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ARD's "Seven Hours" on Wednesday night is based on the true story of prison psychologist Susanne Preusker. She was a victim of a hostage incident in 2009, her hostage taker raped her. In the book "Seven o'clock in April" wrote Preusker about his trauma after, the book became a movie. In February had Preusker's life. Retired prison chief Katharina Bennefeld-Kersten remembers in Preusker's ZEIT crime 2/2018 special magazine – a similar experience in 1996.
Edith is on my desk. Named after Edith Stein, Jewish philosopher and women's rights activist, murdered in Auschwitz in 1942 and canonized in 1998 (she entered Carmel and adopted the religious name Teresia Benedicta of the Cross).
Edith is a stylized guardian angel, made of rosewood and rosewood. Gift of a man with whom I worked at Salinenmoor Prison – him as a pastor, me as a leader. After being taken hostage – or better, maneuvering me, Edith was supposed to be my bodyguard. I was touched by the care of the pastor and fascinated by the charisma of the little wooden sculpture. When someone near me enters a crisis, I lend it to Edith. But in February 2018, Edith was with me. I did not suspect the crisis in which Susanne Preusker was to be. On February 13, 2018, she committed suicide.
We living people can hardly bear the fact that parents or friends are coming out of their own lives. The closer we got to man, the more desperate explanations we sought. Susanne was close to a lot of people. My proximity to her was sporadic. It was based on the great recognition of the professional colleague and a very personal exchange after her own hostage in April 2009 – because she had lived the same thing as me.
Susanne was a psychologist and psychotherapist. After working in psychiatry in North Rhine-Westphalia, she went to the correctional system in Lower Saxony. His new chief, the headquarters of Celle Prison, had already been my boss and spoke to me proudly of his new colleague: "An interesting woman, smart and charming, really great, you get along well." That was true Susanne was a winning, humorous, competent appearance. She loved challenges. After working in various police departments, she created the Social Therapy Department in Straubing, Bavaria. And led him.
Susanne, 49, a single mother of a son, was about to get married when a prisoner convicted of bad crimes and murder badaulted and raped her repeatedly over the years. A seven-hour hostage – a prisoner she had been following for four years. The next day, she wanted to talk to me. Because I too had been raped as a hostage. Talking in an incomprehensible situation with a misfortune companion can help you not completely lose your composure. What surprised and touched us is the intensity of our meeting.
A few days later, the long-planned marriage took place. His partner had left no doubt that it should stay that way. At the same time, Susanne celebrated the funeral of her "old life": she had to suffer the consequences of the crime and can no longer work in prison. After careful consideration, whether she becomes a psychotherapist on her own or that she prefers a doctorate, she started working on a book about her trauma and her management:
Seven o'clock in April.
Susanne discovered that she could write and had something to say. She became a writer, then wrote detective novels and, after receiving a dog from the shelter, books for dogs.
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