Press Conference | KOLLATERAL


The first season of our 15-minute short documentaries is starting. “The Journalist”, “The Member of Parliament”, “The World Champion”, “The Headmistress” and others tell what happened during two years of corona. A new episode of KOLLATERAL goes out every fortnight.

We talk with the protagonists of the bestselling written series “Kollateralschaden” (collateral damage), which first appeared on reitschuster.de in 2020. The series, read by millions and answered by thousands of tearful, moving, disturbing letters, now goes online as a series of films on ten channels.

Politics remains merciless. The collateral damage remains. We give these fates a face.

What I am experiencing now, what is happening to the souls of the children, that really makes the children ill. For me that is no longer possible. And it is unbearable. For me it really is unbearable in my heart. Colleagues warned me: they are leading you onto thin ice, they want to trick you. I say, but he is my friend, I know him. He does not do things like that. This is the poison cabinet of history that is being opened here. They do not notice it themselves at all. That is really frightening. I come in there and think, yes, it is nice here. And I am glad to see the children. And I am glad to see my colleagues too. And I am glad to do something great there. And when that is no longer there, when children only walk around muffled up and go obediently through the building and are not even allowed in without a signature, then it no longer makes any sense.

Then it is no longer my task. At times I was really unstable, I had depression and so on. I was really in psychotherapy as well. I also had suicidal thoughts, I also cut myself. But then I made myself stronger, I gave myself a push. That is why I also want to help many people who have this problem too. Because many people really did become depressed because of corona. I absolutely want to help them. It is so pointless to cut yourself. You can do something better. Kollateral is a continuation of a series of articles that appeared on reitschuster.de.

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