Juliane Löffler: Missbrauch: Macht & Medien. Was #MeToo in Deutschland verändert hat

KRAFTWERKE. Feminist-cultural week

Award-winning journalist Juliane Löffler takes us behind the scenes of her investigative work: she explains how research into abuse of power and sexualized violence is carried out and what it means to dare to go public with accusations against often powerful men. It becomes clear how much courage victims and journalists have to muster time and again and how difficult it is to overcome social backlash and persistent narratives of guilt and shame. Based on numerous cases and interviews with victims and experts, Löffler reveals the underlying structures. She shows how MeToo has become a global movement since 2017, changed our social discourse and created a new awareness. However, her analysis also sheds light on the risks of MeToo and at the same time illustrates why systems of abuse of power still persist in Germany today.

Moderation: Romy Gehrke (MDR)

Juliane Löffler, born in 1986, studied Cultural Studies, Spanish Philology and German as a Foreign Language at the University of Potsdam and Design Thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute. Löffler has been an editor in the Germany/Panorama department at SPIEGEL since March 2022. She has been publishing on topics relating to sexualized violence and abuse of power for years. Her research on former Bild boss Julian Reichelt in particular attracted a great deal of attention. In 2021, Juliane Löffler was named "Journalist of the Year" and has received the "Reporters in the Fields" scholarship from the Robert Bosch Foundation, the Bert Donnepp Prize and the STERN Prize 2022, among others.