1972 Georg Eisler's 80th
1972 Georg Eisler's 80th Birthday Menu
1972 Earnestine Jack
1972 Benny Earnestine Kate
1972 Benita George Michael
1971 Micheal Betty Sean Colin
1972 Gerda Jack
1972 Thiede[s] Gerda George Rachel Daniel
Charlotte Eisler [nee Thiede]
[1935]Charlotte Eisle-Rodewald von Erich Luth [nee Thiede]
I have no photos of Charlotte at George's 80th
1972 Gerda +Charlotte's cousin
The Fairy Tale of the Beautiful Lau A poet's fairy tale by Eduard Mörike
The legend of the beautiful Lau tells of a Stuttgart shoemaker's apprentice, traveling the land with his magical shoes, who encounters the beautiful Lau, a water nymph, at the Blautopf spring. This woman, the wife of a water king in the Black Sea, had been banished to the Blautopf because she was unable to bear live children. Through contact with the people of Blaubeuren, she learned to laugh again, which freed her from her curse and allowed her to return to her husband.A monument to the beautiful Lau has been erected at the Blautopf, right by the hammer mill, created by the sculptor Fritz von Graevenitz .
"At the very bottom of the Blautopf spring once sat a water nymph with long, flowing hair. Her body was everywhere like that of a beautiful, natural woman, except for one thing: between her fingers and toes she had webbing, snow-white and softer than a poppy petal..."
Thus begins "The Story of the Beautiful Lau" by Eduard Mörike, in which the water nymph at the Blautopf learns to laugh again. Her husband, an old Danube nymph, had banished her to the Blautopf spring after she bore him only stillborn children out of sheer sadness. Only when she laughed heartily five times would the curse be lifted.