Kurt Symanzik - a stable fixed point beyond triviality

In 1970 Kurt Symanzik proposed a 'precarious' phi(4) -theory with a negative quartic coupling constant as a valid candidate for an asymptotically free theory of strong interactions. Symanzik's deep insight into the non-trivial properties of this theory has been overruled since then by the Hermitian intuition of generations of scientists, who considered or consider this actually non-Hermitian highly important theory to be unstable. This short-certainly controversial-communication tries to shed some light on the historical and formalistic context of Symanzik's theory in order to sharpen our (quantum) intuition about non-perturbative theoretical physics between (non-)triviality and asymptotic freedom.