A young girl stands in front of her swimming teacher and begs to finally be put in the advanced group. Yet she can hardly swim at all without help. Her teacher is merciless, the girl descends into despair.
Thirty years later, Heike Geißler is grown up but still despairing – but she's determined to face up to this feeling. What is wrong – with gender roles, heroism, militarisation? What’s missing? What are all the different sources of inhumanity? In speech, in political action. In...
A young girl stands in front of her swimming teacher and begs to finally be put in the advanced group. Yet she can hardly swim at all without help. Her teacher is merciless, the girl descends into despair.
Thirty years later, Heike Geißler is grown up but still despairing – but she's determined to face up to this feeling. What is wrong – with gender roles, heroism, militarisation? What’s missing? What are all the different sources of inhumanity? In speech, in political action. In state parliaments, and not just in East Germany. She fights against right-wing extremism, hostile structures and intolerable circumstances. And tries a new approach, a different perspective. So as to draw consolation and courage from it all.
»I’ve been waiting for this book for some time, and now that it’s finally here I just want to go around telling everyone: just read it, you’ll see why. Let the despair take you, listen to me.« Sandra Hüller
»It’s the lines of thought that lead to rage, courage, and consolation that make Heike Geißler’s essay a valuable guide for navigating the present.« Cornelia Geißler, Berliner Zeitung
»I’ve been waiting for this book for some time, and now that it’s finally here I just want to go around telling everyone: just read it, you’ll see why. Let the despair take you, listen to me.« Sandra...
