SOURCE: "Karl Immermann and the Romantic Fairy Tale: Between Two Literary Poles," in Vistas and Vectors: Essays Honoring the Memory of Helmut Rehder, edited by Lee B. Jennings and George Schulz-Behrend, University of Texas at Austin, 1979, pp. 152-156.

In the following excerpt, Holst uses a fairy tale retold in Muinchhausen to discuss Immermann's relation to German Romanticism.

For almost half a century Karl Immermann was threatened by near obscurity or at best, remembered as the author of Oberhof, a fragment taken capriciously from the torso of his greatest novel and published separately as an impressive depiction of village life in the early nineteenth century. But of late this impressive literary and intellectual personality from the German Restoration period has been accorded renewed critical attention. Of the more recent endeavors, two works are particularly outstanding: Manfred Windfuhr's monograph and Benno von Wiese's life which constitutes the introductory volume of...