Peter Siegfried Krug

Peter Siegfried Krug is born 23.11.1966 in the Salzburg State Hospital ( LKA), Müllner Hauptstraße 48, at 2 o'clock 45.  Peter Krug's life was very hard from birth. He had no family to care for him. He never got to know his grandparents, or his own father, or his own relatives. That is why he was often without help in life situations. His mother's name is Herta Brigitte Krug (Baptismal name). She was an unskilled worker at the time. After she moved to Salzburg, she worked later for decades in the health department as contract agents until she retired. At first she lived at Müllnerhauptstraße 18 on the third floor. A few months later she moved into a municipal apartment on the second floor at Goethestraße 12 in Itzling. This biological mother made the following statement: She met the biological father often in Kitzbühel.  According to his mother his name was Dr. Peter Strobl and he worked as a doctor by profession. He was blond and tall. She was friends with the biological father in the approximate period 1962 - 1966. They went dancing in Kitzbühel. He already had a family. This doctor advised Peter Krug to have an abortion. His mother found it very out of character and disappointing. She did not demand alimony from the biological father. Peter's birth was very painful for his mother. 
Instead of aborting Peter, the 22 year old birth mother put this illegitimate baby 1966 in an infant home. So Peter spent the first 2 years of his life in an infant home near the Salzburg hospital. Almost nothing is known of Peter's grandparents. His biological mother Herta Krug (married Bertel) was born in Lessau in Lungau. According to the biological mother, the maternal grandmother was deaf - dumb for life. The grandmother was considered stupid in Lessach because of her deaf-muteness.

 Kirchenstraße 33, Itzling  (1968 - 1972)

 After that he came in 1968 to a children's home (Kirchenstraße 33), which boys and girls took up to 6 years old. The home was back then closed and Peter Krug felt like he was in a prison. The environment in which Peter Krug spent day after day was always the same: either in the garden under the trees, or in a common room.The daily routine was strictly regulated. When was breakfast, when was dinner, and when was bed rest. There were no opportunities to retreat. The children had nowhere to hide. Every day there was malt coffee that Peter Krug didn't like at all -because it was always the same taste. He had no friends and no caregiver in the children's home. Sometimes he was picked up by the birth mother over the weekend. These were the few days when Peter Krug was allowed to experience freedom in the first 6 years. Peter was absolutely unhappy.  Although he was not physically abused in the home, he was locked up in the basement. A young woman dragged little Peter down the stone stairs into the cellar and locked him up. At that time the door was still a wooden door with a simple lock. He was locked helplessly in the dark, but could see through a crack through the door. He could see the young woman smoking and watching. Later she disappeared. Peter was in a panic then. Days later, Peter couldn't walk without his knees trembling. He had the worst nightmares afterwards. Perfidious upbringing methods for the purpose of intimidation and fear were an integral part of this home. For example, 10-15 children were brought into the lounge at night. All children had to sit on the floor on the instructions of the minder. Then the woman opened the door that leads out to the garden. Before she left the room she said to the children: "Now the devil will get you!" Then she turned off the light and left us alone in the dark with the door open to the outside. - Once a year, on "Christmas Eve" and days after, the home children were picked up by their parents. Peter Krug still remembers exactly how he waited anxiously on that day to be picked up by their biological mother. But he was one of the few children who were not picked up even during the Christmas season. He was so saddened by this and cried continuously. His biological mother Hertha Krug (she was still unmarried at that time)  lived at that time in a 34 square meter garcionaire at 12 Goethestraße, only about 80 meters away from the children's home. Peter Krug was so sad that he was not picked up by his mother at Christmas time. He and few other children were left behind in the children's home even on those days. It was a very sad time for the children. When Peter Krug saw that a door was open, he took the opportunity and escaped from the children's home. Crying, he walked up Sportplatzstraße and turned right into Goethestraße. After crossing Bognerstraße he was in one of the blocks of houses on the right where his mother lived. When he arrived and knocked on her door, his mother opened the door just a crack and told him to go back to the home immediately. It was one of the worst moments of his life for Peter Krug, because he could not understand that his own mother did not take him into her home even at Christmas. Peter Krug could not help but go back to the home. However, Peter Krug was allowed later to visit his biological mother alone on weekends when he was almost 6 years old. 

Guggenthal 62  (1973 - 1978)

The time of severe memory problems at school

 When Peter Krug reached the age of 6, he was too old for the children's home in Itzling and was taken to a Projuventute children's village in Guggenthal 62 (nowadays it was renamed Georg Weickl Weg 21) at the foot of the Nockstein (alpine-looking rock spikes 1042 m). It was 1972 that Peter Krug was put in a completely different environment in Koppl. He didn't own anything at that time. His biological father, of whom he did not even have a photo or knew his name, did not pay the alimony. Throughout childhood and adolescence, the mother never spoke a word about the biological father. Fortunately, the forest was immediately outside the house. Peter was allowed to play outside, hide and discover nature. There was a fixed limit to how far the orphans were allowed to go into the forest. On trees like beeches, Peter learned how to climb trees barefoot and tests of courage like jumping over almost meter high rocks. Very often the orphans also stayed on the stream and tried to catch trout. On other days they collected dead wood and made a simple forest hut out of it. Peter also learned how to make perfect paper airplanes, and the orphans had little contests in particularly windy autumn weather to see whose paper airplane would fly especially far. The orphans were out a lot in the summer without shoes and with leather pants. This forest became an escape for the orphans from the perceived joyless school and the tantrums of "mom" (educator mother Magarethe Leitner ) who watched over the children. On rainy days, the orphans sat in front of the TV in the evening before going to bed and watched "Maya Bee", "Kung fu" (TV series with David Carradine), or the US - American science fiction series Star Trek, "Raumschiff Enterprise" with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock. Before the orphans went to sleep at 7 o'clock in the evening, or at the latest at 8 o'clock, they had to form a circle on the first floor, where the bedrooms were, all facing the center of the circle. With their hands folded, the children had to recite the "Our Father in Heaven"and then the apostolic creed  every evenig. Peter felt really sick every time and developed irrational fears. But he was not allowed to escape this daily religious torture. He had a great aversion to this ritual and the horrible, Catholic beliefs made it difficult for Peter to fall asleep. - There was also a dog named Ajax, a Collie in the  Projuventute children's house. This dog did not want any physical contact with the children and would only vocalize when he was hungry or when people came to visit. Every Sunday the children had to attend Sunday service, which began at 8:30 in the morning. For this, all the orphans had to put on ceremonial clothes that they had in their closet during the week and walk about 300 meters to the Filial Church “Heilige Kreuz-Kirche” in deliberate slow steps. The orphans dressed up in stooped pants, shirts and cloth ties, passed by the elementary school  of the Georg Weickl Way and passed the old abandoned brewery ("Am Professorfeld") and the empty Valentin Ceconi villa until they reached the neo gothic church, whose buildings were all commissioned by Georg Weickl at that time. - At this time the priest Hans (Johann) Paarhammer (1947 - 2020) gave this sermon. Paarhammer was a prelate and honorary citizen of the municipality of Koppl. He later became a full university professor in Salzburg. The orphans had to take a special place in the front row of the church. It was scrupulously watched that the children absolutely got the host shoved into their mouths. For Peter, to whom all Catholic liturgy seemed incomprehensible and strange, even threatening, these religious ceremonies were torture. It irritated Peter every time when the priest talks about the devil and hell in church. Peter also did not understand why only the priest was allowed to speak in church and the visitors were only allowed to say "Amen" or "Praise be to the Lord." Peter did not understand why he suddenly had to stand up during mass, why he then had to sit down again, and why he had to kneel down. Therefore he never paid attention for a minute in church to what the priest was saying, but thought about what he was going to do in the forest after church. He had a deep aversion to all Christian customs and that Jesus should be the Savior from all sins only confused Peter. As soon as the mass was over, he was happy to step out of the church again and was allowed to talk and pursue his urge to move. After church, the children went with quick steps the way back home, where the dog Ajax greeted each time from far the children with loud barking. The orphans were already looking forward to Sunday dinner.  Every Sunday they had baked chicken from the oven with rice and ketchup which the "mom" already prepared on a large table in the living room. The leftover bones got the dog Ajax. Because he received no intellectual stimuli and was not encouraged to read, he was far behind in terms of general knowledge and German language skills compared to other children of his age. For example his grammar was lousy. Here, only 100 meters from home he completed elementary school with Adi Hillimaier and Daniel Spitzl.

Structure at that time 1973 to 1977 in the Voksschule Guggenthal

All four classes of the school were taught by only two teachers. 
While the first two classes at the same time were led by Anna Karl,  Hugo Müller was in charge of the third and fourth classes.
Each teacher had to teach two grades at the same time.
There were 6 units of hours each day. At 7:40 in the morning the lessons began.
After about 1 p.m. the lessons were over. 

 Superintendent of Schools Hugo Müller (1914 - 2008) was the director at that time. In this school,  he learned basic math and reading. Because he got the worst grades in mathematics in the field of elementary set theory, it spoiled Peter the joy in school. For him, the school grades were a psychological torture that brought him sleepless nights and permanent fears of existence. After all, the elementary school teacher Anna Karl had an idea why he had such bad grades. She discovered very late that he was partially color blind (red - green weakness) and therefore could not classify the colored geometric triangles. However, the unsuccessful mathematics was a trauma that was never dealt with, never discussed, and which accompanied Peter through the further years of school. Even in those early school days, Peter no longer enjoyed school and felt that school was a place of punishment and embarrassment. Bad grades were followed by a ban on playing, grounding and domestic physical beatings. Peter was punished in the home. He spent therefore a lot of time writing fine, instead of spending time in the forest in fair weather. This stupid occupation made no sense to Peter. At that time the children were punished also with cone arithmetic (e.g. 796 x (times)  2= , the sum x 3= , the sum x 4= …until the sum x 9= and then the sum : (divided by ) 2 …until the sum :9 should result in the same number at the end. In cone arithmetic, continuous multiplication and subsequent division produces a structure that actually resembles a pine cone in shape), or with writing the same sentence 100 times. These punishments were repeated many times and apparently served Ms. Leitner to control the children in their absence. In this rural region, Peter suffered severe physical abuse from this unpredictable woman in the advanced age (42 years) who had sudden outbursts of anger even hit defenseless children with chairs, brooms, belt and the unpredictable force of the hand. This woman named Mrs. Magarethe Leitner (1930 - 13.08.2018) was generally referred to as "mom" by the orphaned children. She was feared by the children because she had unpredictable temper tantrums.  From the experience of powerlessness he made and the experience of not being noticed by anyone, Peter Krug reacted with silence and grief. He had to endure grief, lack of understanding and physical violence without exchanging these experiences with other caregivers and verbally processing them. The transition from the elementary school, which was less than 100 meters away, and the secondary school Hof was hard for Peter to bear. From now on he had to go to school with the bus full of children and every time Peter felt sick during the ride and almost threw up. In the secondary school itself he could not find any friends. He felt alone among the strange children and teachers. The additional bad experience of alienation became an insurmountable obstacle for Peter Krug. Peter could no longer fall asleep, or sleep through the night. In order to deal with the overwhelming fear of being beaten, Peter and the child of the same age named Adi Hillimaier (born 1966 in Salzburg) went outside school hours into the forest with the aim of being able to cope better with the physical pain. They looked for sticks and larger branches and hit each other on the back of the body and tried to endure the pain. Unfortunataly the physical resilience training that was practiced was unsuccessful. Peter was forcibly dragged into the cellar by his furious and impulsive "Foster mother". He fought back with all his might and screamed and was able to prevent him from being locked up in the basement again. She gave up just before the cellar door.  At school in Hof he couldn't pay attention. In German class, the foreign teachers read a story that touched Peter so emotionally that he started crying in the middle of the reading. It was the famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen: "The little girl with the sulfur woods". 
The story hit Peter so hard because he thought he recognized similarities with his own life. The teacher had only read half of the story when Peter sank into the school chair, crying and oblivious to the rest of the story. Then the students had to retell the story in writing from memory.
This overstrained Peter emotionally. After the first sentences were written, Peter remained motionless and could not continue writing. Overwhelmed by his feelings, he could not put anything down on paper for the rest of the time until the exercise books were collected. 
Instead of asking Peter why he did not write the story, the German teacher gave Peter the worst grade. Peter hid this at home and was terrified of further school exams. It was a chain reaction. It was impossible for Peter to remember what he had learned. He experienced a state of unstoppable uncertainty, the likes of which he had never known before. He could not pay attention at school at all and was "punished" for this with more bad grades.
  Due to poor grades in the school, Peter Krug completely lost the ground under his feet. He got fits of suffocation. These attacks of suffocation repeated themselves in the evening and got worse and worse. At night, when everyone was asleep and he was lying in the dark in his bed, he was at the mercy of his fear. That drained Peter of the security. At first, he could not fall asleep at night because of tinnitus, hyperventilation, and tingling on the skin of his face. At school it had such an effect that he could only be present, but could no longer pay attention, learn or write. The great insecurity he had never experienced before paralyzed Peter to the point that he had considerable memory problems in school. The teacher didn't ask what's going on. Peter Krug got the worst grades in school. Peter found his impotence beyond words. Then came one of the worst nights of his life. He had another attack of suffocation at night that was so bad that Peter thought he was going to die soon. In fear of death he got up from bed and went to Adi Hillimaier´s bed and wanted to scream for help. But he couldn't scream. He couldn't get a sound out. He felt his helplessness and fell unconscious on Adi's bed. With the rescue, he was taken to the hospital at night. But there was not asked what the cause was, but Peter was wrongly diagnosed by Dr. Christian Gross with epilepsy. In the hospital he was given the pills that Peter secretly threw away. The attacks of suffocation stopped, thank God. Peter no longer needed to be afraid of being hit in the hospital. The suffocation attacks never repeated themselves later in Peter Krug's life. The caregivers could not understand the reason and so Peter Krug was brought to another Children's home. Peter Krug felt torn out and could not adapt to the new environment. His nocturnal shortness of breath (hyperventilation) shortly before falling asleep, caused by panic, was not known after the Salzburg regional hospital. 

Children's home in Parsch  (1978)

Since he was not beaten by the educators in the new children's home in Parsch, Aignerstraße 7a (across from Borromäum), he also did not have respiratory distress. Peter, 12 years old at that time knew that and so he always secretly threw away the useless tablets that were against the epilepsy. In this environment in Parsch Peter was teased and excluded by the other children. Peter had great difficulty adapting and was therefore very unhappy. After a few months he was dismissed from this home because instead of going to school in the Schloßstraße, he had stolen 2 orange juice concentrates and sweets from a grocery store. Around this time his biological mother married Dr.Michael Bertel and was then called Herta Brigitte Bertel. For his mother, Peter was nothing more than a school failure and a problem child.

Nursing home, Zanderstraße 5, Liefering  (1978 - 1980)

Therefore he was then taken to a nursing home in the Zanderstraße 5, Liefering, where he learned the rules of chess from a psychologist (1978). Unlike Guggenthal, Liefering had no forest and no mountain. Not far away are the famous Salzachseen.  His classmates at the compulsory school in Liefering were children from abroad. Many children from low social class, who spoke poor German. The requirements of this school were so low that Peter did even no homework and did not study for exams. Gerold and Annamaria (so -called foster father and foster mother)  didn't care about that at all either. Therefore Peter learned almost nothing in this school. It happened twice that he was stopped by children on the way home from school. During the way home through a meadow children came towards him. One of them hit Peter in the stomach.  - His daily routine looked something like this:  before Peter got up, he drank cocoa, which he got from the refrigerator. Gerold and Annamaria were still asleep at this time. Since there was often no bread, he went to school hungry and without a snack. The hunger was so agonizing that Peter once took advantage of a favorable opportunity to steal and stole sweets at school. He ate the sweet wafers in the toilet.  After school he had to go home immediately and got bread with a liver spread from a tin can. Sometimes there was soup with noodles as an appetizer. Every day he got the same thing for dinner. At home, he sat alone in the a tiny kitchen until late at night. He had no playmates, schoolmates or friends. He had no one to talk to. In the kitchen he occupied himself with puzzles. Peter's task was also to collect grasses, leaves and herbs in the surrounding area for rabbit breeding. With wooden carts he drove along the roads even during the rain and plowed in the meadows these grasses. But he was forbidden to explore the area simply out of desire. Peter's conversations with Gerold and Annamaria were limited to the most necessary. Experiences, for example, or problems at school were never discussed. Joy and sorrow were never communicated. During this time, Annamaria Ladinig was sitting in the living room watching TV. She loved the Elvis movies. Gerald Ladinig (foster father of Peter) often came home very late during the week and usually he was drunk. Gerald Ladinig worked in the construction industry and his muscle strength was impressive and feared because he often had unpredictable outbursts of violence. It was not uncommon for him to strike with full force with his fist against other people, also against Peter. The punishment of Peter was carried out according to a certain ritual. Thus he was beaten in front of Annamaria L.. Another time Peter had to strip stark naked and lie on the bed until Gerold came. Gerold Ladinig wet his hands and then beat Peter's ass with extreme brute force. Peter screamed afterwards and ran naked through the whole apartment. 
Once at home Peter had secretly cut some cake from a piece of cake.
He was punished for this by being given polenta to eat for the next few days. 
 -  One night, Peter was already in bed, when a stranger with cigarette smell came to the bedside. This strange man with tattoos on his arm had strong muscles and ordered Peter to lie still in bed.  This  disgusting man smelled disgusting and had long hair. He took the blanket away and raped Peter. The  man repeated this sporadically for several weeks until Gerold Ladinig caught this man with the tattoo in the act. In an adjoining room, this man was brutally beaten down with fists from Gerold in front of Peter for this deed. This strange man afterthen never came to Peter's bedside again.  - One evening Gerold came back home drunk again. Peter was just sitting alone in the kitchen. Without words being dropped, and without any apparent reason, Gerold Ladinig hit with his fist directly in Peter's face. Peter's nose began to bleed and the blood ran into the soup plate. Gerold L. then became even angrier and again beat Peter with his fists until Peter was lying helplessly on the ground in a state of shock. After that, he tore Peter's shirt, and then disappeared. Afterwards, Peter lay alone in the kitchen in a state of shock until the morning. The next day after he could no longer go to school. The shock and fear of being beaten further was too deep. He was totally desperate and fled on foot without the necessary clothing and without money about 20 kilometers east to the mountains. He first walked from Liefering along the Salzach in the direction of Elsbethen, and then went up the mountain Gaisberg. At the beginning of the ascent, the evening sun was still shining horizionally, illuminating the grasses and brightening the stones in the restless ups and downs of the radiance. Then suddenly, from one moment to the next, the stones and the grasses stopped shining. The sun set and the mountain lost color and luster.  Peter began to be afraid. He knew that soon it would become completely dark. The wind was blowing low as if from a big blowpipe. In a rhythm the leaves rattled more and more violently until it became calm again and this wind became louder each time. When it was already dark Peter Krug wildly sought out the slopes without protection and away from the hiking trail. It was difficult for Peter to hold on to anything. The stones were often loose. The grass and the moss covered areas slippery.  Constantly steep he went further uphill until he suddenly reached the top of the mountain (1288 m). The unusual and the fact that Peter Krug desperately but death-defying reached the summit evening without a flashlight and without a path was decisive for looking for other options. He became aware of his power. Nobody was at the summit at that time. The wind whistled and the storm clouds changed constantly and quickly. It started to rain and it became cold and very dark. He was dressed only in a T-shirt and pants. At the summit he realized that there was still a lot in this world that he had not yet known. Life offers much more. Via the normal hiking trail he went downhill again. He longingly sought out the area in nature that was a retreat for him in the past. There he met the orphans he knew back when he lived in Guggenthal.  Peter hoped that Adi Hillimaier, or Daniel Spitzl would bring him something to eat. Peter was thinly dressed and had no jacket with him. He needed a sweater and a raincoat and hoped that Adi and Daniel would provide shelter in their primitive wooden huts. He wanted to sleep in the forest and by no means back to the former "Mama". But the children betrayed his hiding place in the forest. When "Mama" found out, she was worried about him and so he couldn't help but go to the house in Guggenthal. The "Mama" (Magarethe Leitner, former foster mother) mistakenly believed that Peter had fled to come back to Guggenthal. The truth, however, was that instead of committing suicide, Peter wanted to return to the nature area in Guggenthal where he felt comfortable at that time. The "Mama" (Magarethe Leitner) immediately called his birth mother, who at that time was already married to a new doctor (Dr. Michael Bertel) and was named Herta Bertel. His mother then immediately called the police and Peter was brought back to Zanderstraße with the police and accompanied by his biological mother. On the way there, his mother showered Peter with accusations because of the escape. Peter was only a nuisance in his mother's eyes and an obstacle to being happy.  - So late at night he was back to Liefering where he was beaten very often from the drunk, aggressive, more unpredictable, strong muscular man named Gerold Ladinig (1952 - 2003, he was a bricklayer by trade and a tiler). At the time, Peter Krug was not asked why he fled in the mountains.

 Relocation to a new nursing home in Plainfeld (1981 - 1982)

Because Peter Krug fled from the former desolate family in Liefering, a psychologist looked for a new place in the rural area east of the city of Salzburg (Quellenweg 3). 
Since Peter Krug never dared to talk about the brutal physical injuries, no one learned what the reason for the escape was. In Plainfeld he completed the last years of compulsory schooling in 1981 and 1982 (Hauptschule Hof). It was the fifth school.
During these two years Peter Krug was free from psychological and physical violence. He was quickly able to settle into school. His classmates were solidary and friendly. He was lucky to find a school friend just across the street from his new home. He also played chess with him and was even allowed to stay over at his place on weekends. But all chess players in the country played much worse chess than Peter.  
Hermann Hautzinger was his first friend Peter had in his life so far. However, he did not receive any  intellectual support in Plainfeld. No one in the country read books in their spare time. There were also no books available. The country people all had a conservative education and job. The curriculum vitae in the countryside was (and is) already pre-programmed: Elementary school, then secondary school, then perhaps an additional school to also get a higher post. Then working until retirement - always in the same job. In the free time, the television takes a central place as entertainment. 
 - After finishing compulsory school, Peter Krug knew almost no English and poor German. The level of education was very low at that time. After compulsory schooling, Monika Mittermayr (new foster mother in Plainfeld) looked for an apprenticeship for Peter. At this time Peter was going steeply downhill. Instead of attending another school he started an apprenticeship as a forwarding agent. The work there was so frustrating for him that he began to have great sleeping problems. Unrested and unfocused, he went to this apprenticeship, often late, and after a few months he was terminated because the department manager noticed that Peter was unhappy. After that, Monika looked for another apprenticeship at the Goldener Hirschen in the Getreidegasse as a waiter. His biological mother bought a waiter's jacket, black shoes and waiter's trousers for him. After waitressing, he took the bus from Miralbellgarten back to Plainfeld every day. - Because he was very shy with the guests, he often trembled when pouring the wine and promptly missed. Therefore, Peter had to practice serving without things in an adjoining room. But when it happened to him again during the serving next to the guest that he poured out a plate full of food while serving, he lost heart and did not want to work in the Hotel Goldener Hirschen anymore.  Peter skipped work until Monika Mittermayr came along. Next, Monika Mittermayr found an apprentice waiter position at Peterskeller. Here he always had to learn the daily menu by heart. He couldn't get along at all with the other apprentices. Peter found teamwork difficult. He hated the physical work and carrying heavy plates at a hectic pace for very long hours. After a few months, Peter quit this job as well, again without telling Monika.

