Hans-Peter Nowitzki

Enlightenment: Removing taboos from sexuality, including female sexuality! "By Pan, (Paris exclaims) if only I wanted her here, I would that she were already in my bed!" Wieland's scandalon of 1765, the "Comic Tales", cheerful, ironically enigmatic, wittily pointed erotic tales based on antique models.The cheerful, ironic, subtle and wittily pointed erotic tales based on ancient models, sometimes commented on with a wink, sometimes subtly hinted at or allusively paraphrased, are not only a literary milestone in the removal of taboos from sexuality, especially female sexuality, but also a masterpiece of revealing poetry, masterfully crafted in verse and rhyme. This provoked his contemporaries, who attacked Wieland as an immoral, youth-spoiling "lust singer" who "slaughtered young innocence at the altar of lust" with his "songs of lust".