Wednesday, 3/26/2025
at 8:00 PM



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Joe Bausch speaks for the first time about the traumas of his childhood and youth and how they have shaped his life path.
With all the harshness that the father deems necessary and which he himself has experienced, he raises his son to be the heir of the farm. But the son does not want to become a farmer and wants nothing more than to leave the Westerwald, out of the world of narrowness and hypocrisy.
A farm in the barren Westerwald, early 1950s. The horrors and deprivations of the war are still etched in the bones of the people. The parents have no time for friendly attention, no sense for affection. Josef Hermann, who will later call himself Joe, is a bright child. A child who cannot sit still, learns to read before starting school with the newspapers that are left in the bathroom, and has to help out in the family business from a young age. He is only allowed to attend high school because he continues to toil until he collapses. Beatings are part of everyday life – and the foster son, thirteen years older than him, harbors no good intentions.

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