Deposed in the Kolping House (1982 - 83)
A life without perspective, friends and external help

 After further unsuccessful attempts, Peter was assigned an unskilled job. He had to make stickers for advertising purposes with a machine at the Mark Youth Center in the Neutorstraße near the Siegmundstor. The more stickers he made, the more he could earn. Peter was not satisfied with this work either. He found the work very monotonous and felt mentally underchallenged. Since he was also unhappy at this job, Monika Mittermayr gave up and put Peter in a Kolping house, which at that time was in Franz-Josef-Straße 15 in Salzburger Neustadt. Into a free fall he lost contact not only with Monika Mittermayr and with Plainfeld, but also with all the possessions he had at the time. He lost his record player with all his beloved Abba - records  and his problem chess books. He lost his folding bike and his only good friend, Hermann Hautzinger. In the Kolping House he had nothing to eat anymore. No one who cared about Peter. At that time, Peter had no plan on how to pay for his living. Peter fell so low, and this lack of support led to the neglect of his physical and mental condition. Day in and day out, he was preoccupied with the question of what it would be like if he committed suicide. The only self-respect he derived from the fact that he was successful as a chess player. However, he was deeply disappointed by the people around him and his beautiful moments were only the encounters with animals and nature, which he always loved so much. In spite of this halting, or precisely because of this halting, Peter continued his work as a chess composer. At that time Peter was mainly interested in the orthodox two and three movers. He was inspired by the great chess composer Otto Wurzburg from Grand Rapids. Since he also lost his chessboard, he often lay in bed and composed in blindfold chess style.

He composed the following chess problem without board view and pieces in the Kolping House:

White: Ke3, Qf8, Bc7, Nd7, Ng6, f6, c3, d3    Black: Kd5, Ba7, Nb7, Nc6, b6, b5, e6, g5          8/ 8     #2

 White on the move mates in two moves. It is a Zugzwang problem. Only decades later he published this task in "Die Schwalbe" in october 2005 (12780 Die Schwalbe 215).
- At that time the beds in the Kolping House were still made of iron. The floor was made of plastic. There were two bunk beds in the room. Washing facilities and toilet were in the hallway. After weeks without food and without support, Peter was terribly hungry.This feeling of hunger and the attacks of dizziness became unbearable and so he began to steal white sugar. During the day because of the chess he went to the Café Mozart. In this traditional coffee house he tried his luck with blitz chess with a cash stake.  
For a while he also enjoyed using "contra" to raise the amount while playing chess. He also looked for chess players where he could pretend a piece, or reduce his own thinking time to three minutes, instead of the usual 5 minutes. With the money he often earned quickly, he ordered hot sausages at the coffee house and drank black coffee non-stop. Before going back to the Kolpinghaus, he would buy himself another Käsekrainer, or Burenwurst at the Alter Markt 3 in the center of Salzburg, or a Bosna with Coca Cola and a few bars of chocolate.
Once, a regular visitor and chess player to the Café Mozart, Mr. Heinrich Prodinger (1933-1999) challenged Peter and insisted on playing with Peter for 1000 shillings. Prodinger (also known as General Prodinger) regularly played tournament chess for the chess club "Mozart" and had  about 1800 Elo. He already had a few glasses of white wine behind him and so they played without a clock with high stakes. 
That evening it was already very late and the waiter let everyone pay. Peter Krug and Heinrich Prodinger, however, were still engrossed in the high stakes game. The lights in the coffee house were turned off, which did not stop the two chess players from continuing to play. Until Prodinger lost the chess game. Instead of paying, Heinrich Prodinger spat on the chess board. 
This was too much and they stopped playing. H. Prodinger was by now very buzzed from the alcohol. As they were leaving Café Mozart, they realized that they were locked in the coffee house. 
Peter Krug, who was not drunk, looked in the kitchen of the coffee house for a spare key and found it. With this key, they were both able to leave the Café Mozart. Peter, however, took the key with him. 
He did it with the intention of going to the Café Mozart at night and stealing cakes when the hunger became unbearable. 
In the next few weeks, as a precaution, Peter did not go to Café Mozart during the day. Instead, he waited until it was very late and the Café Mozart was closed. Then he used the spare key to get into Café Mozart and ate cake from the kitchen display case. He did this at night for several weeks. In order not to get caught because of the repetitions, Peter threw the key into the Salzach after a few weeks. But after only a few days without food, Peter Krug began to have severe dizzy spells and felt very weak. He was afraid for his life. In the Kolpinghaus he desperately searched for leftover food that others had left behind. Sometimes he found a hard bread, mustard, or ketchup. 
Since hunger continued to plague Peter, however, he climbed into the Café Mozart at night through the open window in the Getreidegasse and stole cakes again. When Peter at night, after stealing some cakes from the display case and eating them, wanted to get out of the open window again, he noticed that there were too many people in the Getreidegasse and it would therefore be too dangerous. Since he no longer had the spare key either, he was like locked up in Café Mozart. Fortunately, he found a window, the one to the "Niederleg -Hof". 
Peter had to jump about 5 or 6 meters from the window onto an asphalt floor. Fortunately, Peter did not injure himself in the process. When he jumped down, driven by the fear of being caught, he realized that he was locked in the "Niederleg - Hof". Both heavy wooden gates, one to the Getreidegasse, the other to the Griesgasse were closed and locked. Peter therefore had to hold out in this courtyard from midnight until 6 o'clock in the morning, until someone finally opened the gate to Griesgasse and he could thus go back to the Kolpinghaus. Finally, he stopped stealing cakes, because it was too dangerous to get caught. Peter Krug was never caught or charged for these acts.

   - From 1983 to 1986 were some of the worst years of his life. This period was characterized by a lack of stability, loss of his home, identity crisis, self-insecurity, disorientation and helplessness. It was months of great trauma. This sad time negatively affected the next decades of Peter's life. Peter Krug is still unable to talk much about this time.

   The consequences of child abuse 

Children suffer most from the mistreatment and mistakes of our society, because they cannot really cope with them and they have an impact on the rest of their lives. In adolescence and early adulthood the mistakes and abuse of parenting will have their effects.

   In Guggenthal, Peter met several orphaned children of the same age.

These children were called Adi Hillimaier (born 1966), Daniel Spitzl (born 1966) and Reinhard Tutschko (born 1965). In Peter's opinion, they should never be forgotten:

As an adult, Adi Hillimaier could not do a regular job and slept homeless and alone with his dog in a hidden watchtower between ash, beech and sycamore maple on the Kapuzinerberg for 10 years in summer and through the entire winter. Every day he cooked his food and coffee with his campfire in the forest. Adi said. that he wanted to forget his sad childhood through his hard life outdoors. Unprotected in the open air, he was attacked with a knife and stabbed in the stomach with a knife. Adi was taken to the accident hospital and survived. Because of the Internet, Adi Hillimaier was able to get to know his biological mother after more than 40 years. He lives on the social welfare office and currently (2021) lives in a community apartment in northern Salzburg. Adi is now father of several children.

Daniel Spitzl, half Turkish origin came to the Borromäum private high school Salzburg after primary school. A boys school in Parsch. According to other children, he was allegedly sexually abused there. Daniel Spitzl was later adopted. As an young adult, he died of a drug overdose. Daniel was a very calm, rather introverted person.

Reinhard Tutschko was very athletic and went to judo classes. As a young adult, he loved promoting children in sports. After Reinhard was caught by the police for stealing, he was taken into custody in Schanzelgasse, Salzburg. As a young man, he hanged himself in custody. He died very young, estimated to be 20 years old.

What happened to Magarethe Leitner and Gerold Ladinig, who severely traumatized Peter physically and mentally? What personalities did they have? What were their hobbies?

  Magarethe Leitner  and her husband Johann Leitner moved with their sons from Guggenthal  into a new own house with garden on the Saalach border in the Rechte Saalachzeile 10. Opposite Freilassing. Here the couple spent their pension. The orphaned children grew up. None - except Peter Krug - of the former Projuventute children visited Ms. Leitner. Nobody wanted to be in contact with her after such a sad childhood. She had done great harm to the children. Peter Krug visited Ms. Leitner after more than 40 years. During the visit, however, it was impossible to talk to her about the body abuse. Ms. Leitner showed no insight into how her outbursts of anger combined with beating with objects such as chairs and belts caused psychological damage to the orphaned children and severely impaired their future lives. 2016 Magarethe Leitner became seriously ill with dementia, she and her husband, who had since become complete blind, were taken to the old people's home in Itzling, where she passed away on August 13, 2018. She was 88 years old. 

Postscript: Her husband Johann Leitner died 4 years later, completely blind, on March 16, 2022, in a nursing home in Itzling. He lived to the age of 95.  Johann Leitner never harmed an orphan, although he himself was beaten as a child. He was a quiet and reserved person. By profession he was a trolleybus driver. In Guggenthal he also ran a beekeeping business.

  Gerold Ladinig (30.11.1952 - 05.06.2003) himself was a child in the home for disabled people. His experience of physical violence at the home was the justification for brutally beating Peter. Gerold L. continued to drink a lot of alcohol. Mostly beer.  All his life he could not control his outbursts of anger, which was often related to the fainting he experienced as a child in the children's home. His life was mainly characterized by hard physical work in construction. He had hardly any time for hobbies. Sometimes he went fishing with colleagues at the Salzachsee. Sporadically he could spend the weekend with Annamaria Ladinig and Peter at the Mattsee with other people to campsites. Since Gerold and Annamaria did not own a car, they rode together with work colleagues in a service bus. Gerold had no children of his own, and never played with Peter either. When Gerold already had a certain alcohol level he talked about his time when he was a child and was in the children's home. He recounted a particularly harsh method of punishment for children. A child was covered with a large blanket and then other children were allowed to beat this child. Gerold also showed a group photo of him with the other children from that time in the children's home. He emphasized how malnourished he was in the children's home. And expressed his pride that he managed to complete an apprenticeship as a tiler despite being in a children's home for the severely educated and often emphasized how much he achieved in life through his own efforts. In appearance, Gerold was of average height, had black hair and a muscular build. He was stronger than his colleagues at work.  - Gerold however had never apologized for his outbursts of violence and rage. In a fit of rage, he often bang on locked doors or bang his fist on the wall. He died of leukemia at the age of 50 on June 5, 2003 and was buried in Maxglan Cemetery on July 30, 2003.  Shortly before Gerold died, he regretted his mistakes and said that cancer is his just punishment. His wife Annamaria Ladinig (1955-1987) died of stroke many years earlier at the age of 32. Since she suffered from diabetes type 1 at an early age and had pus sores on her legs, her life was limited to being a housewife. Her job was to buy groceries and keep the apartment clean. The only contact she had with other people - except her husband - were her mother and brother Stefan Lazar, who lived on the upper floor of the house. Often her mother came down to Annamaria's apartment and discussed or watched television together. Apart from watching television, she had no other hobbies. She was ice cold to Peter, rarely dignified Peter with eye contact, and acted as if Peter didn't exist.  She was physically very weak, lean and often locked herself in the bathroom to avoid being beaten by the angry husband Gerold Ladinig.  She also received death threats from Gerold, but she had no way to escape. Anna Maria Ladinig was buried with her original surname Annamaria Lazar in the cemetery Liefering.

       Adolescence:

  Peter Krug had great learning difficulties because of the acute difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep and after school he had to take on jobs that he didn't know what to do with. He wasn't even asked what he would like to do in the future. Therefore he experienced further frustrations in the workplace. Again and again he ran away from the apprenticeships offered to him. Because of the many sleepless nights and the great unspoken dissatisfaction, he capitulated. After all, hardly anyone cared about him. He became stronger interested in chess and often went to Mozart café in the Getreidegasse. There he flashed with other good chess players (5 minutes thinking time per person) and could make with success some money with it. With this money he went to the nearest sausage stand and bought 2 or 3 nut chocolates with Coca Cola. That had to be enough for the whole day. He only earned so much money that the excruciating hunger was over. He often felt dizzy and very weak. Once it was late in the night. He hasn't eaten anything all day. He was still hoping to get something to eat in Café Mozart. But that evening he was out of luck. The Mozart Café was pretty empty. The waiter in charge was nowhere to be seen. He used this short time and stole cakes from the cake cabinet. Then he went to the toilet to choke that cake down quickly. His fear of being caught as a thief was great. So he didn't want to flee through the exit door. Instead of going down the stairs the usual way, he turned left into a small, deserted room. He opened a window that led into the courtyard and hopped out of the window onto bare asphalt at a height of six meters. It was dark.  Fortunately, he didn't injure himself and fled. Since earning with chess was not possible in the long run, he had to get by for up to a month or more without money and was starving bitterly. Despite the existential hardship, hunger and unemployment, he composed orthodox chess problems on a small chess board and solved tasks from German problem chess books. He had great admiration for Ado Kraemer. He published his own composed chess problems in the Salzburger Nachrichten, making himself happy for his birthday. His other interests were philosophy. He read a lot from Arthur Schopenhauer “About the nothingness and suffering of life” and found confirmation that life is a lot of suffering and that people are driven blindly. Life is for Peter a hell and the people are cruel. Peter was convinced that it would be better if he had never been born. Peter did not know how he could survive the next time and also had no permanent residence, therefore he could not become a member of a chess club or take part in official chess tournaments. The times in the winter when Peter Krug walked alone through the nights without accommodation in order not to freeze to death were hard. Completely dispossessed, he strolled through the streets of Salzburg. Forgotten by all the people who once knew him.  To warm up in winter, he looked in the morning or in the afternoon for public places like the Salzburg University Library. He had no tent, nothing to sleep, and no gloves or hood, therefore he had no other option and wandered around through the night. Afterthen he was exhausted because of the acute lack of sleep. Since he was so often neglected and abused in his childhood, Peter had very poor self-confidence and self-respect. He always doubted himself. He never learned to take care of himself and to look good in society. Therefore, he walked around with bad, unwashed clothes and did not shave. His cheap shoes were worn out from being worn and uncleaned. Throughout his youth he could not look authorities in the eye. He had no one to lean on and no one helped him. Peter Krug however was unable to complete a commercial training in the field of work because of the very stressful childhood traumas that left him speechless for decades. In addition, Peter Krug was only able to present his bad school reports at work presentations.  His general education was very poor. In school he learned little more than writing and reading. He was ashamed of his bad school grades and destroyed therefore his school reports. As a teenager, Peter had to struggle with identity insecurity every day. He dealt with psychological problems with himself. He was easily injured and reacted to conflicts by withdrawing in nature, reading philosophers' books and studying chess problems. He often brooded over past verbal injuries. In the oldest bookstore in Austria, the Eduard Höllrigl bookstore, there were still enough problem chess books by Werner Speckmann. Books that were worth a visit for Peter at that time. In this historic 16th century house he tried to forget a little about his borne self-doubt and his deep self-insecurity. Peter practiced blind chess early on. He worked on chess problems and worked them out without the help of a board and pieces. Mostly it was mate in two moves and more. In addition, he did not always write down his chess problems in his youth, but contented himself with keeping them in mind and showing other chess players his chessproblems at hand.

Difficult relationship with birth mother.

Peter Krug was separated from his mother from birth. As a toddler, Peter was allowed to visit his mother once a week. The visit was always characterized by speechlessness and permanent accusations of guilt by the mother. Peter could never understand this blame and when he returned to the home this blame had a very negative effect on Peter's mind. Unfortunately, each visit with the mother always followed the same pattern. Peter could not cope with this emotional burden of constant blaming and in school it led to him not being able to develop an interest in learning and not paying attention in class. 
Thus, he often became an outsider at school and his mother labeled Peter a failure because of his poor grades in school. Insecurity and gnawing self-doubt and being an outsider characterized the entire later school years and led to his inability to perform as required. Freeing himself from this negative spiral and building up a sense of self-worth was the content of his entire later life.

Inspection of files denied by Salzburg municipal authorities

Every child who comes to a children home, or to a foster home has a file from the Youth Welfare Office, where the childhood and adolescent history was noted. Peter Krug has often telephoned the magistrate of Salzburg to express his wish to have access to the file. 
After repeated calls he was told that it could take several weeks. Peter Krug then also contacted the Salzburg Magistrate again a few weeks later. Even after many years, Peter Krug has not been able to inspect the files! It was apparently refused to him.

    Young adult:

   Peter Krug suffered tremendously from childhood, when he was left in the lurch most of the time and his talents were not encouraged. Early adulthood was torture for Peter, and the unprocessed childhood experiences an obstacle to whatever he was doing. He was plagued by fears related to intimidating upbringing and the ineffectiveness of his life. He seldom visited his birth mother. But even in adulthood she did not help him, but showered Peter with blame and allegations from the past on each of his visits. For his mother he was just a good-for-nothing who got nothing in his life. With every visit she repeated like a prayer wheel that Peter broke off everything he started. 

   Years later:

Since the suffocation in Guggenthal, Peter has had to struggle with serious sleep problems the rest of his life. - The self-insecurity, triggered by the consequences of the suffocation attack, was permanently formative for the rest of his life. The loss of confidence in himself made Peter permanently defenseless from mad attacks from other people. His ever-present self-doubt made it impossible for him to perform well, or even to concentrate on a book, or to concentrate on a job. Whatever he was doing, he could only half concentrate.

  For over 40 years, Peter Krug hoped to get affection from his mother. But after he always was frustrated and depressed after a visit with his mother, he completely gave up hope with his mother. Through research and conversations with people he had known in the past, he came to the realization that his mother almost ruined his life through her destructive behavior. She never played with Peter and she couldn't have normal dialogues with him without burdening Peter with the same accusations over and over again. A reconciliation with the mother was until now impossible. He called on Christmas Eve, only to say that there would never be another meeting. After some very difficult years with no prospects for the future, partial homelessness, sporadic famine and lack of property and psychic hell he worked in the cinema of “Elmo Kino Salzburg” as a trained cinema projectionist for many years and then as a night porter in various 4 star hotels like  “Hotel Stein", “Blaue Gans”, “Hotel Auersperg” or “Hotel Elefant”. He started yoga due to stress and severe serious sleep disorders. So Peter Krug got back into balance and could sleep again. He did the yoga teacher training in the “Yoga Vidya Seminarhaus Westerwald” in Germany and also composed chess problems and chess studies. In 2016 Peter Krug and his girlfriend Nadia Cipriani (Artist and oriental dancer)  moved from Salzburg to Hallein in Tennengau. In 2017 he became FIDE Master in chess composition. In Hallein, Peter Krug developed a new passion for the Barmsteins in every wind and weather and learned free climbing without aids or rope. By the way he also photographed nature.

          Unspeakable agony and fear for life  

Peter Krug did not manage to talk about his torturous childhood with Magarethe Leitner, Johann Leitner and Gerold Ladinig and still carries the childhood traumas and paralyzing fears within himself. 
In 2010 Peter Krug contacted the former educators. But neither Magarethe Leitner, nor his own biological mother was willing to learn about Peter Krug's psychological misery.
The lifelong repression of past psychological and physical violence lasted until death.
Peter Krug made one last attempt and visited Johann Leitner - the husband of Magarethe Leitner- in the retirement home. He was lying alone on the sofa. He had been completely blind for years.
His wife, Magarethe Leitner treated Peter Krug very badly. Krug was abused as a child and was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
- But Johann Leitner 2021 refused to talk to him. His last words spoken to Peter Krug were, "At this time I do not want any visitors." Johann Leitner died a year later at the age of 95 in 2022.

The anger, the suffering, the powerlessness, the lack of communication accompanied Peter Krug throughout his entire life. The childhood traumas isolated Peter Krug all his life and deprived him of the possibility to open himself emotionally.

Unthinking people talking can bring Peter Krug into his unresolved fears. Talking about psychological conflicts, inhibitions and fear is still difficult for Peter Krug even after 40 years. 

  Peter’s family background

Apart from his mother, Peter has never seen his father, or a photo of his father, or his grandfather or grandmother and does not know any of his relatives.

All he knows is the little information he has from his mother (married Hertha Bertel): According to his mother, his father's name was Dr. Peter Strobl.

According to her story, Herta Bertel (born Krug) is said to have been an unmarried child herself as a child. She was born in Lungau and soon she was given away to other nursing homes. She came to a farm as a child and was soon employed as a worker. Like Peter Krug, his mother was a bed-wetter and was mocked for it in the area. She then went to the hospital repeatedly because she was so starved. As a young adult she came to Salzburg and got a job in the health department without having had any training. In Salzburg she met Mr. Dr. Bertel, whom she later married.

  Fight against displacement

The painful childhood experiences shaped Peter for the rest of his life. Only by temporarily forgetting the brutal abuse could Peter get on. It is impossible for Peter to think about the humiliating experiences for a long period of time without having difficulties coping with everyday life. Events in the present and in the media can throw Peter Krug off balance when unprocessed experiences come back into consciousness.

  The time after 1983   

A more detailed description

In the meantime he came to a place for young homeless people. It was in in the Werkstätterstraße 4 in Itzling. At that time on the first floor. There was a common room with armchairs and table, some games and a small kitchenette. In the kitchen was always bread, butter, tea, sugar, salt, cooking pots and so on.  Every young person had to take care of lunch and dinner themselves. There was room for about 8 people in the two bedrooms. Alcohol was strictly forbidden. At that time it was run by the health psychologist Dr. phil. Helmut Bieler from Bischofswiesen.  It was a crisis site for teenagers. Young people from disadvantaged social classes, from disruptive families and young people who had already had many experiences with violence were thrown together here in this place. The language of the youth was not polite, decent, but provocative and challenging.  Many contradictory spirits. Expressions like moron, asshole, shrunken brain, wanker, stupid deranged fell like hail in every dialogue. Some of the young people seemed hardened, and mutual contempt or disdain were palpable in all interpersonal interaction. Aggression was omnipresent. While Helmut Bieler was available in the morning, in the evenings and during the night there were mostly paid students who looked after the stranded and uprooted youths. Peter could usually do nothing with most of these young people. He could not talk to the other young people even for a short time and preferred therefore to talk to the paid students. At that time, Peter K. had no plan at all how to shape his future life. 
There he met a young person of the same age with whom Peter strolled the streets of Salzburg. His name was Hermann Hraschan. His parents lived in Puch near Hallein. He was often brutally beaten by his father and was already in various youth homes from which he often fled. This new Youth friend showed him how to break into open car doors and, if he was lucky, even steal money. The car doors had pivots back then in the 90s. When they were up, Peter and his childhood friend knew the door was open. 
Finding these open cars was fun for Krug. It allowed him to forget his mental anguish. So the two of them stole a lot of crap from the cars. Very, very rarely they could also steal money. But once they succeeded and that was their undoing. They stole 3000 shillings from the car and fled on the Mönchsberg. There they shared the loot. Hermann Hraschan and Peter had one thing in common: they were desperate to escape from the area of Itzling. With the money they still had, they took the train to Kufstein. There they visited the fortress of Kufstein, went to nightclubs and spent the night in a garden. The next day, however, they unintentionally lost each other. Since Hermann H. had all the money with him, Peter had to find his way back to Salzburg alone and without any money. That's about 114 km. At night he wandered in the direction of Salzburg many hours and was later able to get back to Salzburg by hitchhiking. He was allowed to ride in a long-distance truck.  - Hermann Hraschan and Peter often went to the youth center which used to be on the second floor at Linzergasse 72. 
Here Hermann got Peter to join him and suggested that they both meet together in the courtyard of the Glockengasse because he had something important to discuss. The exciting news Hermann had to tell was that he had over 20 000 shillings (converted that would be 1453 €). He said that he had found them in an adjoining room and offered Peter to go to Vienna with the money. But not by train - but by cab! Peter, who had never experienced anything so exciting, agreed and so they both drove to Vienna. It was already late in the evening and they first got themselves a hotel. The money was very well hidden by Hermann Hraschan in the room of this hotel. After that they both went out for dinner and then to different night clubs to dance. 
The next morning, before Hermann and Peter woke up together in the room of the hotel, someone knocked at the door. 
It was a detective. He looked for something in the cupboards and found nothing. Then he went out again. Hermann and Peter went swimming the next day in an indoor swimming pool in Vienna. Afterwards, Hermann read in a newspaper article that an amount of 20,000 shillings had been stolen. 
Hermann Hraschan then told Peter the whole story and confessed to having found the money in an adjoining room in the youth center and to having run away immediately.
After a few days, Hermann and Peter went back to Salzburg. Hermann hid the remaining money in an underground canal in Salzburg.  

