And we're not the only ones

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And we are not the only ones is a documentary by Christoph Röhl in which former students report on the sexual abuse committed by the then headmaster of the Odenwald School Gerold Becker and other teachers. The film has caused quite a stir, not only because of the authenticity of the interview partners: Through the stories of former students and teachers viewers institution internal dynamics of silence, shame and the non-true Have-volition is made aware that the decades-long abuse constitutively with conditional. Röhl himself worked as an English tutor at the school for two years.

And we are not the only ones was nominated for the German Television Award in 2011 and is now used as training material in seminars. In 2012 the film was awarded the Robert Geisendörfer Prize , the media prize of the Evangelical Church.

reception

Tanjev Schultz wrote in Süddeutsche.de: “This film is torture, but it doesn't let go of the viewer, it forces them to look, that's exactly what it means. You can't turn away, the people in this film grab the viewer, they speak to them directly. "

In the online edition of the Tagesspiegel it was said: “The documentary is anything but voyeuristic. For the author it is not about meticulously proving the guilt of individual perpetrators or using the school's educational reform approach to settle it. But how such a system of abuse could arise under the special conditions of the Odenwald School "[...]

background

In 2014, Christoph Röhl dealt again with the subject of the Odenwald School, this time as director of the fictional feature film The Chosen .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silent enough . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung online from May 25, 2011
  2. ↑ Thomas Gehringer: In the silent prison . In: Der Tagesspiegel online from May 23, 2011
  3. ↑ Constanze Ehrhardt: The Many Faces of Abuse , FAZ , July 5, 2014