Former teacher Heidemarie Schwermer has lived without money in Germany for 13 years. Our writer finds out how she does it 以前的教师黑得玛瑞.斯库唯美尔已经没有钱生活了十三年。我们的作者发现了她是如何生活的。
作者：Stefanie Marsh
Twenty-two years ago Heidemarie Schwermer, a middle-aged secondary school teacher just emerging from a difficult marriage, moved with her two children from the village of Lueneburg to the city of Dortmund, in the Ruhr area of Germany, whose homeless population, she immediately noticed, was above average and striking in its intransigent hopelessness.
Her immediate reaction was shock. “This isn’t right, this can’t go on,” she said to herself. After careful reflection she set up what in Germany is called a Tauschring — a sort of swap shop — a place where people can exchange their skills or possessions for other skills and possessions, a money-free zone where a haircut could be rendered in return for car maintenance; a still-functioning but never-used toaster be exchanged for a couple of second-hand cardigans. She called it Gib und Nimm, Give and Take. 她那一刻的反应是震惊。“这是不对的，这不能继续。”她对自己说。经过仔细反思后，她建立了易货店，德语的意思是 Tauschring--一个人们能够相互交换技术或物品的地方，一个用理发回报汽车维修、不需付钱的区域；一个功能齐全但从未使用的烤面包机可以被换成几个二手羊毛衫。她称它是“Gib und Nimm, 即“给与取”。
