The cover jacket of the book "Das Ende der Geduld." The book is by the late Kirsten Heisig. Source: Herder Verlag via Bloomberg
Kirsten Heisig portrays a Berlin the tourists don’t see: A place where children sell heroin at age 11 and commit rape at 13; where teenagers attack shopkeepers with knives and schools can no longer cope with the violence.
Until her sudden death in June, Heisig, 48, was a juvenile court judge working in Neukoelln, one of the city’s most crime- afflicted areas. Her body was found by police last month, though not until four days after she hanged herself from a tree. She left no note to explain her suicide. read more By Catherine Hickley for Bloomberg
