Church and pedophilia: Josef Haslinger’s “Mein Fall” in the Theater Werk X – Theater

While religious brothers are buried undisturbed and with all dignity, those men who, as boys, became the target of their pedophile attacks remain confronted with the consequences of the same for the rest of their lives. In 2020 the Austrian writer Josef Haslinger, who had previously written about the pedosexual incidents in the Zwettl Cistercian monastery, published a book about coming to terms with his experiences as a child and young person and the late possibility of “compensation”.