  First room in the district of Riedenburg in Salzburg 

His first room in Sinnhubstraße 6a, where Peter was completely on his own, was provided by the Youth Welfare Office. It was a very small room with a winding lattice window in front of it. Costs for rent and food were covered by the youth welfare office. However, Peter's living expenses were so low that he could afford almost nothing except food. Thus he was excluded from all public cultural and sporting events for reasons of cost alone.
He also could not become a member of a chess club because he did not know how long he would continue to receive social benefits.  The rented room was full of furniture and objects. The wardrobe was also full of other people's clothes that did not belong to Peter. 
Peter had few possessions at that time. These consisted of a record player and a kettle. He made tea with the kettle. In the evenings, he liked to listen to music by Mozart. He especially liked "Eine kleine Nachtmusik". In addition, he had a tournament chess board. He started composing in the evening and did not stop until dawn. He neglected his sleep very often at that time because of chess composition. At that time his chess compositions were published weekly in the Salzburger Nachrichten and he even got money for his chess problems from Mr. Schneider. He was admired by the chess players who knew Peter. He also already got 15 - 20 tournament chess boards with pieces and was allowed to teach chess lessons to other youngsters in a youth center near the Mönchsberg elevator in the city of Salzburg. Unfortunately the chess lessons were voluntary at that time and therefore disbanded after a few months. Mr. Schneider passed away and Peter stopped publishing chess problems. During this time he got to know Conny by playing table football together. He was older than Peter and at that time he was studying for his Matura. He spent a lot of time together with Conny in the city of Salzburg. They went swimming together in Leopoldskron, hiked over the Mönchsberg and went to the city cafés together. Conny was very interested in Sigmund Freud and loved the music of David Bowie. With his friend Conny also went a lot to the youth centers of Salzburg and got to know Wilfried Raith (born August 27, 1959 and died June 5, 2022)  there. Wilfried Raith was a prominent social counselor und self-advocate in Salzburg who often met with young people. Wilfried Raith was also an active representative for the disabled in the city of Salzburg. This social consultant liked to stay in Saftladen, or other pubs to - as he often said - do social studies. Wilfried Raith suffered already at that time from an incurable paralysis and can move for years only with the wheelchair. His main concern was therefore the fight for equal rights for the disabled, as well as for people living on the margins of society below the subsistence level. Wilfried R. described himself as an "expert in his own right".  Conny, Wilfried R. and Peter K. often went together in the evening to pubs like the Humboldstubn in the Gstättengasse. Wilfried Raith analyzed and talked a lot about the social conditions of others on this occasion. His main interest was the socially disadvantaged, or disabled people.  (Supplementary addendum: Wilfried Raith, an outstanding personality of the Salzburg youth scene and the struggle for self-determination died on June 5, 2022.)

  -  After Peter often had Hermann Hraschan and other youth friends in his room in Riedenburg- also over the night - the white haired and old landlady no longer wanted Peter. 

Glasenbach First Part

After the landlady kicked Peter out on Sinnhubstraße, he got a rented room in a rural area in  Glasenbach (Lohäuslweg 9) with the help of social worker Sieglinde from the youth welfare office. A few minutes walk away was the mountain river "Klausbach". During this time he received money from the social welfare office. Because of the greater distance to the city of Salzburg, Peter lost many contacts with the chess players in Salzburg. Instead, he became interested in the 200-million-year-old rock formations in the Glasenbachklamm which were exposed by the mountain stream. More intensive occupation with nature and intensive occupation with the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer ("Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung") and Friedrich Nietsche ( e.g."Götzendämmerung") dominated his everyday life in this area.

  His life in the village Glasenbach

He bought chocolate with yogurt, waffles and the big Coca Cola bottles with the social money. On Sundays, when the grocery stores were closed, he bought a beer from the pub and salt sticks to go with it. This inn was only 20 meters away from the house where he lived. Although the use of a communal kitchen was actually allowed, Peter never cooked and never cared about healthy food. His neighbor on this floor was a chimney sweep. This chimney sweep drank a lot of alcohol and used the kitchen intensively. Unfortunately, Peter did not get along with this chimney sweep and it happened that both of them fought in the kitchen. His day was filled with reading sophisticated philosophical books by Schopenhauer ("Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung") and Nietsche. He also became interested in Lao Tse. A chessboard was always near him and so he replayed beautiful chess studies by famous masters like Mattison and Kaminer.
 At that time he was also addicted to soluble coffee and got severe stomach aches and diarrhea because of his unhealthy diet. 
Peter was very skinny at that time. His face sunken, often unshaven and unkempt. He usually went to the city by bus without a bus ticket because it was too expensive for him. An inspector who checked the passengers was very rare at that time. In the city center Salzburg he had only the Café Mozart in mind, where he regularly blitzed with chess and watch. At night he walked 5 kilometers via Parsch and Aigen back to Glasenbach. He had no girlfriend at that time. After a few months he got to know the landlady Gerhild Hirnsperger better. She lived one floor up in this house. He was also allowed to go to the landlord's apartment later and got to know the whole family. Gerhild H. often prepared meals for Peter. In Glasenbach, the Hirnsperger family were the only people he knew and had contact with. When the occasions came he played with their daughter Ingrid. This family also had a dachshund named "Purzel". Playing with this dog were rare moments for Peter of lightheartedness. Gerhild worked part-time as a nurse in the home health care and afterthen took care of the house and their three children (Ingried, Hupert, Wolfgang) and their dachshunds. Her husband Hans usually came home late. He worked as a teacher in a vocational school. -
When Peter was not at home in his room or not in Café Mozart, he was in the Glasenbachklamm. This is a three-kilometer-long section of the Klausbach River valley, which was formed after the last ice age. The gravelly path first leads over a small stone wall and always goes slightly uphill. Moss-covered stones and tree trunks, the clear mountain water rushing deep below the path and the constant roaring sound gave Peter some peace.  On other days he made small hike on foot from Glasenbach to Erentrudisalm, or Schwaitlalm.
 In these inns he read the demanding books of Friedrich Nietsche like "Menschliches, Allzumenschliches" to get distance to the inculcated Catholic dogmas and the Christian metaphysics he suffered so much from. - He spent a lot of time in this natural and humid area of the notch valley (also called V - valley) in desire to heal his deep psychological wounds of childhood.  - At that time, the rent for the room and for daily living was paid for Peter by the social welfare office. The youth welfare office took care of it. The money Peter received from the social welfare office for living expenses was so little that he could only pay for the food with it. He could not afford a bicycle or travel by train. Even a bus ride was too expensive for Peter at that time.
So that he could buy philosophical books, he saved with the food. Therefore, Peter always did his errands on foot. In his room, which was furnished in a peasant style, he also had a record player. He loved classical music at that time. Especially PIANO CONCERTO NR 1 IN B MOLL OP 23 by Tschaikowsky, Bolero by Maurice Ravel and Beethoven´s Symphony No 5. 
  A lot of chess problems he had composed and written down on pieces of paper he sent by letter to Werner Speckmann. It came at this time but not only publication of his chess tasks.

Glasenbach Second Part

Like a bird with broken wings

- Through Gerhild Hirnsperger he got a very good job as a kindergarten teacher in Elsbethen.
This half-day job (6 hours per day) was the first work that Peter liked very much. It raised his self-confidence and for the first time he could afford something more with the money than just shopping in the supermarket.
The children in the Elsbethen kindergarten loved Peter because he was good with the children and played soccer with them. 
Since the kindergarten's employer was also very happy with Peter, he had a very nice time there for a while. Reporters even came to the kindergarten and Peter was interviewed because he was one of the few males working in the kindergarten at that time. So he even got on the radio because of that.
This went well until the children, with their light-heartedness and directness, awakened Peter's heavy, unprocessed childhood traumas. 
Peter found it increasingly difficult to put away his reactivated traumatic childhood experiences at work. Peter was then no longer able to repress this great suffering at home. He listened obsessively loud to classical music for many hours. Peter did this to escape the prison of his fears. At work in the kindergarten, he was less and less able to concentrate on the present and made embarrassing mistakes that he would never make before. This embarrassment was insurmountable for Peter. The last time he went to kindergarten, he stood outside and could no longer go inside. For about 15 minutes. His own childhood memories plagued him too much. Old fears from times past dominated his daily life. Peter could hardly listen attentively and focus on the mundane.
For this reason, Peter lost his beloved job as a kindergarten teacher. From this point on, Peter's life went steeply downhill. The road to crime was no longer far away…

Glasenbach Third Part

More criminal actions with youth friend Hermann Hraschan 

One night, when Peter was already asleep, Hermann Hraschan slept through the open window into the room in Glasenbach. Hermann H. had nothing to sleep for, so he asked Peter to spend the night. So Hermann and Peter continued to stay in contact. The next weeks both tried their luck again with stealing from open cars. But unfortunately they could only continue to find all kinds of things, but no money. The stolen things they left for example under the Lieferinger bridge in the city. 
One evening they stole again from a simple car near the Müllner church. This time they had no more luck. Because a woman observed this process from her window and immediately called the police. 
It didn't take long for the police to catch them (Peter and Hermann Hraschan) in the act. In custody, psychological means were used to force confessions. So Peter was taken out of bed at night and brought into a room where a piercing, strong light was directed against him. The criminal investigation department threatened them with a long prison term if they did not confess constantly. Krug P. Peter's resistance was thus broken and signed a white piece of paper with a long list of thefts in custody that he did not even know he had committed. After that, he was sent to another remand prison in the Schanzelgasse 1. In the prison cell there was a bunk bed made of iron, a small wooden table, a chair, washbasin with mirror and a toilet. The window had double bars. Inside was a fine lattice. So fine that you could hardly see into the courtyard. One could hear the sounds of pigeons and at night the sounds of screaming prisoners in other cells. The light in the cell was not turned off completely overnight. The bed from an iron frame was uncomfortable, but the only one where one was undisturbed. 
There was an additional small door in the heavy iron door where the prison food was handed over. In the morning there was black, unsweetened and watery coffee with hard bread without butter. At noon and in the evening there was soup and overcooked, tasteless food. Once a day the prisoners were allowed to go out into the yard for half an hour. There the prisoners had to walk together in a circle in slow steps. The courtyard was surrounded by very high walls. One could not see into the distance. Peter had never had so little exercise in his life as in this prison. After that the prisoners were taken back to their cells. 
Every day the prisoners had to clean the toilet and the cell floor.  Peter Krug lay in bed most of the time. He ordered demanding books by Shakespeare and Stefan Zweig, which he read strenuously. But in prison Peter had great problems with concentration and memory. He could not remember what he had read for long. For Peter, prison was pure stress. There was no television in the cell. But you could listen to the radio at certain times with a small headset. Sometimes his favorite song "Drive" by the band "The cars" was played.  To pass his time, he wrote his own rhymed poems on slips of paper. In these poems he described his loneliness and abandonment. He showed these poems to a prison guard, who was very touched by them. Peter had to share the cell with another juvenile. When his fellow inmate confessed to him that he was mugging old women and taking their handbags, Krug became depressed.  He no longer spoke a word to his inmates.  Peter Krug was therefore very lonely in prison. He had the feeling that all his former friends forgot him. Once, however, he received a visitor in prison. It was a social worker named Sieglinde. She gave him some pocket money and so he could buy toothbrush and toothpaste and other things in prison. After a few more weeks in custody, Peter Krug got lice. He had to scratch himself everywhere until it became unbearable. All hairy parts of the body itched continuously.  After he reported the lice infestation the entire cell was cleaned and the blankets replaced. Krug was given a remedy against the lice. Peter Krug spent a total of two and a half months in pre-trial detention. In a state of great dejection and the feeling of hopelessness he tried to take his own life. He slit his wrists with razor blades. Fortunately, prison guards took notice and stopped the bleeding.  At Christmas he was released because  Gerhild Hirnsperger from Glasenbach agreed to take him again into her home. Peter was allowed to join the family for Christmas. 

For these crimes, Krug received a conditional prison sentence. At that time  Peter was assigned to a probation office. The goal of probation was reintegration into society and avoidance of criminal recidivism.  Gerhard Fink was his probation officer.  This was located in a yellow house on Berheimer Straße in the Elisabeth - Suburb. Since he did not come back to court, he did not have to serve the prison sentence. Through this probationary service he discovered the Saftladen, which Peter later frequented for a while in times of homelessness and unemployment. After Peter was in custody, he lost his friendship with Conny and the contact to Wilfried Raith.

"Alter Fuchs" at the foot of the Kapuzinerberg

 - After he also lost the small room in Glasenbach he got a room for rent in Inn “Alter Fuchs” in Linzergasse. It was late autumn. Hans Hirnsperger, Gerhild's husband helped with his car for the move to the city. Besides garments Peter had several dozens of philosophical books. The new room in this inn was even smaller than the one in Glasenbach. Except for a bed and small carpet was still an old wardrobe. In this wooden cabinet he kept his books, which took up much more space than his robe. The bed and the old wooden wardrobe took up almost the whole room. There was no window in the room. However, he could see through a window in the hallway into the Sebastian cemetery. Bathroom and toilet was in the hallway and were used together with others. There was no washing machine outside the room either. But he also never washed his robe. Since the room was so tiny and there was no way to store food in a refrigerator, Peter bought cheese krainer, chocolate and Coca Cola every day at the sausage stand at the Platzl which is still called "Heisse Kiste".  - Here in this tiny room in the Alten Fuchs, which was smaller than a prison cell - Peter started having panic attacks when he came into contact with religious issues. 
Peter tried to suppress the panic by drinking several bottles of wine a day. Traumatic childhood memories from the time when he was in Guggenthal came back to Peter's mind and he started hyperventilating more easily again. 
It was winter and the streets were covered with snow. As he walked through Linzergasse one night he met a homeless stranger who asked for some money. Peter offered the homeless person to spend the night on the floor in his room. Afterwards he went to the sausage stand to buy the homeless something to eat. Meanwhile, the stranger was alone in this rented room.  When he came back he was not allowed to return to the room. Chinese blocked Peter's access and explained in bad German that the foreign homeless man had beaten a child in the Inn “Alter Fuchs”. That's why the Chinese kicked Peter out of the rented room on the spot. Peter was not even allowed to go to his room and take a winter coat and other things.
  From then on Peter himself was homeless for the first time. With the loss of the room in the inn "Alter Fuchs" he lost in one fell swoop all his possessions, which consisted mainly of books. From this point on, Peter also no longer received social benefits. - He wandered at night around the city of Salzburg in winter. In Obergnigl, a little outside the center he hoped to find accommodation in a barn. Finally he was able to take shelter in a horse-drawn wagon against the winter cold. Peter remained squatting for hours until the sun rose. Without winter hood, without winter shoes, without gloves. He had no blanket with him to protect himself from the winter cold. Sleeping was impossible because the toes, ears and hands froze. 

Between of the year 1984 coming to an end and the beginning of 1987, Peter was often homeless. At that time, he was also not receiving social benefits. The reason for this was his very poor mental state.
He was severely traumatized by his painful memories. Violence in childhood and adolescence paralized him. His memories plagued him and his only means of enduring this excruciating pain was escape. Chess as an escape was not enough. Peter Krug tried to numb his psychological pain by becoming homeless. He lived homeless in the mountains, without being equipped for it at all. He had no sleeping bag, hardly any clothes and nothing to cover himself with. With the onset of homelessness, he lost all his possessions. No money. And therefore no purse. The cold was hard to bear and he could hardly fall asleep at night.  He got big problems with hygiene. Even washing himself completely or wearing fresh clothes was a problem. With each new night of homelessness, he began to stink. His hair was unwashed and he had not been to the barber for a long time. He did not want to meet his old acquaintances and school friends because he was so ashamed of his condition. 

     Active conscientious objection in 1984

At 18, Krug received a letter with a draft notice to be drafted into military service.  At that time, Krug lived in a small room of only a few square meters in Glasenbach.  
He had no older caregivers and had to decide for himself how to avoid the army. Basically, he was against joining the Austrian Armed Forces because they demanded unquestioning obedience and even killed people in case of emergency. 
This did not correspond to his world view and his childhood experiences with violence and sexual rape. This much was clear to Krug: he did not want to continue the chain of violence and physical isolation he experienced in early childhood in his life. He was convinced that violence cannot solve problems, and wars are human tragedies.
However, civilian service as a result of conscientious objection was not an option at the time.
So Krug drove to Carinthia in a truck with other male draftees. In the truck, men talked about how it was possible to be judged as unfit, for example, to call themselves "gay" and to pass the tests as disastrously as possible. 
This is exactly what Krug had done and was judged unfit because of these lies. 

      Peter Krug and his liberation from Christianity

The inculcation of Christian dogma in early childhood, such as the idea that unbelievers go to hell and are lost, caused Krug to have regular irrational panic attacks in his youth, which he could only numb with alcohol as a youngster. Philosophical books, such as those by Schopenhauer and Nietsche, helped Krug overcome his gradual mental enslavement to Christian thought. Consequently, he resigned on June 3, 1998 from the Catholic Church. For Krug, the path of freedom meant the abandonment of Christian thought.  God cannot be proven, and the historical Jesus has little in common with the God-begotten Christian Jesus.
The Christian dogmas, the religious feelings of guilt narrowed the need for freedom too much. The fears were the result of this conflict. He suffered from an "ecclesiogenic neurosis." Peter Krug realized that the Christian thoughts were not his own and that the moral demands were exaggerated and foreign to life. Since the separation from the church, Peter Krug considers himself a lonely desert man in search of the truth. The only truth for him is that he can never grasp the truth as a whole.  

Another important book for the release of toxic, religious thoughts was the book "God Poisoning" by the psychoanalyst Tilman Moser. 

  Interim shelter as a homeless person

Homeless center " WABE", Guggenmoosstraße 3,  in the Liefering district.  

Through a suggestion from someone in the Saftladen in the Bergheimer Straße, Peter went to the homeless center “WABE” (Association Salzburg housing and job creation cooperative non-profit GmbH) near to spend the night there. It was on a winter. Once a week Peter had to clean the stairs in return. The bedrooms were furnished in a makeshift manner. Peter slept on a mattress on the floor and shared this room with others. The homeless people there were nice. Together with a young woman he had met there, they took the gondola up the Untersberg and then took the ski back down to the valley. The skis and ski boots were lent by the association WABE.
For breakfast Peter got rolls. 
The yellow house of the honeycomb made - seen from the outside - a dilapidated impression.  (The WABE does not exist in this house now). This stay was only available for a bridging period about of three week. After that, Peter was homeless again. Sometimes Peter spent the night in a storeroom, sometimes he was allowed to spend the night with strangers. When he got money from the social welfare office again, he could afford to spend the night in a youth hostel in the Josef-Preis-Allee for a week. After that he was back on the street, without money, without documents, without possessions. Every day was a struggle for survival. Most people avoided Peter like a leper. 

      1987, the end of homelessness

Peter was homeless sporadic almost 3 years. During this time he lost all his acquaintances, his friends, all his books, all his garments and all his documents. His possession at that time was a plastic bag with 2 or 3 books of Nietsche. Since he had no clothes to change into, he stank. He also had no means to brush his teeth, shave or wash his hair. No sleeping bag, no backpack, no second pair of pants, no second sweater, no hood, no gloves, no money, no documents, no certificates  - he had nothing. Nothing to protect against the cold and wet. The idea of begging never occurred to him. Especially particularly hard for Peter were the rainy days and especially the winter. In the summer Peter went on the Mönchsberg and spent the night sheltered with a few blankets in hidden meadows and places. The humidity outside made Peter very uncomfortable. He did not have the possibility of personal hygiene and he never thought about brushing his teeth. He also met a young homeless street painter there, who was sketching masterpieces by Albrecht Dürer from a painter's book on the ground in the Getreidegasse. In winter Peter often walked through the whole city at night just to avoid freezing to death. During the day he tried to warm up in a "Saftladen". This had opened at 9:30 am until 5 pm. This "Saftladen" was then still in the Bergheimer Straße 22 near the former Elmo cinema in the Elisabeth - Vorstadt. Peter discovered the Saftladen when he had an appointment with probation officer Gerhard Fink. At the time, the probation office was in the same building, just one floor up.  The guests in this “Saftladen” were mostly long-term unemployed, criminals, mentally ill persons, homeless people, drug addicts, gambling addicts  and alcoholics. In the Saftladen Peter ordered at the bar often ham - cheese toast and a black coffee. Nowhere else in Salzburg could you eat and drink so cheaply. Peter Krug had no possessions at that time, except a few Friedrich Nietsche books. Mostly Peter brooded while sitting alone at back tables. In the process, he repeatedly glanced at the Nietsche books. - He suffered greatly from self-doubt and every memory of his childhood frightened him. His self-confidence was very low and harsh words from others could very easily upset his mental balance. Towards other people Peter was very, very insecure. Peter - after being let down so much - could not look anyone in the eye. He had absolutely no trust in people anymore.  - One evening he met a student in biblical form with brown beard there with whom he often got into conversation. His name is Felix. Felix was the first person who listened to Peter attentively and gave him attention and respect. In a hopeless condition and completely neglected, the closed Peter got to open up again.  Felix was slim and smoked. He was of weak constitution. This student with the name Felix gave Peter his phone number and offered Peter to call when the winter night was particularly cold and unbearable. The month February in 1987 was bitingly cold. He couldn't imagine surviving another sleepless night without a roof.
And so Peter called from an old phone booth in the Saftladen the student Felix in the evening. 
Felix gave Peter the address (Nußdorferstraße 17 in Riedenburg) to stay the night. 

