Ester Geisler: Our Mill is my place of the highest need. Work on it teaches humility and helps me

What will you first think of when I drive the theme of nature?

First of all, I think of the stream in our cottage and legs in it. In the Orlické Mountains we have a former mill that flows through the Golden Stream. And I have all my childhood associated with this place, my growing up and growing up my children. In Harry Potter, the chamber is of the highest need. And our mill, that’s my place of the highest need. He has his spirit that can heal a lot of sore injuries. I just come to the room, put my backpack and sit down at the table, physically feel all the stress and Prague deposits fall off me. Just be there. Feel the smell of wood, the smell of the cottage, and it all feels like me memories of childhood. With safety. We all feel good there. We go to me, my children, mom, sisters and their families where we can. Sometimes there are twenty. And although it is only an hour and three quarters from Prague, time passes differently and things seem to be some other. So that’s such an introduction to our cottage.

What did little eťa do at the cottage?

My cousin and friend and I hunted trout in the creek. We learned to catch them under the stones, with a cloth in hand to avoid slipping. We put them in a bucket, and when there were enough, we immediately fried them in butter with cumin and salt. It was delicious. And of course we went to the forest for mushrooms. I enjoy it until today. My beloved and I even recently were on the mushrooming course.

Did you find something new about mushrooms?

They took us to different types of forest, we went through five to six different types, explained to us where the mushrooms were growing, such as oyster, also showed us different schows and introduced us to mushrooms that I would not think of picking up at all. Like the purple chirows. We found thirty -eight kinds of mushrooms that day! Then we went straight to the cottage, we stopped in the forest that looked exactly like the course – and we found a lot of mushrooms!

When we talk about the cottage, you could describe how much this place shaped you?

It certainly helped me to develop children’s imagination and imagination. I always dreamed of beautifully there. Whatever I changed behind Forest Fairy And she ran in the woods, or I drew, painted or was there. And of course the daily dreaming was supported by the surrounding nature in combination with the whole space open for imagination. There are people you grow up with, who somehow inspire and lead you, but a lot of work will actually do on yourself. A very strong environment for me was also with my grandmother, who was from Dobruška. There I just experienced the atmosphere of a small city – they walk over there for eggs, over there for milk, and now the grass has to be poked and gave rabbits… I think all of this formed some Czech identity in me, creating love for the ground, folk customs. I think this binding is important to everyone.

Do you have any places in the cottage where you go to dream, think or cry?

I go to the meadow where the view is to the edge. You can see the box behind the box, the forest behind the forest, it has a lot of layers, up to such gray blue. And I always imagine that where I don’t see is the sea, and that makes me very good on my soul. I think that if I went for two more hours now, I would come to the beach and feel a bit like I was flying for a holiday and had the beautiful landscape below. At that point I am able to see a lot of things from a distance and perspective. I also like it when they flood in the cottage in the furnace, and I love going there when there is mom. Not because of some service to cook me, even if she still cooks and bakes. But I think that as long as it is possible to be a sense of security, that somewhere is mom and I can go to bed on the furnace that warms me, it’s great. I’m forty and I often wonder what my mom was doing at this age. She had me quite late and I hope she will experience me as fifty years old. I really appreciate the moments when we can be together, and I try to use it as much as possible.

Do you create a garden with your mom and sisters? Do you flow, grow something?

Mom takes a lot about the garden. She planted everything there and now she cares about it. And she became a herbalist, she knows in all herbs. When someone coughs, he comes out, comes with some flowers and roots, makes tea and heals us there. I enjoy cutting and cutting shrubs, I enjoy creating various shapes with a brush cutter and I like those ordinary gardening work as raking. I get to a certain pace and it is actually a meditative, nice job where one can relax. Mom grows floxy, they are beautifully colored, large and they come to eat roe deer. They are such cute bambi, but their mom tells them to get out. I have one ritual with the summer garden, when I go to the garden in the morning and collect fresh raspberries and blueberries in the yoghurt, tear my mint for tea, and these are things I really love. And we also have flower beds with potatoes. That’s really a pleasure. Freshly dug, boiled potatoes with butter and cottage cheese or even with meatballs is goodness. But the potatoes still win the whole line.

You talked about your childhood, creating identity. Are there any links to your roots into your artistic work?

