Abstract

G: You were born in 1896 in Woltersdorf near Lueneburg….

W: Yes, in the administrative district of Lueneburg.

G: You grew up in the countryside; your father was a Protestant school teacher….

W: That is correct.

G: Can it be said that your early experiences with the peasants helped lay the groundwork for what you have reintroduced into Marxist theory and which had long been forgotten, namely, the study of nature as a dimension of reality decisive for the analysis of society?

W: There are two objective considerations: From the very beginning I was interested in cultural geography. That I got from Marx.