“All of my actions are driven by the desire for fairness. I would consider anything else to be a missed chance.” Alice Schwarzer in 1968
Probably no other public figure in Germany has earned so much admiration or sparked so much controversy as Alice Schwarzer. She is Germany’s voice for women’s rights. She is also one of the country’s most outstanding journalists and essayists, author of numerous bestsellers and magazine maker. Her passion, assertiveness and feistiness are legendary.
Feminist author Alice Schwarzer has written numerous portraits and biographies about other women, including Countess Dönhoff, Simone de Beauvoir and Romy Schneider, but until now there has been no autobiographical book about her own life. Time to change that! With great candour, Alice Schwarzer writes about what has influenced her in her life – and what she has made of it.
She writes about her politicised grandmother and her caring grandfather, about the difficult relationship she had with her mother. She writes about social exclusion and violence. About friendship and love. About swinging Munich in the sixties and covering the student revolution as a reporter for pardon in 1968. About her life as a correspondent and the euphoric beginnings of the women’s movement in Paris. From her early feminist campaigns against the anti-abortion act and the scandal sparked by the “Little Difference” – to the foundation of the feminist journal EMMA.
