Friedrich Gerstäcker Society

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The Gerstäcker Museum

The Friedrich-Gerstäcker-Gesellschaft eV is a literary society that deals with the life and work of Friedrich Gerstäcker .

After the creation of a Gerstäcker biography in 1976 under the title Friedrich Gerstäcker - Life and Work , a group of Gerstäcker enthusiasts around Thomas Ostwald , the author of the brochure, gathered in Braunschweig . From this group, the Friedrich Gerstäcker Society evolved in 1979 , which operates the Gerstäcker Museum .

Changing exhibitions about the adventurous life of the well-traveled remind of him. Since 2006 there has been a collection of "Firearms of the Wild West", which includes originals and replicas from the period 1776 to 1900. In addition, there are publications of the newsletters that go with the exhibitions, the contributions to Friedrich Gerstäcker research, reprints of the first book editions and new publications of unabridged editions, such as the novel " Im Eckfenster ", which is verifiably set in Braunschweig, and after that of Gerstäcker "The Regulators in Arkansas" and "The River Pirates of the Mississippi", which he had set up himself, and for the first time in full his America diary under the title "Diary of a trip to America".

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