"Mvenyane. Dorfschule in Sammlung, um zum Unterricht zu gehen nach der Pause" ("Mvenyane. Village school gathered in order to go to lesson after recreation"). A crowd of young people are standing in rows in front of a brick-lined house. Apparently three adults are standing near the two entrances of the house. Two of them are wearing hats. One is holding a watering can in his left hand. In the background and around are 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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