"Provincial Writer," this self-chosen title is part of the determined and pointed understatement with which Oskar Maria Graf recorded his experiences and observations. This volume gathers events from the artist milieu in Munich during the 1920s and early 1930s of the last century. The heart of these self-ironic essays, dialogues, and autobiographical narratives is - even with occasional forays to Berlin - Bavaria. What we read here was thought, heard, and written down in Bavarian. "For," says Oskar Maria Graf about his work, "I don't invent anything!" Although this notebook appears very private, Oskar Maria Graf's literary work has always been a form of political engagement. A year after the first publication of this volume, his books were burned in Germany. The book continued to receive attention even after the Second World War.