Das Abseits als sicherer Ort

The exemplary report of the great social psychologist Peter Brückner about growing up in the Nazi state between suffering and cheating, between aggressiveness and the cunning of adaptation; about how, where control and the compulsion to the collective become commonplace, one seeks places that lie apart from power - and how, in the process, first contacts with the "forbidden" culture in the midst of barbarism allow one to gain confidence and the ability to act politically: "Like cats, we had seven lives, and each was lived almost seriously." Brückner wrote his last and at the same time most personal book for his children.