Stop Protecting Perpetrators! „Wer hat euch erlaubt, Frauen so zu hassen? Für eine Gesellschaft, in der alle sicher sind – ein Manifest“ (“Who gave you permission to hate women like this? For a society where everyone is safe – a manifesto”)

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The Collien Fernandes case has shaken Germany and once again ruthlessly exposed how commonplace male violence against women is—and how inadequately the German legal system protects affected women. Kristina Lunz and Düzen Tekkal are no longer willing to accept this. Together with Ricarda Lang and with the support of more than 250 prominent women, they are presenting 10 demands against male violence to the federal government. They launched a nationwide petition that mobilized over 300,000 people in a very short time. Now the authors are giving their demands greater weight and additional depth: clearly and analytically, they outline the status quo and articulate the changes they are now calling for. Their goal is to highlight what would be politically possible if decisive action were finally taken. They want to create change out of their anger. Misogyny comes from all directions, which is why standing still, remaining silent, and waiting are not options for women.

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Kristina Lunz is an entrepreneur, author, and human rights activist. In 2018, she founded the nonprofit Center for Feminist Foreign Policy, which she led as CEO for eight years. She studied in London and Oxford and has worked, among other roles, for the United Nations in New York and Yangon, for an NGO in Bogotá, and as a consultant at the German Foreign Office. From 2022 to 2024, she was a member of the Advisory Group for the Gates Foundation’s Goalkeepers Initiative.

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Düzen Tekkal, born in Hanover to a Yazidi-Kurdish refugee family, is a political scientist, social entrepreneur, and one of Germany’s most prominent journalists and human rights activists. Her courageous reporting on the genocide of Yazidis by ISIS in 2014 established her as a prominent voice against extremism. In 2015, she founded HÁWAR.help with her sisters to provide practical support to traumatized women and girls worldwide. Through the GermanDream initiative, she promotes values education in schools and invites young people to engage in dialogue about democracy and integration.

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An event presented by Literatur LIVE in cooperation with Kino International