Josef Schlechtleitner 1915
"Travelling companions" - a special exhibition of the Touriseum
16/05/2023
Travelling companions
Train station Bozen/Bolzano
01.06.-31.12.2023
Meet Josef Schlechtleitner, he tells you about his life as a hotel employee.
“Oh, I’m sorry, I was lost in thought... it all seems so unreal to me. Just a short while ago I was working as a room waiter at the Königlichen Kurhaus-Hotel in Bad Kissingen – now I’ve returned home to enlist. Of course it was so predictable, I’ve served enough officers in the past months to know what’s going on in the world. And yet you always hope until the last moment for a miracle and that things will turn out differently. But now it’s a foregone conclusion... would you like to chat with me before the train pulls in?”
Continue here (audio):
Josef Schlechtleitner (1887–1974)
- originally from Kardaun
- worked in hotels in Meran, at Lake Karer, Venice, Bad Gastein, Nice, London, Bad Kissingen and Kitzbühl
- made his way up from lift boy, head waiter and hotel porter to owner of a coffee house in Meran
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