Many people still tend to regard Bavaria as one of life’s biggest mysteries. Perhaps the most confusing aspect is the existence of various seeming paradoxes. For instance, in Bavaria tradition bedecked in folklore coexists quite happily alongside high-tech progress. Bavaria’s former minister-president Franz-Josef Strauss is said to have reconciled this apparent contradiction in the neat definition: „Conservative means marching at the forefront of progress.“ Today’s snappy equivalent is: lap-top and lederhosen. This and many other paradoxes led comedian Gerhard Polt to the conclusion that „while the number of people fulfilling the classic Bavarian cliché declined, the cliché itself became strangely more pronounced.“