The coastal region of Brittany is a well-loved holiday destination. Madame Le Coz knew that too when she applied for permission to build a hotel there after the Second World War. In 1950, the Hôtel de L'Iroise was a fact. Fabulously beautiful, it was located on the Point de Raz, so secluded that it looks like something straight out of a painting by René Magritte. Projected against the backdrop of the counter where she worked for 47 years, Le Coz talks in a businesslike fashion about her hotel: twelve rooms, no electricity for the first five years, for the first fifteen years no running water. Ten families came there every summer for thirty years. And, on 15 October 1987, there was a storm with winds up to 256 kilometres an hour. Facts, no emotions. Since Breton is her mother tongue and she only speaks broken French, she supplements her language with the German that she learned from her guests. In the meantime, Göwecke shows the simple but tasteful in- and exterior of Hôtel L'Iroise in attractive black and white. When guests complimented her on the charming interior design, Madame Le Coz invariably passed over this by saying: "you will find the charm outside". Unfortunately, the hotel is no longer a holiday destination: it was demolished in February 1997 - in less than half an hour. Madame Le Coz reacts as soberly as ever: "When the hotel has gone, it is too late, but that's the way it is". Not entirely too late: just in time, Göwecke set up a little monument for it.
– André Nientied
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Camera Mark-Steffen Göwecke, Burkard Grygier, Thanks to, Marie Le Coz and others
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