Book Presentation at Lustspielhaus

Franz Xaver Gernstl Lucky Break! — Franz Xaver Gernstl in conversation with Christina Wolf First-time insights into the life of Munich's cult figure and documentary veteran »Gernstl unterwegs« – on the Donau, to the Matterhorn, from Sylt to the Elbe, from the Dolomiten to the Gardasee, to Jesolo, Holland, Ireland, Los Angeles! For 42 years, Franz Xaver Gernstl has traveled crisscrossing Germany, Europe, and the world in his BR cult series »Gernstl unterwegs«. What drove him was less the search for meaning, but rather the search for people: How do they live? What dreams do they have? What do they stand for? Which life designs are coherent, which need to be re-designed? Gernstl has met people who believe in miracles, people who lead an off-grid life in the forest, people who have more than 20 sinfully expensive vintage cars in their garage, people in the countryside, people in the city, people on the fringes of society, people in the fast lane. But how did he find them all? How do you plan coincidental encounters? Just lucky, or what? In this book, Gernstl looks back on his life as a filmmaker, on the years »on the road«, the stories...