Stay in a shared apartment in Riedenburg from February 1987 to May 1987

When he entered the house, the first thing he had to do was bathe and change his smelly clothes for clean ones. Felix (age 27 years)gave Peter a new pair of pants, a T-shirt, and a sweater. Then Felix made a warm coffee and a sweet cake to go with it. Felix was the first person since Peter was homeless to listen to him talk. Felix kept tugging at his beard as he did so. In Felix's room - only a few square meters in size - there was a mattress on the floor to sleep on. Next to it jumbled books and cigarette ash on the floor. 
Peter was allowed to sleep on the floor in a small side room. Also the next days Peter was allowed to sleep. It was a shared apartment. There was a lot of discussion and loud music of "The Doors" and "Pink Floyd". 
Young people who were all unemployed smoked hashish and were still drunk Alcohol "timeless" until next day the sun rose again.  In this chaotic shared apartment he met his partner Lucia Nadia Cipriani (born February 27, 1955) at the end of March 1987. Lucia Nadia was the only one who had a job. Instead of helping to clean the apartment and helping to paint, Felix sat in his room, or in the common room, brooding incessantly and smoking one cigarette after another. He talked about society being degenerate and sick.  Felix never laughed and could only discuss serious topics. After giving up studying at university, Felix wanted to train as a cab driver. However, Felix had not completed this training either. Felix (27 years old at that time), who freed Peter from homelessness, committed suicide after a few months later. He drove a car to the Untersberg and took an overdose of sleeping pills. His parents said that Felix suffered from depression. 

  After the crazy flat-sharing community in the Nußdorferstraße 

A deadline in may 1987 was set after which everyone who was in the shared apartment had to leave the house. For the apartment handover, the rooms still had to be freshly painted and everything cleaned. Felix was at this time psychologically no longer able to help here.  

From the bottom…

- From that point on, Peter stopped going to the social welfare office. The unpleasant questions at the social welfare office were very humiliating and depressing. He hated the social welfare office, which actually does nothing for social improvement in his eyes, but only pays when hunger and homelessness threaten. In order to receive a social allowance, one has to prove that one is absolutely unfit to live and seriously ill.

The struggle to acquire his documents and his passport.

To rent an apartment was required to present a passport at the registration office. Since Peter did not have any documents at that time, he first had to go to the government offices and request the birth certificate and other proofs of identity. 
When he had these, Peter applied for a passport again with these documents. Unfortunately, the passport was again not issued because he was not registered at that time. That is, without a passport, no registration at the registration office for residence, and without proof of registration, no passport. 
After longer persistent requests, the registration office gave in and registered Peter Krug, who had been unregistered for several years. After that the way was free for a passport.
The joy was great, because Peter had never had his own passport before.

  Garçonnière in the Linzergasse 50

After the shared apartment in Riedenburg Nadia Cipirani and Peter first found a small one room apartment in Linzergasse 50 in Salzburg vis-à-vis the Sebastian church. The old house is a community center and is a listed building.  In this house once lived the famous folk actor Alexander Girardi.  For the first time in life Peter lived together with Nadia in a private atmosphere. This privacy was an asset for Peter and Nadia, because there were hardly any opportunities for retreat in the previous chaotic shared apartment in Nußdorferstraße. In the main room was a beautiful sealed wooden floor. The walls in this house were (are) meters thick. From the old window, which are not soundproof, you could hear the non-stop indefinable noise of numerous tourists, all on foot. Fabulous was also a small recreation hut. First you had to walk along a dark corridor to a hut outside. Then you went up a somewhat wild - overgrown staircase with a view of the soaring rocks of Kapuzinerberg. It was quieter there than in the Garçonnière.  In the summer Peter and Nadia sat in this little hut. Peter liked to meditate under the roof of the wooden hut when it rained and to look at the old roofs of Linzergasse. There Peter read works by the free spirit Nietsche and  Schopenhauer. In the "Ahorismus zur Lebensweisheit" and other writings in "Parerga und Paralipomena" Peter sought to find meaning and orientation for his life. Peter also wrote down his own tantalizing thoughts. Unfortunately, the memories from the time of the Nußdorfer flat-sharing community in Riedenburg plagued Peter very much. And so the living together with Nadia was always saddened because of the past. On the whole, living with Nadia was a very, very hopeful beginning for Peter. Bathroom and toilet was in the hallway. Nadia worked as a waitress at the Hotel Scherer and Peter was looking for a job. The problem, however, was that Peter had no finished education and therefore could only do cheap - paid bread - jobs. His first job after many years of unemployment and homelessness was to distribute newspapers and leaflets to private households. From one day to the next, the tiny garconniere was filled with thousands of advertising and free newspapers. He had to distribute them to all households in downtown Salzburg. The work lasted 8 - 10 hours daily. At the end of the month, however, he earned only 3000 shillings, which was the equivalent of only €218. After 2 months Peter quit this job because of the low earnings.
Again he was unemployed. Moreover, the friendship with Nadia was very difficult because Peter suffered a lot from hypersensitivity at that time and had no self-esteem. Nadia had to patiently endure Peter's poor mental state. Peter doubted himself incessantly, was insecure and neglected the care of his own body.  

Apartment for rent in Essergasse

Nadia received an offer from a good acquaintance for a new and larger apartment in Essergasse 8 in the Kleingmain district where Peter and Nadia moved. This apartment was furnished in an old-fashioned way with wallpaper on the walls and fitted carpet on the floor and had no central heating. Heating was done with the wood stove. Kloo and bathroom were in the main entrance of the house. Here Peter tried to get a job as a gardener's helper near his home. But after only a few weeks he had given up this job again, because he did not get any money for his work. The next offer he got was a job at the Salzburg Dult in the exhibition center. This is a large, amusement park where 20 thousand people came a day. There, he first had to help erect the scaffolding for the so-called "flying constructions". After it was set up, the work consisted mainly of guiding people to their seats and making sure that when the thing started to rotate, no one climbed up. Over 14 hours of work per day. In the evening he came home exhausted. This work lasted only 9 days until the end of the Dult. Especially annoying for Peter were guests at the Dult who made tests of courage at the terrains, or already climbed to when the big entertainment machine has not yet stopped, or when it already started to turn. Late at night Peter woke up in bed with nightmares and screams. - After that, Peter was out of a job again. At this time Peter also composed some chess problems.  Still without computer help. After only a few months Peter and Nadia had to move out again because the old woman (Mrs. Steingress) who rented it died and the house was sold. Through the newspaper Peter and his partner were then able to find an apartment in Siezenheim. Peter was unemployed at that time and Nadia Cipriani worked at the Hotel Scherer as a server (waitress). 
 

Siezenheim period: Autumn 1988 - Summer 2004 

A cheap apartment outside the city of Salzburg near the border to Bavaria with an idyllic country church and simple houses was the reason to move to Siezenheim, the largest village in Austria. This house was bought by the Schierl family after a few years. The apartment was on the first floor in the Brückenstrasse 55 and was 39 square meters in size. It still had a small balcony to the west, where you could hear the rushing of the Käferheimer Mühlbach.  From the kitchen there was a direct view of the church. Bettina Schierl, daughter of Karl Schierl who opened a fashion store ("Style by Bettina") in 2005, was Peter and Nadia's neighbor for several years. The "Käferheimer Mühlbach" flows behind this house. In the immediate vicinity are the two inns Allerberger and Kamml. These 15 years have been a very difficult time for Peter and his girlfriend Nadia. Because he did not have a completed vocational training, he had to take jobs where no certificates were asked for. He worked as a warehouse worker in Universalversand Bergheim. His task was to move large quantity of goods in the hall as quickly as possible from one place to another with a warehouse truck. 
Peter was told what to do next at every turn. Since this wage was not enough to cover the living costs, he quit this job after 4 months. - He found his next job a few minutes' walk from home in a nursery. It was only a few minutes walk from the border with Bavaria. As a Gardener's Assistant in Nursery Lindner, his labor was exploited, and the wage was still very low. Peter worked 6 days a week. During the week for 8 hours and on Saturday for 4 hours. At the end of the month he received 5600 shillings net wage for this work. That is the equivalent of € 406.97. He had to work very hard physically and was often teased and criticized by the boss Otto Lindner. Although Peter did not walk but ran, although he carried the heaviest loads, the grumbler Otto Lindner could always find faults and called Peter a "Schildbürger" and "Trottel" in front of other workers. Nonstop, he was rushed from one activity to another. This unskilled work was frustrating for Peter. After work, he lay flat and depressed on the couch. The boss couldn't help but treat Peter as a jerk in front of other workers over and over again. Few months later, he went to the boss Otto and said to him that he was an asshole. At the same time, Peter quit from this nursery. After Peter became unemployed again he often went to the city Salzburg to the Kapitelplatz and played open air chess with the big pieces with people until late at night. There he met Richard Holzer, who became his chess friend for the next 5 years. Through this friend (he was a manager at the Elmo Cinema)  Peter got a job in the Elmokinocenter Salzburg as a ticket agent (1991). At that time, the Elmo cinema had been leased by the Constantin - Film entrepreneurial group. The big boss of this company was (and still is) Christian Langhammer. At that time, the Elmo cinema was at its peak. On weekends, the large halls were often sold out and moviegoers lined up in front of the cinema to buy a movie ticket. Peter´s  job as usher also was to turn off the lights in the auditorium when the movie started and to watch the volume and adjust it if necessary. Later he became a temporary projectionist (Fall 1992 to 1994). He learned how to insert the large film reel from his friend and then managing director Richard Holzer. Peter Krug was shown how to load the film by a foreign speaker, but not precisely enough: 
When he played the 1992 film "Kevin - Alone in New York," Peter Krug was horrified to discover that some of the film reels had been played upside down, so that the heads were facing down. The embarrassment was especially great because at that time (it was a December) every seat was sold out. The movie show had to be canceled therefore and the moviegoers demanded their ticket money back. Peter Krug mainly played up Hollywood - movies such as "Stirb langsam " with Bruce Willis, "Basic Instinct (1992)" with Sharon Stone, "Auf der Flucht (1993)" with Harrison Ford, "Ace Ventura – Ein tierischer Detektiv" (1994)  with Jim Carrey, which Peter personally hated because of the superficiality and exaggeration of the actions. The earnings for cinema screening were minimal there too. In 1994, Peter was terminated as a cinema projectionist. Richard Holzer, his friend brought the letter with the dismissal as cinema projectionist Peter himself. The recognition at the cinema did not materialize, always because he had not completed any professional training. Because of his dissatisfaction, he started the evening school (Matura) in the Christian-Doppler-Gymnasium. Once again unemployed, he looked for a night porter. 
He studied continuously day and night and got big health problems. Most severe sleep disorders, Tinnitus, exhaustion, severe back pain and terrible  athlete's foot were the result of the constant stress. The learning material was enormous and Peter struggled with fears from times past while learning. After a year he had severe insomnia. The sleep was so shallow that he kept waking up in the night. He could barely remember names of people or what had happened recently. - In Nadia's C. private book collection, Peter found a book on yoga by Eugenie Peterson. Better known under the name Indra Devi (1899 - 2002). This yoga book was called " Through yoga youthful" and  contained simple exercises. Nadia bought it in a flea market for 10 shillings.  Because of his heavy health problems, he started yoga with this book. His health got much better. He realized that he had to give up the evening school (Matura)  and made instead the yoga teacher training in Germany in the Westerwald. In the initially 4-week intensive yoga teacher basic training, Peter got to know very interesting yoga experts who are still active 20 years later as ashram leaders or seminar leaders in other yoga centers. Worth mentioning are Vasudeva Thies, activist Hermann Schütz called Keshava (his advice was TUN = day and night) , the nature guide and English interpreter named Sitaram Stefan Kube (Forester and activist in nature conservation), the level-headed more calm Dieter Hehn (Acharya), important organizer in Bad Meinberg and the pleasant Günther Büsseler, who is known for his good preparation in seminars in Germany. This training was so intensive that Peter suffered from a permanent lack of sleep. He got up early at 4:30 a.m. Often he only slept 3 hours a night. The subject matter was gigantic. In addition to the subject matter, difficult Hindu chants also had to be learned by heart. Peter Krug's training also included Padmakshi Ingrid Berger (former ashram director in Westerwald) and Shivakami Renate Bretz (Acharya and head of an ashram in Allgäu). Afterwards Peter attended further yoga trainings and further education. Peter met with Martina Demmelmair from Ainring, a yoga teacher and trained graphic artist, who also completed her training in the Yoga - Vidya center. With Martina D. he went into nature and exchanged experiences regarding yoga. Martina Demmelmair is still active as a yoga teacher. After that in the Hotel Stein he found the first job as a night porter. He also studied chemistry and biology nonstop and read Kafka's books. His athlete's foot on both feet ate into his heel and created holes. The constant itching and burning was unbearable. Since he refused to work properly as a night porter with a tie and shoes, he was fired after 2 years. After that, his night porter work never lasted long. He was fired at Hotel Elefant because he went to the union and complained about insufficient pay. He worked for a few months at Hotel Auersperg, then at Hotel Blaue Gans and then for a short time as night porter at Gablerbräu.  In the Hotel Gablerbräu he was finally fired again. The reason was because he was dejected in the street and therefore he needed a long hospital stay for nose surgery. A strange man without hair on the head around 20 years old hit Peter directly in the face with his fist. Peter fell to the ground until rescue came. His nose was completely disfigured. This happened right near the "Salamander shoe store" near the Platzl at about 7:00 a.m., after work, when Peter Krug was going home. This young, bald man asked Peter which party he belonged to. And after the man annoyingly asked repeatedly, Peter said "Green". The young man took out his fist backwards and punched Peter's face with full force. Immediately Peter fell to the ground. He was in shock and lay directly on the street, next to the sidewalk. 
A weeks after this happened, the young man came forward on the phone and said that he wanted to apologize. Peter Krug and the young, violent man met privately at the coffee shop "Shakesspeare Kunst & Kulinarisches" in Hubert-Sattler-Gasse. The bald young man, an apprentice chef by profession, apologized for the punch and offered €5,000, which he was willing to pay immediately to prevent the matter from going to court. 
In the hospital of the ear, nose and throat department, the multiple nasal fracture was operated under anesthesia. During this time Peter was also able to earn a little pocket money with yoga teaching. Over the next few years, the financial situation improved and Peter was finally able to quit the night porter job. It took years until the sleep disorders as a result of night work were overcome. The first private student as trained yoga teacher was Annamaria Vetesi married Bachmayr from Hungary. Other people like Mag. Hans Peter Lacher and Dr. Hannes Scheutz (Linguist) came  over an extended timespan to him. Most of all Peter valued individual yoga. He also gave regular yoga classes at the Freilassing Sports Park for over 16 years. One of the most loyal participants in Freilassing was Jürgen Ammersdörfer, who lives in Ainring (Mitterfelden). He was a regular participant in Peter Krug's courses between 2003 and the end of 2019. But the money worries were always present.  Here under this condition however, Peter continued to compose chess problems. There were over 100 chess problems, mostly with the requirement of mate in 3 or more. The chess problems were kept but never published. Hard work until late at night made it impossible for Peter to take care of a publication. Despite Bread job, the earned money only lasted until the 15th of each month. Then there was no more money in the account. The refrigerator almost empty. For the remaining 16 days of the month, Peter and his girlfriend had to make do with soup cubes and noodles. At the end of the month, Peter and Nadia Cipriani feared not being able to pay the rent in full. Since the money for the bus trip was also not available and the bike was stolen, Peter had to walk many kilometers a day to the work place in the Elmokino Salzburg and late at night to walk from the city to Siezenheim. In 2004, in the course of the rapid relocation of his place of residence to the city of Salzburg, Peter lost the notebook with his over 100 original unpublished chessproblems. Only in 2005, because of the internet and the easy contact possibility via email, he dared to send one of these chess problem (Mate in 18, Die Schwalbe 208 08/2005 ) to the well-known problem chess magazine "Die Schwalbe". The head of this column at that time was the late Rainer Ehlers (1963-2011)) from Lüneburg. After a waiting period of several weeks there was a concise promise of publication, which later turned out to be "cooked". Therfore the editor Rainer Ehlers told him via email urgently that, because of the poor quality, Peter would no longer send further chessproblems in “Die Schwalbe”, but to German daily newspapers. The clerk particularly criticized Peter Krug's chess blindness. Rainer Ehlers added him in later emails that he can only send further more chessproblems to him if he is a master in the subject.  These emails shocked him. The dream of a career as a chess composer in “Die Schwalbe” seemed shattered. The work on moremovers was time-consuming and the prospect of continuing to be rejected in chess composition seemed to be in vain. Because of this disillusionment, Peter resigned working on his own demanding orthodox chessproblems.

Peter Krug as a semi-skilled cinema projectionist in 1993 and thereafter

Since Peter Krug never had a completed school education, his value as a worker was constantly degraded in the further jobs. 
In 1993, a chess friend with the name Richard Holzer gave him the chance to work as a cheap projectionist in a larger cinema center in Elmo. His job was to tear off the cards before the movie started and then, when the feature film started, to make the movie theater dark and adjust the volume once again. 
After the movie was over, Krug had to pick up the popcorn bags and Coke cans from the floor. The other tasks of the billiard operator were to hang up the current posters of the respective film or to assemble the film displays. Since one of the cinema projectionists had quit, the manager Richard Holzer suggested him as the new projectionist. Peter was allowed to learn how to insert the large rolls of film (a roll of film had an average length of about 3000 meters) in the 5 movie theaters. For example, he learned what an upper and lower loop is and how it is fed back over rollers to the plate system. He learned how to play and replay individual acts into an entire reel of film. This could have a weight of 30 kilograms to over 50 kilograms. It took some skill to carry this film over several floors, especially when the aisles were crowded with moviegoers. Since the film was sometimes not firmly mounted, it sometimes happened to Krug that the film collapsed when it was lifted onto the plate system. He had to learn how to quickly patch up the collapsed film reel into a whole again in case of such misfortunes. 
But on the whole, the work flow was usually smooth. The intermediate times, during which the films were all running, were very boring. Krug learned about technical details such as the xenon lamp, and also how to replace such a xenon lamp with a new one when its luminosity is reduced. But since he had no technical apprenticeship, he was only allowed to be a second-class cinema projectionist. Accordingly, he was poorly paid for it. This lack of recognition as a cinema projectionist annoyed him and he was very frustrated after work. Krug did not find the many hours of work in the cinema itself to be meaningful. There were no opportunities for advancement for Krug, so in addition to working as a cinema projectionist, which cost 8 hours of work per day, he tried to attend the Externistenmatura for working people on days off. However, since the employers at the Elmo cinema were not interested in the evening matriculation, and Krug often showed up tired for work, he was terminated without notice by the Elmo cinema.

After 15 years of "isolation" it was high time for Peter and his partner Nadia Cipriani to leave Siezenheim. Another reason for a change of location was the sudden heart attack and death of the owner of the house in the Brückenstraße Karl Schierl.  Peter hated the place already because he had to drive past the Schwarzenberg barracks every time to get to the city of Salzburg. He had always had a great aversion to the army. In Siezenheim, he preferred to take the external school leaving examination in favor of training as a yoga teacher. Many years (over 5 years) in Siezenheim were wasted because of the examinations for the Externist Matura. Peter studied for it day and countless nights to the point of complete exhaustion. Until the insomnia and the tinnitus, until the back pain and stiff neck became so unbearable that he found no other way out than to give up the dream of the Externistenmatura. Not only did he lose his job because of the Matura and with it his monthly income, but he also suffered from numerous psychosomatic complaints, constant overwork, insomnia and fatigue, as well as lack of concentration and energy. 
The time in Siezenheim was characterized by hard work, fear of job loss, fear of still being able to pay the rent at the end of the month. Peter was even brutally beaten up on the street  - directly after his work in Gablerbräu and then because of multiple nasal fractures operated on in hospital. After the death of the owner Karl Schierl - Peter and his partner Nadia wanted to leave Siezenheim as quickly as possible.
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The move to Plainstraße 27, Top 8 (Elisabeth-Vorstadt) in August 2004 was therefore connected with many hopes. This much larger apartment was unfurnished for the first time, which had the advantage of allowing Peter and Nadia to choose all the furniture themselves and to furnish the apartment the way they liked it.

Near this Plainstraße there was also an Internet café. There Peter contacted Rainer Ehlers, the editor of the world famous magazine "die Schwalbe" and sent his problems to Mr. Ehlers. When he got the magazine for problem chess he was motivated to compose studies again and send them there. At that time (2004) he earned some money as a yoga instructor in the Sportpark Freilassing.  Additionally Peter worked again as cinema projectionist in the Elmokino for two days a week for 22 hours. The apartment in Plainstraße was so big that one room was unnamed as a yoga room. Here Peter practiced yoga every day. In addition, he held private yoga classes for people and friends. The yoga room was also used for training purposes for Nadia Cipriani. Every evening - after her work in the Raiffeisen bank Nadia worked out the own Oriental dance chorographies. She had many dance performances within the city of Salzburg at that time. 

 However, the large apartment also had some weaknesses: the shower room was moldy and the walls quickly turned black, probably because of air pollution. The water pipes were constantly clogged. Peter Krug suffered in Plainstraße from the street noise that penetrated directly into the living room.

The plague of athlete's foot

Peter Krug could not get rid of the athlete's foot that he had had since around 1997, despite using fungal ointments. He used the ointment for three months, changed his socks every day and bathed his feet daily. Nevertheless, he was not cured. Sometimes the hole in his heel was so deep that he could only stand and walk on one leg. The entire time he lived in the apartment in Plainstraße, he was plagued by athlete's foot. The nail fungus came later. He kept buying medicinal ointments, but that didn't help for long.

Since Peter had no money worries at that time (he earned enough as a yoga teacher), he could therefore intensively engage in composing the study composition and thus won numerous prizes.
Along the way from home to work he went running and walking a lot also in nature. In 2010 he got Lyme disease.  He was at a low point in health at the time: Bacterial superinfection, 39, 6 degree fever, hepatitis, palpitations forced Peter to bed rest.  It took over a month before Peter was able to work again. 
In 2016 the lease in Plainstraße 27 in Salzburg was not renewed. And so Peter and his partner Nadia moved to Hallein.

  Study composition in Plainstraße

When his studies were positively received by the editor of the Schwalbe, Michael Roxlau, he began to work intensively on study composition. For this he bought the Harold van der Heijden database. From this big database Peter got his inspiration. From 2005 to 2016 was the most productive period of his chess composition and won numerous prizes and other awards. And from 2013 - 2015 Krug was ranked 6th most successful study composers in the world (WFCC List).
He spent many hours a day, mostly sitting in front of the computer, working out his ideas. Often he also sacrificed the whole night. 

Krug and his partner Nadia received a letter at the beginning of the month stating that the lease would not be renewed and that the apartment (in the Plainstraße) had to be vacated at the end of the month.

Since Peter spent his childhood in Salzburg and he is very sensitive to the cars, the car noise and the exhaust fumes, he wanted to use the move to turn his back on the city of Salzburg forever. 
He would prefer to be abroad. Far away from Austria, where he has been through so much. But with his girlfriend they agreed and moved to Hallein. 
By moving, Peter lost some precious people who regularly came to him for yoga. The journey to the yoga classes as a yoga teacher were now equal much longer. 
He always used his bicycle and renounced public transport to integrate physical exercise into everyday life. 
In doing so, he spent many hours on the road. In rain and thunderstorms. In slush,  and fresh snow. He rode his bike for about 40 kilometers even on winter days when the road was completely icy. During the midsummer he got to know the completely harmless, large Aesculapian snakes  in the Salzach lakes. And at night, when he drove home in the dark, he could recognize the beavers in outline, which quickly fled into the water when he drove by. On a rainy day he even met a young and trusting fox, with whom he played. He even picked up this fox and put it on his shoulder. Peter never regretted the long bike ride, because during this time he was able to experience a lot about the weather, the environment, the seasons and about the animals.

