Book Prize Winner Strubel: Women are not believed

Book award winner Antje Rávik Strubel has criticized German case law in dealing with sexual abuse.

The author said on Wednesday at the Frankfurt Book Fair that it was "frightening" how few cases were reported.

The perpetrators are convicted much less often.

One reason for this is "that women are not believed."

Frankfurt / Main - Unlike in Scandinavian countries, women are also forced to meet the perpetrators again in court.

Her novel “Blaue Frau”, which won the German Book Prize on Monday, is about a young woman from the Czech Republic who is raped in Germany and flees to Finland.

While she was writing the book, she found out more and more about sexual assaults, including in her personal environment, said the 47-year-old on the “Blue Sofa”.

This made it clear to her that this had to be the subject of the novel.

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While writing, she “felt angry at times,” the author admitted.

She then waited until the anger had cooled down before continuing to write - “otherwise it will be a martial arts script”.

The effect of a literary text is "more subtle".

The aim was to allow her main character Adina to experience “poetic justice” “when there is no other justice”.

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