Buchpremiere: Alice Hasters in Berlin

In the organizer's words:

Be there when Alice Hasters and Miryam Schellbach present their long-awaited new book Anti Opfer - gegen die neue Verachtung von Verletzlichkeit. The book will be published by Ullstein on April 30.

This event is a cooperation between Buchbox and Ullstein Verlag.

"Violence surrounds us. No milieu, no culture, no class is immune to it. Can we manage to see it for what it is?"

People talk about victims everywhere. But increasingly, this does not mean people who have been wronged. It's people who disrupt harmony, who are seen as effeminate, who pull others down or want to put themselves above them. If they didn't complain so much, they say, we wouldn't have so many problems. Toughness towards others is seen as increasingly desirable - and while inhumanly high demands are placed on victims, powerful alliances of patriarchal complicity are changing our world for the worse.

Alice Hasters describes a cultural shift that, not coincidentally, goes hand in hand with an upsurge in authoritarianism and fascism. What happens to a society in which sensitivity is considered elitist? And the right of the strongest as authentic? With intellectual restlessness, she contrasts the spread of the new harshness with the political power of solidarity.

"A clever, honest and reflective diagnosis of our times." Claas Christophersen, NDR Kultur on identity crisis

"Haster's words have a strong impact, precisely because she endures contradictions. Her social analyses are intelligent and her demands for change are both challenging and hopeful." Naomi Asal, Mephisto 97.6