Bedřich Pingitzer

"However, I had some troubles with the head coach, some comrade Gavenda from Třinec. At the training in Mala Fatra at the Boboty Interhotel, I fell for his daughter, who was a terrific runner too. And he was just waiting for me, so I got more or less caught redhanded. But we did not do much, just had fun in the corridor and held our hands, that was all. Well, he made a huge affair about it and I got a banned from competing. I was still running at the international race in Gottwaldov, nowadays Zlín. Well, and I ran slowly in spite and ended up at the position of some three hundred and sixty-nine, out of a thousand runners, right. And I was expected to be like fifth or the first one the best."

"Well, he was a sort of precursor to the Hungarian Parliament, when Marie Terezie needed to get the money, because the Habsburgs had large debts. So she was more or less dazzling the Hungarians in Budapest. And that's what she achieved. However, she had to join the evangelics, that is the German protestant. Because Germany is a protestant country, that is right, Germany has never been catholic, the empire as a whole. And so she had to accept the evangelics, protestants to serve her. She also took my ancestor, who was given the title of the Reich Knight from Dornfeld, meaning the Field of Thorns, and she gave him the job of the main chateau winemaker. Because he cultivated the Dornfelder variety, it is our succession. This wine is grown in Moravia, I have some bottles here too. And I think he had quite a carrier and became the main horse master for his merits, I do not know. I just do not know for sure. But in fact, these were the first references in about 1756, in 1756 it happened, we got the title for our family. And two hundred years later I was born. And it is terribly interesting that my parents could not have children for twenty-one years. So I was born to my mother when she was thirty-four, and I have a younger sister. So it's all quite strange, there may be even some magic. But I do not know, it's just like that."