Table of Contents for
We All Giggled: A Bourgeois Family Memoir by Thomas O. Hueglin

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What This Is About

Part I: The Hüglins

1. Tango

2. A nearly missed wedding

3. Madonnas and Buddhas

4. Diaspora

5. Les artistes

6. Nationalökonomie

7. Rhenish humour

8. Genealogy of men

9. (Some) artists again

10. The villa(s)

11. Christmas

12. Mucki

13. The Planter

14. Nemesis

15. Zauberberg

16. Varasdin on the Isar

17. Nüssli mit Likör

18. The surroundings

19. Kids

20. School

21. Cars

22. The Jewish question (I)

23. Black Forest

24. From music to medicine

25. War

Part II: The Wachendorffs

26. A sombre beginning

27. A macabre anniversary

28. Black stairs

29. The photographer

30. The factory director

31. The gardener

32. Tyrant and charmer

33. Possible encounter

34. Another Chile connection

35. Hattenheim

36. The Rhine

37. Freie Heimat

38. Books and poems

39. The Jewish question (II)

40. Same subject continued

41. Postscript

42. In from the cold

43. Favourite aunt

44. Hans-Erich

45. Family reunions

46. Gamelan meets baroque

47. Reborn

48. Middle names

49. Middle ground

50. Skin of our teeth

51. War again

Part III: Renate and Hans

52. Presto agitato

53. Courtship

54. The crossing

55. Occupation

56. Wings

57. Degrees of separation

58. Presto agitato again

59. Interlude

Part IV: Tutzing (1950s)

60. Little house on the lake

61. On the town

62. Boys and girls

63. Catholics and Communists

64. The hotel

65. Erika

66. Piano lessons

67. Music, caviar, and space

68. Star-struck

69. Beaulieu-sur-Mer

70. Disaster

71. A few months later, back to the memoir

72. Geneva

73. On the radio

Part V: Munich

74. Esmeralda

75. The apartment

76. The doctor

77. The piano

78. Dallas

79. School again

80. The group

81. Girls

82. Ambach

Part 1

The Hüglins

Thomas O. Hueglin

These are the stories about the Hüglins, and about the author growing up in the shadow of the Sanatorium where his father worked as a physician. Bourgeois family life intersects with artists and (a few) villains.

Thomas O. Hueglin grew up in Germany and moved to Canada in 1983. He is a professor of political science at Wilfrid Laurier University. His most recent book publications are Comparative Federalism and Classical Debates for the Twenty-first Century: Rethinking Political Thought. He lives in New Dundee, Ontario.