Susanne Huber is from the former East Germany. After finishing her education and working as a secretary, she studied to become a kindergarten teacher and has been working in various kindergartens since 1988. She became a member of the Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, now the PSG, in 1992. The great illusions and hopes that many had when the Wall fell have quickly vanished. The new freedoms which were then gained, such as being able to travel, can only be used by a diminishing part of the population.
Unemployment is very high.
Poverty is growing rapidly. Every fourth child in East Germany grows up in poverty. That is why increasing numbers of people reject the established parties. This is the experience everyone has made in the East. Every second job in industry has been destroyed since the fall of the Wall.