[VideoView]
Konstantin Forestier
With Polenta and guldens
video length:
02:41
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Innsbruck
date of recording:
2008-08-20
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning ? Baumgartner
Italian translation by:
Nicole D´Incecco
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1918
transcription:
I somehow still remember quite well: The First World War was over rather quickly. As we lived close to the train station, we witnessed quite a few things. I can remember that the returning trains were completely packed. The soldiers sitting on the roofs. and in between the carriages and strenuously fighting their way through. At that time my father bought a bag of corn meal That was lucky back then, because a bag of corn meal was the transitional food from the First World War until somewhat more regulated shopping. We then moved into the flat. Then suddenly these people - you couldn’t really say, they were relatives, but my parents knew them - Dutch people, who suddenly said that they now wanted to come into the post war area. These people came with guilders. Whoever paid with guilders pretty much got everything which otherwise would have been impossible. That’s why my mother sai she will take care of the food, she took the guilders and got us through quite well. But my father’s bag of corn meal got damp and smelled mouldy. That’s why I don’t eat corn meal to this day.