Socially critical comments on systemic violence, the media's lack of reality and the mandate of critical reporting

What follows is not a private life chronicle, but rather the embedding of a concrete biographical experience in a larger socially critical context: the intergenerational transmission of trauma, the institutional pathologization of survival reactions, the media and political repression of real precarious existence in favor of ideological constructions, as well as the refusal to honestly name power structures and their psychological costs.

As a child, I had considerable development potential. This was systematically damaged by the interaction of family violence, state and social institutions. Intergenerational trauma - the mother herself was a victim of institutional violence in the GDR children's home, later living in a dysfunctional, alcoholic relationship - was passed on unfiltered. Neglect, emotional and physical violence, forced invisibility and early confrontation with existential insecurity (empty refrigerator, demand for self-sufficiency in childhood) caused a profound shock to the ability to bond, curiosity and creative ability. The school documentation “shuns social contact” treated the consequence as an individual deficit, not as an understandable reaction to a violent environment. Threats of being placed in a home for inappropriate behavior and the abrupt uprooting from usual circumstances (including accommodation in a women's shelter as a result of nighttime escalations) further severed already fragile social connections.

The psychiatric and social state response to this did not consist in a serious examination of the structural causes, but rather in medical and administrative preparation: gaslighting in the event of physical crises, drug suppression (including dopamine-blocking substances that dampen the desire to argue and motivation at the same time), diagnostic relativization of complex trauma consequences and the administrative deportation to precarious living conditions with the explicit advice that from now on they will have to cope on their own. Even attempts to find connections through niche activities and volunteer work were exploited or discredited. The psychiatric institute outpatient clinic that is now supposed to “repair the damage” is ironically located in the building of one’s own birth – a symbol of the inescapability of a system that individualizes the consequences of its own violence and places the responsibility for making amends on those affected.

This individual fate is not an isolated case, but rather an expression of a larger imbalance: a social system that produces intergenerational trauma, institutional violence and social isolation, while at the same time pathologizing those affected and accusing them of not being sufficiently resilient, adapted or “social”. At the same time, a media and political culture is developing that ignores real precarious existence in favor of academic identity political discourses. While concrete suffering becomes visible every day in public space, a parallel world debates abstract constructions, divides along ideological lines and projects its own defense onto those who refuse collectivism or identify contradictions. The diagnosis “psychotic” or “extreme” often serves to ward off unpleasant truths. Anyone who recognizes patterns, questions them and identifies the generational transmission of psychological terror risks being assigned the same attributes that actually describe the power structures.

This is exactly where the complicity of formats like yours lies. A broadcaster that claims to decentralize power and seek truth is actually reproducing the structures by operating in an academic, aloof, left-wing populist bubble, using the precarious reality at best as illustrative material for ready-made narratives. The demand to “decentralize power, seek truths, justify opinions” will not be fulfilled when uncomfortable biographical and social realities disappear behind ideological boxes, when criticism of identity fetishism, the instrumentalization of social benefits or the discrepancy between domestic political toughness and foreign policy transfers of billions is dismissed as “problematic”, and when one’s own muddy sound and programmatic one-sidedness conceal the actual lack of reality.

The system has destroyed potential, individualized responsibility and then treated those affected as a burden. A critical public that does not name this process but continues it through selective outrage and parallel world simulations is part of the problem. The generational transmission of trauma and the sophisticated psychological reprogramming of social conflicts must be broken - not through further pigeonholes and projections, but through the uncomfortable search for the actual power and violence relationships.

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