Herbstmilch (novel)

Autumn Milk - Memoirs of a peasant woman is the autobiographical life story of the farmer Anna Wimschneider (1919-1993) from the year 1985 This written in a simple narrative language report on the life story of a hitherto unknown person became one of the greatest achievements in the history of the German Book Trade.. The autobiography was over three years in the bestseller lists. Wimschneider tells of the harsh living conditions as a Bavarian farmer's daughter from childhood: When eight years old, she takes over the tasks of the farmer's wife in 1927 on his father's farm. During the war she has her husband's farm yard, which was drafted for military service.

Background

The narrative offers its readers and especially readers rich possibilities of identification.

The title of the book refers to soured milk, which is no longer suitable for sale and has therefore been consumed by the farmers themselves and an important food represented (see autumn milk soup).

Filming

The book was made ​​into a film in 1988 by Joseph Vilsmaier with his wife Dana Vavrova and Werner Stocker in the lead roles, with music by Norbert Jürgen Schneider.

Expenditure

• Anna Wimschneider: Autumn Milk - Memoirs of a peasant woman. With 50 images from her life. Revised by Karin Meschowski. ( Sonderausgabe. ) cable, Munich 2003, 201 pp., ISBN 3-8225-0636-2

• Literary work
• Literature ( German )
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Autobiography
• Bauer novel