Rosinkawiese - A return to the land in the 1920s - Gudrun Pausewang

Rosinkawiese , that's what the locals called this piece of land in eastern Bohemia where Gudrun Pausewang's parents realized their dream of an alternative life in the early twenties. They accepted the greatest privations as the price of their freedom and independence and, indeed, they succeeded in cultivating the ancient marsh. But the soil did not allow them total self-sufficiency.... In nineteen letters to the grandson of an old friend who would like to stop his studies to live in the countryside, the author describes openly and sincerely this that she lived, the experiences she had, an “ era ” of her existence: that of Rosinkawiese which ended abruptly in 1945 with the flight to the West. “I do not regret any day spent there even if we had to admit that our Idea had partially failed. » \n \nGudrun Pausewang was born on March 3, 1928 in Wichstadt in Bohemia. She was a teacher in German schools in Chile and Colombia and, since her return from Latin America in 1972, she has taught in the area around Fulda. In addition to her novels whose subject is social criticism, she writes books for young people and children; at the same time, two of his books were adapted for the cinema. His novel The Liberty of Ramon Acosta (1981) also has as its subject the individual fleeing to the freedom of nature to escape the constraints of civilization. Gudrun Pausewang wrote Rosinkawiese in collaboration with her mother. \n \n132p, 12.5x19cm, illustrations