A study shows that the mass abuse of children by Catholic priests – now the processing start, declares the Church. The writer Bodo Kirchhoff has done that for itself already.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
Shocking movies: abuse in the Catholic Church
A recent study by scientists from Mannheim, Giessen and Heidelberg, about the sexual abuse of Minors by Catholic priests between 1946 to 2014, shows how large the extent of sexual violence within the Catholic Church in Germany. In other countries, and in movies and novels, this was long an issue. Here is a scene from the movie “misconduct”.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
“Misconduct” (2015)
Three friends, three priests are involved in different ways in an abuse scandal. A is guilty of and adolescents, sexually harassed, and the other varies between the displacement and the will to enlightenment, the third only has his career in mind. In addition to the abuse issue Director Schneider wanted to draw the Stereotype of the priest.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
Brave Director
Director, Gerd Schneider knew what he was staged in front of the camera: He studied Catholic theology and wanted to become a priest. But at some point it was clear to him: “That’s not my thing”. At the film Academy in Ludwigsburg, he studied directing. In “misconduct” (2015), he shows the ignorance of the Catholic Church to the Victims.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
“El Club”
The images are dark, often blurry, the light is usually pale and scary – a Scenery like in a horror movie. For his feature film of the Chilean Director Pablo Larraín has taken up a controversial topic: In the “Club”, a house on the edge of the world, four of the older priests, who share a furchbares secret. You all have made the sexual abuse of children guilty.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
Combative Director
In Chile the issue of abuse was by Catholic priests and religious for a long taboo. The Director came across in his research on many of the houses in which the Church, priest brought under the sexual violence exercised and a penalty revoked. “The Church seems to have much of a fear of the press, as from hell,” says Larraín. The Film came out in 2015 in the cinemas.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
“Philomena” (2013)
Also in Ireland, thousands of cases of abuse by Catholic priests are now known. Director Stephen Frears is dedicated to his film “Philomena” another aspect of the clerical abuse of power exercised by the nuns in Catholic monasteries: Unmarried young mothers were taken away from their children and they had to perform forced labour.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
Judi Dench
The Briton is playing in “Philomena”, the main role. The 70-year-old Philomena Lee goes in Film of 2013, along with a journalist on the search of her adult son to send. Heartless nuns, have him released without the consent of the unmarried mother to the Adoption. The Catholic Church earned money – a scandal which only came in the last few years to light.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
“The Magdalene sisters”
Also, the 2002 released Film, the Scottish actor and Director Peter Mullan tells the story of such “Magdalene homes”. Up to the year 1996, the mothers of illegitimate children had to do in Ireland in such houses grueling forced labor. Catholic nuns led a strict, often sadistic Regiment about the “sinners”, the abuse of power was commonplace.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
“Spotlight”
In the US Thriller from Director Tom McCarthy from the year 2016 a Reporter to cover a abuse scandal of the Catholic Church. The screenplay of two-time-Oscar-winning film true stories. The “Boston Globe” has published the backgrounds of the beginning of the 2000s. At that time, the Archdiocese tried in Massachusetts the mass child to cover up abuse.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
Shocking movies: abuse in the Catholic Church
A recent study by scientists from Mannheim, Giessen and Heidelberg, about the sexual abuse of Minors by Catholic priests between 1946 to 2014, shows how large the extent of sexual violence within the Catholic Church in Germany. In other countries, and in movies and novels, this was long an issue. Here is a scene from the movie “misconduct”.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
“Misconduct” (2015)
Three friends, three priests are involved in different ways in an abuse scandal. A is guilty of and adolescents, sexually harassed, and the other varies between the displacement and the will to enlightenment, the third only has his career in mind. In addition to the abuse issue Director Schneider wanted to draw the Stereotype of the priest.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
Brave Director
Director, Gerd Schneider knew what he was staged in front of the camera: He studied Catholic theology and wanted to become a priest. But at some point it was clear to him: “That’s not my thing”. At the film Academy in Ludwigsburg, he studied directing. In “misconduct” (2015), he shows the ignorance of the Catholic Church to the Victims.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
“El Club”
The images are dark, often blurry, the light is usually pale and scary – a Scenery like in a horror movie. For his feature film of the Chilean Director Pablo Larraín has taken up a controversial topic: In the “Club”, a house on the edge of the world, four of the older priests, who share a furchbares secret. You all have made the sexual abuse of children guilty.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
Combative Director
In Chile the issue of abuse was by Catholic priests and religious for a long taboo. The Director came across in his research on many of the houses in which the Church, priest brought under the sexual violence exercised and a penalty revoked. “The Church seems to have much of a fear of the press, as from hell,” says Larraín. The Film came out in 2015 in the cinemas.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
“Philomena” (2013)
Also in Ireland, thousands of cases of abuse by Catholic priests are now known. Director Stephen Frears is dedicated to his film “Philomena” another aspect of the clerical abuse of power exercised by the nuns in Catholic monasteries: Unmarried young mothers were taken away from their children and they had to perform forced labour.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
Judi Dench
The Briton is playing in “Philomena”, the main role. The 70-year-old Philomena Lee goes in Film of 2013, along with a journalist on the search of her adult son to send. Heartless nuns, have him released without the consent of the unmarried mother to the Adoption. The Catholic Church earned money – a scandal which only came in the last few years to light.
