In the organizer's words:
FILM PREMIERE Documentary PETRA KELLY - ACT NOW!
Followed by a film discussion with Doris Metz (director), Birgit Schulz (producer), Lukas Beckmann (former parliamentary group leader of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) and companions of Petra Kelly, Ina Fuchs, former office manager of Gert Bastians, Darya Sotodee (press spokesperson Fridays for Future)
Moderation: Iris Witt, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung NRW
A fighter for peace with no respect for conventions, an activist for the protection of the environment who was way ahead of her time.
Petra Kelly believed that you can change the world as a single person. At the height of the arms race between East and West in the early 1980s, she brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets to protest against the stationing of nuclear missiles on West German soil. Petra Kelly became famous not only as a co-founder of the Green Party and its star, but also as a woman who was able to establish a new, world-changing policy and take on two superpowers.
She became a symbolic figure of the peace movement in Europe and was in contact with East German civil rights activists such as Wolf Biermann as well as international comrades-in-arms such as Joan Baez and the Dalai Lama. Already 40 years ago, she relentlessly demanded the radical transformation of society. Environmental, peace and human rights issues were equally important to her.
PETRA KELLY - ACT NOW! is a political activist who was exceptional in her fight for women's rights and climate protection and her international orientation and networking. Far ahead of her time and today a role model for many young people who are exercising their right to civic engagement outside the political arena to save our planet.
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Location

Filmpalast Köln Hohenzollernring 22 50672 Köln

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