"[Here] the beautiful market town of Murnau stretches out on a high hill, having risen again in a very impressive manner since the great fire in 1835. There are almost more large and good inns here than one would expect. But the area is pleasant, very convenient for the people of Munich, and therefore very popular in the summer." This is how the writer and lawyer Ludwig Steub describes Murnau in his book "The Bavarian Highlands". But the "good inns" were always more than just places to stop for Munich residents and other visitors from outside: The writer Ödön von Horvath, who was born in 1901 and died in 1938, lived in Murnau during the 1920s. Inns and hotels play an important role in his dramas. The folk play "Italian Night" describes a conflict between National Socialists and Social Democrats. In 1931, the so-called battle in the Kirchmeir inn actually took place. In the first scene of the play “Italian Night”, the Social Democrats, who wanted to hold an event at the innkeeper Josef Lehninger’s, confront him with the fact that he also makes his inn available to the National Socialists: Spr.2 (ALL Socialists as just ONE man) and Spr. 1 (innkeeper) Betz: That’s a disgrace! Dear comrade Josef reserves our regular table for the reaction! (Karl) And we Republicans, he thinks, will then come next with our Italian night and dutifully buy his stuff from him, (Martin:) the crumbs that the reactionary gentlemen could no longer devour! Innkeeper: I’m not corrupt! That’s not me, folks, that’s my wife. Betz: Nonsense! Innkeeper: There’s no nonsense! You don’t know my wife, folks! She doesn’t give a damn about the political constellations. They don't care who eats their sausages! And I, the idiot, once dreamed of a happy old age! And if I don't take out the black, white and red rag now, sixty portions of roast pork will be ruined - that was a terrible stupidity to change the Reich's colors! For heaven's sake, I'm completely confused! Kranz: If you weren't my friend, I'd spit in your face right now, dear Josef!