Imprisonment is for Burning, a Story About the Defence of a Forest and a Case For Dis-identification (2023) is set in ‘Danni’, a beautiful forest, threatened by the A49 highway expansion in the middle of Germany. A historical place where a complexity of activists chose to occupy and defend it in 2020, and heal from it’s wounds to this day. As humans who defend themselves as a part of nature, many refused to give law enforcement personal identifications, acting as one resistance front, for intact ecosystems, human & earthly.

This memoir speaks from the lived experience of one of those anonymous people, with intention to give insight to a year of an occupied autonomous zone, and their consequential challenge through incarceration and a criminal (in)justice system. The unfolding of events that came to be known as a climate emergency scandal, exposed a joined state and capital agenda for control based on fear. Known as the ‘Ella case’ the events alerted comrades and awoke citizens en masse solidarity.

The author ‘Ella’, or pre-trial detention named ‘unknown (female) person 1’, affirms in their cautionary tale, the need for emancipation from the punishment & reward system, by integrating one’s ego and it’s burning desires into a more loving world, aligned in our thoughts, words & actions.

Until all are free,

Burn imprisonment & keep each other warm!