BÄRENJAGEN

While Germany in 1834 is simmering in every corner, the resistance led by Georg Büchner is working on the revolution. Heinrich Furrer secretly prints Büchner‘s revolutionary leaflet “Der Hessische Landbote“ in his brother Gustav‘s printing House, thus supporting the revolutionaries. Heinrich loves Minna. She wants to go to America!… and he‘s supposed to come with her. Everything could be so simple if Heinrich weren‘t living with Agnes, a former prostitute, if he had the necessary money and Minna wasn‘t married to his brother Gustav.

Then a solution presents itself.

In order to distract the disaffected population, the local Major puts a bounty on the hunt for the last german bear. A veritable hunting frenzy erupts, which turns into a fiasco for all the hunters and the two brothers. Need and greed bring out the darkest sides of people in the impenetrable thicket of the German forest, while the last bear remains a mysterious phantom…

Peter Meister photos © Jana Kay