With "The Magic Cow," a young storytelling talent makes her voice heard. Catherine Hermann is only 37 years old, yet her stories sound as if she has spent her entire life writing. She employs an old German language that we now only recognize from our fairy tales – and yet we understand it immediately, as her words penetrate directly to our hearts. There is a magic to these stories, and one hesitates to destroy it by interpreting what they are meant to convey. Just this much: they are all stories that have happened to cows, such as the cow that didn't like grass, or the cow that set out in search of like-minded friends, or the cow Hilde, who couldn't give milk.