My Ischl # 2024

The journalist and writer Günter Kaindlstorfer, born in Bad Ischl in 1963, has been associated with his birthplace for 59 years. As a child, Kaindlstorfer lived in Ischl. He learned to swim, read, drink three schnapps, do mental arithmetic and skiing. In the summers of his puberty in the Salzkammergut, he not only immersed himself in "Lederstocking" and "The Tsar's Courier" on the wooden pallets of the Ischl outdoor pool, but discovered also Nestroy, Schnitzler and Kafka, Musil and the poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann. Since moving to Vienna in the early 1980s, Kaindlstorfer has repeatedly returned to the 15,000-inhabitant town at the foot of the Katrin as a spring, summer, autumn and winter guest.

With his novel “Edelweiss,” the 57-year-old has also delivered a critical homage to the “Partisans of the Mountains,” the “Willy-Fred Group,” which was active during the Nazi era in Bad Ischl, Bad Goisern, Bad Aussee and the mountains of the “ Dead Mountains” carried out armed resistance against the Nazi regime.

In his film “My Ischl,” Kaindlstorfer portrays the “European Capital of Culture 2024” interviewing special people who live and create in Bad Ischl.