Lovely togetherness with water and bread in the Biedermeier idyll of a remote attic exile in the work of Tieck or longing for the complete dissolution of time and space in a mutual lovedeath in Wagner: The contrasting forms of Romantically transfigured love stand in the greatest possible contrast, between the humorous wink in the novella and the mysterious longing for the “vast realm of universal night” in the musical drama.