Jana Crämer has around 103,000 followers on Instagram, and maybe a few more from Tettnang were added on Tuesday. The influencer spoke relentlessly in the gymnasium in front of around 130 high school students about her topic: eating disorders and the way out.
Jana Crämer — known through podcasts, the blog “Silence changes nothing” or social media — describes her own fate. Also to help others. After all, she once carried around 180 kilograms of body weight.
Disastrous self-image and body shaming
With readings from her book “Girls from the 1st row” she is on the road with her best friend, the musician David Müller aka “Batomae”. With her autobiographical novel “The Girl from the 1st Row”, on her blog and in her podcast, Crämer explained her eating disorder in a drastically autobiographical way.
In the auditorium, she now reads from her book to around 130 secondary school students, about unhappiness, catastrophic self-image and single and body shaming. Musician Müller, who also moderates, finds it unbelievable that she has consumed 10,000 calories at times.
From bullying victim to encourager
In a quote, she describes how she watches and hates herself binge eating, while at the same time not being able to resist the extreme binge eating attacks, although she feels reduced to being fat.
Crämer wants to help with these true, encouraging stories – and this is how she describes herself: “I went from being a victim of bullying with problem areas to an encourager.”
crash diets and multiple sclerosis
It probably takes a lot to leave over 100 kilos behind with a “body marked by crash diets”, including lipoedema and with the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, she reports honestly and authentically.
This year she has again published a book with the title “Jana-39-unkissed”, the attention for her “unkissed 39-year single existence” is certain to be hers.
Friend and musician Batomae is also there
David Müller alias Batomae met Crämer as the band manager of “Luxuslärm” in Berlin. He was also on stage for a few years, meanwhile he works as a songwriter (for Vincent Weiss) or as a band organizer for international artists.
“Our concert reading is not only a success in schools,” describes Batomae, and that they have been working together for ten years. They were first in Überlingen and Meersburg. After the performance in Tettnang, they went to Munich, albeit without a reading.
Batomae and his band of the same name with keyboardist/guitarist, drummer and him as bassist and singer quickly get the secondary school classes clapping along. Musically, “Batomae” moves between self-composed pop rock with German lyrics and hits, such as by Justin Bieber or Ed Sheeran.
When it comes to the “wrinkled, streaky wobbly belly”, things get quiet
Otherwise, the children hang on Jana Crämer’s every word, who tells stories that are as exciting as they are drastic, sometimes extremely honest, sometimes relentlessly, about herself, about her life as a schoolgirl or young adult, which is characterized by bullying and stress.
“My wrinkled, stripy wobbly belly hangs down to my knees,” she describes — and it’s quiet in the hall. Elsewhere, as in the clearly ambiguous performance of a lascivious cocktail-sucking come-on, she can also laugh at herself when shouts of “encore” come.
“Maybe you should hug now”
At the end of the concert reading, “Batomae” points out again: “It all happened, my best friend still deserves a lot of respect – and maybe you should hug each other now.” In fact, the secondary school students join in – and the cell phone lights also work at the end.
“In any case, it’s impressive what she dares to do,” says a high school student. The secondary school students are not really approachable, because after the concert reading a bunch of followers surrounded social media star Crämer for hugs and selfies.
School social worker deals with the topic of eating disorders all week
The concert reading and the subsequent workshops on the problem areas were organized by Oliver Schmetzer and the team from school social work and action rooms. The focus this time is eating disorders of all kinds.
The entire campaign is financed by a number of professional health insurance companies. “That was the kick-off event, so to speak,” reports Schmetzer. Four more workshops and a teacher training course follow in the week.
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There is more about Jana Crämer on Instagram at @jana.craemer or on the Internet at www.jana–craemer.com
There is more about Jana Crämer on Instagram at @jana.craemer or on the Internet at www.jana-craemer.de
2023-05-26 03:01:39
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