Forest home. Memories from my youth

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Waldheimat, memories from my youth . Volume 1: Childhood , 3rd edition, 1886

Forest home. Memories from the youth is the title of Peter Rosegger's childhood and youth memories, published from 1877 onwards . An alternative title is Waldheimat. Stories from the youth . An abridged version appeared from 1900 under the title When I was still the forest farmer's boy.

General

The stories appeared in four volumes from 1877 and encompass childhood and youth. A version in three volumes, which focuses on childhood, was published from 1900 to 1902 by the Hamburg youth publications committee under the title When I was still the forest farmer boy . Rosegger first used the term Waldheimat in the story Die alten Staudenwinkelin , published in the Grazer Tagespost in 1872 . A memory from the forest home. After the success of his childhood and youth memories, the term, which had previously been used exclusively for literary purposes, became known in the German-speaking world and appeared in maps as early as 1907. Rosegger writes in the introduction:

I call my book “Waldheimat” because this term seems to me to best justify and explain the conditions and events that will be discussed here. It is a wonderful spiritual life that some people develop in the shade of the fir forests, in the thawy meadow valleys and on the quiet high meadows.

The previously mentioned story Die alte Staudenwinkelin was included in the Waldheimat stories under the title When I rode to the dragon binder .

Film adaptations

The stories form the basis for the German Waldheimat trilogy from 1963. The Austrian-German 26-part television series Waldheimat with the 90-minute pilot film Der Waldbauernbub comes from 1983 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bibliographical information in: Peter Rosegger: Waldheimat. Stories from the youth . Complete edition of the four volumes. Edition Holzinger. Berlin edition 2016, 4th edition
  2. ↑ Printed in three parts in the morning paper of the Grazer Tagespost : 25, 26 and 27 September 1872
  3. ^ Rosegger Museum Krieglach: Peter Rosegger. Life and Work (term Waldheimat), accessed on October 2, 2017
  4. ↑ Waldheimat. Memories from PK Rosegger's youth. Volume 1: Childhood. Third increased edition. Vienna. Pest. Leipzig. A. Hartleben's Verlag 1886 p. 12 ( online p. 18)
  5. ^ Rudolf Latzke: Peter Rosegger. His life and work. Volume 1: The young Rosegger . Weimar: Böhlau 1943 p. 269 (Staudenwinkelin → Drachenbinderin. Old and new version)
  6. ↑ Graz City Library: Waldheimat , accessed on July 12, 2018
  7. ↑ fernsehserien.de: Waldheimat , accessed on July 12, 2018

Web links

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