Ilona Haslbauer

Ilona Haslbauer (* 1956 ) is the victim of a Bavarian judicial affair. It provoked similarly controversial discussions about the practice of Bavarian courts with regard to the compulsory admission of people to psychiatric penal institutions and the conditions in the penal system as did the Gustl Mollath case . Haslbauer spent seven and a half years - from 2006 to 2014 - against her will in the closed department of the forensic psychiatry in Taufkirchen (Vils) and Straubing . The briefing in the penal system, against the background of the relatively minor charge and in particular the duration of this deprivation of liberty , was criticized as completely disproportionate . In addition, there had been contradicting reports which Haslbauer considered partly fully culpable, partly not culpable due to a paranoid system of thought.

Accusation and instruction in the execution of a measure

In 2005 Haslbauer stood before the court as a defendant for willful bodily harm . According to the indictment, she is said to have rammed her former neighbor with a shopping cart . Because Haslbauer already had previous convictions for bodily harm and insult, the Regensburg District Court sentenced her to six months ' imprisonment . She appealed against this judgment to the regional court of Regensburg . Haslbauer insisted that the allegation did not correspond to the facts. That was her undoing, especially since she got involved in a psychiatric and a psychological report. The expert commissioned by the court then diagnosed that her thoughts were living in a delusional system and that she was dangerous to the public . Haslbauer's doubts about the balance of the report were also interpreted as delusional. Instead of the execution of the imprisonment (four months imprisonment) imposed by the Regional Court of Regensburg as a punishment for bodily harm, Haslbauer was assigned to the closed prison system.

Placement in the forensic psychiatry

Ilona Haslbauer's behavior during her placement in the forensic psychiatry was interpreted as uncooperative by the clinic. So she pretended to be asleep when doctors entered her room, read the newspaper or remained silent. As a result, there were two further reports about them, but each of the experts without their own knowledge only based on the previous reports. When Haslbauer insisted on having breakfast during her usual time, the situation between her and the nursing staff escalated. According to the clinic management, Haslbauer insulted the clinic staff, resisted and finally kicked a nurse in the genital area , whereupon she was tied to a bed with all limbs for 25 hours .

Support from Nina Hagen and Gustl Mollath and release

The German singer and actress Nina Hagen campaigned for the release and publication of the fate of Ilona Haslbauer from 2013 . Hagen also accused the director of the forensic psychiatry in Taufkirchen (Vils) of his past as a Maoist . The justice victim Gustl Mollath had also campaigned for her release. Mollath and Haslbauer were born in the same year (1956). Gustl Mollath was also in the forensic psychiatry in Straubing "delivered to the same doctor as a patient as Haslbauer", as Mollath put it. Haslbauer was released from forensic psychiatry on August 14, 2014. When she was released, around 50 demonstrators had gathered in front of the psychiatry clinic in Taufkirchen. Gustl Mollath was also present.

Engagement after the release

Since her release, Ilona Haslbauer has been fighting against the execution of measures under Section 63 of the Criminal Code. She tries to draw attention to the literal "torture methods of the system" - with poems , concerts and plays . Haslbauer wrote most of the plays and poems during the time of her placement in the forensic psychiatry. The play, in which she processed her experiences in psychiatry, is entitled "Cemetery of the Breathing Dead". It was premiered in 2015 by the Regensburg ensemble ueTheater . At the end of 2014, the Theater für Niedersachsen produced a CD entitled "Poems from Forced Psychiatry", on which Haslbauer's poems are sung and spoken. Nina Hagen also contributed to this as a spokesperson. In her concerts, in which she sings and speaks her poems, Haslbauer usually appears together with Nina Hagen.

In a TV documentary by Südwestrundfunk, Haslbauer was cited as a prime example of how easily it can happen that one is admitted to closed psychiatry for many years in Germany as a result of minor offenses on the basis of psychiatric reports.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hard methods in psychiatry: bound for 25 hours ; in: Spiegel Online from August 26, 2013
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Measures in psychiatry: The case of Ilona Haslbauer ; in: Abendschau (Bayerischer Rundfunk) on July 16, 2014
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Nina Hagen and the second Mollath ; in: regensburg-digital from July 16, 2014
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Mollath picks up patient from psychiatry ; in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 14, 2014
5. ^ Victims of Psychiatry in Germany - The Ilona Haslbauer Case ; in: ZDF , Frontal 21 , broadcast on November 11, 2014
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} "Scenes from Forced Psychiatry" to the University of Regensburg ( Memento from January 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ); in: Bayerischer Rundfunk from January 22, 2015
7. ↑ ^{a b} Before the regional court: Nina Hagen fights for a psychiatric inmate ; in: Merkur Online from July 17, 2014
8. ↑ ^{a b} Instead of six months imprisonment, permanent psychiatry? ; in: regensburg-digital from June 14, 2008
9. ↑ ^{a b} Responsible according to the expert's taste? ; in: regensburg-digital from March 25, 2014
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} poems of a person locked away ; in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 13, 2014
11. ↑ Nina Hagen: "Release Ilona H. from psychiatry!" ; in: Bild newspaper from July 16, 2014
12. ↑ From Maoist to psychiatrist luminary ; in: Merkur Online from July 25, 2014
13. ↑ With Mollath as counsel in court ; in: Mittelbayerische Zeitung of March 25, 2014
14. ^ Freedom for Ilona Haslbauer ; Video of Ilona Haslbauer's dismissal on August 14, 2014
15. ↑ Ilona Haslbauer is finally free! ; Video from August 14, 2014
16. ^ Speech by Ilona Haslbauer ; Video from August 14, 2014
17. ^ Law on the Execution of Measures - Progress or Crash Landing ; Video of the panel discussion with Ilona Haslbauer and Gustl Mollath in Munich on November 24, 2014
18. ^ Theater shows scenes from psychiatry ; in: Mittelbayerische Zeitung from January 19, 2015
19. ^ Nina Hagen's protégé Ilona Haslbauer in the film ; in: Passauer Neue Presse from March 9, 2015
20. ↑ Poems from compulsory psychiatry ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; in: Portal of the theater for Lower Saxony 
21. ^ Poetry from psychiatry ; in: Bürgerblick Passau from December 15, 2014
22. ↑ In the expert trap - When the judiciary is at an end ; in: Südwestrundfunk from December 9, 2015
23. ^ Preliminary report on the TV report "In der Gutachterfalle" ; in: swr.de