Die Letzten werden die Allerletzten sein

"Blessed are you who are poor; for the kingdom of God is yours. […] But woe to you who are rich! For you have already received your comfort!" – Luke 6:20–26  

Hartz IV, Bürgergeld, Grundsicherung – all different German terms for social welfare. Or: working as a cleaner in a doctor's office, an office building, working at the check-out in an organic supermarket. What do you do when your own art doesn't make enough money for you to live off? When you become invisible for a market that only sees people who have the right kind of charisma? The central character is a woman trying to balance paid work with artistic ambitions. Stocking shelves early in the morning, sitting at the check-out later on. The products pass by, and so does time. After eight hours, she has no energy left for painting. At art school, she was once told that her art would always be "art by a woman". What matters today is what you can sell – and who can function. The animals lying neatly filleted in the meat counter of the organic supermarket had a better life compared to the other members of their species raised conventionally, but the working conditions of the employees are hardly any different than in a discount supermarket.  

With "Die Letzten werden die Allerletzten sein" (The Last Will Be the Very Last), Luis August Krawen tells the autobiographical story of his mother and all those people who supposedly have not made it – and how this judgement inscribes itself into their bodies and lives.