diff --git a/app/blog/[slug]/page.tsx b/app/blog/[slug]/page.tsx
index 2e6184d..60d077a 100644
--- a/app/blog/[slug]/page.tsx
+++ b/app/blog/[slug]/page.tsx
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ export default async function BlogDetailPage({
                     >
                       {post.relatedProduct.name}
                     </p>
-                    <p className="text-[0.9375rem] text-text-muted leading-[1.45]">{post.relatedProduct.description}</p>
+                    <p className="text-[0.9375rem] text-text-muted leading-[1.45]">{post.relatedProduct.descriptionText}</p>
                   </div>
                   <span className="flex items-center gap-1.5 font-bold text-[0.875rem] text-text-primary whitespace-nowrap mt-1 sm:mt-0">
                     Entdecken
diff --git a/app/cart/components/CartContent.tsx b/app/cart/components/CartContent.tsx
index d088039..27d8469 100644
--- a/app/cart/components/CartContent.tsx
+++ b/app/cart/components/CartContent.tsx
@@ -276,7 +276,6 @@ export function CartContent({
                         equal-height pressure from neighboring lines, so a
                         plain conditional line is enough here. */}
                     {lowStock && <p className="text-label font-bold text-warning">Nur noch wenige verfügbar</p>}
-                    <p className="font-bold text-body-sm text-text-muted">{product.description}</p>
                     <div className="flex flex-col gap-0.5 items-start">
                       <p className="text-label text-text-muted">Einzelpreis</p>
                       <p className="flex items-baseline gap-1.5">
diff --git a/app/components/ProductSpotlight.tsx b/app/components/ProductSpotlight.tsx
index 782b3c8..ba8d5ad 100644
--- a/app/components/ProductSpotlight.tsx
+++ b/app/components/ProductSpotlight.tsx
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ export async function ProductSpotlight() {
           >
             {product.spotlightHeadline || product.name}
           </p>
-          <SpotlightText content={product.spotlightText} fallback={product.description} />
+          <SpotlightText content={product.spotlightText} fallback={product.descriptionText} />
           {/* MwSt./Versand disclosure on its own line, not crammed into
               the price row itself — same reasoning as todo-cards'
               Pricing.tsx (identical text, same narrow-column risk). */}
diff --git a/app/der-eine/components/PasstDazu.tsx b/app/der-eine/components/PasstDazu.tsx
index e9709bd..8119771 100644
--- a/app/der-eine/components/PasstDazu.tsx
+++ b/app/der-eine/components/PasstDazu.tsx
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ export async function PasstDazu({ productSlug }: { productSlug: string }) {
                 >
                   {related.name}
                 </p>
-                <p className="text-[0.9375rem] text-text-muted leading-[1.45]">{related.description}</p>
+                <p className="text-[0.9375rem] text-text-muted leading-[1.45]">{related.descriptionText}</p>
               </div>
               <span className="flex items-center gap-1.5 font-bold text-[0.875rem] text-text-primary whitespace-nowrap mt-1 sm:mt-0">
                 Entdecken
diff --git a/app/der-eine/page.tsx b/app/der-eine/page.tsx
index dc103c4..3b0d65b 100644
--- a/app/der-eine/page.tsx
+++ b/app/der-eine/page.tsx
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ const title = "Der Eine. – Für die eine Sache, die gerade zählt.";
 // the cart/checkout/JSON-LD elsewhere) — same field, one source now.
 export async function generateMetadata(): Promise<Metadata> {
   const product = await getProductBySlug("stift-kugelschreiber");
-  const description = product?.description ?? undefined;
+  const description = product?.descriptionText || undefined;
   return {
     title,
     description,
diff --git a/app/lib/__tests__/cartTotals.test.ts b/app/lib/__tests__/cartTotals.test.ts
index d264d29..540a408 100644
--- a/app/lib/__tests__/cartTotals.test.ts
+++ b/app/lib/__tests__/cartTotals.test.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ const product = (overrides: Partial<Product> = {}): Product => ({
   id: "todo-karten",
   numericId: 1,
   name: "ToDo-Karten",
-  description: "",
+  description: null,
+  descriptionText: "",
   sku: null,
   price: 12.9,
   compareAtPrice: null,
diff --git a/app/lib/payload.ts b/app/lib/payload.ts
index f100736..867e871 100644
--- a/app/lib/payload.ts
+++ b/app/lib/payload.ts
@@ -181,7 +181,12 @@ export type Product = {
   // slug-based call site.
   numericId: number;
   name: string;
-  description: string;
+  // Raw Lexical richText JSON — rendered formatted (bold/italic/multiple
+  // paragraphs) on the PDP via the shared <RichText> component. Plain-text
+  // consumers (Passend-dazu cards, JSON-LD) use `descriptionText` below
+  // instead of re-deriving text from this themselves.
+  description: unknown | null;
+  descriptionText: string;
   // Not shown anywhere in the UI today — only consumed by
   // buildProductSchema (JSON-LD's Product.sku), a real Schema.org property
   // Google's rich-result validator looks for.
@@ -267,7 +272,7 @@ type PayloadProduct = {
   id: number;
   name: string;
   slug: string;
-  description: string | null;
+  description: unknown | null;
   sku: string | null;
   price: number;
   compareAtPrice: number | null;
@@ -325,16 +330,34 @@ function maxPurchasableQty(trackInventory: boolean, stock: number | null, allowB
   return trackInventory && !allowBackorder ? (stock ?? 0) : null;
 }
 