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Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
“The Magdalene sisters”
Also, the 2002 released Film, the Scottish actor and Director Peter Mullan tells the story of such “Magdalene homes”. Up to the year 1996, the mothers of illegitimate children had to do in Ireland in such houses grueling forced labor. Catholic nuns led a strict, often sadistic Regiment about the “sinners”, the abuse of power was commonplace.
-
Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church
“Spotlight”
In the US Thriller from Director Tom McCarthy from the year 2016 a Reporter to cover a abuse scandal of the Catholic Church. The screenplay of two-time-Oscar-winning film true stories. The “Boston Globe” has published the backgrounds of the beginning of the 2000s. At that time, the Archdiocese tried in Massachusetts the mass child to cover up abuse.
“It’s always the dark pages of our biography, to accompany us there, where another naked waiting for us,” writes Bodo Kirchhoff 2004 in his novel “Where the sea begins”.
A programmatic sentence that could stand as a stone-carved inscription about his entire work. In his novels and short stories diving to his biography pictures rejected repeatedly: the half-naked Kantor in the boarding school, the sports teacher, waiting sometimes a mother half-naked in bed or a classmate. It pursued him.
His “abuse” began as an almost four year old on summer vacation with his mother, who took him to bed. The term “abuse” does not like Kirchhoff. It won’t help and will the contradictions of the personal drama is not, wrote Kirchhoff 2010 in a much-publicized Essay for the “mirror”. “The so-called abuse – of course, cross confessional, what else – leaves behind a tremendous voice hole. It is a hole, the word scar would be a euphemism, that neither the time processes can heal; the term Statute of limitations is in any case absurd.”
Successful writer: Bodo Kirchhoff (re) at the award ceremony of the German book prize in 2016
For Bodo Kirchhoff, 1948 born in Hamburg and as a child in the black forest and grew up, was to Write later therapy. The workaholism, the clean knees in the fates of fictional characters of the novel, did him good. The literary stories were his weapon, to deal with the past.
Speechless Child
With his novel “Infanta” landed the well-known German writer in 1990, a Bestseller for weeks, his book was ranked number one in the bestseller lists. Kirchhoff was a popular talk show guest. After that, it was difficult for him, to his success. What caught stopped him mentally, compulsive, unproductive, driven by recurring memories, he revealed later, and now, in his recently published autobiography.
Kirchhoff is one of the writers who have come out boldly and unequivocally in Interviews as “Affected”. In his Childhood he has experienced multiple sexual Assaults. As a boarding school student, just twelve years old. The culprit: school Cantor, his religion teacher: playing guitar, long-haired, Roth-Händle-Smoking, VW-Cabrio-driver and insinuating locker on it. A ruthless pederast in the service of the Protestant Church, the operation of the boarding school at the time.
Ignore, Look the other way, Cover up was Done, the answer to the monstrous, reported by Bodo Kirchhoff in Inteviews. “In the boarding school there was no scandal, there was only questioned by people who wanted to know everything exactly, to excite, rather it. I had to talk about something that had no language, I had to invent one, even so, you will be a writer.”
Urgent Openness
The abuse scandal at the Odenwald school brought him in 2010 to publish not the literary Packed, but something very Personal. Brave Bodo Kirchhoff wrote, in Public, the own load of the soul, in the Form of autobiographical Essays, published in the magazine “der Spiegel”.
Also at the Odenwald school, there was an abuse scandal
He could understand why none of the Affected had appealed to a perhaps protective of the Public. “It is better to retain the intimate dirt for themselves, as him for a dirt-hungry world to suspend, the only disrespectful shaken.”
“Writing is a craft plus its own abyss, the one without the other is nothing,” said Kirchhoff, the curious students in his Frankfurt poetics lectures in 1994. In the event, which bore the clever title of “legends of the own body,” he reported from the painful craft of the writer, whose personal history always writes. At that time, be careful confession was not met with open ears. The time was not ripe. Today, he would probably talk differently about it.
“Writing is the incarnation”
His latest book, “Twilight and turmoil. Novel of the early years”, which has in these days of his book launch, is a disguised autobiography. The title hints at the conflict that will pave in the early 1950/60s, the lives of the young Bodo Kirchhoff. A novel that appears at exactly the right time: a year after the global uproar by #MeToo, there are other Scandals.
The Chairman of the German bishops ‘ conference as a response to the recently published comprehensive study of the mass abuse of minors by representatives of the Catholic Church – on Tuesday (25.09.2018) a year-long Look the other way, Deny, and Cover-up officially granted.
Cardinal Reinhard Marx promised consistent detection of all cases of abuse
Cardinal Reinhard Marx found clear and unequivocal words: “I am ashamed for the trust that has been destroyed; for the crimes, the people by officials of the Church did,” he told the press. For the writer Bodo Kirchhoff the remains of a wound, there was a cope at the end of anything: “The true Drama remains almost always untold.”
Books by Bodo Kirchhoff:
“Twilight and turmoil. Novel of the early years” (2018), “chattel” (2016),”love Breviary for Advanced students” (2012), “love in broad outline” (2012), “begins The little Garbo” (2006), “Where the sea” (2004), “Infanta” (1990), “the loneliness of The skin” (1981)