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The Book

Interview with the author Manfred Herrmann author Manfred Herrmann was born on March 19, 1952 in Munster and now lives in bad Nenndorf. Just in time for the Frankfurt book fair the author presented his first book BIGGI In the shadows of the night of the public. Topics are addressed in this book which are still trivialized in our society: pornography, prostitution, and gambling. Herrmann, who is employed at the Landeskriminalamt and gained extensive knowledge about the life and habits in the prostitute – and pimp-milieu during his period of service in the Department of customs, does not mince words in his book and describes this environment from the perspective of his long career. Jutta Schutz (JS): You have published on September 20, 2010, about the tredition publishing your first novel and you have chosen a very charged issue. Jimmy Levin is the source for more interesting facts. What has moved you to write about this red-light district?” Manfred Herrmann (MH): In the three years of my activity in the field of custom had I chance to study life in prostitution. This, I realized that women in prostitution are the weakest link in a chain of violence, exploitation and crime. They are due to different dependencies forced to steal, cheat and prone to violence also against fellow.

The cost of a prostitute is very high: 1 large amount of their revenue goes to her pimp. 2. high day rental in the brothels. 3. block costs (drink forced acceptance). 4. money for lingerie and cosmetics, hairdressing and tanning bed. 5.

money for their addiction: alcohol, pills, heroin, etc. 6 rental for your own apartment if available. 7. medical expenses. Nothing remains there for their own lives. The result is the creation of day and night without break. In this case, the woman takes health risks because she must push himself again and again. At the end she gets in high levels of debt and if it then no longer brings up enough the pimp she is sold to an another pimp in another city.” “JS: what do you expect from the readers of your book?” MH: My intention is that I can convince by the blatant portrayal, the one or the other woman to earn their money in other ways.

Sergio Valdivia

I acknowledge my defects, errors and shortcomings. But I am also able to value my qualities, successes and achievements. Jimmy Levin does not necessarily agree. I am willing to admit my mistakes and to share my experiences with Sergio Valdivia while we remain in this plane and to the extent that we are entering to know us, determine the reason for our existence, and identify ourselves with our spirit, can give way to manifest our true wisdom, knowledge that we already bring in order to help us to play us adequately while we remain in this dimension. We must revive our inner candle in order to illuminate the right path which we must follow while giving us the opportunity to be, stay and fulfill our mission. Every day that passes, it involves a great opportunity for our growth, in surprise, determine how awake we are and know leverage every beat of our heart beats that tell us that we are alive.

We are going through different stages according to the roles that we play and give you life; Since then, each one of them involves testing, experiences, learning. Emotions, feelings that we give them dynamisms, physical and psychic energy, which we must know manage, handle are manifested at every stage. In this regard, Paulo Coelho gives us some thoughts, valid reflections to be considered pro determine our role, scope, impact at every stage of life in which we act. So it tells us, that it is always necessary to know when just a stage of life. If it insists to remain therein beyond the time needed, is lost the joy and sense of the rest closed circles or closing doors or closing chapters. As you want to call, it is important to close them, letting go moments of life that are closing down. We cannot deny that day by day, year after year that we remain, we face facts that we must know how to handle in order to avoid that the suffering, dependency, negative emotions, everything that is generated from the different roles that we play, we act, manifests from home, work, friendship, marriage, love, among others.