Karl Spiehs, who also invented the moderately joking “super noses” Thomas Gottschalk and Mike Krüger, is the only survivor of the German generation of producers of Artur Brauner, Gyula Trebitsch, Horst Wendlandt and Franz Seitz.
For all of them basically what Alois Brummer, always dismissed as the sex film king of Munich, defiantly hurled at the long-haired rebels of the New German Cinema in 1969: "My films are not witty, but witty films are no business either."