The inept "schlemiel" is often presented alongside the unlucky "schlimazel". One type is the Bellovian Hero, often described as a schlemiel. She collaborated with Isaac Bashevis Singer on the off-Broadway play "Schlemiel the First". Where does this schlemiel get the idea he's an actor and a playwright? Gronemann became one of chief contributors to the satirical magazine "Schlemiel" (which ran 1903-1905, 1919-1924). The schlemiel, Brook explains, is an anti-hero in whose humiliation the audience finds supreme pleasure.