Overview
- The reading went ahead after several hundred theater professionals had urged the venue to cancel the event in an open letter criticizing Schwarzer's positions on trans rights and sex work.
- Multiple protesters ran onto the stage and shouted into the audience during the event, prompting boos from attendees as the disturbance unfolded.
- Alice Schwarzer remained seated during the interruptions and later told the audience that hearing one another and exchanging views did not require agreement.
- More than a hundred people demonstrated loudly outside the theater before the reading, holding banners that denounced what they called exclusionary radical feminism.
- The venue said Schwarzer should not be reduced to a single stance, emphasized the importance of viewpoint diversity, and rejected calls to bar her from speaking.