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Old heart embarks on a journey is a contemporary fairy tale in which love, faith, and integrity ultimately win.
Professor Gotthold Kittguß is an elderly yet still attractive man. He taught ancient languages and religion at an elementary school for many years; he is now retired. Since he has no relatives, his home is managed by a landlady.
Quietly, happily, and devoutly, he lives in seclusion, devoting himself totally to his computations, textual comparisons, and interpretation of the Bible. Then, he receives a letter from Rosemarie, his godchild. The sixteen-year-old orphan requests his assistance. After the loss of her parents, she resides with a foster family and five other foster children in a tiny village. The nasty foster parents have only taken in the children for the money, and they treat them horribly; starvation and beatings are the norm. To assist his godchild, a naïve, altruistic professor emerges into this confined, dark society.
Biography
Rudolf Ditzen, also known as Hans Fallada, was born in Greifswald in 1893 as the son of a high-ranking judicial officer. He attended the humanistic grammar school and finished an agricultural apprenticeship without graduating. From 1915 to 1925, he worked as a farm laborer, court inspector, and bookkeeper. Between 1928 and 1931, he worked as an address clerk, advertisement collector, and publishing company employee. 1920 first novel "Der junge Goedeschal"; independent writer since 1931. Numerous translations of Fallada's work Kleiner Mann was a nun? (1932) brought him international renown. On his six-acre farm in Mecklenburg, he lived in solitude as a "undesirable author" throughout the Nazi period. He relocated to Berlin in 1945 and died there in 1947.
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