Konrad Beikircher - Als Strohhalme noch aus Stroh waren

In the organizer's words:

A childhood in South Tyrol

The evening about the book and more than that: Beikircher tells, sings and plays about his childhood in South Tyrol. In the days when wishing still helped and when straws were still made of straw, the children from Stegener Weg in Bruneck also knew what you could do with them and went in search of cattle brakes to organize Formula 1 races with them. And little Konrad was right in the middle of it all. The way Beikircher can tell a story, the little world of Bruneck emerges all by itself before the eyes of the listeners. It is a world that is not only wholesome but also a world that can be hilarious. It is a world full of little adventures, full of people who have mothered and cuddled the little womanizer, a world through which he has gone with very big eyes and ears.
"To listen or read, I recommend a glass of St. Magdalener or, if you like, St. Justina, a few slices of South Tyrolean bacon and a Schüttelbrot"

It is also a world that each of us somehow knows, a world that you remember when you listen to Beikircher, a world that makes you melancholy and longing if you don't know it. Beikircher talks about his time in Bruneck and in Bolzano in the "Antonianum" school dormitory, takes us with his guitar into the South Tyrolean inns as he did back then, where he made his first cabaret attempts with songs by Qualtinger and Pirron&Knapp and where he jumped into the hearts of the German girls with Celentano's help. All of this with little ironic sideswipes at our oh-so-modern times is an evening that will make you feel years younger! Even Konrad Beikircher!

I was born on 22.12.1945 in Bruneck. Bruneck is in South Tyrol. South Tyrol has been part of Italy since 1918.

Just on the subject: "You speak good Cologne for a Bavarian." - "I'm from South Tyrol." - "Ah yes, I was just about to say: for an Austrian, you speak good Cologne." - "South Tyrol is in Italy." - "But not for long, right?"

I played the harmonica at 1 (my mother says), the piano at 4 (but not for very long) and the violin from 8 (but in such a way that I wanted to become a full-time violinist at 20). At 5, I drove Ruth home from kindergarten on her scooter every day, then Emmi at 6 and today I'm 71 and have five children (you see: you should be damn careful when driving a scooter).

After leaving school I went to Vienna, wanted to study newspaper science and psychology, but didn't get around to it because of all the state opera and wine taverns, so at the end of 1965 I went to Bonn to actually study psychology, musicology and philosophy.