RECHTSRADIKAL - Broadcasting Kulturzeit

Why have women become increasingly active in right-wing movements in Germany over the last years? “RechtsRadikal” takes a closer look at this development and the extreme drama inherent in the radicalized right-wing female body.

RechtsRadikal investigates why women are increasingly active in right-wing movements. For a long time, they were merely treated as the men’s subordinate companions. Beate Zschäpe, the female part of the Zwickau terror trio, was first only seen as the men’s companion, as an insignificant housewife. But this in no way reflects the reality of the situation. Today every fifth neo-Nazi is female, and every tenth radical right-wing criminal offence is committed by a woman. They occupy key positions in all areas and do not hesitate to be violent. Especially young women in the right-wing comradeships are active in the street battles that accompany neo-nazi demonstrations. But despite their increasing importance for the radical right movement, they are still confronted with an ideology that not only wages war on everything that is different but is also based on an extremely biological understanding of gender roles. A superficial expression of this is the feathercut – a skinhead haircut that combines a shaved head with bangs. In “RechtsRadikal”, Christoph Winkler and four young dancers examine the external and internal signs for contradictions in which rightist women find themselves. The radicalisation of the body is a drama of the body, since rightist ideologies are extreme in the true sense of the word – on the surface and in the soul. Women who venture in this direction thus become protagonists, but also their male battle- mates’ objects.

Source: evening programme

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