The stories collected in the third volume by Marieluise Fleisser from the years 1923 to 1972 are the counterpart to her plays. They are short, intense studies on the difficult happiness and the demands of life. When the first collection was published in 1929, Walter Benjamin wrote: "This woman enriches our literature with the rare spectacle of unrestrained provincial pride. She simply believes that one gains experiences in the provinces that can stand up to the grand life of the metropolises; indeed, she considers these experiences important enough to shape her identity and authorship around them... The rebellious dialect that bursts forth from the regional art is only one side of the linguistic skill present in these novellas. There is also a boldness: the nameless confusion with which the popular speech manifests itself.