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Biography
About the Architect, Chartered Engineer and Author,
Wolfgang Hermann Moissl
In
the
place
where
novelist
Jean
Paul
came
into
the
world,
in
the
heart
of
Bavaria's
Fichtel
Mountains,
in
the
dreamy,
picturesque
little
town
of
Wunsiedel,
one
wintery
Sunday
morning
in
January
of
the
year
1956,
present-day Architect and Author Wolfgang Hermann Moissl was born.
He
is
the
great-grandnephew
of
aristocrat
Anna
Burgtauf
von
Altwasser,
born in the ancient Kingdom of Austria in the year 1850.
His
mother
came
from
the
Hanseatic
city
of
Bremen
in
Northern
Germany,
his
father
from
the
little
Sudeten
German
village
of
Hals,
near
Karlsbad
in
Egerland.
The
forebears
on
the
maternal
line
had
its
roots
on
the
one
hand
in
Nuremberg
and
its
Franconian
surrounding
area,
while
on
the
other
the
maternal
ancestral
line
can
be
traced
back
to
the
North
Sea
coast
via
Westphalia to the Netherlands.
The
paternal
family
history
peters
out
in
the
Imperial
Danube
monarchy,
in
Austria and in Vienna, where the name Moissl is still found to this day.
A
young
Wolfgang
Hermann
experienced
and
observed
the
early
post-
war
years
in
Wunsiedel.
A
peaceful
childhood
filled
with
beauty,
tranquillity
and
romance,
in
spite
of
-
or
perhaps
even
because
of
-
the
hardship
that
prevailed at the time.
Even
as
a
five
year-old
tot
he
ventured
out
on
forays
through
the
little
town
and
charming
scenic
surrounding
area
by
himself,
just
like
a
little
grown-up.
Inconceivable
today.
Helicopter
parents
would
presumably
hit
the panic button.
Indeed
the
idyllic
world
in
the
50s
of
the
twentieth
century
presented
little
Wolfgang Hermann with a freedom that today is the stuff of legend.
His
favourite
destination
then,
just
as
it
is
today,
was
the
Luisenburg,
a
rock
labyrinth
made
of
granite
blocks,
nestling
in
a
mysterious
high
forest,
redolent
of
spruce
resin.
It
was
here
that
he
went
on
treasure
hunts,
hid
in
the
caves
and
clefts
of
the
rock
masses,
and
enjoyed
the
superb
views
from the highest cliff-faces.
Shortages
and
the
inescapable
frugality
of
that
time
made
their
mark,
just
as
much
as
the
flourishing
economic
miracle
that
ensued
thereafter
in
Germany.
The
calm
mysticism
and
melancholia
of
the
dark
spruce
tree
highland
forest
areas
in
North
Bavaria's
Fichtel
Mountains,
with
their
wonderful
natural
surroundings
made
up
of
mountains
and
wetlands,
of
fir
forest
and
moss-covered granite, left behind deep spiritual tracks.
At
the
age
of
seven
he
and
his
family
moved
first
to
Fürth
in
Bavaria,
then
later to Nuremberg.
In
his
youth
the
hippie
movement
and
its
flower
power
came
along
just
at
the
right
time,
providing
requisite
scope
for
his
yearning
for
peace
and
freedom.
A
draftsman
apprenticeship
followed
completion
of
the
'Abitur'
school
leaving
certificate,
which
then
led
to
studying
Architecture
at
Friedrich
Alexander University in Nuremberg.
He
has
since
retreated
from
professional
life
in
corporate
sales
and
architecture
to
finally
devote
himself
-
as
he
himself
says
-
to
those
really
important things in life.
