Andreas Huckele

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Andreas Huckele (* 1969 ) is a German author , lecturer and supervisor. He became known as an author under the pseudonym Jürgen Dehmers .

Life

Andreas Huckele lives in Frankfurt am Main. He attended the Odenwald School in the 1980s and passed his Abitur there. He then completed a degree in political science and sports science for high school teaching at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . After 16 years of teaching at school and university, Huckele is now working as a mediator, family therapist , systemic supervisor , couple counselor and somatic experiencing practitioner in his own practice.

Abuse scandal at the Odenwald School

On June 10, 1998, Huckele and his former classmate Thorsten Wiest informed the headmaster of the Odenwald school , Wolfgang Harder, and 26 other employees about the sexual violence that the former headmaster Gerold Becker had committed against pupils of the Odenwald school during his tenure (1972-85) has been.

The Frankfurter Rundschau was the only editorial staff ready to make the incidents public. On November 17, 1999, they reached the media public. Odenwaldschule in Discredit was the headline of the Frankfurter Rundschau on page 1. The paint is off is what journalist Jörg Schindler called his article on page 3 of the national daily Frankfurter Zeitung. Regarding the behavior of other editorial offices at the time, Huckele says: “It is as if a generation of journalists has left that either consciously prevented the topic or simply did not recognize it. 'The time has come' is arguably the best answer. The topic has become debatable. ”Huckele was protected by the daily newspaper with the pseudonym Jürgen Dehmers .

All the criminal proceedings against those responsible at the school have been dropped. Andreas Huckele considers the Odenwald School to pay compensation of € 100,000 per person as appropriate. The school declined financial compensation from the Odenwald School to those affected. The mainly complained employees of the Odenwald School, the former music teacher Wolfgang Held († 2006), Jürgen Kahle († 2012) and the then headmaster Gerold Becker († 2010), died without conviction.

"How loud should I still scream?"

In his autobiographical book, published under this pseudonym in 2011, he describes the mechanisms of sexualised violence at the Odenwald School: A culture of irregularity and delimitation made it possible for adults to exercise unrestricted power over students in all areas of life.

His book was awarded the Geschwister-Scholl Prize on November 26, 2012 . The jury sees the work as a rare example of courage and recognizes its performance as an indication of the failure of civil society and the rule of law, from citizens, educators, to the press and the judiciary, who fail to ensure the integrity of children and young people, such as the UN Charter for the Rights of the Child requires it .

In the run-up to the presentation of the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis, Der Spiegel and Die Zeit published author portraits of Huckele alias Dehmers. With this, Huckele, now the most famous stranger, officially gave up his pseudonym in advance of the upcoming award ceremony. In his acceptance speech, he called for the creation of a social framework that should be discussed and uncovered child abuse: He deplores an attitude of cynicism , denial and stupidity that protects the honor of the perpetrators and at the same time means a revictimization of the victims. It is not enough to ask those affected to speak under such conditions, which would burden the victims with responsibility, or to call for a “culture of looking” that claims to get by without solid criteria. Huckele calls for the limitation period for sexual violence against children to be lifted and for the Odenwald school to be closed permanently. The Odenwald School was closed in 2015.

"Power, Sexuality, Violence"

Huckele uses his personal experience to come to general conclusions with regard to the structural development conditions of sexual violence in institutions and their prevention. Embedded in a culture of dissociation , he finds 4 typical errors in the consciousness of those responsible and representatives of the respective institution:

  1. It does n't happen here ; evil is always elsewhere
  2. It does n't happen now ; Incidents of sexual violence in the past are dealt with, prevention is in place for the future, the sexual violence that is happening NOW is ignored.
  3. It is an isolated case , individual perpetrators , the fact that perpetrators operate in networks is ignored.
  4. It's not that bad (trivialization) or yes, but ... reasoning; the abuse should be balanced by positive achievements of the institute (relativization), the invisible injuries of the soul are largely ignored in our culture.

Instead, Huckele demands recognition of the statistically certified fact that abuse is omnipresent in all forms and degrees. He sees the institutions' duty to cope with this fact through appropriate training of their staff and to ensure effective prevention.

Awards

Publications

items

Books

  • Jürgen Dehmers: How loud should I still scream? The Odenwald School and sexual abuse . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2011, ISBN 978-3-498-01332-5 .
  • Andreas Huckele: Power, sexuality, violence - social, political and educational consequences of the abuse scandals . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2013, ISBN 978-3-644-50781-4 . (e-book)
  • Andreas Huckele: Power, sexuality and violence in educational contexts. In: Damian Miller, Jürgen Oelkers (eds.): Reform pedagogy after the Odenwald school - How next? Beltz Juventa Verlag, Weinheim / Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-7799-2929-1 .
  • Andreas Huckele: Sexualized violence as a cultural phenomenon - from tragedy to drama. In: Heike Knoch, Winfried Kurth, Heinrich J. Reiss (eds.): Violence and trauma - direct and transgenerational consequences. (= Yearbook for Psychohistorical Research. Volume 19). Mattes Verlag, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86809-144-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage Andreas Huckele
  2. ↑ Jürgen Dehmers: How loud should I still scream? The Odenwald School and sexual abuse . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2011, p. 120 ff.
  3. ^ Jörg Schindler: Odenwald School in Discredit . ( Memento from July 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 17, 1999, p. 1; accessed on March 31, 2014.
  4. ↑ Jörg Schindler: The paint is off . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 17, 1999, p. 3; accessed on March 31, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b I'm not that kind of world saver . In: Stern. November 26, 2012. (Interview with Andreas Huckele; accessed on March 31, 2014)
  6. ↑ Matthias Bartsch, Susanne Beyer: The power of the strong . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 2011 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Andreas Späth, Menno Aden (Ed.): The abused Republic - Enlightenment about the Enlightenment . Inspiration Unlimited, Hamburg 2010, p. 114 ff.
  8. ↑ Reasons given by the jury for the Geschwister-Scholl-Prize
  9. ↑ Susanne Beyer: Shadow I . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 2012 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Martin Spiewak: Say what was . In: Die Zeit , No. 48/2012
  11. ↑ Axel Lawaczeck: The molester becomes visible . In: taz , September 7, 2011; accessed on March 31, 2014.
  12. ↑ When the victim becomes a victim for the second time . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 28, 2012; Reprint of the acceptance speech, accessed on March 31, 2014.
  13. ↑ See on this and the following: Power, sexuality and violence . Andreas Huckele in conversation with Carolin Emcke in the dispute at the Berlin Schaubühne (web links)
personal data
SURNAME Huckele, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dehmers, Jürgen (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1969