Elisabeth
Told at a live listening session
This is a childhood memory. For as long as I can remember, we have always listened to this song together on Christmas Day. And I always had it in my head when I cycled or walked alone in the countryside, especially in winter. When the winter air blew in my face, I imagined I was riding through nature like Achenbrödl. Loneliness, winter landscape, childhood.
How did this story make you feel?
“I really love this song because whenever I hear this song I feel like I’m in a different time zone or like a word. I mean I feel like I’m really escaping a word, like real word. And imagining and floating in the air and catching a cloud. I don’t know, some kind of that feeling. A”
“This kind of music is common in my country. It is sad, it is about someone which is not good for you. It is begging for being. It makes a man really weak but we like it. For us it means love. When we want someone with all of our heart. We want to give all what we have. When the n”
“So I used to date this guy, he was a musician. I think so far the biggest love I’ve ever had in my life. Was intense, passionate and at the same time familiar for me. I was 19 he was also 19, I was studying architecture and he was studying fine arts. He used to live in a small ci”
“That was during my most carefree time as a student. We were in Yugoslavia. We were sitting by the sea and this song was playing. I was 22 or 23 years old. That was in the late 1960s. I was with two acquaintances, one was with his wife and the other was my dentist at the time, who”
“When I hear this song, I get goose bumps and could start crying. That’s why I can’t listen to it very often. It was the favourite song of my friend Marius, who sadly died suddenly and far too young. I heard the song for the first time at his funeral. It was a cold winter’s day an”
“So, I was just partying in Spain with all my friends, people from my hometown and with my brother. And then suddenly my little sister appeared. So, we started dancing, with my brothers and my sister. And after this, I just started crying for almost half an hour while partying. Wi”