In a time when straws were really made of straw and when in summer the sun was a real scorcher, and in an icy cold winter the birds froze on the wing and fell out of the sky, in Bruneck in South Tyrol the small Konrad was born, who later as a cabaret artist became the ‘inventor of the Rhineland’, as a fellow caba-ret artist called him...
The multi-talented artist and author Konrad Beikircher tells childhood stories from his almost Mediterra-nean homeland Tyrol, and recounts what it was like to be a child in the 1950s.
He tells us about the hot summer in the ‘swimming school’, his fears of the ‘Zingeler’, the pranks of the ‘Battle-of-the-Buttons’ Gang’ from Stegener Lane, and about his love for his older brothers, who lined his childhood path without ever stepping on his toes. He recounts the macho-rascal’s amours with the ladies from the adult world, and the wonderful concerts on Bruneck Square under the blossoming chestnut trees.
Konrad Beikircher talks about his childhood – about happiness and sunshine, but also about sadness and seclusion. His storytelling makes you believe that it happened just like this or that it at least could have happened just like this. And it makes you feel as if you were reading about the childhood you always wished you had had.
