"My brain is constantly working"

"I was born in a country that doesn't exist anymore, the year Chernobyl blew up and photography was still in black and white." Wow! That's a good sentence, and an even better introduction to a portrait of an artist.

This self-description can be found on Larisa Faber's website, where you can get a good overview of the work of the actress, who can be seen on stage, in the cinema and on television, but who is also active as a writer and director.

Those of us who are a little older, i.e. those who witnessed the aforementioned Chernobyl disaster live on television and who can remember the dates, now know that Larisa Faber was born in 1986, although of course there were already colour photos at that time. Incidentally, the country that no longer exists still exists, but no longer in its former form, i.e. as a socialist republic. Larisa Faber was born in Romania and then immigrated to Luxembourg with her mother at the age of four.

The fact that elections were held in Romania last weekend is, of course, a coincidence. As I write this text, the result of the presidential run-off election is already available: Fortunately, a pro-European has won the election in the person of Bucharest Mayor Nicosur Dan and not, as feared, the right-wing populist George Simion. Larisa Faber, who is still intensively involved with the country of her birth, should be more than relieved, as she wrote an opinionated article for the English Guardian on Saturday, in which she recalls that her mother fought for freedom in Romania: "In 1990, my mother fought for Romania's freedom. Will the revolution's children do the same?"