As of: February 17, 2024, 6:55 p.m
By: Franziska Konrad
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Dance together against violence: In the Gelting ambush, the women rehearsed a choreography.
© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
With a small party in ambush on the global day of action against violence against women, the visitors rehearsed a choreography.
Gelting – thumping, groovy music – interspersed with happy laughter – can be heard on Wednesday evening from the Hinterhalt cultural stage.
Women of different ages dance exuberantly in front of the stage.
The occasion of the event is the “One Billion Rising Day”.
The billion refers to a UN statistic that one in three women will have been raped or suffered serious bodily harm in their lifetime.
The campaign is committed to ending violence against women with many actions worldwide.
Several organizations in the district joined forces and invited people to a dance party.
Against violence against women: Dancing protest on the global day of action in ambush
An hour earlier, Felicitas Wolf, the district's equal opportunities officer, Sandra Kresta, managing director of the district youth association, and Sucheyla Chraloglou, a dual student in the Office for Youth and Family, stood in ambush, somewhat abandoned.
The visitors are waiting.
“Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday: Today is probably just a bad time,” speculates Wolf.
She feels that the day of action is so important.
“It starts with 'little things' in everyday life,” says Wolf.
“Almost every young woman has had her bottom grabbed in the club without asking.” “Or whistled at,” adds Chraloglou.
The message the trio wants to convey this evening: women have to stick together.
“We don’t always have to be gentle, we don’t have to hide,” says Wolf.
At that moment the door opens and the first guests enter.
A little later, around 15 women and girls arrived.
Melanie Fritze and Brigitte Weber are sitting at a table.
Fritze thinks the campaign is “cool” and thinks “it’s important to draw attention to these grievances against us women.”
The Geretsried native and her friend from Ambach do not feel safe in all areas of the city.
“I would never walk alone in the dark in the new center on Karl-Lederer-Platz,” admits Fritze.
Weber nods in agreement.
For 15-year-old Victoria, who is leaning against the bar opposite, it is the train station area in Wolfratshausen where she feels uncomfortable as a woman in the evening.
The Geretsrieder woman finds it all the more important to set an example for female cohesion.
“I found out about this dance party on social media and came here spontaneously.”
The organizers (from left) Sucheyla Chraloglou (dual student in the Office for Youth and Family), Felicitas Wolf (equal opportunities officer) and Sandra Kresta (managing director of the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district youth association) were satisfied.
© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
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One Billion Rising Day in ambush: After two test runs, people dance to the music
The centerpiece of the global campaign is a song called “Break the chain.”
A dance video was filmed in the district in 2023 for “One Billion Rising Day”.
This is what Kresta initially shows the visitors.
Then it's the participants' turn, first without music.
Kresta demonstrates the choreography step by step and the women follow her lead.
“First we run in place, then cross to the right, back and forth,” Kresta instructs her charges.
“Step to the side, turn and clap your hands in a circle!”
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After two test runs there is a breather.
Anette Henrich and Manuela Krause use them to order drinks.
Krause finds “dancing among women very powerful.
You feel free and relaxed.” At the same time, you want to show solidarity as women.
“There is ultimately an important message behind the campaign,” emphasizes Henrich.
“Now we have to dance again,” Krause interjects.
She rushes away.
It works even better with music.
Ambush landlady Assunta Tammelleo leans on the bar and taps along to the beat.
“A few more girls could have come.
But at least everyone is happy and having fun.” Wolf stands next to him and looks contentedly at the dancing crowd.
“At first they were hesitant.
But I think everyone will go home with a good feeling today.”
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