On the other hand, he very often came home late at night and could no longer devote himself intensively to chess composition as he used to.

After learning the basic rules of chess Peter had no teacher in chess. He got his deeper understanding of chessinitially  mainly from books that he read (with 14)  a year hidden in bookstores like "Höllriegl". The booksellers knew him and accepted that he just looked at the books without buying them. In the last year of compulsory schooling he received a weekly allowance from his foster mother in Plainfeld and was thus able to buy his first books, which were problem chess books.  Peter was active in the private chess game for many decades and was mostly successful, but he remained completely unknown to the public chess life. Apart from the few years when he visited Café Mozart in Salzburg every day and played rapid chess for many hours with the chess clock and with money stake nothing was left in his possibility. Unfortunately he couldn't take part in any demanding tournaments because of economic and social disadvantage and the unpleasant feeling of hunger.. Due to the constant homelessness and lack of money in his later youth, Peter Krug did not have the stability for chess tournaments. At this time, Peter Krug realized that a chess career is not possible without tournaments, regardless of how many chess games he had already won. At that time Peter Krug had no distance to the past. Everywhere the terrible childhood experiences accompanied him. Concentrating on chess was hardly possible. Fears tormented him and unsettled him. This reduced his chess performance. Sudden dizzy spells and fainting while playing chess due to hunger made it difficult to continue visiting the chessplayers. As Peter Krug stole cakes from the showcases a few times, the police was intervened. Therefore he withdrew from public chess life. He consistently stayed away from chess clubs and the tournament chess players. For many years he never went to Café Mozart again. So he was never registered in a chess club and had no Elo rating. Chess meant a lot to Peter. It had the importance for his memory training in the youth, for example, in memorizing famous chess games, chess problems and chess studies. Chess was for Peter a means to counteract the mental distress and permanent underchallenges.

  His interest in chess problems was awakened when Hermann Hamberger, a well-known chess player from Salzburg, showed  at Café Mozart some puzzling classical Sam Loyd problems. Fascinated by the wealth of ideas in problem chess, he bought with his pocket money, which he received weekly from the foster mother (Monika Mittermayr) in Plainfeld  books by Karl Fabel, Werner Speckmann and Ado Kraemer. With 15 years he published his first chess problems in the "Salzburger Nachrichten". It was an orthodox 3 mover with some pretty mate pictures. 20 years later, as an adult, he was not more allowed to publish any further chess problems in the "Salzburger Nachrichten" because the level of his chess problems was not satisfactory. Therefore, he tried through contact on the Internet. In 2004 he sent an email with a task to the editor of the moremover section, Rainer Ehlers (die Schwalbe).  After he also received harsh criticism from editor Rainer Ehlers, he focused mainly on studies.

 Study composition and recognition in general

Because nowadays the publication of a study is linked to participation in a tournament, engaging with this art is at the same time a sport and the many awards given by a study composer reflect the compositional achievement.

  The composition of the study generally has unfortunately a low status in the world. Because the study composers are practically never in public, but only publish their works in specialist journals, nearly nothing is known about their lifes from most of the study composers. Hardly anyone among the chess composers seems to be interested in this either. Even photos of study composers are a rarity. The distances to meet other study composers in other countries are too great, and so the study composers usually only know each other through their works. That is one of the reasons why the recognition of most study composers remain low and why many study composers loses pleasure in the long run.
 As an Austrian study composer, it is particularly difficult to become known abroad with one's studies.  At home in Austria it is quite impossible to get appreciation for the compositional achievement of a chess study.
 

 About his studies

 His first chess studies were a mixture of a chess problem with chess study elements. The white and black king were initially mostly immobile and the knight dominated the solution.  Since 2008 he has mainly focused on chess studies. From the material he often prefers knights, because he loves animals. Thanks to the help of the computer after 2005, his positions became more free. The pieces more agile. He paid particular attention to an attractive starting position. The goal of his later studies was not to win prizes as much as possible, but to compose studies that might interest chess players. If possible close to the game. - His model is Hermanis Matisons.

 His success in study composing abroad

Mainly, chess composers receive recognition in the form of prizes and other awards. Peter Krug also won from time to time prizes. This can be seen as a minor success. In collaboration with Pavel Arestov from Russia and Mario García from Salta he achieved some additional successes.  Since Austria did not offered a platform for chess composers, Austrian chess composers are forced to publish therefore their own works abroad. Because of this situation, frustration due to a lack of Austrian recognition cannot be avoided. The second fact is that it is much more difficult to get appreciation in chess composition than, for example, as a chess player at tournaments or as a member of a chess club.

    Apart from his occasional successes in chess study tournaments Peter Krug did not get any recognition in Austria. His hopes also in the field of studies of being connected and appreciated in the renowned problem chess magazine "Die Schwalbe" were not fulfilled. The recognition generelly remained very low for years and it was not possible for Peter Krug to earn money with his study composition. The hopelessness of gaining general chess success annoyed Peter Krug. There were therefore numerous moments when he wanted to give up chess entirely. In a state of pent-up frustration, he wanted to destroy everything that was in any sense related to chess. At that moment (2018) he realized that he was wasting so much time on chess composition and that he had received very little wages for it.  Arrived at the low point he destroyed in desperation within a few minutes a collection of 40-50 unpublished studies of his own. He threw countless chess magazines in the trash can. He gave all of the chess books. At the end he took his magnetic chess boards and his wooden chess board with the chess pieces and placed them on a street wall - visible to everyone passing by. After only 10 minutes the chess boards were gone.  His biological mother, who never cared about him, seemed to be right when she claimed that Peter got no where in his life and is a failure.  - But he could not keep his resolution completely with chess over an extended timespan. Composing chess studies is a beautiful thing for Peter. Even if he didn't make any money with it. That is the reason why, despite his radical monthly abstinence from chess, he repeatedly relapsed. Since the beginning of 2021 he has been earning pocket money as a chess teacher on a regular basis.

The dependence of the study composers on the judges 

Studies are judged in the tournaments according to certain ideals. For example, whether all pieces play a part in the solution, whether the composers succeed in incorporating deep thematic tries. It is required of the composer that the solution should alternate the beats with quiet moves. For example, a study with successive check moves or with only chess bids will be eliminated from the competition. 
Furthermore, attention is paid to originality. E.g. since mate patterns and stalemate patterns are largely exhausted, more and more grotesque mate patterns with multiple pins in the center of the board are awarded in the tournaments, even though the gameplay is uninteresting from the point of view of party chess. 
But studies are always devalued or awarded when it suits the ideals and taste of the judge. 
Since study composers know the likes and dislikes of the judges after many years, study composers can adapt to these ideals and thus win numerous prizes. 
 

For whom Peter composes chess studies

In general he does not compose to please judges or to get awards. Because he does not want to be a slave to the opinions of the judges. 
In his eyes, an artist must be free from the opinions of other study composers.
Peter Krug does not give much value how many prizes he receives for his study compositions. A chess study can also stand on its own. It does not need competitions or FIDE albums. The only important thing for Peter Krug is to create interesting positions for Chess lover, Computer chess specialists, and chess players receptive to beauties. By means of the computer it is possible that even interesting studies can be composed, but no one can solve them. However, since there are enough people who also appreciate extremely difficult studies, such monster studies also have a right to exist.

Advantages and disadvantages of the study composition for playing chess (Krug's point of view)

Nowadays, studies with awards are given mainly for the artistic aspects. 
The general trend in studies is to compose more and more grotesque and "artificial" positions, which have usually nothing to do with the "natural" positions of a played game. Simple studies, on the other hand, nowadays run the risk of already having predecessors in the Harold van der Heijden database.
As an example of an extremely part-deep composition style is Maro Campioli.
It goes without saying that such grotesque studies contribute little to the general understanding of chess.

On the other hand, studies by Richard Retí, Hermanis Mattison, Kubbel and the Austrian composer Alois Wotawa will also have a learning benefit for chess playing. Juri Awerbach became famous with his many endgame books, although the artistic standard of his studies is low compared to other study composers.

Different mindset and conditions in a chess composition and a chess game

When composing a chess study, one starts from an interesting position and then thinks backwards. 
On the other hand, when playing chess one thinks forwards. Analytical skills are particularly important in chess.
When composing, the computer may be used for help. That's why the emphasis in composing in the digital age is less on analytics and more on building interesting ideas. Because of this difference in approach between composing and playing chess, a chess player can hardly achieve considerable playing strength with composing many studies. 

In Siezenheim, Peter constantly suffered from insomnia, hyper-vigilance, severe neck tension and severe back pain. He tried swimming, but the problem did not decrease. Thanks to a book by Indra Devi, he came across yoga. The book by Indra Devi, née Eugenie Peterson was called "Youthful through Yoga". At first he was skeptical of the strange exercises and besides, he resigned from the church. By chance, however, he read in another book that one can do the yoga exercises even if one is not religious. 
The book of Indra Devi was promising and so he tried to do the yoga postures with the help of the pictures of this former actress. He also admired how flexible Indra Devi was at the age of 50. 
Peter was when he started yoga - very, very stiff. He could not possibly sit on his heels and to do the seated forward bend he needed a towel. Peter practiced simple yoga exercises and fortunately he did not join the group because he was particularly clumsy. After two or three weeks of consistent yoga training, the tension improved and the back problems disappeared. After several months he was able to sit on his heels and no longer needed a towel to reach his teeth with his hands while sitting on the floor with his feet outstretched. 
Every time after the yoga exercises he became pleasantly tired and could even fall asleep afterwards. The sleeping problems disappeared and the tinnitus disappeared. His body feeling was better and he walked upright and sat upright at the chair. 
Because yoga became very important to him from all these positive effects, he practiced for over 20 years without missing a day. He gave up the Externist Matura and did the yoga teacher training in Westerwald instead. 
Yoga helped Peter to become calmer inside and to do more consistently what he felt was right. 
After the yoga teacher training he also got people who wanted to go to him at the same time. In Freilassing, he was able to hold his own in a fitness center for over 17 years until the Corona measures - regulations with which he does not agree - prevented him from continuing with yoga publicly.

His understanding of what yoga means

Peter Krug had lied many times in his life. One of the lies was that as a child he told the other children that he was with his father. He lied because he was ashamed of not having a father. 
Also, as a schoolboy, he had stolen food and had often skipped school. 
Unable to cope with his suffering as an abandoned home child, he closed himself off and began to lie. Yoga opens a new path for Peter Krug to live in honesty and sincerity. Yoga encourages Peter to go his own way. A path away from social prestige and the need for power.

Because he was so alone as a child, he learned early to stand on his own feet. He does not believe in authorities who work with oppression, blackmail, psychological manipulation. That's why he left the Catholic Church when he reached the age of 19.

Since 2020 Peter Krug has lost his job as a yoga teacher as a result of the corona crisis and the lockdown. From the beginning of the first lockdown, Peter Krug saw the measures against the corona virus as disproportionate and sharply criticized the measures, which from Peter Krug's point of view are a political measure to enforce the interests of influential corporations and individuals. Peter Krug has been very critical of the censorship on Youtube since 2020. Since he does not receive any financial support from the government, the lockdown means a drastic reduction in the quality of life for Peter Krug. As a chess teacher, Peter Krug now earns a little pocket money. Because Peter Krug had a very hard childhood, the oppression, the scare tactics, the psychological manipulations and the social isolation in the Corona crisis are nothing new to Peter Krug. Since February 2020 he has been actively resisting what he calls “Corona hysteria”. A corona vaccination is for these reasons out of the question for Peter Krug.

       Update March 16, 2020
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz imposes Austria's first lockdown.

 After 1 year lockdown due to Sars CoV 2

After almost a year of lockdown, the collateral damage to the economy and the battered mental health of children, adolescents and adults can be felt everywhere. Government loyalty newspapers, the so-called quality media, twist this fact and turn it into a lie. Instead of pointing out the damage caused by the isolation, the so-called "pandemic" is blamed for the gigantic damage. The President of Austria laments the Covid deaths without mentioning how many suicides there were, how many cancer deaths there were, and above all how many people there are who are completely desperate because of the isolation measures, have become unemployed, or entrepreneurs have had to give up their businesses forever, because they had to keep paying the business rent during the lockdown. The mass media keep preventing people from knowing that this is a real pandemic. The mutations of the corona virus were even given Greek names to emphasize their scientific nature. At the moment we are on the delta variant, which the newspapers report is much more contagious. Statements by experts who are of the opposite opinion of the mass media are defamed as unscientific. 

Year 2021

   His fight against the “Corona regime”        May 8, 2021

The compulsory test in Austria has reached sad climaxes. To leave Hallein, a corona test is considered mandatory because of the incidence. Since October 2020 Peter had still not been able to carry out his profession as a yoga teacher because of the permanent lockdown. Peter's savings are completely gone. The situation remains dire. The green vaccination certificate should come next months. For Peter this means further restrictions. It is then no longer possible to travel, or to attend events. Since Peter does not believe in the Corona vaccination and will neither be vaccinated by the Corona test using the PCR test nor be vaccinated, his existence as a whole is in question.

 Update August 3, 2021

Peter Krug in the resistance:

 As is to be feared, the pressure on people who have not yet been vaccinated against Sars CoV-2 will be greatly increased. In Austria and Germany there is already talk of compulsory vaccination. In autumn there should be a booster vaccination against the delta variant.

           - Children are vaccinated from the age of 12, although they are not among those at risk. The vaccine damage is not discussed.

Both in the fitness center and in other courses, the dates for yoga courses from Peter have been greatly reduced or even canceled. Always on the grounds of the current corona situation. For Peter Krug, the state corona measures have become a kind of permanent lockdown. His income is currently close to zero. Peter Krug's yoga courses should only be allowed to take place under the 3 G rule (recovered, tested, vaccinated).  It is to be feared that the unvaccinated will be completely isolated from public events. Peter Krug refuses to take part in these coercive measures by the governments in Germany and Austria and goes into the resistance despite the complete loss of income. 

    Update August 10, 2021   Disadvantages for the unvaccinated

Israel: In Akko and Hadeira, the beaches are sealed off with fences and access controls against unvaccinated and untested people.

 Italy: McDonald's Italy marks unvaccinated people with a red dot.

08/24/2021   An update

The pressure on the unvaccinated is greatly increased.

A vaccination certificate was required for his yoga classes. The price for not getting vaccinated is very high:

Peter Krug lost now definitely all yoga classes, all yoga students and his entire economic existence. Because of this drastic deterioration in living conditions, the activity of the study composition is difficult. Peter Krug fears that he will lose his place to sleep in the future and that he will have nothing to eat.

30/09/2021  Update:  Breakdown of reasonable communication regarding the corona measures

  All communication from previous employers and the contact to long-time yoga students was interrupted. Concerns about the corona vaccine damage have been blocked. Concerns about the Corona measures were expressed by Peter Krug but tacitly ignored and emails were not answered. RT Deutsch channel has been deleted by Youtube. Millions of videos on Youtube that witness the effects of the measures taken against the virus have now been deleted. The censorship on the Internet is increasing. Any communication that has doubts about the usefulness of the corona vaccination or the dangerous side effects as content on the topic on various internet portals will be deleted. Doctors who selectively exclude people from treatment if they are not vaccinated or have recovered. In Melbourne, the protests against the vaccination pass are being crushed. Police officers used pepper spray and beat protesters. The Australian police even used projectiles against anti-corona vaccination opponents. Furthermore, Peter Krug is out of work because he refused to vaccinate.  Peter Krug now has health problems. He is struggling with his health because of concerns about the global suppression of the unvaccinated.

      Update from November 8, 2021

  From Monday, November 8, 2021, a further tightening of the corona measures was taken in Austria. Now the 2 G rule applies. This means that only those who have been vaccinated and recovered are allowed in all public institutions. If this rule is violated, there is a € 500 fine. Peter Krug's income continues to stagnate. He no longer earns anything and, since he has not had himself vaccinated, he has no entitlement to unemployment or other social benefits. The psychological pressure affects the chess study composition. It is difficult for Peter Krug to compose qualitative studies. Peter Krug also has health problems, suffers from toothache, allergies and back problems. He has no money to go to the doctor or to fix his bike. He has no money to pay for the train or bus ticket. And despite regular ointment treatment, he was unable to cure the athlete's foot on both feet.

         Lockdown for the unvaccinated

   It's just getting scary. A comparison with National Socialism suggests itself to Krug:

  From Monday, November 14, 2021, a lockdown for unvaccinated people will apply throughout Austria. You are only allowed to leave the house for urgent reasons. That said Austria's Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg. Around a third of Austrians, i.e. around two million people, are affected by the lockdown. The unvaccinated no longer have the right to go to work.

The implementation of the lockdown for the unvaccinated is being implemented also in all department stores, bookstores and public events with terrifying consequences. It is a lockout of the unvaccinated from society!

                Absurd social situation in late autumn 2021

     The situation has never been more absurd! Cancellation of events because the vaccinated are afraid of Corona, although they are officially considered "fully immunized".
The vaccinated are usually the fearful, who are informed every hour of the new record high of incidence and steadily increasing number of infections by watching TV. Many of the vaccinated people sit in front of the television and no longer dare to socialize. Some vaccinated pensioners even no longer dare to leave the house.

 The deep gap between the convinced unvaccinated and the convinced vaccinated

The division into vaccinated and unvaccinated people continues. While the vaccinated get their corona information from the mainstream, whom they trust fully, the unvaccinated also get their bearings from sources outside the mass media.
This leads to the fact that even friends argue depending on how they orientate themselves. While the corona measures -believers firmly believe in a highly dangerous virus and want to talk about the high incidence, the increasing numbers of infections and the intensive care bed occupancy in hospitals, the critics of the measure are interested in the reports about the vaccine damage and the futility of lockdowns. So there is an invisible wall even among long-time friends. Because corona measures -believers do not want to know anything about vaccine damage and the measures do not seem tough enough to them, even if millions of people are excluded from the university and from working life. Corona - measures believers seem to have lost empathy for fear of the virus. The dangerousness of the coronavirus and the measures taken against the coronavirus has become a kind of religion: on the one hand, the vast majority of those in favor of the measures are in favor, and on the other hand, critics of the coronavirus measures are referred to as corona deniers, vaccination skeptics, and Covidiotes. The critic of measures against the coronavirus and against the mRNA vaccines is fast referred to as a conspiracy theorist or conspiracy ideologist.

 Without EU approval a special vaccination route for children from five to eleven years has been set up in the Austria Center in Vienna. The first vaccinations start on Monday. This is being offered "off label", but approval is expected as early as next week. The demand is high: 9,216 of the 9,400 available appointments have already been booked. A smaller amount of the Biontech / Pfizer vaccine is used.

News: From Monday, November 22nd, 2021, there will be a lockdown in Salzburg that could last until Christmas.

             Update 19.11.2021

  Corona regime wants EVERYONE to be vaccinated from February 1st 2022! Punishment:  one month in prison!

Austria is the second European country after the Vatican and the first EU country with a general corona vaccination requirement. In just a few months, the prisons of vaccination avoiders could overflow. Because 3,600 euros - provided the penalties for the health professions apply analogously - are almost two months' wages for the average earner in Austria! Refusal of booster vaccinations will also be detained as offenders for 4 weeks. Health Minister Dr. Wolfgang Mückstein already made it clear: There will be a fourth and maybe a fifth stitch! As is well known, former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz ordered 72.5 million vaccination doses - enough for an eight-fold vaccination for every single Austrian inhabitant!

Federal Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg: “Yesterday we reached a very difficult decision. The decision that a nationwide compulsory vaccination should now be initiated as soon as possible. This should apply from February 1st, 2022 next year. Ladies and gentlemen, I am aware that we demand a lot from the vaccinated country, the vaccinated people in the country.”

FPÖ - Kickl: "As of today, November 19, 2021, Austria is a dictatorship!"

Update 27.11. 2021   South African variant “OMIKRON” 

The traditional dead vaccines will be on the market from January. Many people who do not trust mRNA genes will be vaccinated with it. Today a new mutation from South Africa, Omikron B.1.1.529, is reported in the media, which is said to be more contagious than its predecessor. "Kurier" newspaper reports: "The variant B.1.1.529 contains 32 mutations on the spike protein with which the pathogen gains access to the human body."

“For the first time, said Prof. Christian Drosten  "…Omikron combines critical mutations in the receptor binding site from the variants Alpha (first detected in England at the end of 2020), Beta (South African epidemic in the second half of 2020), Gamma (Brazil 2020) and Delta (India 2021 and now available globally)” 

  Update 30.11.2021  

SPÖ chairman Pamela Rendi-Wagner from Austria said today that there is 100% mandatory vaccination in Austria. The bill is almost ready. A fine of up to € 7,200 should be imposed if you refuse twice!
Already 13 years old fall under the compulsory vaccination. For a vaccine-free family with 2 children over 13 this would result in a fine of € 28,800! The mandatory vaccination is linked to the ELGA e-card system

- The fact that vaccination is compulsory in Austria and that parliament will decide with a two-thirds majority is as good as fixed !! The signals from the government and the SPÖ  (Pamela Rendi - Wagner) were too clear on Saturday. The entire FPÖ and Herbert Kickl were excluded from these important decisions. And President Van der Bellen has already signed this new law, which should initially last 3 years.
Concrete steps towards compulsory vaccination:
From mid-December every unvaccinated person in Austria should receive a vaccination appointment with a specific date and place by post.

    Update 6.12.2021

The unvaccinated and resistance fighters in Austria will definitely face custody from February 2022.

One speaks of detention when someone comes into detention so that his will, which is contrary to the will of the state, is broken (= bent) through detention. Detention is therefore not a punishment, but a means of coercion to enforce state interests.

    Update 8 - 12 - 2021

Data show weaker vaccine response against Omikron, Biontech believes booster needed for protection
Laboratory data show significantly reduced antibody response against Omikron. Three doses are needed for sufficient protection, according to Biontech and Pfizer

   Update 12.12.2021

Alexander Schallenberg resigned a few days after the obligation to vaccinate had been decided to exclude the FPÖ. In his place, Karl Nehammer became the new Federal Chancellor, who said that the unvaccinated should be hunted like criminals.

     Update 17.12.2021

     Discrimination against the unvaccinated is escalating

Even in Hallein, a small town, only vaccinated people are allowed to attend the Christmas market. For this purpose, the entire area was cordoned off with 2 meter high fences. Everyone must show their vaccination status when they join.

 - Terrifying scenes of clashes between police officers and German citizens were shown in videos, where the police officer firmly claims that unvaccinated murderers are. This policeman denied any kind of humanity to unvaccinated people. In the meantime, Karl Lauterbach became the new German Minister of Health.

   Update: 21-12- 2021

For weeks now, the newly discovered corona variant Omikron has been misused by politicians and mainstream media to spread even more fear and panic. The doctor, the South African physician Dr. Angelique Coetzee who discovered this variant does not understand the overreaction in Europe and warns that this could lead to people missing out on the benefits that Omikron brings. She clarifies that the disease is mild and a population contagion of Omikron would lead to natural immunity in the population. That would be an advantage when new variants reemerge. Lockdowns, however, would prevent this positive development.

