In the midst of another turbulent TV night of news, debates, and talk shows the other night the spectator could discover a thirty minutes long masterpiece, which outshines everything else.
| Erwin Leiser, Neue Züricher Zeitung (Swiss newspaper), 10/23/1994 |
Gerlinde Böhm reveals in her documentary film “Vertrauen gegen Gewalt” (Confidence against Violence) what it means to work with young members of the extreme right wing. For over half a year the film maker accompanied the manager of a youth club in Berlin, which is mostly visited by young people of the extreme right wing.
Tireless tries the social worker to get “his boys” out of the loop of unemployment, boozing, violence, and organized crime. He also tries to antagonize the young people’s indoctrination by the extreme right wing parties and organizations.
Gerlinde Böhm gets very close to the young people in her film. This enables her to make the uncertainty obvious, which the young people try to conceal by their violent behavior.
Ignorance is another possibility to deal with young people of the extreme right wing, who are ready for violence. The exact opposite did Gerlinde Böhm with her film ‘Bald heads, cliques and a club’, which was shown by the ZDF in its series ‘Kontext’ (…).Her cautious portrait of young people from East Berlin demonstrated how to work with skinheads rather than to isolate them.
| Augsburger Allgemeine (German newspaper), 10/20/1994 |
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