More ideas!

The book I've been reading, "Resor till Carlskrona" (1750-1860) contains several very interesting first-person narratives which we could definitely use in our tour, just to have some 'voices from the past' come in when the tourists are walking through the marketplace perhaps, or Västerudd/Teatergatan, just as if they were passing by on their way to someplace, stopping by for a moment, bumping into the tourists, saying something and then continuing walking. That would be like actually hearing, almost feeling the presence of ghost figures all around you in the middle of Karlskrona. Some suggestions:

• Johan Georg Kerner - He mentions Törnström in his diary from a trip to Karlskrona in 1802, where he talks about one of his figurines - Venus - and the amazing craftsmanship of his works.
• Erns Moritz Arndt - He has a very vivid description of the marketplace from 1804 where he also mentions the fire. and the fisherman who owned Karlskrona before the king threw him in the dungeons. He also talks about what people are wearing and the structure of the city. I can translate a small portion of it: "The most beautiful location in the city is the marketplace, even the greatest cities in Europe cannot show a more majestic place. It's almost rectangular andwould leave an even better impression if it weren't for the churches; the big Swedish church stands in the middle and the German on one side. The last one was ravaged by the fire as well and is now restored in a very tasteful shape, it's inside as simple as its outside. The church and the house of the landlord are the most beautiful buildings of the marketplace."
• Friedrich Wilhelm Schubert - In 1817 he gives a very good description of the people that live in Karlskrona, what they look like and what they are wearing. He also speaks of his visit to the docks and mentions Törnströms figureheads.

I'm interested in that story about Lisa Schröder, the corpse in the wall - is this wall far off from the centre of the city, and is it actually still there?

And yes, on Monday we meet in Delta 10.00, unless someone's going to have a class in there, then we can just go somewhere else, maybe the library.

- Eva.

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