+type LexicalTextNode = {
+  text?: string;
+  children?: LexicalTextNode[];
+};
+
+// Mirrors the backend's own Posts.ts extractPlainText (same shape, same
+// space-joined fallback for multiple paragraphs/children) — kept as a
+// separate copy rather than a shared package since it's a few lines and
+// the two run in different runtimes (Payload server vs. this frontend).
+function extractPlainText(node: LexicalTextNode | null | undefined): string {
+  if (!node) return "";
+  if (typeof node.text === "string") return node.text;
+  if (Array.isArray(node.children)) return node.children.map(extractPlainText).join(" ");
+  return "";
+}
+
 // Shared by getProducts() and getPostBySlug()'s relatedProduct — kept in
 // one place instead of duplicating the same field mapping, which is
 // exactly the kind of drift this session's Shipping Settings work was
 // about eliminating elsewhere.
 export function mapPayloadProduct(product: PayloadProduct): Product {
+  const descriptionRoot = (product.description as { root?: LexicalTextNode } | null)?.root;
   return {
     id: product.slug,
     numericId: product.id,
     name: product.name,
-    description: product.description ?? "",
+    description: product.description ?? null,
+    descriptionText: extractPlainText(descriptionRoot),
     sku: product.sku || null,
     price: product.price,
     compareAtPrice: product.compareAtPrice ?? null,
diff --git a/app/lib/structuredData.ts b/app/lib/structuredData.ts
index 94fe8dd..9a073a8 100644
--- a/app/lib/structuredData.ts
+++ b/app/lib/structuredData.ts
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ export function buildProductSchema(product: Product, url: string, seller: Compan
     "@context": "https://schema.org",
     "@type": "Product",
     name: product.name,
-    description: product.description,
+    description: product.descriptionText,
     image: product.gallery.length > 0 ? [product.image, ...product.gallery] : product.image,
     url,
     ...(product.sku ? { sku: product.sku } : {}),
diff --git a/app/tasse-die-pause/components/Hero.tsx b/app/tasse-die-pause/components/Hero.tsx
index 6339bc7..82248fe 100644
--- a/app/tasse-die-pause/components/Hero.tsx
+++ b/app/tasse-die-pause/components/Hero.tsx
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import Link from "next/link";
 import Image from "next/image";
 import { AddToCartButton } from "../../components/AddToCartButton";
 import { Reveal } from "../../components/Reveal";
+import { RichText } from "../../components/RichText";
 import { getProductBySlug, getShippingSettings, getDefaultTaxRatePercent, getKleinunternehmer } from "../../lib/payload";
 import { formatPrice, discountPercent } from "../../lib/format";
 import { effectiveTaxRate } from "../../lib/cartTotals";
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ export async function Hero() {
               {product?.name ?? "Tasse"}
             </p>
 
-            {product?.description && <p className="text-body text-text-body">{product.description}</p>}
+            {product?.description ? <RichText content={product.description} /> : null}
 
             <div className="flex flex-col gap-1 items-start">
               {product && (
diff --git a/app/tasse-die-pause/components/Pricing.tsx b/app/tasse-die-pause/components/Pricing.tsx
index 9bfe5e8..5bab60a 100644
--- a/app/tasse-die-pause/components/Pricing.tsx
+++ b/app/tasse-die-pause/components/Pricing.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import Image from "next/image";
 import { AddToCartButton } from "../../components/AddToCartButton";
 import { Reveal } from "../../components/Reveal";
+import { RichText } from "../../components/RichText";
 import { getProductBySlug, getShippingSettings, getDefaultTaxRatePercent, getKleinunternehmer } from "../../lib/payload";
 import { formatPrice, discountPercent } from "../../lib/format";
 import { effectiveTaxRate } from "../../lib/cartTotals";
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ export async function Pricing() {
           >
             {product.name}
           </p>
-          {product.description && <p className="text-body-sm text-text-primary">{product.description}</p>}
+          {product.description ? <RichText content={product.description} /> : null}
         </div>
 
         <div className="flex flex-col gap-3 items-start w-full lg:w-[18.75rem] lg:shrink-0">
diff --git a/app/tasse-die-pause/page.tsx b/app/tasse-die-pause/page.tsx
index f764a1a..c8b3040 100644
--- a/app/tasse-die-pause/page.tsx
+++ b/app/tasse-die-pause/page.tsx
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import { buildProductSchema } from "../lib/structuredData";
 export async function generateMetadata(): Promise<Metadata> {
   const product = await getProductBySlug("tasse-die-pause");
   const title = product ? `${product.name} – einfach produktiv.` : "Tasse – einfach produktiv.";
-  const description = product?.description ?? undefined;
+  const description = product?.descriptionText || undefined;
   return {
     title,
     description,