Die Judenbuche, translated as The Jew's Beech or The Jew's Beech-Tree, is a German novella written by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and first published in 1842. The story about the unsolved murder of a Jewish citizen in a village in the Westphalian mountains was based on true events.
Die Judenbuche
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Baroness Anna Elisabeth Franziska Adolphine Wilhelmine Louise Maria von Droste zu Hülshoff, known as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, was a 19th-century German poet, novelist, and composer of Classical music. She was also the author of the novella Die Judenbuche.
Portrait by Johann Sprick, 1838
Burg Hülshoff in Havixbeck, Germany: birthplace of Annette von Droste
The Säntis, a mountain in the Alps near Schloss Eppishausen, which inspired Droste's poem "Der Säntis"
Levin Schücking