Die Bagage

Josef and Maria Moosbrugger live with their children on the edge of a mountain village. They are the poor, the outcasts. It is the time of the First World War and Josef is drafted into the army. A time when Maria and the children are left behind, all alone. A time when Georg arrives in town from Hanover and, one day, knocks on the door of the outcasts. And it is the time when Maria becomes pregnant with Grete, the child with whom Josef will never exchange a word: the author’s mother. Monika Helfer tells the story of her own origins in stark, unflinching images.