The ZDF presenter Dunja Hayali commented in detail on the allegations against Rammstein on the Internet for the first time. She makes it clear that this is not about a moral special case.
The “heute journal” moderator Dunja Hayali took part in the Rammstein debate with a longer post on Twitter. To do this, she drew up a kind of list of theses on the case, which is currently the subject of intense media attention.
Hayali does not consider the allegations against Till Lindemann and the Berlin band that they had established a “Row Zero” system with after-show parties, for which young women were primarily recruited for sex with the singer, to be a (moral) special case. She wrote about her post: “…Because it’s been about so much more than “just” #Rammstein for so long.”
The short list includes statements such as “sex is sex”, “abuse is abuse” and “abuse is not sex”, all of which were points of clarification in the me-too debate. But the journalist also goes into the complicated groupie dynamics. So she made it clear in her message: “Naivety is not a door opener for abuse” and “Fandom is not a license for coercion”.
In general, the backstage zone is not a “casting area for a street prostitute”. Hayali also took up the often-put-up argument that women provoke assaults with sexy clothing or very clear flirtations and related it to the shelters now required at concerts. Basically, people are being asked to change their behavior, who ultimately become potential victims of a dynamic that is beyond their control.
The ZDF moderator, who is very active on the Internet, closed her contribution with the skeptical perspective that “there is still a lot going wrong in our (patriarchal) system”.