Re: [Cz-L] What did children read?

>From America:
 Uncle Toms hut, The last of the Mohicans,
  From Italy:
   Cuore, Pinochio,
Hardy

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From: "Berti Glaubach" <berti.glaubach_at_gmail.com>
To: "Helene Ryding" <hryding_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: <lapidotm_at_inter.net.il>; "Czernowitz Genealogy and History"
<czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] What did children read?

> 1) In the teenth also Karl Czapek , Felix Dahn, Robert Kraft and all sort
> of Westerns like Cooper (Lederstrumpf),
>
> 2) also Tarzan, Excentric Club, the adventures of the submarine Dox as
> they were published once a week, "the three Italian scouts" all
> translated
> into Romanian.
>
> 3) Before that the weekly Schmetterling, Papagei or Kiebitz that came from
> Germany or Austria. I never read Anderssen or Grimm myself, but had to
> hear
> them read to me by diverse members of the family, mainly mother and aunts.
>
> Then of course the obligatory poems by Schiller and Heine, first
> infiltrated by other's recitation. Fortunately Goethe was considered to be
> too deep to be assimilated by young minds. Probably the older ones had the
> same problem - so I suppose that similar to myself very few Cz. ever read
> the "Faust".
>
> Still my vote goes to Erich Kaestner for the most read author in the
> 1930th, both by children and parents (or at least mothers). And probably
> the most formative.
>
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