VLT-FORS2 spectroscopy of the central star of Hen 2-161 displaying both absorption features from a hot post-AGB central star and emission line complexes frequently associated with an irradiated, main-sequence secondary. In both panels, the central star spectrum is shown without any nebula subtraction. In the upper panel, an extraction of the nebula close to the central star is displayed (with an arbitrary offset) in order to highlight that the emission lines originate from the central star and not from the nebula.