Contents: Current fascination with Storm’s fiction - Rise of a falsified anti-Danish portrait of Storm in biographical criticism - Need to map a new bi-cultural Dano-German identity for him - His exposure to Danish culture in early life - Grafting the gifts of the Danish muse onto German poetry - The breakthrough ‘Nixen-Chor zur Begruung Konig Christians VIII in Husum’ - Immortal poem ‘Oktoberlied’ - Poetry and life ‘Hyazinthen’ - The chef d'oeuvre: ‘Meeresstrand’ - Infusing the German novella with notions which contributed to the genre’s flowering in Demnark - Early glory: Immensee - A Danish novella in German disguise: In St Jurgen - Painting in oils: Aquis submersus - Final triumph: Der Schimmelreiter.