The stargazer is a simple old man. He worked as a farmhand on his brother’s mountain farm all his life and never married. The pride and joy of this loner and “farmer’s philosopher” is his modest “observatory”, which he has set up in a small hut above the farm and from which he immerses himself as often as possible in the fascination of the infinite starry sky. He has had no special schooling, but his thoughts are nevertheless intriguing. They testify to curiosity, a thirst for knowledge and humility before the divine.

The little companions are grandchildren of his deceased brother. In our dialect, we affectionately refer to this relationship as “G’schwistererkindskinder”. With their spontaneous, childlike questions, the two of them embarrass the stargazer more than once. As the children’s closest friend, the little bear Petzi is of course a must. He symbolically forms a beautiful connection to the starry sky during Advent. During these days, Jupiter and its four moons shine brightly in the sky and the nights are streaked with numerous shooting stars. The peak of the stream of shooting stars is known to be on December 23, when their radiant point lies in the middle of the constellation of the “Little Bear”.