In DER MANIPULIERTE SEX, Hamburg based performer Susanne Reifenrath and her partners from various artistic backgrounds are digging into the quite disturbing literary legacy of her father J.W. Reifenrath – born in 1917, Officer in World War II, journalist and author of various books after the war, married twice, father of (at least) 14 children and an extremely promiscuous disposition, who published a book of the same name in 1968.