Helga ellul biography

SITTING BY HELGA ELLUL’S ROOFTOP POOL ON A HOT SATURDAY MORNING OVER COFFEE, I AM KEEN TO GAIN SOME INSIGHT ABOUT HER 40+ YEARS OF LIVING IN MALTA.

Helga grew up in the Bavaria region in Germany, she recalls, ‘The Malta I came to in 1974 is totally unrecognizable now, I was a young girl in my early 20’s when I came to Malta on business expecting to spend one year here enjoying island life, BUT here I still am, over 40 years later.’ Helga was employed by the German toy manufacturer Horst Brandstätter who had set up a small outfit in Malta, it was a time when Germany boasted full employment making it necessary to branch to other countries for manufacture.

‘When I came to the island I knew a handful of the Maltese employees from their training time back in Germany, they extended kind invitations to their family homes, where their mamma’s used to adopt me as their own and look after me.

It was a great insight to Malt