Wild woods and the wide world Whether it’s ‘Bollenhut’ (traditional Black Forest hat) or cuckoo clock, this area has exported worldwide a romantic concept of itself. Her hiking-boots are never far away when Ingeborg Gleichauf writes about local history. She leads her readers along secret trails to fabulous views, chooses Heidegger or Hannah Arendt as her companions, explores a mine and visits a clockmaker. She tells us about the nymphs in the Schluchsee and the Black Forest maiden, recalls offal soup and seeks out the best Black Forest torte. This book shows us how outward-lookimg this region and its people always were and still are.
About the author:
Ingeborg Gleichauf grew up in Neustadt and studied in Freiburg. She has written about Hannah Arendt and her book on Simone de Beauvoir won the Vienna Young Critics Prize. But the Black Forest keeps luring back this academic with a love of travel, whose husband and three grown-up children now accompany her on her trips. |
