Die Magd des Jürgen Doskocil

by Ernst Wiechert

Wenn die Liebe und Güte zweier Menschen christlicher ist als die Religion selbst. Der Fährmann Jürgen Doskocil lebt ausgestoßen aus seiner Gemeinde einsam und verlassen. Er wird aufgrund seiner hässlichen Gestalt von den Dorfkindern verspottet. Doch ein Mormonenpriester kommt auf seiner Pilgerreise mit seinen Anhängern in das Dorf und so lernt Jürgen Marte kennen. Die beiden verlieben sich, denn Marte sieht in Jürgen einen liebenswerten, wundervollen Menschen. Die Dorfbewohner und der Priester wenden sich gegen die Abtrünnige. Wird es dem Liebespaar gelingen durch Liebe und Menschlichkeit das Dorf auf seine Seite zu ziehen oder zwingt der Priester Marte mit unchristlichen Methoden zurück in seine Klauen?-

216 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1932

About the author

Ernst Wiechert was a German teacher, poet and writer.

His popular novels urged the virtues of simplicity, humility, and ideal love. Despite a three‐month internment in the concentration camp Buchenwald for his openly expressed criticism of the Nazi regime, he is a controversial figure whose status as a dissident has been questioned because of his enduring popularity and success as a published author under the Nazis. Nevertheless, all his work bears testimony to his defiant defence of his beliefs, including the immensely successful Das einfache Leben (The Simple Life, 1939), which advocated living a good life as an answer to the sickness of the age, a guiding light for humankind lost in the gloom of despair. His critical writing survived, buried in his garden, to be published after the war: Die Jerominkinder (The Earth is Our Heritage, vol. i, 1945, vol. ii, 1947) and Der Totenwald (The Forest of the Dead, 1945), a mainly autobiographical record written expressly as a literary chronicle of Buchenwald and a memorial to the dead. Disenchanted with post‐war developments in Germany and the hostile attitude towards his attempts to promote an honest coming‐to‐terms with the Nazi past, he emigrated in 1948 to Switzerland, where he died in 1950.