Defiance can move mountains and fray nerves, pave the way and destroy it. Defiance can make you rise above yourself and stand in the way of yourself and others. So you don’t really know where you stand with defiance: whether it turns out to be an engine for progress or a brake on change. The question is when to trust defiance and how to deal with it.
About the person
Ronja von Rönne, born in 1992, is a writer, journalist and presenter. She read at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2015. From 2017 to 2022, she presented the program “Streetphilosophy” on ARTE. Since 2023 she can be seen in the format “Unhappy”. She writes for “Die Zeit” and “Zeit Online”. Most recently, her novel “Ende in Sicht” (2022) and the essay “Trotz” (2023) were published.
