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Rolf Schmidt
Novel Trilogy „Auswandererlied“
Part One "The Call"
Part Two "Waiting for the Tide"
Part Three "Exodus"
Translated by Petra Haynes

Auswandererlied is a trilogy of novels by author Rolf A. Schmidt which shares the true story of the Giessen Emigration Society, the largest and most organized immigration group of German immigrants to make their home in Missouri. The historical novels comprises three works of facts and fiction and they have the feeling of factual reports. Schmidt has based his novels on original documents and actual diaries uncovered by the Missouri Germans Consortium in the United States. Some of the characters have been created for the trilogy, such as Bettina, a young girl that the stories revolve around.

Schmidt’s three novels give fictionalized accounts of the impetus and organization of the group in The Call, the isolation and fear on Harriersand Island in Waiting for the Tide, and the ship passage and arrival of the immigrants in Missouri in Exodus.

186 + 146 + 346 pages, 2021

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Rolf Schmidt
Novel Trilogy - German original version
Part One "Die Aufforderung", 239 pages, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7308-1391-1
Part Two "Warten auf die Flut", 180 pages, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89995-569-9
Part Three "Der Auszug", 280 pages, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89995-982-6

Available at the German publisher Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg, Germany