ELISA(1966–2002†) Elisa, you departed this world in 2002. To others you remained invisible, but for us, you remain unforgettable. FOREWORD 22 years after her first admission to a psychiatric hospital, Antje Dreist, who was born in 1967, published her memoir Fatum. In the form of poems written mainly…
On January 27, 2017, the Bundestag commemorated euthanasia victims in its annual commemoration of those who suffered and died under the Nazi dictatorship. The commemoration was dedicated to the sick and those in need of protection – according to the Nazi regime, such people were…
“The history of the voices of those remaining is far from over,” says Christian Discher PhD, who has been fighting for years to shed light on human rights violations in medical institutions. The memoir “The Voices of Those Remaining” is a devastating and moving testimony…
1. Ueckermünde and its dark past In Ueckermünde I meet a former employee, who was employed in the institution from 1939 and now looks after the graves in the cemetery. I would like to know where the children were murdered. She looks at me in…
For international readers of my author’s page, I’m now providing a translation of the talk and reading I gave at the Leipzig Book Fair on March 20, 2018. Before I start my talk, I’d like to take a moment to welcome Claudia Beck, who has…
Today’s Minister of Economics, Labor and Health, Harry Glawe, rejects parliamentary work with human rights violations in Neubrandenburg psychiatric hospital and “The Hell of Ueckermünde.” In the former GDR, Glawe worked for many years as a ward nurse at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald…
“A story as unbelievable as it is moving,” is what was said of the coverage over the fate of those remaining, the numerous victims of a “horrible and arbitrary system of rule.” I wrote the following letter to the petitions committee of the regional parliament…
For years, Bianca Perez has been fighting for the humane treatment of her brother. Under the cover of law, Michael Perez must be subjected to inhumane forced treatment, as his sister reported extensively in her book “Die Schwarze Liste- Nazi-Paragraf 63 StGB-weggesperrt und weggespritzt” (The…
Can money be collected in Germany without taking losses into consideration? Is a hospital group just pretending to carry out treatment, during which time it damages patients, its actions covered up by policy makers and the legal system? Serious, very serious: This is how the…
Since the publication and reviews of the book Out of Place: Trapped in the Care System, the responsible association Lebenshilfe e. V in the German state Saxony-Anhalt has remained silent. Hard to believe Mathias Hoppe, who is obviously very intelligent, is still forced to spend…
