Orgelsdorfer Eulenspiegel, October 1918-May 1919

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Orgelsdorfer Eulenspiegel, October 1918-May 1919
Description
Shortly after the start of World War I, the United States Army constructed an internment camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. The camp housed 3,400 prisoners of war, both captured military members and civilians with suspected ties to Germany. The prisoners wrote, illustrated, printed, and distributed a camp magazine, "Orgelsdorfer Eulenspiegel," from October 1918- May 1919.
The collection consists of ten original issues (a complete run) of "Orgelsdorfer Eulenspiegel," a literary magazine created between October 1918-May 1919 by German and German-American prisoners interned at Forth Ogelthorpe, Georgia, during and after World War I, along with English translations. Magazine content includes original and familiar poems, letters, stories, commentary, humor, announcements and reviews of camp events and performances, and colored woodcut illustrations depicting camp life and portraits of prisoners. Portrait subjects include Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Karl Muck, geneticist Richard Goldschmidt, writer Hanns Heinz Ewers, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conductor Ernst Kunwald, and physicist Jonathan Zenneck. Early issues reference the impact of the Influenza Epidemic of 1918 (the "Spanish Flu") on the camp. Translations were created by Helen Groh and Daniela Gunthe. Groh and Gunth prioritized translating articles that described camp life. Some of the stories were not translated due to the difficulty of the older German language.
Identifier
Acc. 344

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