Having set out the meta-theoretical, theoretical, conceptual, and methodological considerations underlying this book, this chapter is devoted to the presentation of my caricatures of university life. This chapter is divided into sub-chapters that are, however, not intended as distinct categories. Numerous caricatures could be assigned to several headings. In this respect, the headings serve more as an approximate orientation, and the references make no claim to completeness; the caricatures are—as stated above—in particular the result of (participant) observation, reflection, and exchange with researchers, teachers, administrators, lecturers, students, people with little or no connection to university life. Hence, a dimension of experience dominates and the results are characterized by subjective reference. One focus is on the perspective of researchers and lecturers. This has less to do with my work as a researcher and teacher (also at different colleges, universities, and universities of applied sciences, and in different positions, from lecturer, private lecturer to endowed professor, full professor, adjunct professor, visiting professor), but in particular with the aim of reducing the asymmetry of familiarity. As a full professor, I have personally experienced (and in some cases suffered) the various stages of an academic career, so it is easier to understand the situation of people who have not yet fully embarked on this journey than to experience the world of the backstage, which has not yet fully opened up.