for example the Easter poem in Goethe’s “Faust.” The long-awaited fresh bread,
sausages, eggs, and cereals turned these mornings into a veritable feast.
We often went on long walks towards Gu ¨nterstal, a village at the foothills of the
Southern part of the Black Forest. A special treat was to eat a slice of the similarly
named cake on the hilltop of Schauinsland, which could be reached with a cable car
and which would take us high above the dark fir trees to admire the view. In
addition to the cake, I enjoyed the walks through the hills in the company of this
expert botanist and storyteller. My cousins Luzia and Peter (cf. Fig. 2) occasionally
joined us, and hide-and-seek was added to the touristic program.
Fig. 3 Magda and Hermann Staudinger in front of their house in 1951
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Foreword: Memories of Hermann Staudinger by one of his grandchildren
sausages, eggs, and cereals turned these mornings into a veritable feast.
We often went on long walks towards Gu ¨nterstal, a village at the foothills of the
Southern part of the Black Forest. A special treat was to eat a slice of the similarly
named cake on the hilltop of Schauinsland, which could be reached with a cable car
and which would take us high above the dark fir trees to admire the view. In
addition to the cake, I enjoyed the walks through the hills in the company of this
expert botanist and storyteller. My cousins Luzia and Peter (cf. Fig. 2) occasionally
joined us, and hide-and-seek was added to the touristic program.
Fig. 3 Magda and Hermann Staudinger in front of their house in 1951
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Foreword: Memories of Hermann Staudinger by one of his grandchildren