WHAT CONDITIONS MUST A JUST SOCIETY CREATE TO PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND FEMICIDE?
ELISABETH SCHARANG IN CONVERSATION WITH CAROLIN EMCKE
WHAT CONDITIONS MUST A JUST SOCIETY CREATE TO PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND FEMICIDE?
Elisabeth Scharang discusses with the Publicist Carolin Emcke about structures of misogyny and the question of how violence can be exposed and prevented. What images and concepts characterise our idea of lust and lustlessness? What mechanisms are used to deny sexualised violence in the public consciousness? In the USA, women have come together in the course of the #MeToo movement via class action lawsuits to defend themselves against sexual violence that has happened to them in their working lives and to bring the perpetrators to justice. The debate has changed the perspective on sexual assault and the definition of what is no longer socially acceptable; and it has triggered a wave of open solidarity for victims of sexual assault. At what level is this discussion being conducted in German-speaking countries? The current public debate about the media man Wolfgang Fellner and his treatment of female employees is a rare exception in Austria. It seems as if the #MeToo movement has only touched on Austria and the German-speaking world. A conversation about the complex web of ignorance, repression, shame, aggression and offence and about the questions: Why has #MeToo not taken place in Austria and why is Austria the only country in the EU where more women are murdered than men?
Carolin Emcke was an editor at „Der Spiegel“ from 1998 to 2006 and travelled as a foreign editor in crisis regions such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kosovo, Iraq, Colombia and Lebanon. From 2007 to 2014, she wrote as an author and international reporter for DIE ZEIT . Since 2014, she has been a freelance journalist and columnist for the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and “El Pais”.
Elisabeth Scharang, freelance filmmaker, screenwriter and journalist in Vienna