Chris Lohner’s “little pubescent plum Sally”, her fourth Cairn Terrier bitch, keeps her busy during the conversation. She is also regarding to have a knee operation, and then she has to repeat her program beforehand Bazooka and the Four in the Jeep play. So: “I’ve always read a lot, we didn’t have anything else, I was born in 1943. If you don’t read the books of your youth, you won’t catch up. Who is still reading Selma Lagerlöf or Vera Ferra-Mikura at 40?” Her sister was born in Spital am Pyhrn in Upper Austria, where they were relocated with their mother: “Hitler attached great importance to the children remaining either as birth machines or cannon fodder.” You loved the country. When she came back to Vienna everything seemed so cramped here. In Vienna-Margareten, where her father was the first people’s educator on Stöbergasse, they weren’t allowed into the ruins, but they went in anyway. “We weren’t as sheltered as the kids are today.” In 1968 she was in Paris and “raged along, I was the generation ‘marry – start a family – be taken care of’. But that wasn’t on my radar at all!” she laughs.
