Lena Marbacher: "Arbeit Macht Missbrauch. Eine Gesellschaftskritik"

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Lena Marbacher in conversation with Marianna Deinyan

Abuse of power is not an isolated incident, but a problem for society as a whole. We are all involved in it. In her social critique, journalist and author Lena Marbacher explores the question of how we can change this.

Abuse of power has nothing to do with gender or a specific industry. More and more cases are coming to public attention from all areas of society - be it politics, gastronomy, start-ups, sport, theater, care, voluntary work, the police or academia. So far, they have only been discussed on a sector-specific basis and usually as individual cases. According to Lena Marbacher, however, the problem lies in the system of work and society. The conditions that enable abuse of power are almost always the same. A tolerant environment is one of them.

The author relates a number of cases to each other and explains the structures of power abuse. Her aim is to show how the conditions in society and organizations lead to abusive behaviour and how they can be changed.

Lena Marbacher was born in 1981 and is a freelance journalist. Among other things, she writes for "Der Freitag" and is co-author of the bestseller "Unlearn Patriarchy", published by Ullstein Verlag, with an article on work. She is now a retired co-founder of the business magazine "Neue Narrative" and the associated publishing house NN Publishing GmbH. Before that, she was a partner in a self-organized management consultancy. She speaks as an expert on the future of work to representatives of politics and business and at conferences. She holds a doctorate in art and design from the Bauhaus University Weimar.

Marianna Deinyan is a journalist and presenter from Cologne. As an author for podcasts, radio and social media, she mainly works on topics relating to culture and social policy and has written "Yerevan", a book about Armenian cuisine and cooking culture, which was awarded the German Cookbook Prize 2023.

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