{"id":967,"date":"2025-09-17T14:18:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/drs_podcast\/?p=967"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T11:01:58","slug":"what-to-do-in-cases-of-harassment-or-discrimination-an-interview-with-counsellor-wendy-stollberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/drs_podcast\/2025\/09\/17\/what-to-do-in-cases-of-harassment-or-discrimination-an-interview-with-counsellor-wendy-stollberg\/","title":{"rendered":"No means No! What to Do in Cases of Harassment or Discrimination \u2013 an Interview with Counsellor Wendy Stollberg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Counsellor Wendy Stollberg<\/a>, central contact person for cases of sexualized harassment, discrimination, and violence at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, shares her insights into the challenges doctoral researchers may face in this context. In this interview, she explains her role, the confidential support she offers, and how affected individuals can seek help \u2014 whether they\u2019re unsure about what happened, want to address structural problems, or simply need someone to talk to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact via email: no-means-no@fu-berlin.de or phone: +49 30 838 54970<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Highlights<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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„We must stop looking only at the legal definitions, because not everything is written in law. And we must understand where sexual harassment, discrimination and violence comes from, what conditions are important that it exists or that makes it difficult for people to speak up. And as I said again, we must take every report seriously and do something. And this would be a very new approach, where the focus is really on the affected people“<\/p>\nWendy Stollberg, Central Contact person for cases of sexualized harassment, discrimination, and violance at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

SUMMARY<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

English:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this episode, Wendy Stollberg from Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin discusses her work supporting those facing sexual harassment, discrimination, and violence. She offers private counseling and listens to the experiences of victims, particularly focusing on female and non-binary as well as international doctoral students. Wendy highlights the difficulty in distinguishing between harmless flirting and harassment, advising individuals to trust their feelings. She encourages victims unsure about seeking help to talk to a friend or contact her for support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wendy advocates for bystanders to intervene in harassment situations if they are able to. She also talks about developing a care and intervention plan to improve how harassment reports are managed at the university. This plan aims to handle cases effectively, ensure confidentiality, and take all reports seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wendy also elaborates on the „No Means No“ slogan, emphasizing the need for prevention strategies and moving toward a focus on consent. She shares upcoming events for the International Day Against Violence Against Women, including a workshop on microaggressions and a theater play addressing masculinity, encouraging widespread engagement to combat harassment and violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[see the full transcript of the episode here<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

German:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In dieser Folge spricht Wendy Stollberg von der Freien Universit\u00e4t Berlin \u00fcber ihre Arbeit zur Unterst\u00fctzung von Personen, die von sexueller Bel\u00e4stigung, Diskriminierung und Gewalt betroffen sind. Sie bietet vertrauliche Beratung und h\u00f6rt sich die Erfahrungen der Betroffenen an, wobei ihr besonderes Augenmerk auf weiblichen und nicht-bin\u00e4ren sowie internationalen Promovierenden liegt. Wendy weist auf die Schwierigkeit hin, zwischen harmlosem Flirten und Bel\u00e4stigung zu unterscheiden, und r\u00e4t dazu, auf das eigene Bauchgef\u00fchl zu vertrauen. Sie ermutigt Betroffene, die unsicher sind, ob sie Hilfe in Anspruch nehmen sollen, sich einer Vertrauensperson anzuvertrauen oder sich f\u00fcr Unterst\u00fctzung direkt an sie zu wenden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wendy pl\u00e4diert daf\u00fcr, dass Umstehende in Situationen von Bel\u00e4stigung eingreifen, sofern sie dazu in der Lage sind. Zudem berichtet sie von der Entwicklung eines Betreuungs- und Interventionskonzepts, um den Umgang mit Meldungen \u00fcber Bel\u00e4stigung an der Universit\u00e4t zu verbessern. Ziel dieses Konzepts ist es, F\u00e4lle effizient zu bearbeiten, Vertraulichkeit zu gew\u00e4hrleisten und alle Meldungen ernst zu nehmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dar\u00fcber hinaus erl\u00e4utert Wendy den Grundsatz \u201eNein hei\u00dft Nein\u201c und betont die Notwendigkeit von Pr\u00e4ventionsstrategien sowie einer st\u00e4rkeren Fokussierung auf das Prinzip des Einvernehmens (Consent<\/em>). Sie stellt Veranstaltungen zum Internationalen Tag gegen Gewalt an Frauen vor \u2013 darunter einen Workshop zu Mikroaggressionen und ein Theaterst\u00fcck, das sich mit M\u00e4nnlichkeitsbildern auseinandersetzt \u2013 und ruft zu breitem Engagement im Kampf gegen Bel\u00e4stigung und Gewalt auf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Counsellor Wendy Stollberg, central contact person for cases of sexualized harassment, discrimination, and violence at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, shares her insights into the challenges doctoral researchers may face in this context. In this interview, she explains her role, the confidential support she offers, and how affected individuals can seek help \u2014 whether they\u2019re unsure about … \u201eNo means No! What to Do in Cases of Harassment or Discrimination \u2013 an Interview with Counsellor Wendy Stollberg\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/drs_podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/drs_podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/drs_podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/drs_podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/drs_podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/drs_podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1771,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/drs_podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/drs_podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/drs_podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/drs_podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}