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This is a copy of my short paper for anthrology I, analyzing and describing a family
which I've visited several times.

The Krauters are a family of 4 - Herr Krauter, about 50; Frau Krauter, 40; Dorothy, 13;
and Fritz 9. They live in a stucco-finished house on the edge of Beutelsbach, about 10 years
old, which has 3 bedrooms, living room, dining-sitting room, and kitchen. They have only
cold running water, and no plumbing for the toilet (only a pipe to a hole several feet below,
with a valve arrangement to close the pipe except when "flushed.") The house is comfortably
furnished, if simply, with furniture about like inexpensive styles in America, most of
it 10-15 years old. They are presently redecorating the dining-sitting room with
new wall-paper and a new walnut china cabinet. They only appliances I have seen are a
gas stove, a gas oven-heater, a small refrigerator, and a radio-phonograph combination.
The family has no car - Herr K. takes the train to work each day.

Herr Krauter works 5 days a week as a bookkeeper for a Stuttgart firm which makes
leather shoe lining material. The family also owns a single piece of weinberg property
(acreage on which to grow grapes) - a very small piece, probably about 1 acre) on a hillside
close by. This was inherited by Frau Krauter on the death of her father. The family tends the
plot itself, mainly the parents, with some added help from the family of Frau Krauter's sister,
a local full-time weinberg famly. The annual yield is about 200-250 liters (= quarts)
of wine which is said to be of good quality, and whose excess above family use is sold
to one of the best local inns. A futher family economy comes from the growing of
fruit and vegetables in a garden behind the house.

The family's interpersonal relationships are of couse difficult to assess, especially
under conditions of social visits of not more 6 or 8 hours. I have spent more time
with Frau. K. and know her much better. She lived in Beutelsbach as a child, had 3
sisters who also still live here, and a brother who was killed in Russia in the war (her mother
is still alive and lives with one of the sisters, whose husband also died in Russia). She
describes her parents as strict, at least in matters of morals - drinking, dancing and movies
were all disapproved. Yet she too favors very similar behavior for her children, though
less dogmatically justified. Her main role is naturally that
of housewife and mother, and she has no outside activities that I know of. She takes pride
in her cooking and baking, looks on food as a large part of hospitality, often insists that
I take kuchen (cake), etc. with me back to the Burg. The house was not spotlessly
clean on those occasions when I have dropped in unannounced, and this does not seem
to disturb her particularly. Cooking and raising her children seem to be her main
concerns. She is interested in music and listens to concerts and operas over the radio (they
rarely get to concerts and operas in Stuttgart because of no car and the desire to be with the
children).

Herr Krauter is difficult for me to describe, since I have only spent a few hours with
him. He is more outgoing than his wife, more self confident appearing. He speaks a
little English, reads it fairly well, and is eager to learn more; this eagerness is to me
a manifestation of his need to make friends, to be "sociable", although it also has
some overt use in his job.

I have made no direct observations of the division of labor. Frau Krauter says that
her husband helps her with the housework when she needs it. She cited wiping dishes
as an example. But in discussing American vs. German marriage roles she expressed
the belief that in America the wife is more equal than here, that in Germany
the wife has a more distinct role as housewife.

In the Krauter family the major decisions at leat are made cooperatively between