A piston-cylinder arrangement for a press comprising: a piston which is at least partially accommodated in a cylinder and divides the cylinder interior along the cylinder axis into two subchambers (10.1, 10.2), and a pressure relief device which is arranged in at least one first subchamber (10.1) and is adapted to counteract an increase in the pressure of a fluid accommodated in the first subchamber (10.1) caused by a movement of the piston directed along the cylinder axis onto the first subchamber (10.1), and has a relief space and a limiting arrangement which delimits the relief space from a subspace of the subchamber (10.1) which contains the accommodated fluid, wherein at least one partial region of the limiting arrangement is formed in such a way that, as a result of the pressure increase of the fluid, the subspace is increased in volume and the relief space is reduced in volume, a spatial separation between the subspace and the relief space being maintained, for which purpose the pressure relief device has, in the partial region of the limiting arrangement, a pressure relief piston which is mounted movably with respect to the cylinder, characterised in that the pressure relief device is adapted to counteract the increase in pressure when the movement of the piston causing the pressure increase results from a release, produced shortly before overcoming a piston-holding resistance in abrupt fashion, of a compression volume formed in the second subchamber (10.2) by pressure build-up in the fluid contained therein before overcoming the holding resistance, wherein the pressure relief piston runs along a running surface of the pressure relief device during a movement, so that the pressure increase can be counteracted already at the point where it arises, wherein a sleeve (11.1) mounted on the cylinder head and projecting into the cylinder interior forms part of the limiting arrangement delimiting the relief space formed in the form of a toroidal cylinder, and the projecting region of the sleeve (11.1) forms part (11.2) of the running surface, and wherein a movement of the pressure relief piston which reduces the volume of the relief space is directed away from the second subchamber (10.2) which does not contain this pressure relief piston. a piston which is at least partially accommodated in a cylinder and divides the cylinder interior along the cylinder axis into two subchambers (10.1, 10.2), and a pressure relief device which is arranged in at least one first subchamber (10.1) and is adapted to counteract an increase in the pressure of a fluid accommodated in the first subchamber (10.1) caused by a movement of the piston directed along the cylinder axis onto the first subchamber (10.1), and has a relief space and a limiting arrangement which delimits the relief space from a subspace of the subchamber (10.1) which contains the accommodated fluid, wherein at least one partial region of the limiting arrangement is formed in such a way that, as a result of the pressure increase of the fluid, the subspace is increased in volume and the relief space is reduced in volume, a spatial separation between the subspace and the relief space being maintained, for which purpose the pressure relief device has, in the partial region of the limiting arrangement, a pressure relief piston which is mounted movably with respect to the cylinder, characterised in that the pressure relief device is adapted to counteract the increase in pressure when the movement of the piston causing the pressure increase results from a release, produced shortly before overcoming a piston-holding resistance in abrupt fashion, of a compression volume formed in the second subchamber (10.2) by pressure build-up in the fluid contained therein before overcoming the holding resistance, wherein the pressure relief piston runs along a running surface of the pressure relief device during a movement, so that the pressure increase can be counteracted already at the point where it arises, wherein a sleeve (11.1) mounted on the cylinder head and projecting into the cylinder interior forms part of the limiting arrangement delimiting the relief space formed in the form of a toroidal cylinder, and the projecting region of the sleeve (11.1) forms part (11.2) of the running surface, and wherein a movement of the pressure relief piston which reduces the volume of the relief space is directed away from the second subchamber (10.2) which does not contain this pressure relief piston.