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On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:09:00 -0500, (gu)stav <no@hushmail.rightnow> wrote:
> This drawing was made in 1928 in the guest book of a youth hostel in
> eastern Germany, near the city of Jena. The hostel was housed in an
> old castle called the Leuchtenburg so the setting was authentically
> medieval.
> As a (possibly) interesting historical note ... this hostel served as a
> "Nest" for a youth group called the Sozialistische Arbeiterjugend
> (SAJ), or Socialist Worker Youth -- an anti-Nazi group sponsored by the
> Social Democratic Party (SPD), which remains one of the major political
> parties in Germany today.
> At the bottom of the picture the boys wrote the name of their own group
> (which, on another odd note, borrows the name of a fictional Native
> American created by the German writer Karl May) and signed their names.
> In all likelihood, in that era, the boys would have been wandering on
> their own without adult guidance or supervision (apart from a "hostel
> mother" at the castle).
> All these elements of the "Boy Thing" -- the medieval thread, the
> Native American thread, the sense of rugged, boys-only self-sufficiency
> also accurately reflect the spirit of the authentic Youth Movement of
> those times.
Quite interesting, in fact. Having never read any of the stories Karl May
built around the character 'Old Shatterhand', I deciphered the name written
immediately above the signatures as "Winnston", which seemed unlikely, and
was obliged to petition Google for enlightenment.
Ah, so -- "Winnetou".
But, in the same page of Google links, I happend to see an intriguing title
-- 'Old Shatterhand, Winnetou, Harry Potter, Ron und Hermione' -- which had,
of course, to be checked out; you might (possibly) find it interesting (ich
http://www.karl-may-stiftung.de/foerderverein/rowling.html
Bread upon the waters, indeed.
Domo arigato!
Ronin
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