Nine literary essays on the relationship between famous court librarians and their monarchs and princes: Leibniz, Kant, Lessing, Wilhelm Heinse, Hölderlin, the Grimm brothers, Grillparzer, Hoffmann von Fallersleben and a court librarian from Luxembourg. The focus is on the end of the librarian’s employment and the previous tensions between intellectuals and rulers. A particular feature of the book is its combination of authentic quotations with the author’s own fictional additions. The book depicts famous figures from literary and philosophical history as hardly anyone knows them,and gives insights into cultural and historical developments in their different eras.weiterlesen