The sun is barely up and she’s already walking. It is not just a field trip: here there is method, will, precision and perseverance. The backlight suppresses more detail, but we don’t need it. That body position, the walking sticks, and the clothes that look athletic are competent enough. We witnessed sunrise in the German municipality of Onlegen, a region located on the Swabian Alp mountain range, south of the Danube River. The old traumas of old Europe lie in every rock that this supposedly elderly person, the potential beneficiary of today’s hated welfare state pensions, shakes with every step he takes. The slaughter between the Franks and the Germans, the Napoleonic Wars, the Second World War: much of it had an impact here, in the same landscape that appears to us today only as a promising, rural postcard.
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