Hermione's List - The Children of the Merciless Sisters

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Movie
Original title Hermione's List - The Children of the Merciless Sisters
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2007
length 103 minutes
Rod
Director Uli Veith
script Uli Veith
production Bernd Wilting ( Daylight Media )
camera Jörg Adams
cut Kawe Vakil

Hermione's List - The Children of the Merciless Sisters is a documentary film produced in 2005 by director Uli Veith (producer: Bernd Wilting / Taglicht Media ) about the consequences of the use of violence in home education . The film was first broadcast on the television station 3sat on February 25, 2007.

The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW funded the production with 35,000 euros. According to the Filmstiftung, the focus is on "the obsessive endeavor of transsexual farmer , radio technician and parapsychologist Hermine Schneider to prove abuse in a Catholic children's home 35 years ago by means of collected notes."

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For years, Schneider (* 1956) raised accusations of abuse against the St. Josef Children's Home in Eschweiler, which was run by the Order of Poor Maidservants of Jesus Christ (“Dernbacher Sisters”) . To prove her allegations, she looked for people who had also lived in the children's home and documented their memories. Her list of names of former children in the home is the starting point for the documentary.

The film shows some of the former home children. Almost all of them were sick, retired early or committed criminal offenses .

The film also reports on Willi Kappes (1955–2015). In 2004, Hermine Schneider made sure that her cousin was released from the Viersen- Süchteln juvenile psychiatry after around 45 years . When he was three years old, he was admitted for an abnormal behavior . He had been given psychotropic drugs every day, he had never attended school and at times forgot to speak.

Hermine Schneider, together with other affected persons, submitted applications to the pension office in Aachen for victim compensation under the Victims Compensation Act .

She also appeared as a victim representative for the Catholic Church and the poor servants of Jesus Christ. The church responded with injunctions and fraud notices.

3sat wrote in the broadcast announcement that it became clear in the encounter with the former children in the home that "Hermione, in the obsessive confrontation with her past, has found a way of survival that will save her from the worst consequences of a hushed up trauma " ".

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The poor servants of Jesus Christ continued to deny in 2008 that brutal educational methods had been used in their children's homes. They assumed that Hermine Schneider and other former children in the home had a false memory . In 2010, the order granted “corporal punishment” that “could not be reconciled with the educational zeitgeist of the time” and asked for forgiveness on its website.

In 2019, Hermine Schneider donated her private documents, letters, photos, expert opinions, tapes and film recordings as well as her megaphone, which document the aspects of home education in the early Federal Republic, to the contemporary history collection in the House of History in Bonn .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f 3sat TV program Sunday, February 25th In: 3sat.de . February 25, 2007, accessed April 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Found a way to survive. In: Aachener Zeitung . February 23, 2007, accessed April 8, 2017 .
  3. ^ Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen : Production decisions on October 2nd , 2003
  4. ^ Opponents, victims and obsessions. Film- und Medienstiftung NRW , October 21, 2003, accessed on April 8, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Hermione's List. In: Zweiausendeins -Filmlexikon. Retrieved April 9, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Silke Hoock: Abuse of home children: "Suddenly screaming fits. The mouth crooked ”. In: zeit.de . November 9, 2016, accessed April 8, 2017 .
  7. ↑ After 45 years he was freed by his cousin. Simply forgotten in psychiatry. In: Berliner Kurier . May 4, 2004, accessed April 9, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Barbara Dickmann , Sibylle Bassler (ed.): Stolen Childhood - How Welfare Homes have destroyed children . An ML Mona Lisa book, based on a documentary by Barbara Dickmann and Angelica Fell. Mvg Verlag , 2008, p. 48–49 ( table of contents, PDF ).
  9. ↑ Children's homes: "With the straitjacket in the tub". In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger . August 26, 2008. Retrieved April 9, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Abuse in the children's home: The order asks for forgiveness. In: Aachener Zeitung . April 9, 2010, accessed April 9, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Friedhelm Ebbecke-bending Village: A fight writes German history . in: Aachener Nachrichten of November 27, 2019