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Oskar Maria Graf on the 50th anniversary of his death

"You will see, dear sir, from all this that I am from the province and value it. Whether you believe it or not, that has a lot going for it. I must, if I may say so, have my 'victims' before me, very tangible and close. I need to talk to them, sit together, drink, argue, be happy and sad like they are."

In June 2017, the death of the great popular writer Oskar Maria Graf will be commemorated for the fiftieth time. This is a sufficient reason to make this very special collection accessible to a wider audience again, featuring stories from vibrant Bavarian life that only take a few minutes of the reader's time. In these miniatures, despite their brevity, everything that characterizes the storyteller Graf is present: cheerful wit and grotesque humor, melancholic pastels, and portraits of eccentrics, as well as socially critical studies.