Mutterwut

Maria is waiting for her trial in forensic psychiatry and feels freer than ever: her mother is dead. In writing, the daughter gives her testimony. She recounts how her resistance to "maternal love" faded until it left the "child" speechless, and her return to her parental home ended in disaster. The mother enters the apartment uninvited. She opens windows with good intentions. She meddles in everything that doesn't concern her. She overwhelms her ungrateful daughter with care. She reprimands her lifelong defiance. Until Maria can no longer say no. Finally, she gives her mother what she wants to hear: yes. Thank you. Good. But then the daughter lets her actions speak. With sharp insight and great linguistic power, Marianne Bunes dissects the drama of an overreach that, unlike in the USA, is still largely silenced in this country: the truly boundless love of mothers.