Martin Štifter

"Both of my grandfathers came from very poor backgrounds, and thanks simply to the fact that the situation was favorable and they were diligent and they were such self-made men, one became the director of a glass factory and the other became the director of a bank. They simply grew out of working-class conditions. But by the fact that they got into this category, my father already thought that he was from a bourgeois background, which was bad, because as a result of this and his other activities, he was then kicked out of that university. And when my parents actually worked in clerical positions, you can say yes, which at the time was like a big minus, so I was already in that category, officially it was called working intelligentsia, but as a clerk. And that was bad, it was already a little harder for us. In addition, we had a variety of things there, as far as, I don't know, the grandfathers and parents were religious and so on. And that, those were simply minuses, when we applied to school, it was simply approved by someone over there."