Who was this Doctor Eisenbarth that cured people in his own rather special way? And which disaster incited the poet Theodor Fontane to write his ballad “Die Brück am Tay” (The Bridge by the Tay)?

In their collection of ballads, Otfried Preussler and Heinrich Pleticha go further into these and other questions. They have collected the most beautiful German ballads and annotated them with interesting background information.

Otfried Preußler/ Heinrich Pleticha
DAS GROSSE BALLADENBUCH
432 pages with pictures

of Friedrich Hechelmann

Thienemann Verlag, 2000