interview with the Wiesbaden author Ernst Probst:
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question: Is it there pocketbook on the slave Machbuba?
Answer: The touching story of the very young Ethiopian slave Machbuba and significantly older German Prince Hermann von Pückler Muskau is now read in a paperback from my pen. The small but smart work is entitled "Machbuba. The slave and the Prince ", comprises some 130 pages and is lavishly illustrated. This Love Story is on "GRIN for academic texts" at the Internet address http://www.grin.com/e-book/150529/machbuba-die-sklavin-und-der-fuerst as a printed paperback or as an electronic e Book available in PDF format.
Machbuba (c. 1823-1840) was the famous slave and lover of the exotic German Prince Hermann Fürst von Pückler Muskau (1785-1871). The dark skinned beauty from Ethiopia was bought by the Prince to the slave market in Africa. She then joined his companion, nurse and lover. Her grave is in the cemetery of Bad Muskau in Upper Lusatia (Saxony), where she died young. The name means Machbuba to German "Golden" or "My Darling". Its real name was Ajiamé.
Prince Hermann von Pückler Muskau is one of the most colorful personalities of the 19th Century. He mixed in Europe, Africa and Asia, with emperors, kings and other rulers, had many adventures, was successful as a writer and became known as the creator of great parks in its palaces Muskau (Saxony) and Branitz (Brandenburg) a name. Reminds him of the Prince Pückler ice, which was named after him.
