Hans Traxler, arguably one of the most broadly effective satirists Germany has ever produced,will read from his latestwork "Mama, warum bin ich kein Huhn?" on Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 7:30 pm. In 33 chapters, 33 colorful illustrations and his typical laconic-comic style, Hans Traxlers captures his childhood memories. Growing up in a Bohemian village in the 1930s, Traxler experienced a childhood on the farm: with a mother who played the church organ, a father who was a gendarmerie post commander by profession and who walked behind the canopy with the monstrance on Ascension Day, and his big brothers who showed him how to catch trout with a butterfly net. This idyll was over when the German Wehrmacht marched in in 1938 and the Second World War began a year later. Until the end of the war, the author describes his experiences anecdotally, vividly, wittily, and sensitively.
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