E. T. A. Hoffmann: Klein Zaches, called Zinnober. A fairy tale. After the Enlightenment was introduced in the kingdom, poetry was banned and the fairies were exiled from the land. Therefore, the fairy Rosabelverde hides in a ladies' convent. When she strokes the hair of the ugly, misshapen peasant child Zaches, she bestows upon him the ability to always be perceived as a handsome and clever person, with the deeds accomplished by his contemporaries in his presence being attributed to him as his own. First published: Berlin (Dümmler) 1819. Complete new edition with a biography of the author. Edited by Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016, 2nd edition. The text basis is the edition: E. T. A. Hoffmann: Poetische Werke in sechs Bänden, Volume 5, Berlin: Aufbau, 1963. The pagination of the above edition is meticulously included as marginal notes in this new edition. Cover.