CHRISTINA CLEMM »GEGEN FRAUENHASS« 40 Jahre Frauenberatungsstelle Bonn

In the organizer's words:

"All, really all women can be affected. And all, really all men can be perpetrators." Lawyer Christina Clemm shows how pervasive violence against women is and what we need to change - both politically and privately.

Lisa M. meets Mirko at university. They fall in love, hardly argue. Then she gets pregnant, they move in with his mother and soon have three children. A picture-perfect family, if it weren't for his anger. At first Lisa still has to hide the bruises, but over time he becomes more determined. She tries to escape, but in vain. Christina Clemm is a criminal defense lawyer who has represented hundreds of victims of gender-based violence. And she is angry - because in Germany a woman is killed by her (ex-)partner every third day. Because women experience violence at the doctor's, at work and on the street and nobody does anything about it. Why not? Is it ignorance, helplessness, lack of interest? Or is it all based on a deep-rooted hatred of women? Christina Clemm guides us through the spiral of patriarchal violence and shows us what needs to be done.

Christina Clemm, born in 1967, is a lawyer specializing in criminal and family law in Berlin. She has been representing victims of gender-specific and racially motivated violence for almost thirty years. Her book "Akteneinsicht - Geschichten von Frauen und Gewalt" was published in 2020, most recently her pamphlet "Gegen Frauenhass" by Hanser Berlin (2023).

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