2024-02-12 18:17:13
Dakota Johnson (im Bild) ist “Madame Web” (© Marvel / © Columbia Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection)
I still remember the first time as a 10-year-old girl Superman saw. With the beautiful Christopher Reeve. A film from 1980.
The female character Lois Lane plays a central role in the story. She works as a journalist, is intelligent, strong and independent. An ideal role model for a little girl – one would think! Because in the one scene with Lane that stays with me to this day, she falls down the Eiffel Tower. But oh, what luck! Superman flies by and saves the woman.
As a child I found the scene romantic. Lane can get involved anywhere and risk everything because she knows the man will always save her. It’s quite possible that that was the first time I thought regarding becoming a journalist. Today, of course, I view the scenario critically and am grateful that children’s television showed me other stories back then. I watched almost every evening “Kim Possible” and discovered “Avatar” a little later. Both animated series present strong female characters, Kim, Katara and Toph, who are their own heroines and sometimes help the boys out of trouble.
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and the J. Walter Thompson Company surveyed in 2016 as part of a Study 4,300 women in nine countries. The results: 90 percent think female role models in film and television are important. 58 percent confirm that this has made them more ambitious and assertive. 74 percent wished they had seen more female role models in the media as children and young people. It’s just like the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir says: “You’re not born a woman, you become one.”
The “Barbie” actress and producer Margot Robbie also remembers this in an interview: “I celebrated films in which a young woman falls in love and kicks her ass.” In other words: “Women in Action.” Together with her partners Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara, she now runs the film production company LuckyChap, which tells women’s stories. Among their productions there is also “Birds of Prey”, a DC film starring Robbie in the role of anti-heroine Harley Quinn. The actress does the stunts herself. Anyone who knows the Quinn films knows: You can’t get more kick-ass!
Fortunately, since the 1970s there have been more and more strong female characters making it onto the screen. For example, come from the Marvel and DC universes Wonder WomanHarley Quinn, Catwoman, Black Widow and even the journalist Lane saves him “Man of Steel” the world together with Superman. On February 14th, another, previously unknown heroine from the Marvel universe will be coming to the cinema: Madame WebI’m excited to see what else I can learn from your clairvoyant action today!
Yours, Christina Vettorazzi
Lukas Matzinger wandered between comic worlds last fall. This is how fans live!
By the way, there is one “Harley Quinn und die Birds of Prey-Anthology”. 368 pages regarding female power, bam!
For everyone who doesn’t like going to the cinema: here’s the comic “Spider-Man and Madame Web”. Double Trouble!
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The liberal party leader Herbert Kickl seemingly uninhibitedly insults his political opponents in his speeches. Lack of self-control or political calculation – FALTER chief reporter Nina Horaczek and cultural scientist Walter Ötsch investigate the question of what lies behind the tirades of the blue party leader in this episode of FALTER Radio.
Who is afraid of Herbert Kickl? We will ask this question in the next edition of the FALTER Arena, our new journalistic live format. Guests include former intelligence chief Peter Gridling (BVT) and journalist Márton Gergely, editor-in-chief of the weekly HVG, one of the last remaining liberal newspapers in Hungary. Together with FALTER editor-in-chief Florian Klenk and FALTER chief reporter Nina Horaczek, they discuss what makes the FPÖ leader tick, what his political plans are and why Hungary is a role model for him. Information and tickets can be found here.
On the trail of Red Vienna
Between 1919 and 1934, the social democratic city government of Vienna implemented a proletarian culture that was unique in all of Europe. This socio-political undertaking has left numerous visible and invisible traces on the city. The book Red Vienna follows these tracks on five routes.
The end of this era was heralded on February 12, 1934. At that time there were fights in the municipal buildings, as a result of which the Vienna state parliament and the municipal council were dissolved, the mayor and the city senate were removed from their positions and democracy was shaken to its foundations. The police and army fired on, among other things, the Karl-Marx-Hof – the most monumental landmark of Red Vienna.
The beginning of the civil war in Vienna!
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