It is a love story with comic and melancholic elements, reminiscent of the author's first novel, Rheinsberg: Ein Bilderbuch für Verliebte.

The story in episodes includes an erotic scene of three, unusual at the end of Weimar Germany, but also the observation of a little girl suffering under a sadistic German woman running a children's home.

The dedication of the story is "Für IA 47 407" which is the license plate of the car of Lisa Matthias [de] in Berlin, who was Tucholsky's partner from 1927 to 1931.

The story was filmed in 1963 for the first time, titled Schloß Gripsholm, directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Walter Giller, Jana Brejchová, Hanns Lothar and Nadja Tiller.

[4] Another film, Gripsholm, was released in 2000, directed by Xavier Koller, starring Ulrich Noethen, Heike Makatsch and Jasmin Tabatabai.