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Toasting on the rounds: Sabine Warg flanked by (from left) Thomas Warg, Deputy District Administrator Elisabeth Platzer, Mayor Ulrich Proske and Angela Warg-Portenlänger.
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Sabine Warg grew up as the daughter of a Wehrmacht general.
The end of the Second World War meant a radical break in life for her as a child.
Today, the 90-year-old from Ebersberg is grateful for much of what came next.
Ebersberg
– On her 90th birthday, Sabine Warg sits in her Ebersberg attic apartment among mementos of a long life.
There is champagne and ham dumplings.
She says: “Those were good years.” She often puts it this way or something similar.
For example, when she talks about her youth in Munich-Bogenhausen, where her mother and her two daughters worked as a housekeeper after the war.
When she remembers her music studies.
And the time as a music teacher at the Freisinger Domgymnasium, then at the Munich Klenze-Gymnasium.
“It was a wonderful time,” she says about her time with her husband Günter – in their shared house in Bad Aibling and on trips around the world in retirement, from Asia to Zanzibar.
“Beautiful,” she says about her apartment, which she moved into in 2012 after her husband’s death – into the circle of his family, who essentially adopted her.
“I’m still a newcomer to Ebersberg,” is how she sums up her first twelve years here.
At 90, your fingers are no longer agile - but your head is, and that's what counts
Now, at 90, she continues to think positively.
Despite her hip operation (“a great doctor”), she has dragged herself up five flights of stairs for the birthday of one of her four great-grandchildren.
She sticks with it – with her family, her circle of literary and music friends, and the concert subscription.
The fact that she says about herself: “I am blind as a chicken!” and that her aging fingers can no longer make the piano in her living room sound does not slow her optimism.
The head and ears work, that's the most important thing.
“How many lives does a cat have?” she asks with a smile.
“I feel like I had more.”
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This is also due to the time, for which Sabine Warg finds less happy words.
As the daughter of Wehrmacht General Karl Decker, she still remembers scenes from the war - from the trip to newly "annexed" Austria to the escape back to Bavaria from the Allied troops in April 1945, still dazed by the pain of a freshly operated appendix.
After the war, a new beginning: “Music saved me.”
She remembers fearful dreams as a child, the secrecy in the officer's household, and the end of the war in the bunker.
By then, her father had already committed suicide on the collapsing Western Front, which she only found out months later.
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The mother, who grew up on a manor in Pomerania, had become a maid on a farm in the Hallertau from the general's wife.
As a refugee child, Warg, then still Decker, started over.
Later, with her mother's employer in Bogenhausen, she was allowed to read books and take part in literary evenings and concerts.
“I felt like Alice in Wonderland.” And she was able to learn to play the flute and later the violin.
At some point the piano was added.
This became a career and a calling.
“Music saved me,” says Sabine Warg today, at 90. Then she smiles and says: “That was a nice time.”
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