Jirschi on the Run into the Piano

An exemplary refugee story that takes a young man around the globe for decades. Starting from Bohemia and always keeping the turbulent history of this country in mind, Gertrud Fussenegger describes a refugee's fate that could probably only have happened in the last century: It is the life story of the Czech piano manufacturer Jirschi Ronhard, into which world history mercilessly etched its marks. Born in Bohemia, raised in the young state of Czechoslovakia, Jirschi experiences the Hitler regime, later the retribution against the Germans, the invasion of the Russians, who persecute him, the capitalist. Jirschi becomes a refugee for the rest of his life. Australia is his first stop, then America. Only at the end of his life does he reach the place he longed for all these years: Europe, Austria, Prague. Gertrud Fussenegger describes with humor and subtle irony an authentic life story full of drama - so typical for the 20th century, in which the individual often helplessly got caught in the wheel of history.


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