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- Title: Thomas Wolfe's Other German Girlfriend: Who was Lisa Hasait?(Memoirs from Namibia)
- Author : Thomas Wolfe Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 200 KB
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The distinction of being known as "Thomas Wolfe's German girlfriend" properly belongs on several grounds to Thea Voelcker. For one thing, of all Wolfe's relationships with German women, that with Voelcker was the most intense, even though it was also relatively brief. Their affair, moreover, came to involve--albeit rather marginally--other individuals who were significant in his life such as H. M. Ledig-Rowohlt and Maxwell Perkins. Not least of all, the short and tumultuous encounter of Voelcker and Wolfe during the summer of 1936 was immortalized by Wolfe in his posthumously published novel You Can't Go Home Again in the figures of Else von Kohler and George Webber, although the reality of Voelcker's personality corresponded only in part to the fictional treatment she received from the pen of her erstwhile American lover (Rogers; Stokes). But while this fleeting connection was the sole one of its kind involving a German woman about which Wolfe left behind a literary monument, it now transpires that a second such relationship has been recorded in print. Its author, however, was the other partner to the encounter, and her name before marriage was Lisa Hasait. (1) She also wrote a few letters and postcards to Wolfe that have survived and that, together with her recent memoirs (Von Dresden nach Otjiwarongo, 2001), provide a revealing insight into his behavior in the foreign country where "I am liked best and have the most friends" (qtd. in Kennedy 46).
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