An aid convoy drives from Munich to the Ukrainian border. They come back with refugees. How does it feel to be so close to a war zone? About a journey into the unknown – and moments of great connection.
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Anna Hoben
The mood is depressed on Friday morning in a van somewhere between Vienna and Linz. This is how Felix Sproll tells it on the phone. He is in the vehicle with eight other people. Sproll, 29, is a self-employed financial advisor and the only Munich city councilor for the pan-European Volt party. On the road with him: members of the association Hilferschwein, including the singer-songwriter and Sproll’s city council colleague from the SPD, Roland Hefter. There are also three people who are fleeing the war in their homeland: a couple from Odessa who can stay with a family in Munich, and a 68-year-old woman who wants to travel on to her son in Stuttgart.