   Update: 26-12-  2021

In view of the dramatic Corona infection figures of recent weeks and the new variant Omikron, SPÖ leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner considers a vaccination coverage rate of 90 percent necessary to prevent further lockdowns. In addition to the announced vaccination obligation one should set positive incentives, demands Rendi Wagner now a 500 euro coupon for all, which contribute with the third sting. In the Ministry of Health, however, one waves off.

Since 2021 is a permanent war against the unvaccinated. Peter Krug is against the system of apartheid in Austria, which was initiated by the then Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. The unvaccinated are discriminated against and called murderers who are to blame for the spread of the virus. The unvaccinated are no longer allowed to go to the Christkindlmarkt. The unvaccinated are not allowed to enter department stores. The unvaccinated now lose their jobs and are forced into financial hardship. This apartheid will cause much suffering.
From Peter Krug's point of view, it is important to overcome this apartheid. To overcome the division between the unvaccinated and the vaccinated. 
 

    Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (35) is said to have accepted a job in the US. This was reported by Austrian media on Saturday. He is said to have already signed a contract in the private sector, the daily "Österreich" reported. According to information from the "Kronen-Zeitung", it is said to be a managerial job in Silicon Valley. The region south of San Francisco is home to numerous large high-tech, IT and Internet companies.

Year 2022

   Update 7 January 2022

    Pure blackmail

Blackmailing the unvaccinated into vaccination is taking on ever more bizarre forms. And this although it has long been proven that herd immunity cannot be achieved with mRNA vaccination. - And this although it is known that young people have fallen ill with myocarditis after vaccination. And this although it is known that pregnant women lost their babies after vaccination. And this, although it is known that the dark figure of vaccination victims is much higher than the passively collected data in the Paul Ehrlich Institute. Peter Krug lost his secure job because he did not allow himself to be blackmailed. He saw no reason to be vaccinated because of Corona. His partner was also recently threatened with losing her job, although she is completely alone at work and can hardly infect anyone in her job. Peter Krug is very afraid that this Corona madness, which has now been extended to vaccination madness, will be taken so far that unvaccinated people will not only lose their jobs and be denounced, but will even be locked away in prison in the future if the fines are not paid. 

   Update 8 January 2022

 New dimension of isolation

Peter Krug experiences increasing isolation from society. First, he lost his job because he did not get vaccinated. Now even appointments are canceled by friends who have concerns about the Corona - situation. Friends think that it is no longer possible to meet because of the incidence. In his environment, there are now many families who only allow vaccinated ones into the house. 

   Corona politics as seen by Peter Krug

Emmanuel Macron said "We are at war with the virus." This is as true for Austria as it is for the other European states. Whoever cheers on this "Corona Crisis", whether as a top politician, or local politician, or virologist, is currently receiving the highest honors. The winners of this crisis are the pharmaceutical industry and the vaccination doctors. Politicians at the top of government currently have an extreme amount of power over everyone's most intimate, personal areas. Censorship on the Internet has never been so great. Youtube deleted millions of videos and countless comments that did not fit into the image of the ruling Corona policy. This state of emergency seems to have no end. The losers of the corona crisis are people who resist genetic therapy or refuse to test. Many vaccination refusers already lost their jobs. Because of the corona policy in Europe, millions more people in the third world have to suffer from hunger.  Critical doctors and journalists are being suspended or kicked out. Now in Italy, too, there is talk of imprisonment for refusing vaccinations and booster shots. Governments continue to use escalation, suppression, violence, coercion and blackmail against those unwilling to vaccinate. The division caused by the government has never been as great as it was before and, in Peter Krug's view, can only be compared to National Socialism.

  Comparison of the Jews and the unvaccinated

Blaming the unvaccinated, who are often called "right-wing extremists" and "Nazis" and even murderers, gives Peter Krug an idea of what the Jews had to suffer psychologically under National Socialism at the time. Even then, it was the minorities, the Jews, who were blamed for everything. The Jews were also blamed for infectious diseases. They lost work and the right to go shopping. 
Jews were totally isolated from the population and were not allowed to go to the cinema or other public events.

    12 January 2022
The situation of the unvaccinated, who are now isolated and not even allowed to work or visit a department store, is getting worse and worse every week. Peter Krug fears that the unvaccinated will be driven further into isolation and hopelessness step by step.

     Update January 16, 2022

Compulsory vaccination in Austria to apply to everyone aged 18 and over from February, controls to come from mid-March:

Three-phase approach to penalty, convalescents exempt for six months.
The federal government in Vienna presented Sunday the finalized draft law of the planned general Corona vaccination obligation. Chancellor Karl Nehammer, Constitutional Minister Karoline Edtstadler (both ÖVP) and Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens) appeared before the press to present the details of the plan.
- The fine is up to 600 euros, and can be up to 3,600 euros in due process.

- A fine can be issued a maximum of four times per year, two of which will be "information-based", i.e. through an automated letter.

- Anyone who is vaccinated within two weeks of the issuance of the vaccination penalty order will go unpunished.

 From 18 years, no substitute custodial sentence

Until the very end, this was still being negotiated. Even before the press conference, it had been rumored that compulsory vaccination would not apply from the age of 14, as originally planned, but only from the age of 18. The law should also stipulate that if the fines are not paid, there will in any case be no substitute custodial sentence.

From March 15, checks are to be carried out by police officers - for example, as part of a traffic control. Only in the final phase will citizens be written to and penalized. This phase would be dispensed with if enough people in Austria have been vaccinated by then anyway.

  Update 19.01.2022

Minister of Health Dr. Wolfgang Mückstein makes announcement on ORF about 4th stitch in summer 2022.
The vaccination duty comes.  On Thursday it will be decided as of February 1. 
Because about 1.5 million people in Austria have not yet been stung, the vaccination obligation now follows. According to Mückstein, the vaccination interval should be determined by experts, he will then decree that by appropriate regulation.

  Update 24.01.2022

Austria continues to torture gastronomy and trade with 2G and turns saleswomen into sheriffs; it tortures schoolchildren with masks; it destroys the cultural life.

Now a compulsory vaccination law has been passed that divides Austria like hardly any law before; that turns 1.5 million unvaccinated Austrians into outsiders; that forces the police to take action against citizens who have done nothing wrong;
No other Western European country is currently considering a similar legislative terror. On the contrary, the Czechs and the Italians, as well as the Germans, are currently withdrawing their plans.

More other EU countries - just now Great Britain, France, Ireland and our neighbor Switzerland - are relaxing their measures, abolishing mandatory masks and the 2-G rule.

The reason for this is the scientific analysis of the omicron wave. According to all forecasts, it is much less dangerous than earlier Corona waves.

   Update 3.02.2022

Peter Krug tried since 2020 not to go along with the rule of the vaccination politicians. In the evening demonstrations especially against compulsory vaccination now take place once a week also in Hallein.  They are loud with drums and whistles. The atmosphere is one of war. Only little is spoken. Phrases like "peace, freedom, sovereignty" and "resistance" echo through the alleys of the city center and end where they started at the Pernerinsel. The whole demonstration will be accompanied by the police. In conclusion, the organizer thanks participants and peaceful police.

 Peter Krug is no longer allowed to go to the cinema and is not allowed to visit any bookstores, public libraries or other than a supermarket. As unvaccinated he lost the right to work.  His schedule has never been so empty. It's hard to still have a sense of time under such conditions. Politicians want to make these restrictions on the unvaccinated permanent. Because even after the lockdown ends, the 2 G rule applies.  This is justified by the government measures.That's why he now regularly takes to the streets.

      Update 9.02.2022 ORF blackmail against its own staff

Not a day goes by, where surely ORF does not perform new incredibilities in connection with the Corona - crisis. This time it is again directed against its own staff. In December, a downright blackmail letter in the direction of the 2 G rule was sent to ORF employees, and it was made very clear that their employment with ORF could soon be over if they did not allow themselves to be vaccinated. - This plan is now obviously going into phase 2: The new General Director Mag. Roland Weißmann is graciously giving ORF employees until February 14 to prove that they have been vaccinated, after which ORF employees are threatened not only with loss of pay, but also with the loss of their jobs. That is, until February 14, the employees of ORF may still be vaccinated, then there will be a conversation with the respective supervisor and then in further consequence threatens then also a loss of salary. 

   Supplement: Very good news

Top virologist Norbert Nowotny anticipates Freedom Day in March.
Even the new chancellor said:
"All the data and numbers we've seen in the last few weeks," Chancellor Karl Nehammer said, "show that Omikron is not an acute threat to our health care system at this time."
   End of all measures
Top virologist Norbert Nowotny expects further easing and even an end to all Corona measures soon. "If everything goes well and sub-variant BA.2 doesn't throw a spanner in the works for us, then I expect a Freedom Day in Austria in March," the expert told.  

We are currently in the transition from a pandemic to a seasonal virus, Nowotny continued. One must therefore also revise the testing strategy and only test more vulnerable groups and people with symptoms, he said.

Nowotny also stresses in the interview that mandatory vaccination is no longer necessary because of Omikron. One should therefore start "digging trenches" and "put the penalties on hold."

  Upadate 29 February 2022

Peter Krug's health is deteriorating by the hour. Because of the corona measures he was not allowed to work anymore. He can't eat anymore, he can't sleep. For some time he has only been lying in bed. The pain in the area of the digestive organs is increasing. Swellings are increasing terribly. 
They are inflammations. On Sunday, 20. 02. he absolutely has to go to the hospital and be examined. 

In times of world political tension 

Russian attack on Ukraine has begun.

Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine overnight via several flanks and with ground forces. According to the Ukrainian border guards, Russian ground forces with tanks and other heavy equipment entered Ukraine from several directions, including from Belarus. Earlier, Ukraine reported massive aerial shelling. The government in Kiev declared martial law.

Coordinated attacks were mainly in the east of Ukraine. In the south, Ukrainian positions were attacked with missile systems and helicopters, the border guard said. Ukraine reported that more than 40 soldiers were killed. 

Russian leader Vladimir Putin had ordered a "military operation" in Ukraine in a televised speech on Thursday night. A short time later, explosions were heard in several Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kiev and the port cities of Mariupol and Odessa.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that the target of the attacks in Ukraine was "the military infrastructure. However, according to Russia's UN Ambassador Vasily Nebensia, action will also be taken against the government in Kiev, which he called a "junta."

A few hours after the offensive began, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said the Russian army had knocked out air defenses as well as air bases in Ukraine. Kiev reported the downing of five Russian fighter jets and a helicopter.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy imposed martial law across Ukraine and called on his countrymen to defend the country. The Ukrainian president called for a global "anti-Putin coalition." "The world must force Russia to make peace," he declared after crisis phone calls with his Western partners. Ukraine broke off diplomatic relations with neighboring Russia.

The full extent of Russia's attack was not initially clear. Putin said, however, that the goal was not to occupy Ukrainian territory. The goal, he said, was to protect people. The Ukrainian military should lay down its arms, he said.

  Vladimir Putin called the members of the Ukrainian government "a gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis" and "terrorists."

Russian President Vladimir Putin also has called on the Ukrainian army to take power in Kiev and overthrow President Volodymyr Selensky and his entourage. 

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    Putin's breach of trust with Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz

Putin has made peace negotiations with statesmen before the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine and during this time he has already prepared the invasion. This deception shows how uncalculated Putin has proceeded. 

Corona Policy

Novavax will be vaccinated in Salzburg from March 5.
The protein vaccine will be administered in three vaccination lines. 1,700 people have registered for the vaccine in Salzburg so far.

Update 26.02.2022

       "Make war expensive for Putin"
"The only way to get Russia to turn back is to make this war so expensive that political, business and military decision makers turn on Putin. To do this, Russia's trade and financial transactions must be brought to a virtual standstill," the National Security Council resolution document states. 

Update 27.02. 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin is putting the country's nuclear forces on alert. He ordered the Russian military leadership to do so because of NATO's aggressive behavior and economic sanctions, Putin said on television Sunday. "As you can see, Western countries are taking unfriendly measures against our country not only in economic terms," Putin said on state TV.

   His critical opinion 

For Peter Krug, Putin's war against Ukraine is incomprehensible. Every war brings death and suffering. 
So many innocent people are being killed.  In just a few days, large apartment blocks, television tower, hospitals and symbolic squares were destroyed with missile attacks. The infrastructure in Ukraine is collapsing. Food is becoming scarce and people are staying in punkers with their children. The horror of Putin's war is becoming more and more unbearable every day and at shorter intervals. 

 Putin's war is despicable, cruel and inhumane and senseless. His sympathy goes to the brave
people in Ukraine,  who actually want peace, but are defending their country against a superior Russian force.
On the other hand, he sees the extremely harsh sanctions of the West as a danger for further escalations of the Russians with NATO. 

Russia will be isolated as never before in history, and this West-East divide will deepen the fear of a nuclear threat on both sides. 

Instead of disarming worldwide, the states will rearm. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has already announced that he will invest 100 billion euros in the German military.  The "Standard" in Austria is already discussing Austria's membership in NATO.

Peter Krug fears further that the sanctions will lead to general discrimination against foreign Russians. The elimination of Russian media (Youtube) from Europe is another danger, because Europeans are not given the opportunity to offer opposing views. 

The delivery of weapons by the Germans and the Dutch will only worsen the situation in Ukraine, because it will lead to more deaths on the Ukrainian side and on the Russian side. The delivery of weapons to Ukraine is therefore senseless additional bloodshed in view of the fact that the Russian army is superior to the Ukrainian army.

  Update 2.02.2022

The Russian leadership leaves no doubt that its aim in Ukraine is to overthrow the political leadership, which it brands a "junta" controlled by the West. Russian President Vladimir Putin himself said that the goal of the military operation in Ukraine was "demilitarization and denazification" of the country, the latter apparently referring to state leaders.

According to reports, there are already Russian "death lists" with 24 names of Ukrainian citizens. The list includes the names of Volodymyr Selensky, the Ukrainian president and his entire government, as well as former world boxing champions Vitali and Vladimir Klitschko.

   Update 3.03.2022 

                      Chess genius Kasparov: Putin "the greatest threat to humanity"

Putin's dictatorship is "by far the greatest existential threat to humanity," warned the 58-year-old, who has lived in exile for many years and is active in the Russian opposition. He has not set foot in his homeland since 2013.

"The surprising thing is that within a week there is nothing left of it," added the chess icon Kasparov, who resigned in 2005, referring to the international reactions. "It's the first time since the end of the Cold War that almost the whole world has stuck together. In my wildest dreams I would not have expected such solidarity within four or five days," Kasparov said.

He says of Putin: "After 22 years with such a wealth of power and no one to criticize you, it's hard to stay sane. He sees everything from his bubble. We know he trusts very few and doesn't go in Internet. How is someone like that supposed to stay realistic?"

Other chess greats were also outraged because of the war:

"I fear the price of the madness of the last days will be unimaginable and huge," wrote Ian Nepomniachtchi

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                Dr. Wolfgang Mückstein resigns as health minister

    Burden too high

He had fought the pandemic "with all his might" every day, "even if not everyone was satisfied with my decisions," the minister said, drawing a personal conclusion. Although he had known what he was getting into when he took up his post, the personal burden had now gained the upper hand. Like his predecessor Rudi Anschober, he has now reached a point where he can no longer give 100 percent. 
The permanent hostility and threats in particular have taken their toll on him: "It gnaws at you when your own apartment has to be guarded around the clock and you can only leave the house with police protection. You can't stand that for long. So today is the day for me to resign from my post as Minister of Health and Social Affairs."

      Update March 4, 2022

Nearly 7,000 Russian scientists turn against Putin's war

In Russia, nearly 7,000 scientists and academics had turned against the war in Ukraine by Thursday, signing an open letter to President Vladimir Putin. "We, Russian scientists and science journalists, protest in the strongest terms against the military invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces," the letter, published on the news website trv-science.ru, reads.

"Humanistic values are the foundation on which science is built," the signatories write. They said they had spent many years trying to strengthen Russia's reputation as a leading center of mathematics, among other things. The efforts have been "completely undone," the letter continued.

The letter also called Russia a "military aggressor and, accordingly, a rogue state." Becoming a great scientific nation "cannot be achieved under the present conditions." No geopolitical interest can "justify this death and bloodshed," it said. War, he said, would only "lead to the total decline of our country."

The more than 6,900 signatories face fines or jail time for criticizing the government. In addition to the already harsh laws against Kremlin critics, the Russian parliament is debating another bill this week that would impose even harsher penalties for criticism of the war in Ukraine.

   No "attack," no "invasion"

Russian media had been instructed after the invasion of Ukraine to use only official information from the Russian authorities for their reporting. Terms such as "attack" or "invasion" in connection with the invasion of Ukraine are prohibited. The authorities portray the war of aggression on Ukraine only as a "special operation" by the military or even a peacekeeping mission to protect Russian-speaking Ukrainians.

In view of the Ukraine war, Russia wants to impose drastic penalties for spreading alleged false information about the Russian armed forces. On Friday, the parliament in Moscow voted in favor of a corresponding amendment to the law. According to the amendment, there is a threat of heavy fines and up to 15 years' imprisonment.

   1.25 million refugees from Ukraine.

According to the UN Organization for Migration (IOM), the number of refugees from Ukraine now amounts to 1.25 million. Of these, about 672,000 have fled to Poland alone, about 194,000 to Moldova and about 133,000 to Hungary.

    Update 6.03 2022

    Restrictions on freedom of expression in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed several laws Friday night (5.03. 2022) further restricting free speech in Russia, further curtailing independent media reporting. Those spreading alleged "false information" about the Russian armed forces face up to 15 years in prison. There are also penalties for those who publicly "denigrate" the armed forces. The parliament in Moscow had previously approved a corresponding amendment to the law.
The amendment to the law appears to be aimed at making every independent journalist a criminal.
"This leaves us with no option but to stop the work of all BBC News journalists and their staff in the Russian Federation," said BBC Director General Tim Davie.

Under the new Russian law, even private statements on social media could be associated with incalculable personal risks. Extreme restraint or, alternatively, departure from the country is advised. The possible arbitrary imposition of heavy prison sentences for public statements further restricts the work of foreign journalists and media professionals in Russia, it added.

In response to the law, several other international broadcasters and agencies have stopped all or part of their work in Russia, including the U.S. broadcaster CNN, the British BBC, the Canadian broadcaster CBC, the news agency Bloomberg, Italy's public TV broadcaster RAI or the Spanish state news agency EFE, as well as the renowned newspaper "El País" from Spain. German broadcasters ARD and ZDF also said Saturday they would suspend coverage from their Moscow studios for the time being. They will continue to provide comprehensive information about the events from other locations.

                     P. Krug's criticism of the brutal sanctions against Russia

Putin's war against Ukraine is irresponsible, cruel and must be stopped as soon as possible. Nevertheless, the extreme sanctions are not primarily directed against Putin, but against Russia as a whole.
They hit Russians who are against Putin's war.
These extreme sanctions are an economic and cultural destruction against Russia.
Krug is particularly critical of Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg, who made the cynical comment that the sanctions "have bite." 

In truth, the extremely harsh sanctions are a declaration of war against Russia.
 

Ursula van der Leyen, Alexander Schallenberg, Annalena Baerbock, Olaf Scholz with their sanctions activism have done everything in recent days to increase tensions between Russia and Europe. 

   Update March 8, 2022

   Kremlin now threatens to cut off gas to all of Europe.

   Update 9.03.2022

Completely stopped publishing original chess compositions (chess studies and chess problems) by Russian authors in magazine "Sahova Skladba", "The Problemist".
"Strategems" is ready to publish compositions of Russian authors, but without indication of country....

         Austrian government postpones mandatory vaccination. Reassessment to take place in summer

The vaccination obligation against the coronavirus is currently suspended. This was decided by the government in the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. As Constitutional Minister Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP) said, the duty was "not proportionate" with the prevailing Omikron variant. A new decision is to be made in three months, said the new health minister Johannes Rauch (Greens). Actually, violations of the duty should have been punished from mid-March. The basis for the decision is the report of an expert commission, which warns of a new wave in the fall.
The government's phased plan would have called for unvaccinated people to be punished from March 15. In phase two, police were to check proof of vaccination as part of their inspections and report a violation to district administrative authorities. In phase three (without a specific date), there could then be an automation-supported data comparison to basically find out who is unvaccinated.
The four-member commission, based in the Federal Chancellery, is to evaluate on an ongoing basis whether the implementation of compulsory vaccination is purposeful and justified from a legal as well as a medical perspective. The panel includes epidemiologist Eva Schernhammer, infectiologist Herwig Kollaritsch, constitutional and medical lawyer Karl Stöger and legal scholar Christiane Wendehorst. With the further evaluation "today" one begins, so smoke.Changes can take place at any time
Suspending mandatory vaccination altogether, rather than just penalties, is a deliberate move, Rauch and Edtstadler stressed. "It hits exactly what I said as a former judge: A law without sanctions is toothless and pointless. We are therefore suspending compulsory vaccination per se. That entails that there are also no controls." The "flexible" law also allows for this: All that is needed is a decree by the Minister of Health and a decision in the main committee, but no change in the law, Edtstadler emphasized.
Should the situation make it necessary to reinstate compulsory vaccination, the two government members assured that they would be able to react quickly. In the preparations, one will not wait for the three months, but will "react and be prepared" for the situation, Rauch said. Should it be necessary, then one will react "very quickly", Edtstadler also said.

  BRITISH CHESS PROBLEM SOCIETY  said:

Statement by the Commitee on the Ukraine Crisis
 

After the bulk of the March issue had been prepared for publication, U.K. problemists watched the Russian invasion of Ukraine with the same shock, horror and revulsion as countless others in the chess problem community. In consequence, the British Chess Problem Society, and the editorial team of The Problemist, will henceforth not publish problems or other contributions submitted by Russians. This policy will continue for the foreseeable future. These actions do not imply any criticism of individual Russian problemists." 

      Update 10. 03. 2022

   Putin's DISINFORMATION CAMPAIN 
By using false narratives of Ukraine as a "Nazi state", or of alleged genocide against Russians, Russian President Vladimir Putin justifies his "military operations" in Ukraine. Disinformation campaigns are part of a hybrid war strategy against Europe. Disinformation and censorship campaigns are also being expanded in Russia.

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                  03.2022

The disinformation on the Internet regarding the Ukraine-Russia conflict is becoming more grotesque by the day.
It started with Putin calling his troops in the war against Ukraine "peacekeepers". Another dangerous Russian propaganda is to claim that Ukraine is releasing biological weapons in coordination with NATO.

   Update 11. 03.2022

          Russia wants UN Security Council meeting over biological weapons

The background is Russia's accusation that the U.S. and Ukraine are developing biological weapons. As recently as Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that there was a network of bio-labs in Ukraine working on behalf of the U.S. Defense Department.

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      Selenskyj: Many cities without electricity and water

According to President Volodymyr Selenskyj, a water main in Chernihiv in northeastern Ukraine had been damaged by shelling, leaving the major city of nearly 280,000 people without water. Parts of the Sumy, Kyiv and Donetsk regions also had no electricity, heating problems, gas and water as a result of the fighting.

