Pitchforks Come in Different Guises

The Relcalcitrant Shoemaker ~ The Strange Story of Heini Staudinger

„Die gluecklichsten Sklaven sind die erbittertsten Feinde der Freiheit“

„The happiest slaves are the fiercest opponents of freedom“

~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830 - 1916)

In 2012, four years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the Great Financial Crisis that followed in the wake of that dam-breaking event, a hitherto unknown small business owner …