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What happens if one day more than half of Germans unemployed are? If employment agencies as former Secretary of State to be flown in by helicopter? The award-winning novel by Joachim Zelter is a must for anyone interested in dealing with critical social diagnoses.

warn For years, sociologists such as Horst Bude, who in 1998 coined the term in an article "The superfluous," before resorting to the people in this society. The periphery is growing, the middle is shrinking and clings in their social fear of losing the last niche in the bare rock face of the rugged class society "(Barbara Ehrenreich in" working poor "). What happens when suddenly millions of people not including (in sociological parlance, "Excludes") are - as I have described, even in my book "Fast bottom . In the time of writing me the thought that the company "sorted" is just basic (without which we can get notice) followed. look how this can Zelter described in his excellent book. A novel with sociological depth or a sociological study in novel form - I can not decide.

In the not too distant future the "end of work" (which in 1995 the title of a famous book by J. Rifkin) has come. There are almost more unemployed than the employed Employment, over which we in this future (unfortunately still) define, is a scarce resource, because processes of automation, release digitization and rationalization except the few educated "symbol analysts" all the people who make that unnecessary: "Throughout human history was working a priori given. It has accompanied humans for thousands of years, besieged, persecuted. In recent years this has changed. The work is no longer pursued. We pursue them. We search for her. How precious to a raw material. Or hunters for prey. The real work is no longer the work itself, but the search for work. "

The many unemployed people unemployed this company have one last chance - if they are "chosen" by their advisers to visit the School of the unemployed ". This is a kind of barracks in a former factory building, with a trainer, the more sergeants same harsh rules, drill and no way out. In sociology, we call something a "total institution", a barracks, a prison for instance, or a monastery. There will lose one assumes the civil and personal rights.

The life of the novel concisely described similar institution a mix of military barracks, prisons and monasteries. There is a dress code and a sophisticated reward system (different coins for the coffee machines). And there is training that will lead to unemployment are different again. Which brings us to a central sociological theme of the book.

The sociologist Ulrich Beck in his book "Private Life" solid, such as a central Biography today is: "The bottom line is [ ... ] that modern requirements, the self-organization of the life course and self-theming Biography of force. "If the CV, the actual events linking a person's life is, it is the biography of the narrative of these events.

get in the school of unemployed excluded with an ample motivation and evaluation Gung training. You need to show others the subject "Biographical work and run fictitious interviews with coaches. The interview turns out to be a new art form, the application feelings fluctuate between heroism and humiliation.

A Biography is now not only sociological but also very pragmatic sense a construct. It calls for combinatorial imagination Biographical transactions, promiscuous CVs Autofiktionalität, CVs as a form of applied literature, epic highways, constructed fictional story structure, combinatorial property structure, a coherent system-voice characteristics and meaning, some discount (on stage direction scarcity) comments. It's not about truth, but only the consistency of biographical plot structure and the attractiveness of the biographical own life.

The CV is no longer there as a quarry, the raw materials for own dynamic hergibt biographies. It is not about realism, but a sense of possibility. This requires first of all gaps revealed to be "educational and occupational gaps, [...] extra-curricular gaps, hobby and leisure spaces, interest gaps, language gaps, gaps abroad, travel vulnerabilities, computer vulnerabilities, personality vulnerabilities, emotional gaps [ ... ] . And is the hard-hitting slogan: "The nothing of a life is always excusable, but only in real life, not in a resume." Your life will become the autobiographical optimized life. The success of the search movement is attested in the School of the unemployed "with the" Certificate of Professional Application ".

This construct should distance themselves then the people with design life from his Looser-Class, which consists of frightened people with lifelong social difficulties and binding fears and negative childhood memories. People who are depressed and create a latent low self-confidence and the world of the day and - worst of all - just loads are reduced. A Biogafie that the does not, is described thus: "It lacks the tension. It lacks the great biographical turning points. It lacks the view points, low points or turning points. And of course highlights. Too little human. No real story. Too much moderation and mediocrity [...]. It lacks the extreme. Missing the meaning. [...] Who wants to read that? Let set for "

contribution to the future of mankind? Make it look like you could in the future! Zero human dignity, total available mass, terminal, rubbish. Are we doing everything to avoid it.

Joachim Zelter: School of unemployment, 2006. Klopfer & Meyer. Tübingen. ISBN 3-937667-71-7