Germany... did you think about it carefully,

02.12.2015 daHEIM Created by translated by Ursina Scrowther

when you decided that people from Afghanistan, asking for asylum, no longer have the right to participate in a language course?

Was it a drunken-desperate deal at three in the morning that made you send back Afghans to this contested, occupied country? The Afghan army, as could be read in the press, needs the men as soldiers.
‚Alltogether 70.5% of all asylum-seekers are younger than 30 years’- a static figure, publicised 2014 in a paper oft he bamf1 . With us, daHeim, there is no Afghan older than 30. They all have to go now. To defend the ‚security in the Hindukush’2. They have already done that in the passed years - have served the west as translaters or have cared for their fleet of cars.
The shop-assistant at Netto accepts gracefully the Berlin Pass as legitimation, when the purchase for 5.81 is being payed with a bank card. You made the aliens department collect their ID-cards, and gave them the white paper’ instead.

Your playing the right to education off against the weakest:

German language conditionally- only for asylum seekers from Syria, Irak, Eritrea, Iran.‚Being without language is like being without arms and legs’- With the image of an amputation Kumrije had expressed her feeling of linguistic helplessness, when she came to Berlin from Kosovo in May.

HE has been searching school after school in the last weeks for a place in a language course. ‚Not for Afghans’ has he learned in doing so. That much German he knows by now. He is 25 years old and came 11 months ago from Pachir w agam – Taliban stronghold, kein schöner Land3, but domicile oft the Daesh.

Last Sunday he has banged his head against the wall of his room and inflicted himself wound after wound. His friend found him, before he could jump.

In the clinic they used posey restraint to protect him from himself.

My life is a nonentity’, he sais.’Life of people from Afghanistan has no value. We’re not even allowed to go to school. What’s the meaning of a life like this.’

„Thinking of Germany at night ....“, Heine

or „The Man outside“, Borchert

Two German writers.

Beautiful.

But to read them, one would have to know the language.

 

 

1 Bundesamt für Migration

2 Peter Struck, former defence minister,  december 5th,  2003
3 Famous German Folk Song, by Anton Wilhelm Florentin von Zuccalmaglio, 1838
4 „Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht,...“ poem from the cycle "Nachtgedanken",  by Heinrich Heine, 1844
5 „draußen vor der Tür“, play by Wolfgang Borchert, 1946