Vom Wasser

The dramatic story of a paper manufacturing dynasty – told by one who is magically drawn back to the water time and again. Before our eyes, this man brings to life the portraits of his ancestral gallery. He recalls the summer scenes of his childhood and imagines how it might have been: back when, in the last century, his great-great-grandfather discovered on his estate between the Orpe and Diemel rivers how water could be transformed into paper and paper into money; back when the son of the baroque founder calculated and saved the factory through the first war with his sober understanding of numbers; back when the storied history of the firstborn factory owners was threatened to end with the next war and a director devoted to the muses. Back when a woman brought provisional salvation.