Roots

Hermann Simon

Chapter 1 in Many Worlds, One Life, 2021, pp 1-15 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Where am I from? I begin by looking back at the medieval world of my childhood in Germany’s Eifel region, the “Siberia of Prussia.” My ancestors’ fates are closely interwoven with the drama of Europe, especially the upheavals in Germany, France, and Poland. My parents fell in love in Warsaw during World War II, far from my mother’s homeland. After Germany’s total collapse, they started a new life in the Eifel, where I was born. I am still deeply rooted in my “first world” today. I will never lose the Mosel-Franconian dialect, my mother tongue. One special moment: fifty years after the end of World War II, I return to the place where the war began for my mother.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-60758-6_1

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