Right now, quite enough. I will make a documentary about our dad and I will not present it only as a Japanese, author of Japanese calligraphies, translators, a journalist who worked for Japanese newspapers, and a photographer who took beautiful photos in Japan. But also as a man who captured our childhood in his beautiful photos, But also your inner fragility. Those slides have been lying in the cellar until now. By the way, in the spring of 2026 his photos will be exhibited at a large exhibition in Prague’s Dox. I have always been very visual, so I had some photos associated with certain memories, sometimes fake. I just took some things and situations from those photos and thought I was there, that I had experienced it. Now that I am preparing the document, I have the opportunity to better classify some family situations, to better put it together.

What kind of dad’s photo has been stuck significantly in your memory?

For example, a photo of a small Lely, my sisters, as my grandmother in the kitchen stands on the table at the table and does something. Around are all the grandmother’s pots and the old, plastic containers for the dough, there is a bomber bottle for whipped cream … some of those things, like certain appliances, I have seen in the museum. I like this retro sentiment. It brings me back to my childhood.

When you process a documentary about your dad, what happens in you?

There’s probably everything you can imagine. But if I had to puncture something, probably the most curiosity, because the more I know about him, the more interesting it seems to me. I am all the more angry that we have passed.

How much was you when he left the world?

I was 25, I had little twins, I was still formed. I didn’t miss my dad in time, but vital. When he moved away from us, I was too small. Then we saw each other, but we weren’t on the same level so we could talk about life. The document is also emotion, love, and above all a strong desire to share, show it to people. After my dad’s death, I met his friends, loved ones who always told him. In their eyes, there was something like the dad’s soul, who adhered to us, and suddenly I felt a special proximity. I was wondering why no one knew? After all, what the person said was so poetic and nice. So at first I started to prepare his exhibition and finally I realized that it was a bearing for the film. And although everyone says he was very original and exceptional, I am careful not to build him on the family pedestal. There will also be a lot of things about how complicated it was, how probably not a good partner, sometimes even a dad, how fragile was in something, whether it was manifested by alcoholism or some puffy.

How much do Aňa with Lel or your mom participate in the document?

I am preparing it. But when I find something interesting about my dad, I share it in our family chat. Sisters and mom are part of the documentary, I have interviewed with them.

You are the youngest, so your sisters have certainly experienced more than you…

Not either. When Dad left us, they were fifteen. They kept it to me because they probably had the impression that they didn’t want to spoil my childhood. I didn’t know for a long time that Dad’s departure was final. But the parents broke up with dignity and at the level, so we were still in contact. Dad’s second woman came to our family celebrations. Mom sometimes took care of Felix, which is our half -brother. And when he was older, we and my and sisters guarded him. Every fortnight I was on the national, where my dad lived, or we went to his cottage behind Prague. It’s nice to go through all this in the document and realize what it was like when I was small, as I grew. I think about my parenting and at the same time about my parents’ parenting, comparing it … It’s a revision of the family events experienced and experienced by most of us.

Now, if you try to build the little euch that played a mysterious forest virgin at the cottage, and today’s Esther – a well -known actress and artist -, what is the difference between them?

Now that I come to the cottage, I sometimes feel that it is harder than letting you go to the spirit of the place to cure me. To be honest, I just have a period when my work and the city somehow overwhelmed me. But I don’t only have a cottage associated with children’s fairy tales Dreams, I like to work there. Putting wood, flooding, sweeping the stove, bringing ashes, discarding snow… If you want to be there, you have to prepare it first and have to overcome some discomfort. Which teaches some humility and it somehow helps me. You know you have to strive there and it’s not easy. And that is exactly what I enjoy at the cottage.

Ester Geislerová in a nutshell

Ester Geisler is the youngest of the three geisler sisters – actresses or Geisler and painters and singer Lenka Geislerová. She studied promotional design at the Art School, and she is also acting. Is the main face of the project Therapy by sharing. Her mother is an academic painter and father was a translator, journalist and Japaneseologist. In addition to the exhibition of his photographs, Esther also catches a document called two deci of the soul.

Therapy by sharing appeared on Instagram for the first time in 2018, when Ester Geisler shared the chilling sentences that people diverged from. It woke up a huge response and hashtag #terapiesdilen became a phenomenon.

Today, a profile, which is watching 345,000 people on Instagram and over 25,000 on Facebook, is also engaged in cyberbullying, sexing, cyber grooming, social networking risks, and personal data protection in the Internet. It is complemented by books, audio series, web series and audiobook.

As part of lectures, you can see Esther, along with a paired therapist Honza Vojtek in January in various cities of CR. You can also support the activity of sharing therapy by buying eg T -shirts and sweatshirts or entertainment for offline activities, such as coloring books and puzzles.