In January 1945, the emigrants in Mexico were in no doubt about the outcome of the war which was still raging in Europe. Following the serious productions of recent years, the Heinrich Heine Klub theatre troupe dared to stage an evening of humorous and grotesque works. The programme included three one-act plays by the French playwright Georges Courteline. These were performed in German, which is why the programme contained information in Spanish about Courteline and each of the plays.

Courteline's one-act play about the "self-satisfied" inspector (original title: Le Commissaire est bon enfant) was received with great interest. The piece, written in the 19th century, about an inspector who does not heed the cries for help and warnings of his visitors, and who even locks them up before he, too, ultimately falls victim to the villain, appeared highly topical to emigrants who had previously been in exile in France. Now, six months after the liberation of Paris, they could watch it with a lighter heart and even laugh about it.

It was directed by Steffie Spira and Charles Rooner, who had inserted songs by Marcel Rubin in the performance. After the premiere, the audience and everyone involved were also in agreement about the second play that portrayed a marital dispute: "Those were happy days," wrote the literary critic Lydia Lambert, "when the war - the real one, not the war of the sexes - did not follow you home on the radio," on 1 February 1945 in the Demokratische Post, Mexico.