The proven aids for preparing for lessons, presentations, exams, and the Abitur are now presented with new content and in a new format – more differentiated, comprehensive, and clearer! Precise summaries for an introduction to the text, clear analyses of characters, structure, language, and style, reliable interpretations with concise textual evidence, information about the author and historical context, didactically prepared infographics, illustrations, and tables, as well as current literature and media recommendations. Completely new elements include exam questions and control options, as well as key terms and definitions as a learning glossary. "The Golden Pot," Hoffmann's "Fairy Tale from the New Era," virtuously plays with the levels of the marvelous and the bourgeois-philistine. The journey of the student Anselmus from Dresden to Atlantis is told in a fancifully humorous way while also being ironically reflected upon. For a long time, and rightly so, this fairy tale novel has been regarded as a highlight of romantic narrative art.