Brother Marje and Wanyakyusa, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1933

"Dar es Salaam, vor dem Berliner Missionshaus. Br. Marje mit einigen Wanyakyusa" ("Dar es Salaam, in front of the Berlin mission house. Br[other] Marje with several Wanyakyusa"). Brother Marje and the four Wanyakyusa in the centre, photographed from a distance. They are standing at the shore among palm trees. In the foreground a hedge and other plants. In the far background on the left a small boat. Behind the boat: coastline. The mission house is not in the picture. 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).