The farm in the green mountains
The farm in the green mountains is an autobiographical report by Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer about her emigration to the USA in 1939, together with husband Carl Zuckmayer . It is the author's first book and was first published in 1949 by JP Toth Verlag in Hamburg. In 1968 an extended edition followed by GB Fischer.
content
The memories are preceded by the three-verse poem The Farm in the Green Mountains by Carl Zuckmayer, followed by 19 chapters in which the emigration to the United States, the living conditions there and finally the relocation to Switzerland are described. The main focus of the report is the life and business of the remote Backwoods Farm in Barnard , Vermont . In three chapters towards the end, entitled The Path to the Library , The Library and Vox clamantis in deserto , the author also reports in more detail on the Dartmouth College Library in the neighboring state of New Hampshire , which she often visited and where she had her own study for a time . Farm life was still economically necessary during the war, after several years' stay in Europe, the farm was only used during the summer months until Saas-Fee became a new place of residence in Switzerland.
background
Herdan-Zuckmayer writes that the book goes back to a series of letters that she wrote to her husband's parents at the end of the war, as she was unable to travel to occupied Germany as a civilian in the first post-war period. Not only the traffic of people, but also the postal traffic was restricted: According to the autobiography of Carl Zuckmayer , in the summer of 1946 his civil mail reached their addressees only by circumventing the official regulations via intermediaries.
The impetus to use the letters for a book came from Erich Kästner , who read some of them during a visit to Carl Zuckmayer's parents and then published them in the features section of the Münchner Neue Zeitung . The first version of this book was published in 1949 by JP Toth in Hamburg and in 1968 in a new, expanded edition with photographs by GB Fischer.
expenditure
- Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer: The farm in the green mountains , Todt, Hamburg, 1949
- Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer: The farm in the green mountains , GB Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1968
- Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer: The farm in the green mountains , Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 46th edition, Frankfurt a. M. 2012, ISBN 978-3-596-20142-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer: The farm in the green mountains. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 46th edition, Frankfurt a. M. 2012, ISBN 978-3-596-20142-6 , background information on pp. 2-4
- ↑ Carl Zuckmayer: As if it were a piece of me. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-596-17208-5 , p. 630
- ↑ Petra Rainer: Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer: The Farm in the Green Mountains , article on literaturhaus.at from September 23, 1998 (new edition 1968), accessed on August 20, 2019