The involuntary journeys of the putti Eichelbaum
"The involuntary journeys of the putti Eichelbaum" is a modern picaresque novel by Bernt Engelmann . Engelmann describes the life of his childhood friend Richard Eichelbaum (June 9, 1921 - May 19, 2015).
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Richard "Putti" Eichelbaum was born in 1921 in Germany as the son of a Jewish lawyer from Berlin . Hitler's seizure of power meant that the family had to flee Germany. The young putti's escape with his parents leads to Switzerland and from there to Cuba via Italy , France and Bermuda . Overall, it was only with a lot of luck that the family finally succeeded in entering the United States , whose citizenship he later took on. The only twelve-year-old when he left Germany got to know the world and five languages by fleeing. Armed with this life experience, he joined the United States Army and ended up as an Allied soldier in Normandy , from where he returned to his old homeland. He works as a secret service agent and among other things as General Patton's interpreter . Putti met Franz Josef Strauss , whom he recommended to the American military government as a post - war politician for the reconstruction. After various stages in life, Richard Eichelbaum lived as Richard Essex in Florida .
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Bernt Engelmann: The involuntary journeys of the putti Eichelbaum , Steidl-Verlag, Göttingen, ISBN 3-88243-398-1
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- ^ Richard H. Essex Obituary. In: legacy.com. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .