Five months on Langstrasse - a prostitute tells her story (Swiss Press Text 2025, by Charlotte Theile)

Five months on Langstrasse - a prostitute tells her story

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2025

Charlotte Theile

It's rare for women like Rose to tell their stories. Shame, language barriers, and fear of their pimps keep most of them silent. Rose, too, had to remain anonymous. At the same time, they wanted to stay as close to her life and her tone as possible. The result is a comic book that sketches her life in close collaboration with Rose.

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Charlotte Theile / Swiss Press Award

Charlotte Theile

Journalistin und Gründerin, Zürich, 1987

Charlotte Theile, born in Saxony in 1987, is an author and founder. She interned at the Süddeutsche Zeitung and reported from Switzerland as a correspondent from 2014 to 2018. In 2021, she founded the storytelling agency Elephant Stories, which produces podcasts, investigations, and documentaries. Until 2022, she was editor-in-chief of the industry magazine "Schweizer Journalist:in." She writes and speaks about politics, storytelling, and social issues. Since November 2019, she has hosted the podcast Breakup, in which people talk about their breakups. The series "When is it time for you?" has been published by Der Spiegel since fall 2022.

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