Bøger af Fritz Scheffel

A German Paradise in Texas - The Fate of German Emigrants to Texas in the 1840's is a gripping historical novel about the Germans who left their home country more than 150 years ago.False promises of a better life and incompetent organizers attracted thousands who had little to lose back home to look for a new life in Texas with the hope of creating a New Germany free from tyranny and poverty. These courageous people created much of the culture of Texas today.This emotive rendering of Scheffels monumental 'lost' heart-rending classic makes this story available for English language readers for the first time. Notes are provided for additional background information.

After discovering a copy the German novel, Deutsche suchen den Garten der Welt—Das Schicksal deutscher Auswanderer in Texas vor 100 Jahren nach Berichten erzählt von Fritz Scheffel,  the almost lost and fascinating story of the German Texas pioneers was republished originally in German in order to make it available to German readers once again. The book was originally published in 1937 and is written in a style and with elements of the German nationalistic culture of the time. It seems that the novel had almost been forgotten and hardly appears in any information about Scheffel. In the meantime, there are unfortunately hardly any German speaking Texans left and the descendants of those pioneers have no access to this literary and historical work which, whilst it is a good story, it is very close to the real history of Texas of the 1840’s and has the potential to bring history alive to them.The book has been recomposed into English rather than leave it as a pure translation. However, the original flavor and the storyline of the novel have been retained, making it more accessible to the average American today. 

Im Jahre 1846 gründete Carl Zeiss eine Werkstatt, die sich mit der Produktion von Geräten auf optischer Basis befasste. Auch heute noch ist das Carl Zeiss Unternehmen bekannt für seine Fotoobjektive, Mikroskope und Fernrohre. Mit dem Ziel, ¿schiefe und geradezu falsche Ansichten¿ über das Unternehmen endgültig aus dem Weg zu räumen, hat sich Felix Auerbach intensiv mit dem Zeisswerk befasst. Er gibt dem Leser einen ausführlichen Einblick in die Werkstatt, die Produkte und die Mitarbeiter. Begleitet werden seine Ausführungen von zahlreichen Grafiken und Querschnitten.