Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Its chorus comprises the title phrase sung fourteen times in succession, echoing the incantatory repetition in Hauck's letters.