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In the novel Little Women, Mr. March goes off to war. But in real life, it was Jo March (Louisa May Alcott herself, an avowed abolitionist) who traveled to Washington to nurse Northern soldiers. This is Alcott’s memoir but she chose to use the pseudonym “Tribulation Periwinkle” to tell her story. Despite the subject matter, her account is full of amusing anecdotes as she makes her way alone from Concord, Massachusetts to DC, trying to finagle a free ticket and convinced she will drown during the journey.

Wer kennt sie nicht, die Geschichten von Wilhelm Busch? In der für Busch typischen Manier beschreibt er in dieser kurzen Autobiographie "Von mir über mich" sein Leben. Katharina Thalbach liest diese ungekürzte Lesung mit dem zu Wilhelm Busch passenden Humor.