Oskar Maria Graf's 132nd Birthday: Village Stories - An Evening with Udo Wachtveitl

Music: "Hafner & Loibl"

Oskar Maria Graf (born 1894 in Berg am Starnberger See, died 1967 in New York) - a rebellious Bavarian and citizen of the world - was a storyteller with an unflinching eye for humanity. On the occasion of his 132nd birthday, Udo Wachtveitl, longtime Munich Tatort detective and one of the most distinguished interpreters of Bavarian literature, reads village stories by Oskar Maria Graf. We hear Graf's depictions of the rightward shift in rural areas from the novel "Unruhe um einen Friedfertigen" as well as tales of farmers and innkeepers, outsiders and rebels - about compassion and the depths of human nature. Maria Hafner and Theresa Loibl accompany the reading with songs about love, longing, and death - favourite songs collected on travels, overheard from street musicians, in taverns, around campfires, or from old shellac records. An evening full of wit, resistance, and Bavarian linguistic power. Happy birthday, Oskar Maria Graf!