What happens when an actress has a rendezvous with her characters? For example, if she met Lisbeth Gruber, the mother from “Der Bergdoktor”? In her touching book, popular actress Monika Baumgartner gets under the skin of her characters and playfully recounts her exciting life. Amusingly and with humour, she recounts her childhood with five people in living quarters of just 42 square metres, the swinging sixties in Munich, her great and small loves, her decision to become an actress that at the time was unconventional and all the roles and encounters that it brought with it. And naturally she talks about DIY. For if Monika Baumgartner had not become an actress, then she should have liked to become a car mechanic. At the end of the day, what is a woman without a drill and a Leatherman?
"Monika Baumgartner: an institution, a wonderful actress, a magnificent person. The best film mother of all time and the most cordial colleague to boot. Fortunately, she has written this book. Otherwise someone else would have to write it. Read it!”
Hans Sigl
