Slide Show with Hannes Rother
In 1933, the writer Hans Fallada (1893–1947)—born in Greifswald, raised in Leipzig and Berlin, a trained farmer, and, more recently, an extremely successful writer—purchased a small farmhouse on the outskirts of the village in Carwitz, in the Feldberg Lake District—in the “Mecklenburg solitude of the world” —a small farmstead on the outskirts of the village.
Withdrawing from the hostility of the new rulers in Berlin, Fallada established a new home here for his family, complete with a small farm, and a retreat for himself to write.
Fallada’s deep love for “his” landscape—which he passed on to his children, among other things, through extended hikes—may be glimpsed in the fact that he preferred to send the postcard shown here; above all, however, it is reflected in myriad ways in his literary work. Bohnenwerder, Hullerbusch, Hauptmannsberg, Haussee, Krüseliner Wiese—evocative names that, in their original or modified forms, find their way into Fallada’s books and stories for both adults and children.
The lecture will present the distinctive region around Carwitz and Feldberg through images and will be accompanied by a reading of selected stories set in the local landscape.
Admission: 10 euros
