Herero (novel)

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Herero is the title of a novel by Gerhard Seyfried about the Herero uprising in 1904 in German South West Africa , today's Namibia . This 600-page work is the debut novel by the comic artist Seyfried and was published by Eichborn Verlag in 2003 .

Herero is about the Berlin cartographer Carl Ettmann, who went to Namibia in 1903 to make precise maps of the country on behalf of the German Empire . Shortly before, his wife died. In Namibia he met the photographer Cecile Orenstein, who also came from Berlin. Ettmann suddenly gets caught up in the Herero uprising and is drafted into the imperial protection force as a reservist. There he serves as an artilleryman.

The novel is based on historical facts and Seyfried's three-year research in libraries and in Namibia. Above all, Seyfried evaluated the diaries of the Schutztrupplers Victor Franke, which were still unpublished at the time . Seyfried tries to give an extremely detailed description of life at that time. The bound edition is also illustrated with historical photographs and drawings from Seyfried's pen.

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  • Herero . Eichborn Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8218-0873-X (hardback edition with illustrations)
  • Herero . Aufbauverlag Berlin 2003, ISBN 3746620260 (paperback without illustrations)

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