Educating Pizzy

Zol, aka Pizzy, Zoi, and Joe; a budding writer, enters for the first time a writers' workshop, his love interest, Anna, had recommended to him. During writing exercises, he revisits his past life as a kid, and he is amazed about the detail of his visions, his facilitators are extracting from his subconscious mind. These writing exercises enable him to access the world of writing ad set his creative and artistic side to open at demand. It reminds him of an athlete taking up a training program to reach a set goal. Pizzy's grandfather had prepared a secret hiding place for his family to keep them safe from advancing Russian troops. Mom's golden boy enjoys relative freedom in the post-war environment, where everything happening is an extension to his adventurous mind. With Mish, his girlfriend, he draws African animals and they become best friends, while Pizzy stays quarantined due to scarlet fever. While Joe excels at the writing workshop about the theme of 'awaking love', he recalls his first love, Michaela, whom he met as a student in Vienna. Meeting a young, rebellious woman at a party, Bea will accompany the equally bold architect to South Africa. Zol will meet in Crete, he visited with Bea and her sister, Kim, racy Marie. Does her brazen body talk hold for him another hot adventure?

Born in Eastern Austria, close to the Hungarian border, he witnessed as a young man the horrors of a nation's suppression, erupting in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He finished his education in art and architecture in Vienna, married, and sailed for the Cape of Africa, an adventure that followed his childhood dreams. He had drawn African animals for his art classes, but the time had come to see them in their natural habitat. meeting a varied facet of people and cultures, working as a draughtsman for an engineering office, as an architect for a cultural center, as a coordinator of craftsmen and professionals, he made good use of his language skills traveling throughout Southern Africa. During a trip to Lesotho, a native artist showed him rock paintings with their stark palimpsest outlines and typified movements of animals and people. It made a lasting impression on him and influenced his artistic work. His vast collection of drawings and slides had been lost during a change of domiciles, but further studies about the San-people reawakened his dormant artistic longing for expression of his art, filling sketchbooks with drawings and notepads with poetry and prose. During a visit to Greece, he was accepted into a circle of artists and poets, who encouraged him to continue his art, and a friend introduced him to the works f famous Greek poets. In South Africa, he joined writing and poetry workshops of 'Writers Write'. It was to open the floodgates of his creativity. He settled in 2013/14 in Klosterneuburg-Weidling, part of the culturally important city of Klosterneuburg. In painting his poetry, he has established a series of drawings and paintings, he calls 'Mystic Realism'. Selected works will embellish his book covers.