drinking beer, shouts a lot, and uses a lot of obscenities that sometimes get him in trouble. Very early in the series he marries Irma Werner and by the end they have two children, René and Petra. He fights a lot with his sister and is extremely disrespectful to his parents. He drives a forklift but a promotion to supervisor enables him to afford his own apartment. In the book on which the series is based, he turned his back on Vienna and went to Paris, where he did well as a wrestler; this had to be changed after the slightly built Klaus Rott was cast in the part, and also there was no money for filming out of the country. Rott had a cabaret act as Karli in which he continued the story of the Sackbauers. Johanna Sackbauer "Hanni" is the Sackbauers' younger child and in the first episode becomes engaged to an avant garde writer, Franz Vejvoda, leading to big problems in the family. She is often envious and takes offense easily. Starting with the episode Jahreswende she is preoccupied with women's liberation, which also causes problems in her male-dominated family. To keep up with her fiancé she takes college courses in literature and typing. Johann Sackbauer Mundl's brother, known as "Schani," is sympathetic to the family and often talks Mundl down from his rages. References External links Mundl.net (German) Der Herr Karli Sackbauer (German) IMDb Austrian television soap operas 1970s Austrian television series 1975 Austrian television series debuts 1979 Austrian television series endings German-language television shows Culture in Vienna 1970s television soap operas ORF (broadcaster) original programming