Eva Hesse Page #5

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

But the part where they were working

that was already...

JOHANN". Thai was closed down already.

HESSE". Our studio,

top floor with skylight

and windows every two feet.

I sit and hope I will Work some.

I might just have to believe in me more

before working will

mean something to me.

GABRIELE:
The first time

that I saw Eva,

she gave me a very warm feeling,

a feeling of being welcomed.

I was five-years-old,

and she invited me

to come to the atelier.

She wanted to show me how to paint.

And of course, We played

lots in the pool.

(CHILDREN LAUGHING)

You had these water balls playing,

and We Were... (CHUCKLES)

jumping into the pool.

H was great.

She painted for my other brother, Karl,

a picture cal/ed Waterball Play.

I guess she loved it, too,

being with us and just playing.

So I have very sunny impressions,

but I also have, um,

some memories later in the year.

There was something in her

which was, um...

traurig, sad.

I think H was difficult for her,

being in this country.

HESSE'. June 13th, 1964.

Our sixth day herein Kettwig.

Yesterday I had some melancholy.

I developed some of my more

troubled thoughts and feelings.

I was born in Germany, in 1936.

(INDISTINCT TALKING)

My family is from Hamburg,

Germany, northern Germany.

That's Where I was born

and that's Where Eva was born.

HESSE". My father was

a criminal lawyer.

He had just finished his two doctorates

and I had the most

beautiful mother in the world.

She looked like Ingrid Bergman.

She studied art in Hamburg.

OHARASH:
My father kept tagebucher

about my life and Eva's life.

It's really a journal.

WILLIAM:

May this book of your childhood

become a guide in your later life.

In H, you will realize how you grew up.

None of this may get lost,

my beloved child,

because there is nothing

that sustains us more

in the hardships of our lives

than a review of our childhood.

When Helen was born, freedom and truth

had vanished already from Germany.

Ft was already five months

that Hitter raged.

German Jewish life changed very quickly.

When the Nazis came

to power in January, 1933,

there were so many deprivation.

People were hurt.

They couldn't Work in their

professions anymore.

H was forbidden to work

as a so-called Jewish lawyer.

WILLIAM:
I lost my profession

on April 24th, 1933.

And then there were more hard years.

(CROWD CHANTING)

After November 10,

when all the synagogues

had been destroyed,

all Jewish businesses wrecked,

almost all the men had been arrested,

and the most horrible

atrocities of all kinds

been committed against the

Jews all over Germany.

One tried from abroad, at least, to

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