Doctor Faustus, while he was living in his uncle’s house with his faithful friend Christhoph Wagner, made wedding plans provoking the wrath of the devil which he had promised to be enemy of God and all the men. After having rinounced to the wedding, the devil to thank Dr. Faustus, offers him a woman every day and every night without loving them and Dr. Faustus accepts the proposal. The devil moreover gives Dr. Faustus a book of black magic, because one of his desires was to visit hell. Dr. Faustus travelled a lot around the world: Asia, Africa and Europe. During his travels he met people and among them The Pope in Rome, a lot of princes, emperors and not last the sultan. 

As desire of Carl V the emperor, Faustus transformed himself in Alexander the Great and by magic he made him appear a pair of horns like a deer.      He also cheated a Jew who had lent him some money.     Then he enjoyed himself by making appear to his students the beautiful Elena of Troia.

At the Frankfurt fair he met four magicians who by magic cut the head each other; Faustus indeed cut one of their head and killed one of them. In fact Faustus’ opinion was that "a magician must die in blood".

In Erfuhrt he made live again the Homer’s saga and in Wittemberg he lived "in the impudicity until his end".                      In the last years of his life he lived with Elena, his mistress, who gave him a son, but at Faustus’ death they disappeared.

In the end Faust feels like a prisoner, and he’s afraid of the Devil’s punishment; besides he’s wandering how to get away: this is why the Devil jeers at him.

Before the Devil takes his body, Faust calls his students and warns them about it.       That night the students can’t sleep and they hear strange noises coming from Faust’s flat; the next morning they find the flat full of blood and Faust’s body in the rubbish.

The Volksbuch ends with a biblical quotation from S. Pietro’s letter: "Look out because the Devil, like a lion, seeks and takes the weakest, so we must fight him with faith".