A new historically oriented edition of the central texts by Jean Paul has been available since 2009. For the first time, it presents the two printed versions of the "Quintus Fixlein" in side-by-side comparison (Continuous text: First 1796 Edition, with a lemmatized variant apparatus: Second 1801 Edition). The "History of my foreword to the second edition of the Quintus Fixlein," previously published separately, is edited in the same way.