estelle Thareau will speak in Heiligenstein on Wednesday, April 29, in a staged conference built around her own experience of domestic violence and a attempted feminicide. The event is set for the farm of Truttenhausen, with public arrival at 7: 00 PM ET and the conference beginning at 7: 30 PM ET.
Thareau is presenting the talk as a live format between theater and lecture, combining personal testimony with analysis. Her aim is to push awareness, explain the mechanisms of denial, and open collective and individual paths for action.
Estelle Thareau puts lived experience at the center
The conference is framed as the story of a survivor speaking about a brutal ordeal she lived through and survived. Thareau says the format is political in nature, and describes it as a blend of “hot knowledge” from lived experience and “cold knowledge” from analysis.
She says she first believed she was alone in what she was enduring, but gradually understood the systemic nature of her story. In her view, the issue is not only psychological mechanisms, but also political ones, a point she brings forward in estelle.
A public event built for dialogue
The performance is scheduled to last 1 hour and 30 minutes and is limited to people over 15 because of difficult subject matter. A discussion period will follow, which Thareau presents as necessary time to “land” after the conference.
The evening will take place at the farm of Truttenhausen in Heiligenstein on Wednesday, April 29. Organizers have set the public welcome from 7: 00 PM ET, with crêpes and drinks available before the 7: 30 PM ET start.
What the conference is meant to change
Thareau’s stated goal is to create awareness around violence against women and to make the hidden mechanisms visible. She wants the audience to understand both the denial surrounding such violence and the broader structures that allow it to persist.
That makes estelle more than a personal testimony: it is being presented as a public call to think about how individual suffering connects to collective responsibility. With the April 29 date approaching, the event is set to place feminicide and domestic violence at the center of a local public conversation in Heiligenstein.
