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http://www.saumpferd.de Life outside the norm. Based on the novella of the same name (From the life of a good-for-nothing) by the romantic Joseph von Eichendorff. The story of a dreamer who defines his life and his adventures himself, away from the mainstream, trends and social dependencies. Looking back on the nine-week tour in late summer and autumn 2016, I have processed my impressions and thoughts in this first video. A trip to the Pyrenees in France was planned. I stopped the tour shortly before Grenoble because the mule did not have the necessary strength of character in traffic and thus became a danger. Worldview of Romanticism Romanticism radically rejected the reality of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It saw society as shaped by the pursuit of profit and the mere utilitarian thinking of the beginning of the industrial age. The romantics accused the flourishing natural sciences of explaining everything with reason, examining everything for its usefulness and usability and leaving no secrets. To the Romantics, everyday bourgeois life seemed grey, without variety, "prosaic", dominated by the monotonous bourgeois professional life. Romantics believed in the power of intuition, vision and the realm of fantasy and dreams, right down to the dark areas of the soul. The Romantics cultivated the closed world of the intact circle of friends, they revered and collected the simple art of the people because it was the most original, they were enthusiastic about the beauty and wildness of nature.