Nanni is mentally and physically incredibly fit, only her eyes have been bothering her for years. She is now almost blind, but still does her own housework, sometimes going shopping and going to church when accompanied. Her three grandchildren, including the Schlechingen local councilor Felix Laubhuber, and five great-grandchildren often visit grandma and great-grandchildren to their great delight, now even with their two great-great-grandchildren – four and one and a half years old, respectively. Twice a day someone comes from Caritas and helps it cope with everyday life.
Anna Laubhuber was born on September 10, 1922, the oldest of four siblings in Freiweidach. For seven years – as was customary at the time – she attended elementary school there. Even today she can write in German and Latin script. She also remembers all the years for herself and her family precisely to this day. After finishing school, Nanni became a maid for the Huber farmer in Piesenhausen, and in the summer she worked as a dairymaid on the Bischofsfellnalm in Ruhpolding. At the age of 19, at that time not yet of legal age, she had Hildegard out of wedlock – her only daughter who still lives on the former small farm estate, the “Graz’n Sachei” – one of the oldest houses in Schleching. She and her husband Georg Schwaiger – a carpenter – married on February 7, 1952. They met through Nanni’s younger sister. “I knew he was the right one,” says Nanni. In addition to his job as a carpenter, Georg Schwaiger ran a small farm as a sideline, in which his wife then worked hard. In 1964, however, Nanni became very ill, due to kidney failure, which forced her to lie in the Prinz-Ludwigshaus, the former hospital in Traunstein, for 18 weeks. For this reason, agriculture was given up in 1964 “bei Graz’n” because the family doctor Dr. Friedrich Nohl said to the Grazei: “Take your Kiah to Deifi, be happy when your Oide gets well again.”
At the time, Hildegard, Nanni’s daughter who had been adopted by Graz’n, was already together with the bricklayer Felix Laubhuber, who actively helped to convert the former stable building into apartments. But Graz’n and Fex, as the son-in-law is called, not only got along very well when working – also when poaching: “Your husband, the ‘Graz’n Irg’, was a poacher well known far beyond the borders of Bavaria.” , recalls a niece of Nanni.
When asked whether her husband’s poaching had bothered her very much, she said, “Well, that was just in the bad time after the war, when we had nothing to eat.” Great passion of father-in-law and son-in-law, because both were sometimes imprisoned for this. But this was by no means detrimental to their popularity with many locals.
What did the Schwaiger Nanni do to get so old in such good health? “Nothing,” she says spontaneously. And the Fex adds, “You always ate a lot of chamois meat”. Then she laughs, “yes, that’s right”. She also deals, she says, with everyone and everything around her and is happy about the good neighbors who help her whenever necessary. Today, Friday, the “Graz’n Nanni” celebrates her birthday at the Hofstetter with her large family.
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