  Update 13,03,2022

     Criticism of the West in dealing against the invasion of Russia

Instead of focusing on non-violence and discussion, Germany and the Dutch, as well as other countries, have delivered more weapons to Ukraine.
According to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, this is to increase Ukraine's defensibility against the aggressor (Putin). Given Russia's superiority against Ukraine, such actionism makes the situation much worse. For there is now a threat of a cruel battle with high casualties.
Krug also believes that the aggressive sanctions will - except the weakening of the economy not achieve their goals, but will further fuel political division and the tension and fear of nuclear war. 
Krug observes an increasing, aggressive polarization and political agitation against all of Russia in the Western media.
In Krug's opinion, the EU countries practice enemy image politics, scaremongering and justification of military armament.
If this enemy image propaganda and the interference in the Ukraine conflict continue to intensify, this could become a serious threat to peace in the world.

Update 15.03.2022

Marina Ovsyannikova, a Russian journalist, called for resistance on the state broadcaster

Marina Ovsyannikova was on air live for only a few seconds, but this short period of time was enough to attract worldwide attention - and admiration. Admiration, namely, for the courage born of shame and desperation with which the 44-year-old television editor burst into the main news program "Vremya" of the first channel of Russian state television. Standing behind newscaster Ekaterina Andreyeva, she held up a poster to the camera with handwritten slogans such as "No war," "End the war," "Don't believe the propaganda," "Here you are being lied to," and, in English, "Russians against the war."

  Update 16.03. 2022

    The poison of sanctions

In response to U.S. sanctions, Moscow has now in turn imposed entry bans on U.S. President Joe Biden and other U.S. government officials.

But without communication and friendly treatments, further escalations are to be expected worldwide!

Peter Krug was against the sanctions of the West in reaction to Putin's war from the beginning. 
Because these sanctions not only weaken Russia's economy, but destroy friendships worldwide. The sanctions destroy the international art trade in relation to Russia. The sanctions are destroying sports internationally in and out of Russia. Russia, for its part, imposes harsh measures. This is a spiral, which will be felt negatively in Europe in the fall at the latest. Sanctions are not a solution to political problems. The sanctions will not solve anything politically, but they will destroy international relations with Russia. The sanctions will lead to divisions in economic and cultural life. It is foreseeable that economies worldwide will suffer as a result.

Update 16.03.2022

   Russia resigns from the Council of Europe

Since the beginning of the Corona measures against the coronavirus in 2020, there is terrible news every day, which makes a deep world crisis more and more likely.

"Russia is voluntarily withdrawing from the Council of Europe, this is a balanced and well-considered decision," Tolstoy said. The Council of Europe watches over respect for human rights in its 47 member states and is not part of the EU. The body had reacted to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine just over two weeks ago by suspending Russia's membership. This decision was considered historic.

For its part, Moscow announced last Thursday that it would no longer participate in the body's work in response. "Russia will not participate in the transformation of Europe's oldest organization by NATO and the EU, which obediently follows it, into another platform for Western domination and narcissism," the Foreign Ministry said.

           A circular Email from study -composer  and international champion Vladislav Tarasiuk

P. Krug received a terrible circular letter addressed to all study composers. 
It is from IM Vladislav Tarasiuk, who is currently working in a hospital near Kharkov. It describes the war damage in Ukraine.

"Tuesday, Mar 15, 2022 20:05
Today is March 15, 2022. I am alive. My family, thank God, is also
alive...

I continue to work in the hospital near Kharkov. I help the wounded...
Yesterday morning, a woman was admitted to us with shrapnel wounds to
the head. She was dead by morning... By evening, a man was brought in
with torn fingers and a broken hand. They amputated his hand... They
were civilians from my town. So was the girl, Jana, 5 years old, who
was admitted on Sunday with a concussion. The house she lived in was
hit by an air bomb - her mother and grandmother were killed. Jana was
left alive but an orphan...

I have no emotions left at all. I'm scared for my two children, for my
mother, who has lost her memory. All of them are looked after now by
my wife Alla... They are near in a multi-storey building, 300 meters
from my hospital, where I work. During shelling or air strikes they
can't go down to the basement. My mother does not walk well and my
younger daughter Zhenya cries a lot...
This is a great misfortune not only for my family, but for all
Ukrainians.

We lived on our land, we did not take someone else's. Why should we be
killed now and have our homes destroyed? It's a pity that there is
still not a single chess composer from Russia here on this forum who
would condemn the criminal actions of Putin and the subhumans from the
Russian army, the genocide against the Ukrainian people... Why are you
silent, do you approve of this war?
Do you all think that your army is "liberating" Ukraine from Nazism,
that there are no civilian casualties, no destruction...? In Kharkov
alone about 600 residential buildings have been destroyed. This is
true, although not everyone can believe it. And how much more such
misfortune there is in other cities of Ukraine... In the surviving
houses there is no light, no gas, no heating. My friend and etudist
Vladimir Samilo from Kharkov lives in such conditions. It is very hard
for him...
Our Igor Yarmonov from Mariupol has not been in touch for a week. I
really hope he is alive...

My post is addressed to my chess art colleagues, so I beg the
Administrator not to delete it.
Regards, Vladislav."

- May Putin be held accountable for his war of aggression!

     Further arms deliveries from the USA

Biden also promised Ukraine more arms deliveries. The U.S. would provide thousands of anti-tank weapons, some 800 anti-aircraft missiles, 7,000 firearms such as submachine guns, numerous grenade launchers, 20 million rounds of ammunition and even drones, Biden said at the White House on Wednesday.

Update 17.03.2022

               No insight of Putin concerning the irresponsible war against Ukraine!

Putin threatens Russian critics: 'spit them out like a fly'

"The Russian people will simply spit out these traitors like a fly that has accidentally flown into their mouths. Such a natural and necessary self-purification of society will only strengthen our country," he said, referring to russian people speaking out against the attack in Ukraine.

Putin compared the West's sanctions against Russia to the Nazi persecution of Jews. "The West has dropped the mask of decency and is beginning to behave abominably," the Kremlin leader said. "There are obvious parallels with anti-Semitic pogroms." He added that the West is pursuing "only one goal," namely the "destruction of Russia."

"The West doesn't even bother to hide the fact that its goal is to harm the entire Russian economy and every single Russian." If the West believes that Russia would collapse or give in, "they don't know our history or our people."

Russia does not want to comply with the order of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to stop the war in Ukraine.

This was announced by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Thursday. However, in case of an agreement with Kiev, there could be "very quick end" to the military operation. "Our conditions for a peace deal are absolutely clear," stressed Spokesman, who at the same time sharply criticized U.S. President Joe Biden. Biden had called Vladimir Putin a war criminal.

The ICJ, in a historic ruling on Wednesday, had ordered an immediate halt to Russia's military aggression in Ukraine. Only the judges of Russia and China voted against the decision. Moscow demonstratively stayed away from the reading of the decision. The order had been sought by Ukraine. The world court has no means of power to force a state to implement the ruling. It could, however, appeal to the UN Security Council. However, the aggressor state Russia has a veto right in the Security Council.

  Sharp criticism of Joe Biden

  Peskov stressed that the Russian side was putting "an incredible amount of energy" into talks with Kiev, but the same was expected of the Ukrainian side. "We know the way the Ukrainians stall for time." The previous day, Russia had floated a possible neutral status for Ukraine as a "compromise." Kiev, however, rejected this and insisted on security guarantees.

The Kremlin spokesman sharply criticized U.S. President Joe Biden's statement that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. Biden's statements were "unacceptable" and "unforgivable." After all, PUTIN is a "VERY WISE AND CULTURED INTERNATIONAL FIGURE ," he said. Referring to the accusations against Russia in the Russian war, he said that the U.S. had bombed civilians for a very long time "and also used nuclear bombs in Japan." Therefore, he said, the U.S. president had "no right to give lessons to Russia."

Earlier, the Moscow Foreign Ministry said that talks with Kiev were continuing. Military, political and humanitarian issues would be discussed in a video conference, a ministry spokeswoman said Thursday. Most recently, there had been cautious signals of rapprochement during talks between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators, while fighting in Ukraine continued unabated, however.

Meanwhile, the deputy head of the Russian Security Council and former President Dmitry Medvedev leveled serious accusations against the West. Similar to President Vladimir Putin's comments the previous day, Medvedev said the West was plotting to bring the country to its knees in order to tear it apart. The driving force behind this conspiracy, he said, is Russophobia fomented by the United States. "This will not work - Russia has the power to put all our brazen enemies in their place," Medvedev said. He is one of President Vladimir Putin's closest confidants. Medvedev was president from 2008 to 2012.

   Update 18.03.2022

     Putin praises Russian army

Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin has praised the "special military operation" in Ukraine as a "heroic" effort by the Russian army. All plans are being implemented, Putin told tens of thousands of cheering Russians at Moscow's Lushniki Stadium on Friday, referring to the war in the neighboring country.

Inside the stadium, people waved Russian state flags and flags with the letter Z, which is a symbol of the "special military operation." People chanted, "For Russia. For victory." Above the stage where Putin performed was written, "For a world without Nazism." The occasion of the appearance was the eighth anniversary of the annexation of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea on March 18, 2014.

   Peter Krug has great admiration for the courageous Russians who continue to demonstrate against the war in Ukraine in public places in Russia and for this    accept arrest and a possible high prison sentence!

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    Instagram and Facebook are now blocked in Russia.

In addition to Western media, Russia also recently blocked Internet platforms. As of last Monday, Instagram was no longer accessible in Russia, affecting around 80 million users.

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   Putin misuses verses from the Bible to 
                    Mobilization

"We want to free people from this suffering and it is the most important reason and goal of the military operation.... Exactly this goal ... and here I think of the words of the holy scriptures: there is no more love than when someone gives his soul for his friends.  - And we see how heroically our guys are fighting in the course of this operation ..."

(Lushniki Stadium on Friday)

     Sanctions against Russia is pure poison

For Krug, the sanctions against Russia are not only senseless, because sanctions do not lead to peace. but also poison. 
Because it is to be feared that the Putin - followers just because of the sanctions will weld more together and will lead the war against Ukraine - all the more - to the bitter end.

If the NATO countries and EU countries like the Germans interfere even more in the Russia-Ukraine war, a new world war is possible in the future.

  Update 19.03. 2022

   Peter Krug and the Corona - Measures against the coronavirus

For more than two years, mask obligation, vaccination obligation, distance obligation, disinfection obligation are prescribed as obligatory for all. Those who do not comply risk fines.
Peter Krug, however, has not been vaccinated against the corona virus to this day and has never had Covid19. He only got tested once against Corona so he could go to the restaurant. 
Krug had never tested positive for Corona in over 2 years. Most of the time, Krug has not worn an FFP2 mask and has never complied with the distance rules. Krug also does not disinfect his hands when he enters a church. Krug views the entire Corona effort as pointless and destructive. 

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       Vladimir Putin: " Necessary purges".

With a kind of rage speech on Wednesday (19.03.2022) the Russian president Vladimir Putin has let listen. On the one hand, the president compares the West with Nazis, on the other hand, he thinks that Russia must be cleansed of traitors. Vladimir Putin's statements are frightening. He said: "They will be swatted out like flies, and this necessary and natural purge will strengthen our society. This distinction paints a picture of a man who is probably ready for anything. What escapes him in his countless comparisons with Nazis is that his statements are much closer to Nazi rhetoric than anyone else. 

   20.03.2022

     Criticism of NATO presence in Eastern Europe

Deputy Foreign Minister Le said that the Western military alliance should not expand further eastward, thereby cornering a nuclear power like Russia. 

 - The West argues on the other hand  that there is no ban on certain countries joining.

         Update 20.03.2022                              Krug's criticism of Germany's aggressive foreign policy.

Sanctions are poison. Sanctions are destruction of culture, economy and friendship. Sanctions are war. The aggressive and ignorant German foreign policy under Olaf Scholz and Annalena Baerbock with its sanctions has worsened the situation of the Russia - Ukraine war.  The arms deliveries to Ukraine will result in more deaths on the Russian and Ukrainian side. Moreover, the war will be much more cruel and Ukraine much more destroyed. Germany with his actionism has aggravated the situation in Ukraine and the tension against the East. Moreover, it has exacerbated the power conflict between the West and the East. There is a threat of a new world war if Germany and other NATO countries interfere even further.

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      Selenski was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

Krug can not understand why Selensky was proposed to a Nobel Peace Prize.
Selensky is very brave and a strong personality. Sympathy goes to the Ukrainian brave people but in the opinion of Krug Selensky does not contribute anything to peace worldwide, because the arms deliveries and the demanded sanctions of Selensky turn the world into a theater of war.

  Update 21.03.2022

      Terrible words of revenge from Selensky:

"The Russian military can't find the way home, and that's why our military is helping them on the way to God's court, before which they will all receive only the one punishment - the eternal cellar, eternally in the hail of bombs, eternally without food, water and heating." This is the punishment "for everything they did to our people," Selenskyj added.

Even as the situation in Ukraine grows more desperate, Selensky's image paints more and more of a war hero with increasingly terrible thoughts of revenge.

For Peter Krug it is clear that Selensky is not a messenger of peace and that the worldwide admiration for Selensky could even become dangerous, because Selensky keeps repeating the message that the sanctions should be tightened even more, and calls on NATO - states to control the airspace in Ukraine, or to procure fighter jets for defense from abroad. 
These are all demands that, far from contributing to world peace, could drag the world into a third world war.

  Udate 23.03.2022

    Russia is sealing itself off more and more

Destruction, despair, grief. 
Images of the war in Ukraine are in the media every day. In Russia, however, hardly anyone gets to see this. Instead of information, the Russian population only gets to see propaganda.
On Russian television, one receives the narrative given by the government.
In addition to positive coverage, you see spots like this one, for example:
A young man is caught spraying graffiti, and when it becomes clear what he is spraying, the police shake his hands with glee. It's a Z. 
The letter has become a symbol of support for Putin's war.
You can see it on tanks, on tricots and even among the youngest among the population. 
To keep the mood up, the Kremlin keeps cutting off communication with the outside world.
Putin's government classifies the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram as extremist. 
Accessing these blocked sites using technical tricks is thus now punishable. 
Russian citizens are not allowed to inform themselves or protest outside the propaganda bubble. 
Anyone who nevertheless criticizes must reckon with severe penalties. Alexei Navalny is a case in point. The former opposition politician will be sentenced on Tuesday to 9 more years under particularly harsh prison conditions in a penal camp.   -

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     Use of advanced weapons in Ukraine

The more and more effective weapons Nato - states like Germany sends to Ukraine for defense, 
the harder, the more brutal and the greater the danger that Russia will resort to weapons of mass destruction because of the increased human losses and because of the duration of the war.  
Interference in a war where both sides, i.e. Ukraine and the Russians, see military conflict as the only solution is very problematic. 
Because with it is connected also the responsibility opposite the collateral damage in the Ukraine.  (Opinion of Peter Krug)

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    US government officially accuses Russia of war crimes

The U.S. government for the first time officially accuses Russian forces in Ukraine of war crimes. "Today I can announce that based on currently available information, the U.S. government has concluded that members of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine have committed war crimes," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday.

       Update 25. März 2022

      Sergei Lavrov: "West has declared "total HYPRID WAR" on Moscow".

Referring to Western sanctions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has spoken of a "hybrid war" directed against Moscow. "Today they have declared a real hybrid war on us, total war," Lavrov said Friday.

Lavrov went on to say that Europe's politicians want to "destroy, break, annihilate, strangle" Russia. "When we see this lawlessness of sanctions, of course, it's clear that all these values that our Western colleagues have constantly preached to us - namely freedom of expression, market economy and inviolability of private property, presumption of innocence - are worthless."

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Because of Russia's war on Ukraine, the seven leading democratic economic powers (G7) and the EU had agreed on Thursday to new sanctions that would make transactions involving gold much more difficult for Russia. The U.S. also imposed new punitive measures on hundreds of members of the Russian parliament and other members of the Russian elite.

The U.S. also announced Friday that it will supply an additional 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the EU this year, together with international partners. In the long term, the volume is expected to rise to 50 billion cubic meters per year. This could replace about a third of current gas imports from Russia.

  Update 26 März 2022   

      German missiles and machine guns arrived

More weapons from Germany have arrived in Ukraine for the fight against Russian aggressors. As the Deutsche Presse-Agentur learned from Ukrainian government circles, these are 1500 air defense missiles of the type "Strela" and 100 machine guns MG3. In addition, there are 8 million rounds of ammunition for small arms. According to the report, other aid supplies from Germany for the Ukrainian armed forces have also arrived in the war zone.

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Russia's invasion of Ukraine was the beginning of intensive Western and Russian War rearmament propaganda. Ukraine seems to have been only the military fuel for the outbreak of the preliminary stage of world war, or the imminent danger of a world war between NATO and Russia. 

 There is no criticism in the mass media about arms deliveries by the Germans.
The Russian point of view, on the other hand, hardly, or only sporadically, appears in the Western media. 
NATO, as well as the Russian government, sees the military danger in foreign territory, which has now led to further armament on the NATO - Russia border. 

Lavrov already spoke of a "hybrid war, or total war" with regard to western sanctions.

  Update März 2022

PUTIN`s claims against the West

     "Russophobia."

 Putin declared that the West is trying to destroy the thousand-year-old Russian Empire - and claims that there is widespread Russophobia in the West.

        UPDATE 28 March 2022

                                                                 Olaf Scholz wants "IRON DOME" against Putin

During a meeting between Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Inspector General Eberhard Zorn this week on the use of the 100 billion euro special fund for the Bundeswehr, an "Iron Dome" was also a topic, the newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported. Specifically, it was about a possible acquisition of the Israeli "Arrow 3" system.

April 2022
          Compulsory vaccination failed in the German Bundestag !!!

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had been called back from the NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels especially for the vote. But the traffic light coalition did not bring the vaccination duty starting from 60 nevertheless by the parliament.

In Germany, the introduction of compulsory corona vaccination failed. In the Bundestag the bill for a vaccination obligation starting from 60 years did not receive the necessary majority on Thursday. The proposal for a duty initially from 60 years rejected 378 MPs, voted for 296 MPs and nine abstained. This meant that Chancellor Olaf Scholz's traffic light coalition suffered its first important defeat in the vote.

Scholz had had Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock recalled from the NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels specifically for the vote. Before the vote, the governing parties had suspended factional discipline because of their massive internal differences on the issue. While the right-wing populist AfD and the left clearly opposed compulsory vaccination, the conservative CDU/CSU parties introduced their own proposal.

9.04.2022

                  Compulsory vaccination within Austria against Corona?

The state wants to force millions of people to be injected with a drug that can have severe side effects in individual cases and that is still in a medical study phase until 2023, 2024. There is no full knowledge of short- and medium-term side effects, and no knowledge of long-term side effects. Otherwise, the development of a safe vaccine will take more than 10 years. 
With the MRNA vaccines, we even have a completely new mode of action. One thing is certain: Vaccination even causes deaths. The numbers are alarming: The Paul Ehrlich Institute recorded in its current safety report so far 2255 suspected cases of fatal outcome of the vaccination. Due to the large number of people affected, it is certain that there would be deaths among them simply because of government coercion. Legally to the point: With the enactment of this vaccination obligation, the state is intentionally killing people. 
The fundamental question whether killings of innocent humans could be justified, in order to protect other legal interests the Federal Constitutional Court with view of the RIGHT to LIFE clearly negated: 
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Such treatment disregards the persons concerned as subjects with dignity and inalienable rights. 
They are - by the fact that their killing is used as a means to save others - CONDEMNED and at the same time deprived of their rights. By disposing of their lives unilaterally by the state. Nothing else is valid for a vaccination duty with threatening death consequences.

- The people concerned are treated as an object. In them only a danger for others is seen, which is to be eliminated or reduced. Compulsory vaccination with the currently approved COVID 19 vaccines is therefore incompatible with the right to life in conjunction with human dignity. The threat of death also leads to the European Convention on Human Rights. 
In addition, there is a fundamental lack of proportionality in compulsory vaccination. Among others, the right to physical integrity, the freedom of occupation and the right to informational self-determination would therefore also be violated. COVID 19 is now more in the range of influenza in case mortality.

Vaccination does not confer herd immunity and reduces infectivity only marginally, if at all, so it does not provide legally relevant foreign protection. 
It neither protects against infection nor reliably against severe courses. There was no systematic overloading of the health care system at any time during the “pandemic”. The past two years have been characterized by rock-bottom violations of our constitution. 

Update 10 April 2022

  Existential survival goes beyond chess composition

Peter Krug apparently lost all sources of income during the two years of Corona - lockdowns and refusal to vaccinate.
The everyday bills can not be paid. The health of Peter Krug has reached a low point.
Under such an existential situation, chess composition is no longer possible or affordable for Peter Krug.

The main problem in chess composition is, on the one hand, the high expenditure of time, on the other hand, the low recognition and also the fact that you can't earn money.

Udpate April 2022

The state of health of Peter Krug is not pleasing. Over 39 degrees Celsius. Body weak. Face expressionless. Painful swellings on the body. Doctor is not affordable, especially in the Corona - madness - time.
Freezing on the body. He has only the need to lie down, nothing else. Headaches and severe cold sensations make restful sleep impossible.
 

Udate 25.05.22

Mask obligation in trade and in the public traffic ("Öffis") in Austria falls starting from 1.June.
Vienna but goes stricter way

"The pandemic is not over. But it "gives us a breathing space," Health Minister Johannes Rauch said at a press conference with Constitutional Minister Karoline Edstadler. For particularly vulnerable settings, i.e. in hospitals and nursing homes, the mask requirement continues to apply. It also remains in place in doctors' offices.

Vienna, however, continues to adhere to the mask requirement in public transport, buses and trains. This was announced by Mayor Michael Ludwig at a press conference.

  June 1, 2022

Mask torture is suspended for a few months.

It applies nationwide in Austria with immediate effect only in the health and care sector. This affects doctors' offices, hospitals, retirement and nursing homes, health spas and mobile care services.

3-G proof: Almost forgotten, but the green passport is still checked - for visitors of patients in hospitals or visitors in retirement or nursing homes. Only those who have been vaccinated, recovered or tested are allowed in as guests.

  Update 22.06.2022

Unemployed in Hallein - because Peter Krug did not get vaccinated and refused to be tested with the PCR test

Peter Krug is still fighting for his economic existence. His courses, which went on for many years, no longer take place because Peter Krug remains true to himself and does not allow himself to be bent. Now he has to start all over again with distributing flyers and hoping that he will be lucky in the future.

Update 23.06.2022

Mandatory vaccination against the coronavirus is abolished

The compulsory vaccination is now officially no more. It was never really effective anyway, now the government has decided to abolish it. A corresponding motion was introduced on Thursday in a special session of the National Council, it will be decided in July. There was no criticism of the abolition of the previously only suspended obligation.

The government argued that the move was due to a lack of acceptance on the one hand, and on the other to the fact that the general conditions had changed with the less lethal Omikron variant: "Compulsory vaccination does not make anyone vaccinate," said Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens), who inherited the project from his predecessor and the provincial governors who had once pushed for it.

Compulsory vaccination was introduced under different conditions, Johannes Rauch said. At that time, he said, delta was the dominant variant, which had caused high hospitalization rates: "Intensive care units were at the limit of their capacity." He himself also supported mandatory vaccination at the time, the minister stressed. "But Omikron changed the rules."

With the new variant, he said, the vaccine's effectiveness against infection has been reduced. Even people who are basically willing to be vaccinated are now more difficult to convince of the need for a booster, Rauch said. August Wöginger, head of the VP club, also referred to the milder course of the Omikron variant. In addition, one must look at the reaction of the people, he said: If you order something with duty from the state, the switch is flipped in some. "With compulsory vaccination, we have not brought additional people to vaccinate."

