| Notes | "Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen" (English: "Leiningen Versus the Ants") is a short story by Carl Stephenson published in Germany in 1937, and later published in the Esquire, December 1938.
The plot is set in Brazil, where a massive tribe of army ants (also known as driver ants) threatens the plantation of a farmer named Leiningen (no first name is mentioned), who is not willing to abandon his land.
The story was adapted as a radio play at least two times and made into a movie (The Naked Jungle, starring Charlton Heston) in 1954. In 1956, Stephenson published a novel (fusing the short story) with Leinigen as main character: "Sendboten der Hölle - Leiningens Kampf mit der Wildnis" (Emissaries of Hell: Leiningen Versus the Wilderness), paperback edition (possibly shortened) as "Marabunta", book sales club editions as "Auf Leben und Tod" (On Life and Death). |
