Let's make this birthday one to remember.

90 years old (Born on March 17, 1935)

Happy Birthday, Hans Wollschläger! Celebrating you today feels as monumental as navigating through Joyce’s labyrinthine prose—challenging yet profoundly rewarding. Your masterful translation of *Ulysses* stands tall, still making German readers grateful they no longer have to fake understanding English modernism at parties.

And let's not forget your brilliant works like *Nacht-Stücke* and *Die Gegenwart einer Illusion*, weaving depth with wit so effortlessly. You've illuminated history, literature, and illusions alike—quite impressive for someone whose best-known accomplishment involves deciphering Joyce’s famously baffling sentences. Cheers on your birthday to an unparalleled author who makes even the incomprehensible gracefully understandable—mostly!