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The author and historian Stefan Keller collects old images and documents. He buys them at flea markets, at auctions, in second-hand shops, and finds them in the albums of his ancestors or in libraries. He then researches the significance of these documents, seeks sources, literature, and witnesses, and creates a story from them. A large story with 30 lines or a small one with 7 lines. The concise form also determines the content: These are historically literary image legends that Keller writes, with gaps and omissions, with subjective additions and uncertainties: Are these men, who are walking in chains between soldiers, really being led to their execution? Does this golden watch with the silver chain perhaps belong to the servant Ernst Nägeli, who wanted to emigrate to America but instead died in Appenzell? Who was the little girl in the picture around the turn of the 20th century, who was always treated with the utmost respect by the author's family as an old woman? How and why did that Russian flee in 1917 in a fabric boat across Lake Constance?.