Anni - The Perfect Wisdom Web

l e a v i n gh o m efrom Keilhau, I began to criticize everything and thenrejected my old world. It seemed too simple to me.During this time I became somewhat estranged from mymother and sister.Then suddenly this newly built up world was smashed.I began to feel that it was of primary importance that Ibecome more self-controlled. I was looking for somethingnew for my life. At that time the book Drude byGertrud Prellwitz influenced me a great deal. Her wordsabout friendship made an enormous impression on me.I wanted to strive for the light, for purity, and for truth.Drude is the story of a teenage girl at a boarding schoolwho is encouraged by her teachers to seek nobility andtruth within herself and to pass on her insights to otherstudents who are less enlightened. By this means, theyassure her, she will participate in the approaching springtimeof humanity, when –freed from bourgeois inhibitions–mankindwill attain its true greatness. Anniparaphrased several passages from Drude in her diary.d i a r yJune 15, 1926Friendship means a common search for the way ofthe good in which the one loves the other so much thathe does not become cold if the other takes a false step.Always be full of light, always more light, always as fullof light as you can. It is often so difficult to decide whatis right and wrong, but still it is quite simple to find the13