Heidemarie schwermer biography

Living without money was the way to live in the past. Money is only a recent phenomenon. But since we live in a money economy it's a big challenge to live without money.

Heidemarie Schwermer from Germany has done that for 20 years, since May 1996, until she passed away.

How was she living without money and why?

Heidemarie schwermer biography

Hoe can Heidemarie provide for her needs? If she needs something she's doing this by exchanging: to get bread she works with a baker and to get a roof over her head she watches after houses when the inhabitants have left.

After four years she concluded:

I'm richer now than I ever was before.

Heidemarie Schwermer's book

She also wrote a book about it. "A Rich Life Without Money" is her story.

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You can download the German version for free here, but that is the German version.

Heidemarie's story starts after she divorces her husband and moves to Dortmund with her two kids. She's astonished about the poverty there.

In 1994