Children's book – Die Geschichte von der schönen Lau

Laughing – that is what the beautiful water nymph must learn so that her fate may turn. Then she can have children and return to her husband by the Black Sea. When she wins the friendship of the kind-hearted Frau Betha, the landlady of the Nonnenhof, and gets to know the life of humans, she unexpectedly comes closer to this goal.

Eduard Mörike hands down to us the legend of the Blautopf near Blaubeuren – a karst spring on the southern edge of the Swabian Alb – in one of his best-known tales, the Historie von der schönen Lau. Daniela Drescher translates the colourful richness of this legendary world into captivating, beautiful pictures.