"Hammer blows are synonyms for actions, affairs, and arguments, embedded in a curriculum vitae that, in its diversity, offers material for several lives. The transsexuality of the author, who was born in 1957, is the trigger and background of some escapades and turbulences, but above all it is the active life of a highly political and culturally committed person whose consistent orientation never ceases to amaze and shock.
Her childhood is described particularly meticulously, when she came into contact with politics and culture at an early age - e.g. Willy Brandt in 1965 in the opposition, as well as a concert by the Beatles in 1966, experienced live.
The following politicization, the sexualization, in a time that actually had few heroic moments, comes alive in a breathtaking way and is tangible: literally tangible. Even as a child and in her early youth, she became aware of the outsider role that she took on as a "boy" who actually felt like a girl. She learns electrical engineering and later a pedagogical profession, marries, reorients herself, and then continues life in the female gender role.
As a transsexual and politician, she is not spared vehement humiliation, but she fights her opponents with a political claim and her own offensiveness. The "crimes" are meant in a philosophical sense: non-observance of rituals, transgression of the rules of the game, and idiosyncrasy in the sense of Nietzsche. But this creates conflicts, making her an object of hate in a society that punishes people with a free attitude - "beyond good and evil" - more than the seemingly conformist but real criminal."
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