If I was 20 years younger, I would have bought a house there
Stáhnout obrázek
Ingeborg Mauder, née Fischbach, was born on 23 September 1937 in Teplá into a German family. Her father Franz Fischbach owned a local butcher shop, her mother Maria worked as a cook and later ran her own shop. Her father served as a cook in the Wehrmacht during the war and the household, including the butcher shop, was left to her mother. On May 6, 1945, they lived to see the liberation and the re-establishment of Czechoslovak state administration. During the post-war expulsions of Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia, the family was evicted in 1946. First they passed through the assembly camp in Teplá, then they travelled by train to Hesse to a family of farmers in Schwalheim. There, Ingeborg Mauder attended the local school and later the grammar school, and in addition to helping out in the family butcher shop, she also took care of her younger sister, who was born after the war. Her parents gradually worked their way back to their own prosperous business. She married in 1959 and raised three children with her husband. She shared her memories of her childhood in Teplá with her loved ones. She returned to her hometown for the first time in 1971. She returns to her hometown regularly and still preserves the Teplá dialect and passes it on to the next generation. At the time of filming (2025) she was living in Butzbach, Germany.
