The golden Pot

In his search for answers, Anselmus feels pursued by bad luck. When he accidentally knocks over an old market woman's apple basket and she insults him at the top of her voice, a wild journey between the real and the magical world begins. Until the end, Anselmus wavers between the two spheres: will he stay with Veronika and her bourgeois way of life, or will he disappear with his great love Serpentina to Atlantis, the wonderful magic land of poetry? In "The Golden Pot," E.T.A. Hoffmann engages in a masterful play between fantasy and reality. And who better to provide what the author himself calls a "fairy tale from the new age" with an epilogue than Michael Köhlmeier, the storyteller and fairy tale master of our time? Thus, it is not only Köhlmeier's affinity for Romanticism and his enthusiasm for the fairy tale tradition in German literature, but also his outstanding talent for drawing diabolical figures that make him the expert for this text.