DIE VERLORENE EHRE DER KATHARINA BLUM

In the organizer's words:

"If, in describing certain journalistic practices, similarities have arisen with the practices of Bild-Zeitung, these similarities are neither intentional nor coincidental, but unavoidable," Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll begins his story, published in 1974. He subtly describes the absurdities of reporting and, with Katharina Blum's fate, the precursor of today's "shitstorm". Katharina Blum comes to the attention of the press as a "person of the moment" because she is said to have helped a wanted criminal escape. In the course of the investigation, her statements are taken out of context, witness reports are misquoted, and her privacy is exposed in public in the crudest manner, until she finally shoots a journalist during a planned interview in her apartment. In his adaptation for the Vagantenbühne, playwright Clemens Mädge focuses on the pressure Katharina Blum is under and the psychological violence she is exposed to as a young woman in an environment of male investigators, journalists and admirers. In doing so, he lets two journalists look again at what happened two years after Katharina Blum's crime and thus cleverly draws parallels to the present day. This content has been machine translated.

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