The term Narrenliteratur (“fool’s literature”) is already attested in the Deutsches Wörterbuch of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, and in the second half of the 19th century it established itself as a catch-all term for satirical, didactic, and entertaining texts with figurations of the fool and folly at their center. Unlike Narrensatire, the concept also includes stage works (Schwank). Narrenliteratur is defined as specifically an early mod…