The cotton pickers

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The cotton picker is a novel by B. Traven from 1925, which first appeared in the newspaper Vorwärts . The following year it was published in an expanded form by Buchmeister-Verlag Berlin / Leipzig under the title Der Wobbly . Wobbly is a nickname given to members of the US Industrial Workers of the World union .

The novel depicts the I-shape the life of the laconic, US hireling Gales in Mexico in the 1920s. Gales lives from hand to mouth and works for starvation wages as a cotton picker on cotton plantations , oil fields , in a bakery and as a cowboy for a cattle cart . The story describes the social injustices and the exploitation of workers in Mexico at that time. The novel has autobiographical references to Traven's life.

filming

The book was filmed in 1969 as an eight-part television series on behalf of WDR and was shown in the evening program in 1970. The main roles were played by Helmut Schmid , Jürgen Goslar and Liselotte Pulver . The series was repeated in 1973 on four dates in September and October, each with two episodes in one evening. The last episode was not broadcast when it first aired in 1970. A poem set to music by B. Traven, the song of the cotton pickers ( the king carries my gift, the millionaire, the president ... ) was used as the soundtrack .

output

Individual evidence

  1. Cotton Pickers, The [TV series]. In: The online film database. OFDb.de - The online film database e. K., October 21, 2008, accessed March 30, 2013 .