Open letter: “Rabbering in AfD style” – theater staff demand cancellation of black studying | EUROtoday

In an open letter, 340 theater staff referred to as on the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg to cancel a studying with the feminist Alice Schwarzer deliberate for Sunday. Schwarzer desires to current her guide “Pure Feminism. 99 Words” within the theater. The signatories demand: “No stage for agitation! No stage for Alice Schwarzer!”

The theater makers criticize that Schwarzer has been preventing “for years against self-determination, labor rights and social participation of trans people and sex workers.” She positions herself in opposition to the Self-Determination Act, insists on organic concepts about gender, calls transsexuality a “trend” or a “leisure pastime” and speaks “in AfD style” of a hazard for “children and young people for whom changing gender is made temptingly easy.” Most just lately, Schwarzer wished to see AfD co-chair Alice Weidel turn into chancellor as an “encouraging” signal for ladies.

At the request of the Evangelical Press Service (epd), the theater took a place on the demand for the studying to be canceled. Schwarzer is a formative determine within the West German emancipation motion who has spoken out on so many subjects for 50 years “that we find it problematic to reduce them to one of their positions, as worthy of discussion as some of them are,” defined a spokeswoman for the theater.

Schwarzer is “a controversial person” and “an argumentative one who not only seeks debate, but also takes part in discussions.” Some of Schwarzer’s theses mirrored statements circulating in society, which is why they need to be mentioned and may also be contradicted.

Schauspielhaus: Don’t shut up black folks

The Schauspielhaus respects the positions talked about within the letter, which interpreted and evaluated particular person theses formulated by Schwarzer. “They are also part of a diversity of opinions that is essential for our democracy,” stated the spokeswoman. At the identical time, she defined: “We do not support the demand that the open letter derives from the interpretation and evaluation to ban Alice Schwarzer from speaking and not to give her the opportunity to openly discuss her point of view.”

The guide, which Schwarzer will current along with the actress Nina Gummich, is designed as an “invitation to dialogue,” “and this also applies explicitly to the event itself,” stated the Schauspielhaus spokeswoman. More than half of the time is spent speaking to the viewers.

The theater spokeswoman concluded: “We see the theater as a forum, the situational coming together of people in a room and the direct exchange as one of its strongest possibilities. The ‘strangely informal compulsion of the better argument’ (Habermas) can develop great effectiveness in this place.”

epd didn’t obtain an announcement from Schwarzer. The editorial staff of the journal “Emma” printed by Schwarzer defined that she is at the moment not obtainable and isn’t the fitting individual to contact. The editorial staff as an alternative referred to the Schauspielhaus.