"The Schaukler"

Reading with pictures, by Selma Mahlknecht.
100 years of contemporary history, artfully linked with the thousand-year-old frescoes of St. Prokulus in Naturns, told in an exciting and entertaining way with the help of the main character, the decorative painter Hans. Decried as a boy as a cripple and a boy of shame, he experienced the inner conflict of the Vinschgau population under Italian fascists and German Nazis. But Hans also experiences how the village gradually changes, grows and becomes more cosmopolitan.
A novel about the effects of the great upheavals of a century on a small village in the Alps, and about the healing powers of art.
Selma Mahlknecht from Vinschgau is a versatile author, dramaturg and songwriter. She lives in Zernez and speaks German and Italian as well as Romansh. With her husband, the historian Kurt Gritsch, she also performs as a cabaret artist and lieder singer.
www.selma-mahlknecht.info/