"Tinana. Freiübungen der Schule (wenig Schüler wegen regnerischem Wetter)" ("Tinana. Physical exercises of the school (few pupils due to the rainy weather)"). About fifty young people standing in a row in the meadow, raising their hands up in the air. The boys are wearing shorts, jackets and some of them hats. The girls are wearing skirts or dresses. Some of the young people are wearing blankets on their shoulders. In the background hills and trees. Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland).
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