Thom's report

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Thom's report is an award-winning youth novel by the German writer Tilman Röhrig from 1973.

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The book tells the story of the young protagonist and first-person narrator Thom. He is teased by other children because of his red hair and freckles, so he only wears long clothes and is often beaten by his tyrannical father, a pastor. He always justifies the beatings with the sanctimonious sentence "He chastises those whom God loves". When Thom's mother leaves the family, in contrast to his three siblings, he also has to go: first he is passed on to an uncle and then ends up in the children's home for a year - which he finds pleasant because he is not beaten up there. When Thom returns a year later, he is beaten up again by both his father and his classmates. In the end, he decides to finally become independent, leaves the church and thus detaches himself from his father.

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In this book Röhrig processes his own experiences with his brutal father Udo Röhrig, a Protestant pastor who often chastised him to the point of blood.

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  1. Guest in the studio: The writer Tilman Röhrig ( Memento from August 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), WDR (February 28, 2012)

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