The poet Kurt Heynicke (1891-1985), who was included by Kurt Pinthus in the poetry anthology Menschheitsdämmerung (Rowohlt ISBN 3499450550), which has become a classic, as one of the most important expressionist German poets, lived in Merzhausen. It was here that Bertold Hummel met him after the war, practically in the neighbourhood. They became friends, forged some opera plans and created occasional works together such as the good-humoured Badische Weinlied for a wine singer and piano. This choral work was composed in 1971 and was first published in the Breisgauer Sängerbund songbook for mixed choir (Edition Tonos Darmstadt 1972).