With materials compiled by Klaus-Ulrich Pech and Rainer Siegle. In the morning, a young man drags himself along a country road, lonely, poor, hungry, and without prospects for the future. By evening, he is elegantly dressed in a tavern, with the most exquisite dishes and the finest wines before him. He is invited to festivities, hunting parties, and recreational rides by wealthy citizens, and eventually, a young, beautiful, and rich woman falls in love with him. The novella by Gottfried Keller tells a story of deception, but also of the desire for deception, of fraud, exposure, and a surprising happy ending, and the materials explain what we can still take from this story today.