What does 33 years in prison do to a person? 33 years of absolute heteronomy, surrounded by salmon-colored prison walls, drug use, violence and in a confined space with people whose proximity you didn’t choose. More than three decades in a world without privacy, without toilet seats, without family celebrations, without nature and without any prospect of ever being able to live in freedom once more. Does such a life make a person despair, mad or apathetic, break? The assumption is at least close. Whoever meets Jens Soering gets a different impression.
