Anyone who is in public needs self-confidence and a thick skin to deal with criticism.
There is also the risk of being targeted by hatred and threats.
In this voice-catching episode, three people talk about their experiences: Ex-YouTube star Oğuz Yılmaz, lawyer Niko Härting and comedy writer Jasmina Kuhnke alias »Quattromilf« regularly raise their voices and never think about quitting.
Kuhnke speaks out loudly against racism and discrimination on Twitter.
In return, she receives a lot of encouragement and encourages others to position themselves as well - but she also receives messages of hate and death threats.
The situation escalated at the beginning of the year when Kuhnke's address was leaked.
She and her family had to move.
Yılmaz has gone from being a nonsense maker to an influencer with a political stance.
After his career as a member of the comedy trio Y-Titty, he became a social media consultant; today he manages other influencers.
It is important to him to talk about topics such as racism and police violence - also because he used to suppress his own experiences.
Härting is moving in a different subject area that has been discussed intensively since last year.
On Twitter, he repeatedly expresses legal concerns about shutdown measures in the corona pandemic.
He also clashed with the virologist Christian Drosten, whom he had previously attacked violently.
Härting thinks that one has to live with sharp contradictions - but also talks about crossing boundaries such as hatred of women politicians.
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