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Maridl Innerhofer

Almost teacher in Marling
video length:
2:29
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Marling
date of recording:
2008-05-06
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner
Italian translation by:
Nicole D´Incecco
event
[1940-01-01] Option - the result About 86% of South Tyrol opt for German citizenship. Due Umoptionen, option rights or the option of the clergy (the first was held in late June 1940) varied the indication of the percentage. To the 86% is a realistic result. There are different data option, which is Umoptionen or option rights or the option of the clergy, which until the end of June 1940 took place somewhat opaque. To the 86% is a realistic result.
place of recording
Marling
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1939
transcription:
In 1939 there was the Option, let's go back to 1939, to the option. My mother didn't really know what to do: should she relocate, or should she stay. The relatives on my mother's side were more for resettlement. She deliberated for a long time and then she finally decided, to opt for Germany and leave from South Tyrol. She already had the necessary papers. In the winter of '39-'40, when the period for opting ran out, regular schools and auxiliary schools for the children of emigrants were established. In the mornings they still had to attend Italian school and afternoons they could take German courses. Teachers were needed urgently.Retired teachers and even lay people who could write well and were good in maths were hired. They also came to me and asked if I wanted to be a teacher."Of course I want to be a teacher!" "Well, the only position is in the school in Marling, up on the mountain." "Yes, I'll go up the mountain to Marling, if I can be a teacher." So I quickly took a small exam, with an old teacher and he said that I knew everything and I could write well, and I could become a teacher in the mountain school in Marling. "You'll start after Easter." After Easter was too late for me, as I was already in Innsbruck to be resettled. It was a crying shame for me that my career as a teacher went down the drain like that.