The Klitschko brothers provide a full boxring winner

everyone has their story. ali, mohammed and nebojscha, children of immigrants, growing up in Berlin-Neukölln, could tell her now. she could tell how the life on the road works, as they were dragged into the turmoil and problems of rolling mountain district. as they were vying for attention and respect, bystanders were in their neighborhood, where the kids are divided into "checkerboard" and "loser" winners and losers, perpetrators and victims. she could tell how it came to the brawl, the display for theft and aggravated assault, the brutality, the encounter with the kids.

Ali Faour, Mohammed El-Mosleh and nebojscha Radosavljevic are buddy. muhammad ali and, both 17, both Lebanese-Arab origin are grown up together, nebojscha, 19, whom everyone called "nebo" For five years they know. like they go together to the café and play cards, or they sit at the computer car racing, play looking videos. ali says: "We try to have fun." Today, they sit on a bench in an old gym. bare walls, sand bags, back in the corner of a boxing ring. ali says: ". you know, Arabs, Turks or Serbs and, nebo '- plays no role for us, if you have heart, have you heart," Mohammed says, "if you do not have friends, you're a nothing." sounds pathetic, but it is serious. they do not tell their story anyway.

"Listens to chat to!"
new pitcher allee 219, district of Treptow. the trainer does. strong type, pleasantly soft voice. first ask, "Who of you is fasting?" It is the 10th August, the second week of Ramadan. eleven young are there, eight lift the handle. "OK," says the trainer, "if you get sick, you go out and rinse the mouth out with water." Then it starts. jump rope to warm up, the sand bags. later mitt. financial statements for gymnastics. "Listens to chat on," barks the trainer: "basic exercise is called here, discipline, listening so shut up and" he asks, "comes up, up, come on," he corrected, "not to fall hollow cross," he says: 'squeeze and go, go, buttocks! "buttocks? asks one: "What the fridge?" the trainer: "is your ass buttocks."

his name thomas jansen and directs "kick in the boxing ring," part of the kick Berlin project funded by the senate, in cooperation with the police and the State Sports Association is run. make youth sports city share of social disadvantage. so they are off the road rules, learn, values ​​such as fairness, respect, discover tolerance, stay away from drugs. so they jansen, not so, "come on silly thoughts." classic crime prevention. although the trainer "do a lot of persuasion" had to order persons to negotiate police that the boxes also can be achieved, "they said, 'Now, the trained rackets, with which we have always had problems.'" that was 2007 . now has "kick in the boxing ring" four bases in berlin. are a total of 250 looked after children and young people, supported by the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation and an ambassador Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko.

"Boxing is forcing you to self-responsibility"
jansen was boxer. talented amateur welterweight, champion Berlin, northern German champion defeats, only three. as a benefit but it was enough then to win only two. "I have not lived it," Jansen says, "wrong circles, signed contracts in the pub and so on." He must always remember, if he cared for young people, especially children of immigrants who are particularly vulnerable, leaning on the come to ground: "the fear of growing up: before the society, the bureaucracy, our culture. their reaction is violent, because violence a feeling of strength, of power-producing. "what boxing has to do with it? "The boxes they can work off their aggressions in a healthy way to build a good feeling of strength. boxing forces you to personal responsibility. how do I deal with resistance to, such as challenges with? I run away, I ask myself? guys like ali, mohammed or ask nebo 'the day. "

Neukölln, Berlin eighth administrative district, 312? 000 residents from 165 nations. 38 percent of the residents, 60 percent of youth are non-German origin. one in four is unemployed. every second baby grows up in a hartz-iv-budget. to the main train 25 percent of students absent more than 21 days a year. Neuköllner the job center has the lowest placement rate in germany. there are too few doctors, for safekeeping services to schools. is measured by its inhabitants, neukölln few day care centers, youth and retirement homes in berlin. equates to a catastrophic image.

"Neukölln", wikipedia writes, "is repeatedly mentioned as a prominent example for a whole bunch of social problem-situations."

He lives with four brothers in a room
they grew up in Neukölln. ali in a family with six siblings, father unemployed, mother housewife, in four rooms. Today he lives with his four brothers who are 14 to 19, in a space, "clearly, there is always crashing." mohammed has seven siblings, an older brother beat him once because he had caught him with a cigarette.

"Is on the road constantly stress, alarm," says "nebo". "I recently had another before me, who pulled the knife." Boredom and no free space at home, macho posturing and violence on the street. it would be today had they not heard of "kick in the boxing ring," whose support point in the hall of Neukölln sports, friends, or road 182. Since then they train three times per week. "Boxing," says Ali, ". Was our rescue" when someone asks mohammed, what he likes because he says, "everything: the sweat, the pain, the competitive, the victory, the training, everything." Struggling six He has been denied, won six, now he wants to be profiled. ali: "Mohammed believes in itself, creates das."

"A lot of anger, a lot of power, no control"
responsibility, commitment, self-awareness. simple as that you have to watch them only in Treptow, where the annual two-week summer camp jansen organized. young, well-groomed men who come on time, like to imagine. motivate each other in training, guidance, role models for the training group are. jansen says: "When they came, they were just wild. each sparring was war. "wut much, much power, no control. Ali sat down at one of his first fight to his opponents and beaten him with a cut down - because he submitted previously had no chance with the fair. jansen inquired and found out that Ali had been arrested for theft and shortly before "stress was everywhere: in the family, in school." jansen mediated the father in the police. ali says: "Thomas speaks not only makes thomas. He also helps with job search advice, training ask us. "and he also takes care of Muhammad's sporting ambitions. jansen: "The concern is the slow, not just burn."

"To judge them like a schoolmaster," Jansen says, "but gets you no further, you have to listen, speak about their own experiences, then you reach them. then they stop the truant school to begin their homework to do, is to set goals in life as in boxing.

ali has decided to make the high school and later to study business administration. "Nebo" in a few days to begin training at one of telecom. Mohammed is still looking for an apprenticeship, but works as a charge for jansen trainer: ". so that he learns that no one take only, but also give" hopelessness, frustration hang out, and do worse? ali: "That was earlier." so they tell their story not like. not what was, that counts, but what is. that makes them proud.