🔒 RUMMELSBURG
Not broken. Only forced to look.
Volume 4 of the four-volume series
Not broken. Only forced to look.
Friday, 13 November 1987.
A date many associate with misfortune. For me it became a turning point.
This book tells of the Rummelsburg correctional facility, of the tiger cage, of forced labour, asbestos dust and an amnesty I eventually no longer believed in. It tells of confinement, of cold, of a narrow light shaft – and of the question that remains when everything external falls away:
What do you stand for when no one is watching?
RUMMELSBURG is not a political book.
It is a personal account of pressure, conscience and decision.
Of adaptation – and the boundary where it ends.
📌 In this book you will find:
- daily life in an East German labour prison
- isolation in the “tiger cage”
- forced labour under health risk
- hope that grows quieter
- and a decision no one can make for you
🧭 This book is for you if …
- you want to know what integrity feels like under pressure
- you are preoccupied with questions of conscience and stance
- you want to understand what inner freedom truly means
- you are not looking for a hero’s tale, but an honest one
💡 What you may gain from it:
- clarity about your own boundaries
- a new understanding of responsibility
- the courage to take an inner decision seriously
- and perhaps the insight that freedom does not begin on the outside
This is the fourth book in a series about sleep, conscience and the quiet boundaries one does not wish to cross.
For only those sleep peacefully
who have not betrayed themselves.