THE BAYERN BOYS
January 2009
Well, hi folks. It is Horst Bierbrau here again. And where am I at this time? I am not telling you, for that will be getting me in a lot of trouble. And what am I doing now? Well, I can tell you that. I am at the present time compiling Series IV of that wonderful series of books call The Bayern Boys. But you are saying, what about all those books that we are not seeing at the present and which consist of the rest of Series I and the entire parts of Series II and III? Well, I have to be admitting that translating them into English has been a much bigger job than I had been thinking about when I first started it. So I gave up on that project for now and I am now concentrating my poor brain cells on something which is much easier and that is simply editing material that is already being in the English language. And you are saying what material is that? Well it is none other than the diaries and journals of some contemporaneous Hartes that I am now in surreptitious contact with. And which Harte, or Hartes, are those you may be possibly asking me. Well, none other than one Richard Harte (plus his immediate family.) But you are saying that he died in Kaltenberg last year. No, I said he was in the process of dying, and not in the state of being dead. He is OK and now sending me his journals so that I can edit them and put them on the net (with the help of R.B.) Well, you are asking (boy! you are asking a lot of questions, ha) why doesn't he do this himself. Well, he is on the run. And why is one the run? You are very curious, you know. Well that is a part of the tale that I am editing now and you will be enlightened on it as you read the stories. In addition to Richard's journals there are journals from other members of his immediate family: his father Max, his mother Betty Ann, his wife Danya, his son Boris and his daughter Anya. And who is this Richard Harte. He is none other than the great-great Grandson of that very famous and renowned Franz Harte of Bayern fame. Travelling backwards in time, we are getting back first to his father Max Harte, (1934-2007) an ex-priest, turned investigative reporter; then to his grandfather Karl Harte (1912-1945) a full-time academic and part-time Nazi, who died repentant? at the end of the war; his grandfather Johann Harte (1887-1945) a great performer who started that great comic troupe called Studio 70; and finally back to the great Franz Harte (1865-1985). Richard himself was being born in the year 1970, in Montreal Quebec, and is a dual citizen of the US and Canada, for his father was dual, too (of the U.S. and Bayern.) His father Max was a priest who had left the priesthood about 1968 (he left in heart many years before) and getting a dispensation (I think that's the right word) he married a colleague at a newspaper he was working on, whose name was Danya (the colleague, not the paper.) Danya, herself, was a descendant, on her mother's side, of the Hartes too, but from another line and so was a distant cousin of Richard. Her great, great grandfather was also Franz Harte. She came through the line that started when Franz' Daughter, Anne (Born 1888) married one of the famous Olov twins, Nicholai (1888-?) who figures prominently in Book 4 of Series I, The Prinz and the Poper. Nicholai and his twin Tomas, were part Russian aristocrat and part Gypsy, who were split up when little children; this resulted in a real life Prince and the Pauper story which started in St. Petersburg and ended up in Bad Tölz, Bayern. (This Book may come out shortly--in 2009--but do no be totally counting on this; at present it is 60% translated.) Danya's long line of ancestors--all with Gypsy blood in them--lived their exciting lives all over the globe living mainly in Bayern, Russian and Europe; it is a fine story in itself and figures as a plot thread in all The Bayern Boys books. Richard spent much of his time in the States, but visited Canada on his many voyages of being a fugitive and has many relatives and friends there. He was mainly homeschooled until he entered senior high and then university (mainly in Canada.) At present he is living off the great Olov fortune that came through his wife, Danya; subsequently, Richard is himself a present day Gypsy, travelling in many different RV's, right up to the present hi-tech modern RV called The Ark. In his travels, he sells good orthodox Catholic books and occasionally organizes pro-life protests and tries to convince other Roman Catholics (so-called) of the Truth. A year after the incident in Kaltenberg (in June of 2008) I received some emails and other communications from Richard Harte instructing me to edit the journals from himself and his family and put the edited journals on the web. The first stories are from 2007 and 2008 and consist of the material mainly from the journal of his son Boris. Richard and Danya had two children (Boris born in 1993, and Anya in 1999.) They wanted more children, but an unfortunate medical condition (instigated purposely on Danya?) limited them to only these two (there is some rumours and indications that there is a third child (or a set of twins) possibly abducted? (by the state?)) but I can't say anything for sure.) At the time of the first story, Boris is fourteen years old and the Hartes are in Washington D.C. This story finishes one year later in the N.W U.S. in a small town call Pigeon Nest Hills. There are many other Richard Harte stories going back and forward in time from this spot, but I have little time to edit them at present, for the source of my income has somewhat decayed (as with many others in the 'crash' of 2008) and I have to work hard at mundane monetary matters for a year or so. But stay tuned for more stories after I get my feet back on the floor.
Auwiedersehn And Grüß Gott (Greetings to God) From Horst
PS. A note on embedded links: I am suggesting that you read the whole story first and then start going back to the linked sites embedded in the text (unless a link interests you very much at that time and place.) |