This is how Bavaria ticks – how did the rise of the former poor house come about? – Bavaria

In his new book, publicist Kaevan Gazdar investigates how Bavaria managed to rise from a poor house to a prosperous paradise. His summary: The success is not the merit of the CSU. The foundations were laid much earlier.

Those Bavarians! How hard they are for the rest of the republic to endure is regularly shown in the football arenas, where the fans roar and announce that they want to take off their lederhosen. The attacks sound even more venomous on television, where hard-working satirists work their way through the brothers and sisters from the South, often revealing that their ability to take a humorous approach has given way to unfunny, punchy rhetoric.