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Willi is about 18 here

Romances thread

Auerbach

Rowdy close of the Auerbach chapter: New Year excess, girls, a portrait of the town and colleagues' romances [needs a human eye]

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Translated from Willi's German.

...I had a run-in with the police. At New Year I had the greatest drunk of my life. There were so many girls that one could easily have the prettiest of them - Marthe Ehrlich, Lotte, Valli Helm, Muehlgruen 2, and so on. Auerbach itself is a curtain- and linen-manufacturing town of 25,000 inhabitants, lying in the Goeltzsch valley. It offers little for strangers, though a few excursions into the Ore Mountains and to Klingenthal are very beautiful. On the whole it may be said that I made my quarters here for a long time. Genner had got his bride going, and Fridolin got engaged to Martha Krause when he came back, discharged from hospital, having been venereally ill.

People: Willi Distel, Fridolin, Martha Krause, Marthe Ehrlich, Lotte, Valli Helm, Genner

Places: Auerbach im Vogtland, Goeltzschtal, Erzgebirge, Klingenthal, Muehlgruen

Interesting facts