The curse of Schwarzeneck

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The Curse of Schwarzeneck (original title: The Curse of Craigiburn ) is an English book for young people first published in 1967 by Jennifer Larcombe Rees . The novel conveys basic evangelistic ideas. In Germany it was also released as a radio play .

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The handicapped half orphan Frank has no friends. His single father is desperate for life. In addition, there seems to be a dark secret about the mother's untimely death that Frank cannot remember. The Schwarzeneck estate is said to be cursed. Frank grows up in this eerie mood of uncertainty, the text says:

It seemed to Frank that all his life the shadow of all the misfortunes that had happened in that farmhouse had lain on him; and yet until recently he was not even allowed to know what this misfortune had consisted of. That was the worst part of the whole thing - no one had wanted to tell him about it.

Later, an old, half-burned Bible is discovered by Frank's grandmother and he makes a new friend. Now events are overturning. First of all, there are big problems because Frank's friend is a practicing Christian, which neither his father nor Frank's study of the grandmother's Bible can accept in any way. Ultimately, however, it comes to a happy ending.

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The English-language original was translated into several languages ​​(1969 into German, later into Russian). Since the mid-1980s, the German edition has been published in a translation by Manfred Siebald on Christian Literature Distribution ( ISBN 978-3-89397-106-0 ), in 1999 already in its 5th edition.

In Germany, Der Fluch von Schwarzeneck was also published with Horst Marquardt as the narrator as a radio play adaptation by Berta Schmidt-Eller ( Der Meisterschuss , 1974) in the record publisher Hermann Schulte, who was also responsible for the book edition at the time. The radio play was later produced as a CD. Peter van Woerden composed radio play music especially for the game.

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