The #MeToo movement not only shook the film industry four years ago. Actress Ursula Karven explains why she is now campaigning against harassment in the workplace.
The actress Ursula Karven (56) wants to campaign for more protection against sexual harassment in the workplace.
Young women still get text messages today that are in no way different from those that they used to receive themselves, Karven said on Thursday evening in Berlin. And the longer she thought about it, the angrier she got.
Karven took part in a meeting of several women from politics, business and culture. She was previously exposed to sexualized text messages herself, she told the German Press Agency. They usually came late at night and came back in the morning before filming. Much of it was below the belt.
Karven advised women to talk about it immediately in such cases. “So get really loud.” This goes with the keyword #TheLouderVoices, under which she started a petition online. Karven calls on politicians to support a declaration by the International Labor Organization.
Federal Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) and Digital State Minister Dorothee Bär (CSU), actresses such as Barbara Becker and Katja Riemann, journalist Dunja Hayali, designer Marina Hoermanseder and screenwriter and director Anika Decker (“Keinohrhasen”) came to the “Frauen100” meeting. ).
A lot has happened in the film industry with #MeToo, Decker said. You can now name things and point out situations in which you felt discriminated against or treated incorrectly. “It is no longer dismissed like that.” The film set and the theater are still a place for nasty jokes. “The line comes earlier now,” Decker said.
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