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“Icarus falls”: In the packed Beuerberg parish hall, filmmaker Max Kronawitter (standing) with his wife Heike and speaker Johannes Hitzelberger presented Kronawitter’s new book.
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The Eurasburg filmmaker Max Kronawitter spoke at a reading about expensive wigs, his book “Icarus Falls” and a new temporary life.
Beuerberg – “You go to a clinic expecting to be able to continue working at home in an hour.
And then a brain tumor is diagnosed and everything changes from one minute to the next.” With these words, Max Kronawitter opened his book launch in the Beuerberg parish hall.
The Eurasburg filmmaker and journalist recently presented his new book there at the invitation of the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district education center and the Christophorus Hospice Association: “Icarus falls – my tumor, my films and my new temporary life.”
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Kronawitter was diagnosed with a “glioblastoma,” a malignant brain tumor, in December 2022.
He wrote down his experiences in a book.
It describes the nine months from diagnosis to the end of chemotherapy in a diary format.
In addition to stories from everyday life, the Eurasburg filmmaker remembers the protagonists he accompanied with his camera.
Like him, they have had to cope with severe blows of fate, but have found ways to deal with them and move on with life.
That's why they became teachers for him in his current situation, says Kronawitter.
Since the Eurasian can no longer read fluently after his brain operation, Johannes Hitzelberger read parts of the book.
As a narrator, Hitzelberger not only regularly sets Kronawitter's documentaries to music.
After 25 years of working together, the two of them “became good friends,” said the book author in his introduction.
Between the four blocks of text that BR spokesman Hitzelberger read out, Kronawitter and his wife Heike gave insights into life with the diagnosis and the process of creating the book.
The doctor Heike Kronawitter played an important role in making the initially vague idea a reality.
“How do you write a book if you can’t read?” the author asked the audience.
“Without Heike none of this would have been possible.”
The couple lightened up the depressing topic with humorous anecdotes.
The 62-year-old said, among other things, that a wig for men costs twice as much as a wig for women.
“I immediately took one for women and had it reworked,” reported Kronawitter with a smile.
Then his wife Heike had her say.
It was also important for her to write the book.
In such a “compressed” time you forget a lot.
Now it is preserved on over 250 pages.
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Finally, Kronawitter emphasized that he earned nothing from the sale of the book.
According to him, all proceeds go to his “heart project” for “garbage children” in the Philippines and to Professor Josef Zihl, a long-time neuropsychologist at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.
Zihl teaches children with visual impairments to read.
After the reading, Roland Gruber, theological advisor at the district education center, thanked the Kronawitter couple for their openness and introduced the discussion.
Leni Zwick from Achmühle spoke up and stated: “I myself had a similar case in my close family.
We were paralyzed back then.
This book gave me courage and strength.
I can only recommend it to everyone.”
When Hitzelberger was asked whether reading this book was different from narrating a film commentary, he admitted: “It's a very special number.” His voice broke and he cried.
“I can’t answer that any further now.”
The district education center and the Christophorus Hospice Association gave out drinks for donations after the event.
Max Kronawitter stayed in the parish hall for a long time and signed numerous copies of books for everyone in the audience.
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