Dahinten in der Heide

Hermann Löns: Back There in the Heath. Lower Saxon Novel. First published: Hanover, Verlag von Adolf Sponholtz, 1910. Table of contents: Back There in the Heath, The Ortolan, The Yellowhammer, The Dove, The Little Owl, The Carrion Crow, The Swallow, The Wryneck, The Cuckoo, The White Wagtail, The Winter Crow, The Tit, The Markwart, The Nightingale, The Skylark, The Pheasant, The Lark, The Lapwing. New edition. Edited by Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2019. The text of this edition has been carefully adapted to the new German spelling. Cover design by Thomas Schultz-Overhage using the image: Arnold Lyongrün, On Blooming Heath, 1910. Set in Minion Pro, 11 pt. About the author: Often for weeks, the editor of the Hannoversche Anzeigen would stay in his small hunting lodge in the Westenholzer Bruch. He would go stalking in the heath and moor and write his nature and landscape poems. The local poet Hermann Löns was already a myth during his lifetime. He fell in 1914 in the war, in which he wanted to participate as a volunteer despite being 48 years old.