<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> During the Biedermeier Period, the fine arts continuously expanded their scope, enabling new encounters with their “sister arts.” This volume assembles a broad range of studies on the intermediality of art and literature between Beethoven and Heine, Goethe and Richard Wagner – questioning the preconditions for an intermedial discourse and seeking deiatary links between specific forms of semantization in the individual arts.