The time frame is the early 1950s in the American sector of post war Germany. The background is, on the one hand, a convent boarding school in Venusbrunn that teaches business subjects, and on the other hand home life in a highly convoluted setting that includes retail store, warehouse, loading dock, offices, movie theater and flat roof playground. Stephanie Sauerling meets a classmate who is psychic, and after becoming good friends it causes all sorts of problems for both but also brings excitement over solving a mystery and finding young love in the process. Stephanie learns eventually why she was drawn to Venusbrunn, and that the vague and mysterious feelings and sensations she has experienced at different places around that little town are due to the subtle working of Spirit.
collection of autobiographical fiction, non-fiction, critical and historical essays, a short story, travelogue to Weimar in the former East Germany 2 years after the wall came down, riddles, some poetry, and anecdotes.
Dagobert is the third book in a trilogy about life and its metaphysical aspect, in postwar Germany of the 1950s. Stephanie enters an academy in Munich where Leon lives, to pursue her career. They become engaged. The night before she leaves for Christmas vacation they make love. Seventeen years later she is married to an ex-GI and their marriage is in crisis. She learns to meditate, starts a college education and meets a mysterious man. During a vacation in Germany she finds the book she had wanted to find again since childhood. In meditation she makes contact with the historical Dagobert of that book and discovers something about herself.
The setting for this story is post-war Germany of the 1950s. After graduating from a convent business boarding school, Stephanie wants to work in her father's business. Her mother has other ideas, though, and Fanny ends up being a housemaid for her mother and a nursemaid for younger siblings. She has neither rights nor privileges, and desperately looks for a way out of her predicament. She meets Leon at a dance course and begins to live a little, but again, her mother prevents her from escaping to better and happier times and places. Fanny has a lot to learn before she is able to take life into her own hands."--Publisher's description.
What lies under that huge stick pile across the street from the convent boarding school? Steffi and her friend are going to investigate. It leads them to victory, but also romance, guilt, and other complications.
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