»Wo liegt das Glück?«  Jantzen 111 ­Fontane achieved his goal of posing difficult and crucial questions about German society from his literary America.»Wo liegt das Glück?« In free­dom, the freedom to consider which paths Germany might go down, a freedom lacking in the circles of German public opinion where Fontane moved and published. Quitt was a clarion call to consider anew justice and honor, freedom and submission in Germany as well as Germany´s fate and happiness, and deserves therefore to be understood more broadly and read more widely.