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Because the author has never visited the Middle East, he draws on several sources, which he then transforms as he wishes.

Passion, longing for higher values, brutality, revenge and fighting for the power ending with bloodbaths intertwine with the fairytale sceneries and legendary beings, to distract the recipient from the thought that the old Baghdad is Berlin, the year 897 – 1897 and Ascha's problems could be the problems of Scheerbart.

Poetic, world, and rebel power - the essence of Scheerbart's Orient is expressed in these three words.