The vaccination obligation came into force at the beginning of February, and the punishment was supposed to start in mid-March. However, this did not happen because an expert commission set up to evaluate the mandatory vaccination did not consider it to be proportionate.

Assuming that the currently circulating Omikron subvariants remain dominant and no "wild mutant" emerges, the pressure on intensive care units is not expected to increase significantly again, said clinical pharmacologist Markus Zeitlinger. "From this point of view, I understand that the not very popular vaccination requirement is now being abolished," said the head of the University Department of Clinical Pharmacology at MedUni/AKH Vienna.

FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl spoke of an important and correct step. But now, he said, the Covid Measures Act must also be passed to prevent a comeback of the G-rules.

Udate 26 July 2022

   Inflation in Austria

Almost every month the cost of renting the apartment increased. 
Reminder letters and high operating costs on the one hand, and Peter's unemployment on the other hand, make life financially very expensive. It is questionable whether Peter will be able to heat this winter.

Update July 28, 2022

According to a study, one in five Austrians profess to have lost friends because they have different opinions about Corona measures or vaccinations.  63 percent missed their friends very much. 37 percent even missed them so much that they disregarded applicable contact restrictions.

The study's findings are based on a survey conducted by the market research institute Integral. 500 people between the ages of 16 and 75 were surveyed online in June. 
 

 3rd August 2022

One-sided reporting of victims in the Corona era

The tragic suicide of Dr. Lisa - Maria Kellermayr (1985 - 29th July 2022)  from Seewalchen at lake Attersee

She became known to a broad public via the leading media for the fact that she was massively threatened by vaccination opponents and critics of the Corona - protection measures during the Corona - measure period 2020 - 2022. She then decided to quit her practice and committed suicide a month later.

This is a very sad climax of the agitation of radical and violent people. A funeral service was held in Vienna and other cities as a result, and the wave of outrage continues to generate more and more waves. The media are now reporting, as if on a conveyor belt, further cases of doctors and virologists  (Virologist Dorothea van Laer) who have been attacked by critics of the measures. 

At times, Van Laer went out on the street wearing only a wig because of the massive attacks. Most of the threats came via e-mails. 

Calls for stricter sentencing and monitoring of critics of the measures against Corona are growing louder and louder.
- So far, according to Peter, there is nothing wrong, if also - and this is the terrible thing - the opposite side (the critics of measures) would have their say. In Germany, for example, Dr. Bodo Schiffmann received death threats for months and fled with his family to Arusha in Tanzania (Africa) out of fear for his family. - A German urologist named Dr. Jens Bengen chose suicide because he criticized the mask requirement and the Corona - vaccination coercion. Countless people lost jobs simply because they were unwilling to be vaccinated or tested. The list is endless. The critics of the measures were usually called corona-deniers, conspiracy theorists, swindlers, covidiots and right-wing radicals. Since the beginning of the Corona measures 2020, critics have been consistently excluded from public discussion.

Peter Krug is afraid that this one-sided reporting of victims of the Corona measures proponents and the simultaneous concealment of the victims of the measures critics will lead to a deeper division in society.

Update  August 8, 2022

   Blackout in Hallein
Late at night in the area of Oberhofgasse to Bayerhammerplatz (center Hallein) the electric power failed 4 times in a row. Whole blocks of houses were suddenly in darkness.

Report on side effects in Austria after COVID - vaccine

Seven people have received compensation

  August 12, 2022

"Nearly 19 million doses of the Covid vaccine have been given in Austria so far. The majority of these have passed without complications. However, the different Covid vaccines can also cause vaccination reactions and side effects, just like any other drug."

In Austria, these adverse reaction reports are collected by the Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG).

Around 1400 people have made such a request during the past two years, Ö1-Morgenjournal reported Friday. This corresponds to rounded 0.1 percent of the 19 million doses administered in Austria. Compensation has now been paid out for the first time in seven cases. According to information from the Health Ministry, five people received a one-time payment in an average amount of 1600 euros. Two affected persons were awarded a temporary monthly pension in the amount of about 900 euros.

A total of about 50,000 suspected vaccine reactions and adverse events were reported during the past two years. The majority were mild to moderate and had also disappeared after a few days. The most common reports include: Headache, fever, pain at the injection site, fatigue, joint pain, muscle pain, chills, nausea, dizziness, and pain in an extremity.

Specifically, the evidence showed that those affected suffered significant health problems following a Covid vaccination. This includes, for example, inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis) or severe thromboses, as observed in rare cases after administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine. A causal relationship between vaccination and thrombosis is suspected in 15 cases.

With regard to myocarditis, 400 suspected cases have been reported, including five deaths. 

  Corona 2022

24.08.2022

Many have already suspected it, but now it is certain: The German government is starting to tighten the Corona measures again. Health Minister Lauterbach's "winter tire" corona plan had previously been ridiculed - now it is being implemented.

The Corona roadmap of Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) is becoming reality. According to it, FFP2 masks are to be worn in all indoor spaces - i.e. public transport, workplaces and also schools - from October 1 until Easter in April 2023. For now, the federal cabinet announced it would reintroduce mandatory FFP2 masks on long-distance trains and airplanes - providing no evidence or justification. So, once again, nothing will come of the "old normal" before Corona in Germany.

Update 27.08.2022

  Florian Thalhammer said:   "All unvaccinated end up in intensive care"

More scaremongering and psychological blackmail (vaccination alone saves):

Peter Krug's partner's employer, said, "If you don't get vaccinated, you will die."
Reza Tavakoli, a former employer of Nadia Cipriani, said to Nadia Cipriani, who had not been vaccinated against corona: "I will visit you at the cemetery."

Update 31. 08. 2022

  Vaccination panel recommends 4th prick for Corona vaccination

In the colder months, when people are spending more time indoors, more Corona infections can be expected again. The National Immunization Panel (NIG) has now made a new recommendation: Everyone age 12 and older should also get a fourth sting no earlier than four to six months after their third dose.

 under twelve years of age should be vaccinated three times by the time school starts

The NIG agrees and changed the vaccination recommendation a few days before school started. The fourth vaccination is now recommended for all persons over twelve years of age, with an appropriate interval from the last vaccination, depending on age, from four to six months after completion of basic immunization (third vaccination), explained vaccination expert Herwig Kollaritsch.
The time interval of up to six months between the third and fourth vaccination is advisable, he said, because it means a stronger immune response can be expected. "If they are too close together, it doesn't do as much good," Kollaritsch explained. He also clarified that it is "unreasonable to wait for variant vaccines." The currently available vaccines would provide broad-spectrum vaccine protection even against the currently circulating variants.

Mandatory masks also likely to return

But other measures are likely to be introduced in the near future: "It is likely that in the fall, mandatory masks will again be useful and necessary in certain areas, such as public transport or supermarkets," the health minister said.

Update September 11, 2022

The inflation and cost-of-living crisis in Austria continues to worsen, with many people no longer able to afford electricity, gas, fuel or even food. 

  Update September 21, 2022

Putin escalation: From now on "war with NATO and the West".

Putin decrees partial mobilization: 300,000 soldiers were not enough, soon half a million Russians will be on combat duty on the Ukraine front.

Vladimir Putin actually wanted to make an appeal to the Russian people via TV on Tuesday evening. After the surprising cancellation, this turned into an announcement on Wednesday that hit like a bomb internationally: Putin called for the immediate partial mobilization of his armed forces, wants to call up 300,000 reservists and send them into the Ukraine war before winter.

Because of a threatening counteroffensive by the Ukrainian army, this "preventive step" was necessary, Putin said in his barely one-minute announcement. In his propaganda presentation, Russia itself is being attacked by Ukraine and the West and is only defending itself - albeit rather offensively...

"We will use all our resources to defend our people. If our territorial integrity comes under threat, we will use all the means at our disposal to defend Russia and its citizens. This is not a bluff."

"Those who blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the wind can also turn in their direction," the Russian president raged on camera of the very station that loves to spread nuclear strike fantasies against Western powers and backs them up with impressive graphics and visuals.
Finally, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu himself was allowed to deliver powerful verbal roundhouse blows on state TV "Rossiya 24": "The time has come when we are at war with NATO and the collective West," said the close Putin confidant, according to the Russian news portal "Mash".

October second 2022

Chess composition is for Peter Krug no longer affordable!

Peter Krug has lost yoga classes since 2021 because of the Corona measures. A particularly painful loss was the courses at the Freilassing Sports Park in 2021. in Germany. 
He refused to undergo regular PCR testing. Because of vaccination refusal, he also lost his remaining courses.  In 2022 he then permanently had no more purchase. In addition, there were very high additional payments because of the rent. The price increases make it impossible for Peter to afford anything except eating and sleeping. Peter currently lives a life below the subsistence level. He no longer has the money for buses or trains. Chess composition is no longer affordable. Sometimes, however, Peter Krug publishes some lighter chess studies.

  Period of rent increases and  price increases in general

On 28 November 2023, i.e. directly following the Corona measures, Peter Krug received an amendment to the standing order for the residential rent. 
These rent increases subsequently took place almost every other month. The rent costs have come to a level that has become inhumane for Peter Krug and his partner. Even groceries can no longer be bought without worry. Every loaf of bread, every drink has to be considered three times. 
The cost of living is so high that a luxury activity such as chess composition is no longer possible or affordable. In addition, Peter Krug has lost all yoga enthusiasts because of the Corona measures and the protest against them. Incomes are so low and the cost of living so inhumanly high that no new clothes are affordable, no train or bus is affordable and no holiday is affordable. 

  November 29 2022

Zero Covid Protests in China: 

Now Xi Jinping sends Tanks into the Streets Demonstrators in China are currently risking everything to regain their freedom. However, Xi Jinping's response was not long in coming: the president is now sending tanks into the streets.

Massive police as well as military presence has prevented a possible resurgence of protests against the government's harsh zero-covide policy in several Chinese cities. Increased security forces can be seen on the streets in the capital Beijing and in cities such as Shanghai, Guangzhou and Xuzhou. Videos on social media even show the deployment of several tanks in the process.

Cell phones are being monitored
Security services are also increasingly stopping passers-by. They have to show identification and their cell phones. The cell phones were checked for suspicious content or programs such as tunnel services (VPN) to circumvent Chinese censorship.

"Lift the lockdown"
Thousands of people had taken to the streets in several cities over the weekend in protest against the rigorous zero-covid measures such as curfews, forced quarantine, mass testing and constant control over Corona apps. In Beijing, they chanted "Lift the lockdown" and "We don't want PCR testing, we want freedom." These were the largest protests in China since the democracy movement, which the military bloodily put down in 1989.

27.12.2022

 Christian Drosten. On the situation of the corona pandemic

"We are experiencing the first endemic wave with SARS-CoV-2 this winter, in my estimation this means the pandemic is over," the head of virology at Berlin's Charité University Hospital told the Tagesspiegel newspaper. The immunity in the population will be so broad and resilient after this winter that the virus can hardly get through in the summer." Drosten cited another mutation jump as the only limitation. "But I don't expect that anymore at the moment either."

December 30, 2022

Compulsory wearing of masks in Bavaria's local public transport (bus and trains) ended

More than two and a half years after its introduction, the obligation to wear a mask on local buses and trains in Bavaria has come to an end. 

January 7, 2023

  Chess composition and lack of freedom

Peter K. has currently only a few minutes a day to use the Internet. Moreover, he has hardly any time to make analyses with the computer. Chess composition is impossible under such conditions. Ideas in chess composition cannot be worked out. In addition, Peter Krug had been permanently frustrated by the fact that he received no recognition in Germany and especially in Austria for his achievements as a composer. After decades of hoping for recognition in the German-speaking world, the frustration was too much for him.
Since it is completely hopeless for Peter Krug to continue with study composition he has given up this time wasting activity as a whole.

  January 15, 2023

Johannes Rauch wants to abolish all corona regulations

Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) announces to the "Kronen Zeitung" to abolish all Corona laws and regulations this year. Corona is thus no longer to be a notifiable disease. In the Ö1 "Mittagsjournal" Rauch assumed that the regulations will fall in the first half of the year.
An end is coming to symptomless free testing. From the middle of the year, only those who have symptoms will be tested for free, the minister explained: "Those who are sick will be tested."

  January 25, 2023 Germany supplies 14 Leopard tanks to Ukraine

"The decision follows our well-known line of supporting Ukraine to the best of our ability. We are acting in a closely coordinated and concerted manner internationally," Chancellor Olaf Scholz is quoted as saying in the statement.
The decision had been made in the Chancellery on Tuesday evening, according to information from Reuters and "Spiegel".
The decisive building block for this was that, according to insider information, it was said from Washington that the U.S. will also send 30 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine.

Russia warned that the delivery of Western battle tanks would escalate the war. The supply of battle tanks by the United States would be "another blatant provocation," Russia's U.S. Ambassador Anatoly Antonov said Wednesday. 

  The beginning of 2023 marks drastic changes for Peter Krug

The abandonment of the chess composition is decided. 
Professionally, Peter Krug has now lost several jobs as a yoga teacher because of his critical stance on the Corona measures. This has now also become a firm certainty.
This year is very challenging for Peter Krug because a reorientation will be necessary.

   February 1, 2023 

As of April 30, the wearing of an FFP2 mask in vulnerable areas is to be phased out, as is the risk group exemption. The reason given for phasing out these measures is the current situation.

"The high immunity in the population and the availability of COVID-19 drugs allow this step," Health Minister Johannes Rauch stressed Wednesday. As of June 30, Austria should thus return to "normal operation."

Already at the end of December last year, the 3G rule fell in hospitals, retirement homes, nursing homes and other healthcare facilities. Only Vienna always drove a stricter course in this respect. In any case, an FFP2 mask still had to be worn in these areas.

For Peter Krug, the 3 years of mandatory mask use were unbearable. 
The mental damage and the resulting social division into “Corona believers” and “non-believers” will continue even after the end of the Corona measures. But now an end of the tunnel is in sight, about which all Austrians, whether measures - critics, or not can rejoice. 

The task of Peter Krug in 2023 is the reorientation regarding the location and the people in his yoga practice. Various health problems arose precisely because of the Corona - measures. One of them is the "Corona - belly", which arose due to the unaccustomed physical inactivity. Also, Peter Krug has become physically stiffer and his muscles have regressed during these three years. The excessive sitting during the lockdown period resulted in painful hemorrhoids. 

 Germany 

Masks no longer compulsory in German public transport

After almost three years of Corona, masks are no longer compulsory on buses and trains throughout Germany.

"Overdue" called the health policy spokesman of the Union parliamentary group, Tino Sorge (CDU), the end of the mask obligation in buses and trains.

"The horror forecasts of Minister Karl Lauterbach have all proven to be wrong."

  Looking back at the 3 years of COVID measures

Peter Krug never fell ill with COVID during these three years, nor did his partner Lucia Nadia Cipriani. Peter Krug never saw any effects from the coronavirus. Instead, the effects of the measures against COVID were strongly felt.
He lost several jobs at once that were normally secure. The lockdown for the unvaccinated and the threat of months of mandatory vaccination felt like a dictatorship to Peter Krug. Criticism against the Corona measures was not allowed during these three years. Countless critical comments were deleted from the Internet. Youtube deleted millions of videos and destroyed countless channels.  Many contemporary reports were thus lost forever.

Critics of the corona measures were etticized as "corona -harmonizers, as corona deniers, COVIDIOT, conspiracy theorists or Schwurbler. Experts, no matter what direction, whether medical or not, who expressed themselves critically risked their reputation and their work. Close friendships were destroyed by the Corona measures. Only because people had different opinions in the Corona - time. Some who were afraid of Corona, others who consider this fear unfounded. For a long time, the main topic in the media was the corona measures and the discourse about the infection figures. It was obeyed to experts who made an unfavorable prognosis regarding corona. The corona measures were absolutely crazy in 2020. Even the kindergartens were closed off. Children were not allowed in playgrounds. And the borders from Bavaria to Germany were closed and guarded. Even in the the area around the Barmstein, where only a few people stay, barriers were erected (2020) by the Bavarian police. It was even forbidden for some time to hike on the small Barmstein.

  February 2, 2023

Vorarlberg's Governor Markus Wallner (ÖVP) is in favor of an immediate end to the mask requirement. Wallner told ORF Radio Vorarlberg and Vorarlberger Nachrichten that this had also been reported back to Vienna in the statement on the ordinance - according to which the mask requirement generally ends as of April 30. It is not understandable why hospitals and nursing homes should insist on the mask obligation for another three months.
Wallner also justified his position with the encroachment on fundamental rights caused by the mask requirement. The state has to take back encroachments on fundamental rights if there is even the slightest chance of this happening, said the governor.

 Compulsory wearing of masks in Vienna, March 2, 2023
  After 1,051 days, the obligation to wear a mask on public transport has ended.

Since March 1, the mask obligation has also fallen here, as well as in pharmacies. Vienna's mayor Michael Ludwig, who was part of Team Vorsicht from the beginning of the pandemic for the 2-million-metropolis Vienna long relied on tougher Corona measures - the so-called "Viennese way" - but continues to advise caution.

April 17, 2023

On 17 April 2023, Wladimir Kara-Mursa was sentenced to 25 years in a penal colony for his public criticism of the Ukraine war, the maximum possible sentence and despite his polyneuropathy condition. A court in Moscow, presided over by Judge Sergei Podoprigorov, ruled he was guilty of high treason as well as other offences such as spreading "false information about the army" and working for an "undesirable" organisation.

  April 29, 2023

  On April 30, the time has finally come! After three years, the last compulsory masking in Austria ends on Sunday. 
On April 6, 2020, the mandatory wearing of masks in supermarkets started in Austria, and from May 1, 2020, it applied in all publicly accessible, enclosed spaces. Exactly three years later, the last remaining obligation to wear masks will end on Sunday, April 30. It most recently applied to hospitals, retirement and nursing homes, doctors' offices and other places where health and care services are provided.

All other measures will also end at the end of June. "The high immunity of the population allows us to end the protective measures in an orderly manner," emphasizes Health Minister Johannes Rauch. 
 

July 2023

  Once again, the residential rent has been raised. The cost of living is no longer affordable.
  

   August 23, 2023

After a carefree summer, the new Corona variant "Eris" is also causing numbers to rise again in Austria.

"Eris" aka EG.5.1 is a so-called escape variant, which due to another mutation in the spike protein is better able to bypass immune protection - be it through vaccination or a passed infection with a previous variant. "Since EG.5.1, like the other Omikron variants, tends to affect the upper respiratory tract, the virus is more easily transmissible and thus again somewhat more contagious, but as a result also leads to less severe courses of disease," explains virologist Norbert Nowotny.

For this reason, the virologist recommends vulnerable groups, as with all other respiratory infections, to get a Corona booster vaccination in the fall. For everyone else, he said, the immune system is basically in good shape. In addition, he said, the FFP2 mask remains a safe protection and is urged to vulnerable groups starting in the fall. "Not now, when it's so hot. Now we are still enjoying the summer," Nowotny said.

  Update
1. September 2023

Peter Krug permanently lost all yoga practitioners as a result of the Corona measures, such as compulsory vaccination and compulsory testing (PCR test) in fitness centres (Sportpark Freilassing) and privately. 
The financial loss is permanent and has a very negative effect on his health and creativity. Worried about further financial problems, Peter Krug became more obese for the first time. The landlord of the flat increases the rent at intervals of a few months. The reason is said to be the index adjustment. But Peter Krug has never before received such a rent increase in such a short period of time. Peter Krug is currently only rarely able to compose a good chess study. The financial worries simply seem too overwhelming. Out of desperation, Peter Krug took a job as a cleaner. He currently works privately for Siegried Maria Größing (author) and Stefan Größing (Professor and author). Siegried Maria Größing is a well-known writer. Peter Krug travels to this job as a "window cleaner" and other household chores by bicycle to Golling. 
Unfortunately, this cleaning work is very poorly paid and Peter Krug is lucky if he can pay for the very basics in life. 

 - As of today, there is more talk about the corona virus. It is said:

Virologists and experts agree that the next wave will definitely come. The only question is when and with what intensity. The variants EG.5.1 ("Eris") and BA.2.86 ("Pirola"), which are currently spreading worldwide, could have the potential for this. But before that happens, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has now given the green light for Biontech/Pfizer's adapted Covid-19 vaccine Comirnaty.

The vaccination recommendations are the same again. People over 60 should get vaccinated again...;
Peter Krug fears that the Corona hysteria could flare up again....

5 December 2023
Heel spurs restrict Peter Krug's movement to such an extent that he limps even when doing his daily shopping. Adventures in the mountains have become impossible for this reason.
The pain in his left foot now also occurs when he is not on foot.

19 December 2023 

Due to the constant pain in his left foot, Peter Krug could hardly leave the house and when he did, it was only to go shopping for the bare essentials on his bike. The pain forces him to have a permanent physical restriction, which Peter Krug now tries to compensate for more than before with daily yoga exercises.

19.02.2024

For the most part, it is no longer possible for Peter Krug to compose chess studies with the intensity he used to. He lacks the appropriate space, the inspiring Harold van der Heijden database and, above all, a secure financial background. Since Corona 2020, the already weak financial foundations have collapsed. Constant everyday worries make it impossible to engage intensively in chess study composition. This is why Peter Krug has only been able to send in a few and only light chess studies in recent years. He has not sent anything to the FIDE album for many years.

16.03.2024

 Intensive use of the internet to find relatives as an orphan

Peter Krug´s hope of finding his relatives or distant relatives (father, grandfather, grandmother and so on) through intensive use and publication on the Internet has unfortunately not yet been fulfilled.

21.03.2024

Rents continue to rise. There are only a few people in the building who have stayed. Most people have had to move out because the rent has become so high. Especially the electricity and heating costs. 
The Wimmer property, located at Kranzlmarkt 4 in the centre of Salzburg, now writes almost every month demanding increases and additional payments. Tenants can no longer afford this. It is obvious that the landlords at Oberhofgasse 4 don't care if the flats are mostly empty.

1.April 2024

Description of a typical chess composer by Peter Krug:
1. fixed on 64 squares in white and black
2. outside the board there are only people and things that are only relevant if they are used to win prizes, honourable mentions and FIDE album points
3. complete indifference to the lives of other chess composers
4. as a judge he is put in a position to categorise chess study compositions as valuable and less valuable objects
5. the longer someone works as a chess composer, the colder, more indifferent and more prejudiced he becomes
6. after more than 10 years of chess composition, the chess composer believes to be in complete possession of the truth and to be able to evaluate and judge everything that has to do with chess composition. 
7. a chess composer is basically a lonely person who spends many hours and nights in front of the computer in order to succeed at least on the 64 squares, even though most chess composers have achieved little outside the chessboard and are usually also weak party chess players.
8. to become a chess composer in order to forget one's own sufferings in life and the feeling of failure
9. a successful chess composer is someone who can adapt perfectly to the demands of the adjudicators and fulfil them. Chess composers are hardly successful if they do not respect the quality guidelines of the adjudicators and want to go their own way.

10. a typical chess composer leads a boring life with few changes and risks. This is perhaps one of the reasons why there is hardly anything interesting to report about the life of a chess composer.