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Werner Otto Droescher typescript, Towards an alternative society.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-90/6

Scope and Contents

Collection contains a typescript version of a translation of : Droescher, Werner Otto.Odysset eines Lehrers . Munchen : Hirthammer, [1976], with two additional chapters relating to the author's experience in the Cook Islands and his model of an alternative society, titled Towards an alternative society (190 leaves).

Dates

  • 1978

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Not restricted

Biographical / Historical

Werner Otto Droescher (1911-1978) came to New Zealand in 1940 with his wife, the writer Greville Texidor, as a refugee from Nazi Germany. After working on a farm in the north he enrolled for a B.A. degree at Auckland University College, took a Masters' degree in German in 1945, and ultimately joined the staff of the German Department. Between 1961 and 1969 he studied and recorded the Egerland dialect of the original settlers as it had survived at Puhoi, and published a monograph on the subject in 1975.

Extent

0.01 metres (1 folder)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Peter Dane, October 1990.

Related Materials

MSS & Archives A-147, A-198 and A-199.

Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections, University of Auckland Repository

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