The lit.cologne has been around for 25 years, and around 2 million visitors can be shown in total. According to festival founder Rainer Osnowski, this is a success on his own in an interview. The city of Cologne flankings more, for example with the provision of advertising space than to proliferate with the international event. But it is lucky that the still mayor Henriette Reker very much appreciated the lit.cologne. This time, for example, she made sure that Ford – despite the auto crisis – was on board as a mobility partner. The tremendous success of the Cologne literary festival, with almost 200 events the largest in Europe, makes it crisis -proof: to get along with ticket income and a little private funding is a blessing in times of shrinking cultural budget. Julia Schoch to Christian Kracht, from Édouard Louis to Anne Enight, Colm Toíbín and Fernando Aramburu. You don’t have to search long to find shallow feel -good prose: Cecilia Ahern, Takis Würger, Caroline Wahl. Rhenish -carefree serious and entertaining literature has always been mixed here. The topics of music and politics are traditional priorities of the Cologne festival. This time, for example, the appearances of Herbert Grönemeyer, Wolfgang Niedecken, Joschka Fischer, Maja Göpel, Aladin El-Mafaalani or Carolin Emcke are also in terms of character policy, thankfully, not with one evening to the oversprint crisis of the West-it may also be due to the fact that there was still nothing to be considered when planning the program, but with two, but with two impressive events on toxic masculinity in their most hideous form. Making the surcharge for the anniversary festival with this bitter but so important topic is a strong sign. Roberto Saviano on the lit.cologne on March 17th Picture Alliancein of the fully occupied flora presented the mafia expert Roberto Saviano his book “Loyalty” about the women in the mafia, whose role in the criminal organizations he described as “complex”, but then described it as extremely subordinate. Apart from a few exceptions in which women rose to pitches, continued to do business for their sitting men, but this-but more in South America’s Narco cartels-their own women’s gangs, their position is more reminiscent of those in medieval patriarchy or in strictly Islamic communities than an equal life in enlightened societies (whereby the west is of course in this regard; in the USA; already combated language policy). The daughters have to marry very much, as in royal houses of the past for the benefit of the organization. In principle, loyalty is also challenged by men, but of course there are loved ones. As long as it fits the Atavist understanding of family, women have a certain power. The wife of the clan boss Domenico Belfort called that he killed his lover with whom he had a child, and then adopted the daughter. So it happened in 1991. If a mafiosi came to prison for longer, he decides who replaced him as a lover of his wife. As usual at Saviano, a hint of true crime pathos in the style of emotional empathy realism blew, after which there is a precise research based on court files, listening protocols and conversations. The anecdote, as a game addicted Mafiosi played his wife as a betting operation and redeemed the winners for one night – before the mafiosi was executed by allies of the family of his wife – led over to the even stronger appearance on the first evening of the festival. Caroline Darian, the daughter of Gisèle and Dominique Pelicot, i.e. the victim and perpetrator of that speechless big crime, for which fifty other rapists were sentenced to some long prison terms in addition to Dominique Pelicot, presented their experience report “And I will never call you a dad”. Had her father stunned, raped and brought to other men for years. Caroline Darian is convinced that the father himself has fallen victim to the father; Her mother doesn’t believe that. Out of self -protection, as Caroline Darian speculates. A few days ago, her second book about her perception of the process appeared in France; This update was on stage in Cologne. Incerted and focused, she reported, like an incestuous crime – especially of this extent – all the basic values of the family collapse because lived for decades turned out to be a lie. But it was also a question of how she overcome this shock by deflecting the pain to fight the “chemical submission” (“Soumission Chimique”), i.e. the compliance of victims of sexual violence through co-drops and similar means. But there is far too many. In contrast, one also has to tackle the upbringing of the boys. These words were welcomed with standing ovation and a lot of solidarity. It is only regrettable that the audience consisted of ninety percent women. There is still a lot to do.
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