Which taboo do you like to break, Anne Rabe?

Born 1 April 1986 in Wismar Profession Playwright, screenwriter and essayist Education Studied dramatic writing at the Berlin University of the Arts Status Be outraged!

Being without words is rare for Anne Rabe. Her job is to find them: in poems, essays, plays, or screenplays. In her debut novel, The Possibility of Happiness, she tells the story of a young woman who, like the author herself, was born shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall and grew up in a newly unified Germany. It is about "the agony of the GDR," as Rabe likes to call the often romanticized reality of her childhood and youth in interviews. Rabe no longer lives on the Baltic Sea, but in Berlin. Her works cross genres and deal with origins, influences, and political responsibility. In the ARD series Waiting for the Bus , which she co-wrote, for example, two men sit and talk at a bus stop in Brandenburg. It is about how political everyday banalities can be, about the big questions in the small things. In her new book The M-Word: Against the Contempt for Morality, Rabe illuminates a major topic : she defends morality against its attackers who believe morality is a status symbol and that being moral is arrogant or naive. "I don't understand why the Union could seriously frame the fight for human rights, which are the foundations of our republic, as left-wing," she told the FAS . For Rabe, morality is a foundation for solidarity and the preservation of democracy.

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