Albert von Schrenck-Notzing's séances are a meeting place for the entire bohemian scene in fin-de-siècle Munich. The young baron tirelessly researched mysterious phenomena, but above all ectoplasms: shapes that disappear as soon as they come into contact with light. A substance from the afterlife, say the spirit seers. Material splinters of the unconscious, says the baron. Simply fraud, say the scientists. After the death of his wife Ella, the love of his life, he travels to Haiti and almost loses himself in the unlit corners of world history.
In his second novel, The Possibility of a Miracle, filmmaker and author Jan Schomburg tells the tragicomic life story of an eternal seeker, Baron Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, known as the "ghost baron" from Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain", based in part on authentic facts. Maria Schrader reads, moderated by Jörg Thadeusz