Ich weiss ein Haus am Wasser

It is wonderful when we lie on the water like this and look back at our little house, noted Hans Fallada in a letter to his sister Elisabeth in 1934. And indeed, the years spent at the estate in Carwitz by the lake of the same name would become the happiest, most fulfilling, and most productive of the life of the world-famous author, family man, and farmer. Here I had one of the most beautiful, quiet spots on earth, he wrote in his autobiographical work Today at Home. This and many other praises of Mecklenburg-Strelitz inspired watercolorist Hans-Jürgen Gaudeck to explore, learn to love, and capture on paper the beauty, magic, and atmosphere of Fallada's land.