Carla Hinrichs (Letzte Generation) - Lesung aus »Meine verletzte Generation«

In the organizer's words:

Carla Hinrichs

Reading from "My injured generation"

Carla Hinrichs is still asleep when a task force storms her apartment, citing Section 129 of the German Criminal Code. The charge: forming a criminal organization, the Last Generation. The law student from Bremen, who is committed to ensuring that laws are upheld by the state, now ends up in court herself. This book is a harrowing testimony to how wounded our democracy is and an urgent appeal to actively use our own fundamental rights again and again - while we still have them.

This is not about the climate crisis. This is about democracy and the autocratization of our state. And about paragraph 129 of the German Criminal Code. A law that is intended to empower the public prosecutor's office in the fight against terror and the mafia and that is being misused to suppress fundamental rights such as freedom of assembly and freedom of expression. The charges against Carla Hinrichs and the Last Generation thus set a precedent against civil society. Their protests have always been non-violent, but now they are threatened with prison. Exciting, emotional and stirring, Carla Hinrichs tells the story of a politically committed young woman and one of the most controversial movements of the last decade.

"Criminalizing activists is an attack on our fundamental rights." Amnesty International

Carla Hinrichs, born in 1997, is a climate activist and author. She grew up in Bremen and was politically active with Amnesty International during her school years. In 2015, she began studying law, which she pursued until her first state examination. But the climate crisis intervened. From 2022, she became involved with the Last Generation, was a guest on talk shows, spoke on panels and commented on the protests on the ground.