DDR-Erbe in der Seele

The future needs a past: A critical engagement with history, with what was good and what was not. Yet, even thirty years after German reunification, there is silence about the psychological consequences that the GDR's authoritarian upbringing, retreat into privacy, life in illusionary worlds, surveillance, flight, and loss of homeland have had on millions of Germans to this day. But the soul knows no finality!

Therapist Udo Baer, who grew up in the GDR himself, embarks on a quest to uncover this GDR legacy in the soul through numerous conversations. He discovers not only a natural self-confidence, especially among women, but also tabooed fears, prohibitions on grief, and traumas in many people. These experiences must finally be acknowledged. Only when families and our society speak about the inner scars will their transmission to the next generation be prevented. Only then can all Germans move into a shared future.