NOT BROKEN 🕊️
Short. Hard. Dignity.
Not broken. Only forced to look.
What it is really about
It is not about 1.3 kilos of hashish.
Not about East Berlin.
Not even about prison.
It is about something more uncomfortable:
What happens to a person
who believes he is clever –
and realises he has lied to himself?
A young man takes a shortcut.
He calls it calculation.
He calls it risk.
He calls it temporary.
Then a door closes.
In Keibelstraße there is no torture.
No drama.
But something more dangerous:
Time.
Repetition.
System.
And the slow dismantling of one’s own excuses.
💬 This book asks questions
- When is silence strength – and when is it only pride?
- Is loyalty always honourable – or sometimes just habit?
- What remains of you when no one believes you anymore?
- And how honest are you when no one is watching?
🔎 This book is for you if …
- you understand responsibility not as a moral slogan, but as a personal decision
- you are interested in how self-deception works
- you want to know what “not broken” really means
- you do not need heroes, but development
🚫 This book is not for you if …
- you expect a pure indictment of the GDR
- you are looking for simple black-and-white explanations
- you need someone who is only a victim or only a perpetrator
🧠 What you may take with you
- That shortcuts are rarely faster
- That integrity can be quiet
- That honesty often begins when excuses end
- That “not broken” does not mean untouched
This book tells of imprisonment.
But it is about decision.
And about the fact that sometimes one must stop
in order to truly stand upright.