Sunsets, wanderlust, and loving glances: Eichendorff's novellas are elixirs of life for dreamy souls. Above all, 'Taugenichts' features its hero, who prefers to travel to Italy rather than work in his father's mill, serving as a kind of original text of romantic rebellion against the world and growing up. In the end, it seems that Taugenichts exchanges freedom for bourgeois marital happiness. But where it must be emphasized twice that "everything, everything is good," the next great departure is already lurking. With contributions to both works from Kindler's Literary Lexicon. Including data on life and work, exclusively written by the editorial team of the literary journal TEXT + KRITIK.