But since I am writing my dissertation now, the Auslandsbehörde now says I am a student under paragraph 18. No grandfather clause for a bureaucratic misprint.
Now, I am a resident of German ancestry (with documented proof as a descendent of the Luther family, and Martin is practically a national hero) and an educated Germanist with a Masters Degree who speaks relatively good German and who has been told that he knows more about German literature and culture than the average German - intergration is not a problem for me. Yet still, I am having a lot of problems (more here in Thüringia than in NRW).
As Essen is in NRW, and I lived near there before, this is scary. I mean if I am having these problems, I can imagine what young Mr. Eke had to face. This is very unjust, the young man is German! Period!
Maybe that is just my idealistic American upbringing where an immigrant is an American after he or she swears an oath to the Constitution.
But these laws sincerely need an overhaul, but there seems no political will to do so. "Schiller sprach zu Goethe, Steck in dem Arsch die Flöte! Goethe sagte zu Schiller, Mein Arsch ist kein Triller!"
