Walter Höllerer

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.

High-contrast, abstract black-and-white photographs by Renate von Mangoldt illustrate a three-part poem cycle by Walter Höllerer about hop gardens in winter. "White is the garden / empty the poles / cleared / the season / made visible / the skeleton / before the white / ceiling." The frames form a graphic pattern, "a curiosity of lines" and a "grey hatch work / over the snow".