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194 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1936
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Ernst Wiechert
110 books24 followersErnst 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.
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.
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April 19, 2026
Ernst Wiechert is an underappreciated German author from the first half of the 20th century.
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Though some of his works have been republished in German, these neglected books deserve to be made available to the English-reading public through translation and publication.
"Wälder und Menschen" is a delightful ode to the rural culture and consoling social environment of his homeland in East Prussia with its 700 year history.
The German province of East Prussia was lost after 1945.
Seven centuries of culture were extinguished with the destruction of WW II and the divided annexations by Poland, the Soviet Union, and Lithuania.
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Though some of his works have been republished in German, these neglected books deserve to be made available to the English-reading public through translation and publication.
"Wälder und Menschen" is a delightful ode to the rural culture and consoling social environment of his homeland in East Prussia with its 700 year history.
The German province of East Prussia was lost after 1945.
Seven centuries of culture were extinguished with the destruction of WW II and the divided annexations by Poland, the Soviet Union, and Lithuania.
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