Joachim Ringelnatz

Joachim Ringelnatz is the pen name of the German author and painter Hans Bötticher (7 August 1883 in Wurzen, Saxony – 17 November 1934 in Berlin).

[1] His pen name Ringelnatz is usually explained as a dialect expression for an animal, possibly a variant of Ringelnatter, German for grass snake or more probably the seahorse for winding ("ringeln") its tail around objects.

His most popular character is the anarchic sailor Kuddel Daddeldu with his drunken antics and disdain for authority.

("Berliner Romane haben meist keinen ordentlichen Anfang und kein rechtes Ende.

Posthumously Electronic Edition Most of Ringelnatz's paintings were lost during the Second World War; one of them at the Kunsthaus Zürich is not on display.