Halunkenpostille

The style shows similarities to works by Erich Kästner, Walter Mehring and Joachim Ringelnatz.

First published in 1947, the collection of more than 100 poems, ballads and songs is one of the most successful poetry books of the postwar period.

[1] Songs from the Halunkenpostille were set to music for example by Siegfried Strohbach, Halunkensongs for baritone, trumpet, violin, accordion, double bass and percussion, published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1956.

Schräge Songs, halbseidene Lieder und wunderschöne Gedichte, with music by Hans-Martin Majewski and Norbert Schultze, performed by Hanne Wieder, Hannelore Schroth, Gustav Knuth, Gisela aus Schwabing, Kirsten Heiberg, Ralf Bendix, Jens Brenke, Inge Brandenburg, Werner Schmalenbach and Fritz Graßhoff.

(The classical Halunkenpostille, epigrams and satires), translations of Roman authors such as Martial, Catullus and Philodemus, published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in 1964.