The volume gathers texts from the years 1989 to 2016, and the title story "The Piano on the Schiller Stone" already signals what can happen when the forces of imagination begin to take effect. This is all the more true as Gertrud Leutenegger brings to life the lineage of her literary and artistic inspirations from small everyday situations in this volume. A visit to an elderly Italian ophthalmologist leads to an encounter with Kleist's "Marquise of O..."; a conversation with Novalis emerges from the pitch-black night of a Ticino valley during a power outage; and a childhood fascination with the packaging of Hug's zwieback leads to Visconti's legendary film adaptation of "The Leopard." Fellow authors like Gerhard Meier and Giovanni Orelli are experienced as travel companions in Austria or China, while the landscape unfolds.