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By: Alexandra Anderka
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Signing round after the reading: Werner Meier's book was very well received by Sonja Kranzmayr, Traudl Eder, Agnes Gabler, Resi Grundei and Marianne Grillhuber (from left).
They were reminded of their own childhood.
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Werner Meier reads from his first book in the Gasthaus zum Schex and brings back childhood memories.
St. Wolfgang
– The songwriter and cabaret artist Werner Meier grew up on a farm in Reichertsheim with six brothers and a sister.
Not far from St. Wolfgang, where he read from his first book “7 Küah, 8 Kinder, 40 dumplings and 1 canape” in the pub at the Gasthaus zum Schex on Saturday evening.
The listeners learned funny, bizarre and touching stories from Meier's childhood on the "Neimoar farm" - and that Meier's "first real friend" came from St. Wolfgang.
Not everything told happened exactly that way, but all the stories had a core of truth, which Meier's brother Alois (72), who was sitting in the audience, confirmed.
In vivid, loving language, the author draws an arc over his time as a “farmer’s boy” in the 50s and 60s.
“Wia i no a kloana Bauernbua war” is also the name of one of his songs, which he also performed that evening.
He became a bit melancholy, remembering the time when he hunted chickens with his brothers, drank fizzy pop and “battered through his toes with Warma Kuahdreg”.
Mom stood at the stove with an apron and “a bun in her hair, no TV, no cell phone, no GPS – when I was away, I just wasn’t there.”
But he didn't want to glorify an idyll with his book, he emphasized; some things would have been better off - like his painful time at the Gars monastery boarding school.
Meier's stories are about a rural childhood in the country with a lot of recognition value, as listener Agnes Gabler also confirmed.
She also comes from a large family.
Just like on the Neimoar farm, they also had an aunt who helped out on the farm.
Resi Grundei thought back to the weekly bath of the entire family one after the other in the zinc tub in curd soap lye, albeit with horror, while Meier signed his book at their table after the performance.
Alois Meier still laughs today when his brother recited his favorite story “Never again Schuastababist”.
Throughout the reading, the 70-year-old repeatedly showed off his acting talent and fluency.
However, this is not just his achievement; his wife Margit Sarholz, with whom he forms the Sternschnuppe duo and lives in Ottenhofen, took a close look at every sentence and refined it.
Meier hit the jackpot with his first book.
He proudly says that a woman from Reichertsheim told him: “Now my children have given me your book, even though they know that I never read books.
But I read yours from cover to cover.”
The enriching evening would have deserved even more listeners.
Also in the audience were host Anton Silbernagel and his wife Anita.
At the end of the performance, the innkeeper said: “Tell us what everyone who wasn’t there missed.”
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More readings
Werner Meier will read from “7 Küah, 8 children, 40 dumplings and 1 canape” on Friday, February 23rd, at the Kramerwirt in Pastetten and on Tuesday, March 5th, at the LeseGlück bookstore in Erding.
Start: each time at 7 p.m.