In July 1991, Radio Bremen’s comedy show Total normal aired a hidden-camera prank by Hape Kerkeling. Kerkeling played a Polish tenor, and Achim Hagemann played his pianist. Before an audience that suspected nothing, they performed an excerpt from a so-called progressive opera. A recited text with atonal piano was broken again and again by a squeaked Hurz! Some listeners could not hide their amusement. Others then sought, seriously and with feeling, a dialogue with the fake artists about the meaning of the work.