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"Rabiat: youth for an ass" – agonizing corona state of emergency

In the current edition of the ARD series “Rabiat”, young people talk about their experiences in the Corona years and about the challenges of a generation.

The ARD report series “Rabiat” is a kind of extension of the program format “Y-Kollektiv” in the linear TV program. “Y-Kollektiv” stands for reports and reports by young journalists and is available on the public youth channel funk.net. The productions edited by Radio Bremen are therefore aimed at a young audience. The title of the current “Rabiat” edition already reveals that very direct tones are struck here; the youthful jargon of authenticity is used. Although – wouldn’t “Jugend am Arsch” have been more appropriate?

There is a slight difference in age between the twenty-nine-year-old reporter Alina Schulz and her interview partners: those who have just finished school or have started studying. All of this in the Corona era, which is characterized by the shutdown of public life, states of emergency, curfews.

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Despina perceives the situation as “depressing” and “frustrating”. She started studying law in Heidelberg, lives on thirteen square meters in a shared apartment, initially had no opportunity to get to know fellow students or to make friends and felt unhappy.

Many of their peers are not doing better. Occasionally they vent their displeasure in the form of regular demonstrations, but also illegal mass parties with furious attacks on law enforcement officers and property damage. Not only due to youthful exuberance, as Alina Schulz’s research shows.

How Corona affects life: Report series “Rabiat” (ARD) asks young people

In the phase of the first Corona-related exit bans, the number of adolescents with symptoms of a mental illness rose by fifteen percent. Every third child showed mental health problems. Depression can be life threatening. Fourteen-year-old Kira developed anorexia. Others report self-harm. False role models on social media and cramped living conditions intensify these phenomena.

Help is not always easy to find. Liam from Mannheim raised the subject at a video conference at his school, a brave step that not everyone dares. He was handled brusquely. He is now in therapy. Also a problem area. At the time of filming, those affected waited up to ten weeks for a therapy place in a clinic.

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The film author Alina Schulz finds the right tone in conversation with the young adults, speaks with them on an equal footing, and sometimes helps with the preparations for a birthday party. Very often she can be seen in the picture, not all of these settings would have been necessary. It helps to understand when she looks back at her own youth and shows photos from a trip she took when she was nineteen. The comparison makes it clear what the members of this age group have missed in the last two years due to the Corona prevention and what gave some a devastating impression of lack of prospects.

This “Rabiat” program acts as a mouthpiece for the younger generation, is aimed at them, but also at the older generation, who often find it difficult to get used to the situation of adolescents. This goes to the limit of ignorance when the son of a mother who is looking for work is told by school to buy a tablet for digital lessons. At universities, too, one generally, but incorrectly, assumes that the relevant equipment and a high-performance Internet connection are available. Another reason why people in training – vocational training is also affected – are falling behind due to the pandemic. (Harald Keller)

“Rabiat: Youth for an ass”, Monday, October 18, 2021, 10:50 pm, Das Erste

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