"In the crystal soon your fall," the apple woman Anselmus yells after him, who has knocked over her basket. And the student will fall: deep into a fantastic world, into the blue eyes of the serpent Serpentina, the daughter of the wizard. He will continue to distance himself from the narrow, bourgeois daily life, finally leaving behind the marriage-obsessed Veronika and his position as a court councilor to fully immerse himself in an imaginary world. In his most successful novella - unabridged, read by Gerhart Lippert - E.T.A. Hoffmann lets art and life collide irreconcilably. Unabridged reading with Gerhart Lippert, 1 mp3-CD, approx. 3 hours.