The other book by Alfred Neubauer
05/26/2017
Alfred Neubauer was the great racing manager of the pre- and post-war period, who helped Mercedes-Benz to many motorsport successes. But he was also an author and most people know his book "Männer, Frauen und Motoren" (Men, Women and Engines) from 1958.
However, this was Neubauer's second book, as "Heute lacht man darüber" was published in 1951. The edition at the time was 2000 copies, they were hand-numbered and signed and were probably distributed/distributed in a small circle.
In principle, it was a collection of short stories about the automobile, at least some of which had previously appeared in the Luxembourg Autorevue.
An Zwischengas reader was able to get hold of a copy on eBay at a reasonable price and wrote: "The book consists of short stories about the automobile; however, the historical value exceeds the literary value."
Incidentally, the cover was designed by Walter Gotschke at the time and this alone certainly makes the booklet attractive. When Neubauer looks back about half a century in his stories and tells many entertaining and smile-inducing anecdotes from the early days of the automobile, he had about the same distance back then as when we comment on magazine reports from the sixties today. And that makes you wonder about one thing or another.
