On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of the German Reichstag. He was taken up in the mental clinic of the Leipzig University soon afterwards. To his rehabilition he wrote an extensive piece of work, "Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken" (Memoirs of My Nervous Illness), which was published in...

A folk-song based on the poem "blauboad" by H. C. Artmann. Bluebeard is an intriguingly handsome man who has killed many women in his days. He is luring his last victim with his singing and his zither play.