Saturday, March 9, 2019 - 15:00
On her Shoulders – Violence against Women* in the Media
Screening and panel
in cooperation with Gender Equality Media
Location & Time: Berliner Union Film - 15:00
Tickets available online here
Event Information
Film-Screening: ON HER SHOULDERS (USA / 2018 / 94 min.), OmeU, Panel will be in German
Twenty-three-year-old Nadia Murad’s life is a dizzying array of exhausting undertakings—from giving testimony before the U.N. to visiting refugee camps to soul-bearing media interviews and one-on-one meetings with top government officials. With deep compassion and a formal precision and elegance that matches Nadia’s calm and steely demeanor, filmmaker Alexandria Bombach follows this strong-willed young woman, who survived the 2014 genocide of the Yazidis in Northern Iraq and escaped the hands of ISIS to become a relentless beacon of hope for her people, even when at times she longs to lay aside this monumental burden and simply have an ordinary life.
Nadia is a human rights activist, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018—along with Denis Mukwege—for “their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.” She is the recipient of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize and the Sakharov Prize, and the UN’s first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. She has also received the Clinton Global Citizen Award, Peace Prize from the United Nations Association of Spain, and was named 2016 Woman of the Year by Glamour Magazine. Since 2015, Nadia has been working to bring ISIS before the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
PANEL
Playing down violence against women* is the day to day business of media in Germany and other western societies. The case of Nadia Murad, who was systematically labeled as a “sex-slave” during the reporting about her nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize is one of so many cases of linguistic violence in the media. Why are women* degraded by the press? What can we do against it? Why is racism and sexism an integral part of reporting? Gender Equality Media e.V. wants to put an end to these structures with their campaign #unfollowpatriarchy. Together with the journalists Vanessa Vu and Anna Mayrhauser, Britta Häfemeier from Gender Equality Media will discuss media politics with us in conjunction with the screening of the film “on her shoulders” by Alexandria Bombach.
▼GUESTS▼
Vanessa Vu
Vanessa Vu is an Editor at Zeit Online. She studied Ethnology and International Law in Munich, Paris and London and graduated from Deutsche Journalistenschule (DJS). She Together with Minh Thu Tran she is the host of the podcast “Rice and Shine”.
Anna Mayrhauser
Anna Mayrhauser is the Editor in Chief of the feminist Missy Magazine. Since 2010 she is working as a freelance journalist and film critique in Berlin, e.g. for zitty. She studied comparative literature science and theater, film and media studies in Vienna such as cultural journalism at UdK Berlin.
Britta Häfemeier
Britta Häfemeier is on the board of Gender Equality Media, which is an activist collective, fighting sexism in the media, especially in journalist reporting. She is an online editor at a german environmental protection organization freelance journalist and filmmaker based in Berlin. She studied journalism/media management and online communication.
On her Shoulders – Mediale Verharmlosung von Gewalt an Frauen*
Gewalt gegen Frauen* wird in den Medien konsequent verharmlost. Der Fall von Nadia Murad, die in der deutschen Berichterstattung im Zuge der Berichterstattung über den ihr verliehenen Friedensnobelpreis systematisch als “Sex-Sklavin” bezeichnet wurde, ist nur einer von vielen, die jeden Tag in den Medien zu lesen sind. Warum werden Frauen* in den Medien dermaßen degradiert? Was können wir gegen diese sprachliche Gewalt tun? Warum sind Rassismus und Sexismus in den Medien so präsent? Der Verein Gender Equality Media hat dem Sexismus, der Bagatellisierung von Femiziden und der rassistischen Doppelmoral im Journalismus mit ihrer Kampagne #unfollowpatriarchy den Kampf angesagt. Zusammen mit den Journalistinnen Vanessa Vu von Zeit Online und Anna Mayrhauser vom Missy Magazin wollen Britta Häfemeier von Gender Equality Media und wir anlässlich des Screenings des Films “On her Shoulders” von Alexandria Bombach diskutieren.
Es diskutieren:
Vanessa Vu
Vanessa Vu ist Redakteurin bei Zeit Online. Sie hat Ethnologie und Völkerrecht in München, Paris und London und im Anschluss an der Deutschen Journalistenschule studiert. Zusammen mit Minh Thu Tran betreibt sie den Podcast “Rice and Shine”.
Anna Mayrhauser
Anna Mayrhauser ist Chefredakteurin des Missy Magazines und arbeitet außerdem seit 2010 als freie Journalistin und Filmkritikerin in Berlin u.a für das Stadtmagazin zitty. Sie studierte Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft und Theater-Film- und Medienwissenschaft in Wien sowie Kulturjournalismus an der Universität der Künste Berlin.
Britta Häfemeier
Britta Häfemeier ist Vorständin des Vereins Gender Equality Media, der sich aktivistisch gegen Sexismus in den Medien, besonders in der journalistischen Berichterstattung engagiert. Sie ist Onlineredakteurin in einer Umweltorganisation, freie Journalistin und Filmemacherin und lebt in Berlin. Sie studierte Journalistik/Medienmanagement und Onlinekommunikation.