Sie sagt. Er sagt.

In the organizer's words:

After "TERROR" and "GOTT", international bestselling author and former criminal defense lawyer Ferdinand von Schirach once again presents a morally complex topic for discussion in his new gripping legal drama "She says. Er sagt." (She says. He says.), Schirach once again brings up for discussion a morally complex and divisive issue with analytical acuity.

Since the MeToo movement emerged, everyone should know: One in three women in the EU experiences physical or sexual violence as an adult. Almost every third day, a current or former lover kills their wife. Almost all acts take place in the private sphere.

In Schirach's current legal drama, TV presenter Katharina Schlüter accuses her former lover, entrepreneur Christian Thiede, of raping her. There are no witnesses to this offense. In court, it's testimony against testimony, everything revolves around credibility.

The play, first broadcast as a film adaptation on ZDF in 2024, shows how complicated it is to reach a verdict in such cases, how patriarchal rape myths about the course of events and the behavior of a victim shape the verdict of the police, the judges and the public and how closely they are linked to social values and prevailing prejudices.

EURO-Studio Landgraf
Director: Martin Schulze
With: Wolfgang Seidenberg, Katrin Boyd and many others.