Descendants of Victims of Former Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen for Information (DK)
Jakob Feisthauer’s great-grandfather was taken to the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen for being ‚asocial‘. He fought his entire life to be acknowledged as a victim of the Nazis and to receive compensation. He never succeeded. ‚Asocial‘ or ‚Asi‘ is still a contemptuous term commonly used in Germany, for instance to describe people who don’t have a job for longer periods of time, families that have a lot of kids or generally people living in poverty. Only few know about the origin of this label. Feisthauer today continues the fight of his great-grandfather to educate people about the term and to remove the stigma.
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Renan Manhães & Medhat Aldaabal: Watched C-beams Glitter in the Dark
Renan and Medhat are two performers in Berlin. Their work amplifies and dissolves masculinities at the same time. Playing with dualisms, their bodies merge softly into each other, becoming one, yet showing their differences and therefore allowing us to witness fragility, the core of what makes us human.
Forensic Psychiatry for ZEIT Online
„Women should currently not work in a forensic psychatry.“, says Julia Heise (name changed) who has been attacked working there as doctor. She is referring to the current conditions which have been worsening for years but are not taken seriously enough by politicians. Too many patients, too little staff, too many vacant positions – all factors that reinforce each other and regularly lead to outbreaks and attacks against the people working there, oftentimes women.
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Body Identity Dysphoria for ZEIT Magazin
Klaus wants to lose his lower right leg but due to little knowledge and acceptance about this condition he hasn’t yet found a doctor who wants to legally perform this surgery on him. He fears to be stigmatized and therefore wants to remain anonymous.
Superillas in Barcelona for ZEIT Online
