01:54

Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Innsbruck

2008-08-22

1937

I have had quite a few shots, for example from Schnoaten. So this is Schneiteln, leaf production. The miners had so very little agriculture. So it's all been operated farming, right up to 2000 meters. But that has then withdrawn further and further into the valley. And I mean, everyone has tried at that time, a portion of bread grain to have themselves, on their own soil. But today, of course, no longer. And while they are there with crampons, a single spikes, I photographed it all, it can talk about it a lot easier than if it only says so. A single large teeth, thick as a finger around, perhaps thick forefinger, and with which they are grown on trees, these crampons. One left, one right on the foot. And to the knee, the tibia along a track is gone and been attached to a belt then. So they are up to 20 meters, have chopped down road for road, so they were finally on a bare tree. These branches then have drawn together the women and chopped up, and have prepared for the stable. That was the straw. Is of course not as good as straw, but it was a mountain farmers just necessarily the case. Yes, and for all work, I should like to say, there have always been small working practices. And this has been something that has loosened up the hard work anyway. And made even more enjoyable. For example, in the Schneiteln if one was then the top ... I must say, when the trees were felled not after, you have Aststummeln leave it in the trunk, and has not cut off the tops. Within ten years, these trees have beästet time again that they could then make the return. And so the trees have been cut again and again. And then you have but for trees that were felled in the autumn or in spring then cut off, not just the branches, but also knocked the tree tops. And they are then really bald stood, and in the top nest has the then into set, set fire, under certain circumstances even a little whistle, and, above all, a very strange - I would almost say, like a Almschrei - singing a particular verse or called out in the area. Donors was called the grass screaming. And that was sort of a sign of joy that he has now done it. And one has told me that he has first been doubted, and trembled when he first came up is. But as a big of a farmer he would hold embarrassed if he had not come up there.