Candidates - Training in Stammheim

The old wing of the Stammheim correctional facility towers over the neighboring cornfields. Almost 800 inmates currently live behind the walls of the remand prison. Just a few meters away from the outer wall are the boarding school and the training school for future prison officers of the state of Baden-Württemberg. From an unusual perspective, CANDIDATES takes a look behind prison walls and at the relationships between inmates and prison staff. At the outer wall of Stuttgart Prison in Stammheim, the prisoners rehearse everyday life in prison. In role plays, they slip into the role of the inmates and practice dealing with the offenders. CANDIDATES accompanies a training cycle and approaches the perspective of the young candidates on the prison system. "A colleague once told me that they are all rascals, all criminals, and there you are as an eighteen-year-old young officer, wanting to do social work, but you are actually there - at that time - rather to detain and lock people away." (Udo R., former prison officer)

Keywords

  • Made in Germany
  • Next Generation: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
  • Politics: Human Rights
  • Sooner Europe Docs: New Perspectives
  • Sooner Exclusives
  • psychology
  • school
  • work

Director

  • Jasmin Astaki-Bardeh
  • Adrian Huber

Documentary

58min

16+

DE

Germany
2020
In Stammheim, right next to the old RAF prison, an educational center for future correctional officers is located next to the prison wall.

In Stammheim, right next to the old RAF prison, an educational center for future correctional officers is located next to the prison wall.


The old wing of the Stammheim correctional facility towers over the neighboring cornfields. Almost 800 inmates currently live behind the walls of the remand prison. Just a few meters away from the outer wall are the boarding school and the training school for future prison officers of the state of Baden-Württemberg. From an unusual perspective, CANDIDATES takes a look behind prison walls and at the relationships between inmates and prison staff.


At the outer wall of Stuttgart Prison in Stammheim, the prisoners rehearse everyday life in prison. In role plays, they slip into the role of the inmates and practice dealing with the offenders. CANDIDATES accompanies a training cycle and approaches the perspective of the young candidates on the prison system.


"A colleague once told me that they are all rascals, all criminals, and there you are as an eighteen-year-old young officer, wanting to do social work, but you are actually there - at that time - rather to detain and lock people away." (Udo R., former prison officer)

Cast & Crew