1. Protective device for a motor vehicle luggage area. 2.1. The invention relates to a protective device for a motor vehicle luggage area (1) with a flexible flat article (7), which is movably mounted between a compact, deposited protection position and at least one extracted protection position. 2.2. According to the invention, there are at least two parallel, spaced functional shafts (6a, 6b) to which the flat article (7) is connected, together with means for detecting the position of the flat article (7) and control means which, as a function of the detected positions, control the functional shafts (6a, 6b) in such a way that the flat article (7) in a first, roughly horizontally extracted protection position has a first, light-proof surface structural portion (7a) and in a second, vertically extracted protection position a second, light-transmitting surface structural portion (7b). 2.3. Use e.g. for motor vehicles.