About this audiobook
Author: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Type: Fiction
Language: German
Literary tradition: Germany
Duration: 2h 22m
Narrator: Hans Hafen
Source: LibriVox / Internet Archive
This public-domain audiobook is provided for free listening.
About the Story
Die Judenbuche is set in a rural Westphalian community where a series of crimes and suspicions leave a lasting mark on its inhabitants. The story follows Friedrich Mergel as reputation, guilt, and local judgment become impossible to separate.
Annette von Droste-Hulshoff combines psychological tension with a precise sense of place. The novella is a foundational German work of crime and social realism.
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Recording source: Internet Archive.