Just published: The more we are, the legendary. The third Willi Ehms songbook.

Je mehr ma san, umso legendär (2024) is Willi Ehms’ third songbook after Traurig und schee (2005) and Aba i bleib dro (2019).

Love, music, work, art, weather, politics, everyday life: like the great US-Bavarians Oskar Maria Graf, Emerenz Meier or Werner Herzog, the Texan-by-choice from Mühldorf looks at the people in the foothills of the Alps with the keen eye of an expatriate.

Highly reflective and poetic, wistful and ironic, the forty or so texts in his Inn-Bavarian language expose the peaks and depths of the white-blue soul.

But be careful: read carefully! Ehms relates to dialect poetry like Penrose parquetry to rhombuses or Achternbusch films to BR.

Willi Ehms is the pseudonym of Martin Wimmer when he writes in Bavarian.