Sophia Fritz: Toxische Weiblichkeit

In the organizer's words:

For a new feminist togetherness

"I constantly perceive ambivalences between what I want and what I do." Sophia Fritz analyzes femininity in all its facets and thus opens up "a space for discourse that provides exciting impulses for the feminist future." Der Spiegel

Something feels wrong: When we smile even though we actually want to argue. When we gossip about our friends because we fear confrontation and want to avoid conflict. When we stand up for feminism but don't trust other women* and instinctively look for their faults and weaknesses. What lurks within us female socialized people that makes us turn against ourselves and others again and again? In courageous self-questioning, Sophia Fritz takes us to where it hurts and shows us a phenomenon that we are only just beginning to realize how much it determines the world we live in: Toxic femininity. The essay of the hour for all those who long for a new feminist togetherness, by one of the most creative and clear thinkers of the new generation.

Sophia Fritz

Sophia Fritz, born in 1997, studied screenwriting at the Film Academy in Munich. Her debut novel "Steine schmeißen" was published in 2021, followed by "Kork" in 2022 and the story 'Frankfurter Kranz‛ in the anthology Glückwunsch. 15 stories about abortion. She writes for ZEIT ONLINE and has trained as a youth guide for memorial sites, as a hospice caregiver and as a tantric masseuse. Toxische Weiblichkeit is her first book published by Hanser Berlin.

An event in cooperation with TU Dortmund University, Institute for Language, Literature & Culture and literaturhaus.dortmund.

Price information:

0-5 € / Tickets are available in advance on the Literaturhaus website and at the Box Office