Harte Tage, gute Jahre - Die Sennerin vom Geigelstein

Trailer for the book "Hard Days, Good Years" - available on Amazon at: http://amzn.to/2xnLpoz Christiane Tramitz on Facebook:   / christiane.tramitz   In "Hard Days, Good Years - The Dairymaid of Geigelstein," published by Knaur, Christiane Tramitz tells the extraordinary life story of a remarkable woman. Maria Wiesbeck, the dairymaid of Geigelstein, lived for 76 years on an alpine pasture in the Bavarian Alps and never left it after the age of 17. It is a story of a simple life in harmony with the seasons, with respect for nature, and of the security found in a familiar homeland. Heartbroken, the then seventeen-year-old farmer's daughter Maria Wiesbeck from Samerberg packed her rucksack in 1941, left her father's farm, and hiked up to the Oberkaser alpine pasture in the Chiemgau Alps. There, she tended the cattle as a dairymaid and never returned to the valley, not even during the harshest winters. The alpine farming became her life's work. She lived simply and healthily, in harmony with nature. Now, at the end of this long life, she realizes that the familiar has increasingly disappeared. Modern life has long since arrived on the alpine pasture, and much of it threatens nature. Maria Wiesbeck stayed on her alpine pasture—she never even made it as far as Munich—but the world came to her. Werner Herzog frequented the Oberkaser alpine pasture as a young boy and continued to visit Maria even after he had become a world-famous director. Once, he even brought the travel writer Bruce Chatwin along. The globetrotter and the woman who never left her alpine pasture—an encounter one would have loved to witness. The biography of Mare, the dairymaid affectionately known as Oberkaser Mare, from the Geigelstein mountain, movingly transports readers to the long-vanished world of traditional alpine farming amidst a landscape that is hostile to life for most of the year. This life was anything but idyllic. It was full of hardship, yet it offered the sense of security we now call home. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The trailer was produced by Machwerk TV: http://www.machwerktv.com Directed by: Stephan Guntli Narrator: Christian Tramitz Music by: Gertrud Huber: http://www.gertrud-huber.com Noldi Alder: http://www.noldialder.ch