Früchte des Zorns

In the organizer's words:

Fruits of Wrath
based on the novel by John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath caused a scandal when it was published in 1939. Steinbeck was called a subversive and received death threats for the novel's unvarnished social criticism. The bestseller was later awarded the Pulitzer Prize, made into a film and Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. The novel focuses on the fate of a group of American climate refugees at the time of the Great Depression. In the Dust Bowl, many farmers have lost their harvests due to years of drought, some of it man-made, and can no longer pay the rent for their land. In the 1930s, hundreds of thousands of them left their homes and set off for California, the supposed promised land 2000 kilometers away. The impoverished Joad farming family also embarked on the long and arduous search for work and a new life. But instead, all that awaits them is exploitation, hunger and xenophobia.

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