08:15

Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Kufstein

1999-03-26

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicolse D ´Incecco

1932

I had my exams then stored with success and have just emerged is a love relationship. Indeed. A love relationship with a very pretty girl. And I do not know why I'm so lucky. I could not understand this. And I told my girls, "I'll save now, save a 1000 crowns again If I'm saved." - No, that was the Schilling-time. "If I have 1,000 shillings, I will pray that you marry me." And then I have just saved. I ate no breakfast, never a snack, lunch, always eaten very little, and perhaps only every second or third night something for dinner. I've been saving the money literally from the mouth. And when I then had my savings and was able to show the savings book to the girl, then I am to the parents of my girl. My father was long gone, who had moved out long ago from the family. My mother died, my two sisters were alone. I had no one to talk to me. And my father was a train driver as my own father, but in the German Federal Railways. But has lived in Kufstein. And this girl was born in Kufstein. But she was a German, one for Bayern. And this father, who had a sport, by struggling to get a lung tear and then became ill, had to retire for health reasons earlier. And has chosen its own clergy, a cooperator who has visited him every week and spoke to him about anything. And this man, the father of my girl, then any religious also joined today and has taken over the naked body of a string, a body that was tied together. I do not know in which order he was. So when I came to him and asked to have - the mother was already informed, the mother was already agree - if he told me his middle daughter? three daughters were there - to give his middle daughter to wife, would he agreed. Has considered it was not long. When I told him, but then I can only enter a civil marriage, because I'm religious affiliation, he has me thrown out of the apartment. I could see the girl any more, we could not come together, she was imprisoned. So, this relationship seemed to go in breaks. Of course I was a stupid boy, who in real life is not really knew about. But I had to ask anyone. And so I was thinking, I'll write my former teacher, Dr. Otto Bauer, in Vienna. I was going to describe my situation and I will ask him what he was suggesting what I should do. Should I go back to the Roman Catholic Church, or shall I do without the girl? There were only these two ways out. And Otto Bauer replied by return mail and he wrote me: "The need to decide yourself. One's you have to cheat. Your Otto Bauer. "For me this was clear and unambiguous. One's I have to cheat? I will not cheat on my girl, so I will return to the Catholic Church. I've got myself to the priest, who was always with my father, have spoken openly with him, told him that I am a Marxist, but I'm ready, I will not abandon the girl. That would be a great crime, I would commit this young girl over. I go back? under what conditions. And this co-operator was very accommodating. He has deleted all these side stories? had not had to go to confession, not to the Commission, I did not have to declare in writing that I believe in God, and so on. I just had to sign the creed. And he has promised me that is not from the pulpit of the parish in Kufstein carried in the public that a repentant sinner has returned to the Roman Catholic denomination. Then there was the man, the father of the girl, of course, agree. We have a small church? Small wooden parish was called it, was affiliated with a religious order, to be out there in the small wood - has been - with the small church guests? Although there a few people were there, we had not invited, but they were just there. There we were married. The pastor has spoken very nice, even from my mother, he has spoken, now watching from the sky, as I here this girl marriage. So, the ceremony was completed, there was no wedding night, no food, no dinner? there was nothing. I immediately moved back to Bischofshofen and there have been prepared and that my wife was able to move there now. And after 14 days, I am again left the Roman Catholic Church.