Volume 47 (2024), Edition 2

This article discusses experiences of repression in the GDR in the light of their respective historical and political context. The psychosocial long-term effects of persecution, imprisonment and disintegration by the Stasi are analysed in connection...

This article explores the underlying factors in the field of Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung (reworking of the past) that contribute to the lack of public attention towards the individuals imprisoned in the GDR for ›antisocial behavior‹, despite...

In order to examine whether those affected by SED injustice who experienced stigmatisation in the GDR are still confronted with it in the present, two selected cases were contrasted within the framework of a qualitative study. The results show that,...

Former political prisoners in the GDR may claim benefits due to health damages according to §21 StrRehaG. In practice, despite the scientifically proven physical and psychological trauma sequelae following political imprisonment, there is a...

Between 1949 and 1990, approximately half a million children and adolescents grew up in children’s homes and reformatories in the former GDR. Contemporary witnesses repeatedly report on stressful or traumatising experiences in the youth welfare...

The term »recognition« can mean very different things. As a defining moment of social action, recognition plays a central role in coming to terms with injustice suffered. Recognition processes permeate psychosocial relationships and support...

Children and adolescents who went through the residential childcare facilities system of the German Democratic Republic because of social conspicuousness, refusal, family problems or nonconforming, »inconvenient« political beliefs (of their own or...

This article examines central aspects of the depth dimension of pedagogical relationships. Of particular interest is the relation between pedagogical work that focuses on elaborated didactics and pedagogical work that focuses on emotional...