A dark and gritty work by German composer Horst Schrillefrau that’s a prime example of the opera medium rara subgenre. As the curtain rise, Hansel, a bald and overweight butcher with large teeth and wearing only a blood-stained white apron, is badgering a frightened elderly lady in the aria Bratwurst is Not a Plaything (Bratwurst ist kein Spielzeug). Distressed, the woman runs out and a lugubrious Hansel sings of his diminishing customer base while gnawing on a pig knuckle. Chief Inspector Blutbauern storms in, holding the bloody corpse of his pet dachshund. He demands to know where Hansel was the night of August 10. Horst sings the brooding aria Dachshunds Have Always Taunted Me (Dackel haben mich immer verspotte). Just as Blutbauern is about to arrest Hansel, three lusty whores, wearing provocative sausage jewelry dance into the butcher shop. They tease the Inspector with their mocking trio, Will You Interrogate Our Sausages? (Werden Sie abfragen Unsere Würste?). The Inspector laughs lustily. Hansel, driven mad with desire, pulls a large boar’s head out of his display window and prances about crazily on a countertop. The Inspector’s assistant dashes in and, mistaking Hansel for an escaped zoo animal, shoots him. The whores play a game of ‘toss the sausage’as Horst lies dying on the floor singing his delusory death aria, That’s Why Little Girls Love Butchers (Das ist, warum junge Mädchen Metzgereien liebe).