Natascha (into the microphone):
»Hate is the coldness in your shattered heart, you don't feel anything but this hate. Everything is black, just like the blackest night. Your life isn't worth a damn, and neither are you, you suffer because you don't exist anymore. It's only your body that is alive, but on the inside everything is dried up, and all your wishes have died just like your laughter...«
Natascha Krawtschenko, 16, is one of 14 teenagers in the project MAULSONSTAUGE, an intercultural examination of the participants' history as perpetrators or victims of violence. Natascha's lines are representative of the vehement emotional eruptions that the sense of exclusion and of having no future can trigger.