Неміс журналисі, феминисі және баспагері Алиса Шварцердің өмірі мен қызметі

German journalist, publisher and feminist

Alice Sophie Schwarzer (born 3 December 1942) is a German journalist and prominent feminist. She is founder and publisher of the German feminist journal EMMA. Beginning in France, she became a forerunner of feminist positions against anti abortion laws, for economic self sufficiency for women, against pornography, prostitution, female genital mutilation, and for a fair position of women in Islam. She authored many books, including biographies of Romy Schneider, Marion Dönhoff, and herself.

Schwarzer was born in Wuppertal, the daughter of a young single mother, and was raised by her grandparents in Wuppertal; During World War II, they were evacuated to Bavaria, only returning to the Ruhr district in 1950. She called her project Frauen gegen den § 218 ("Women against Section 218", which was the section of the German Penal Code that makes abortion illegal). In autumn 1971, Schwarzer released her first book of the same title. The illegality of abortion was upheld by the German Constitutional Court abortion decision, 1975. From 1992 to 1993, Schwarzer was host of the TV show Zeil um Zehn on German TV channel Hessischer Rundfunk. When EMMA changed to bimonthly release in 1993, she continued to write an increasing number of books, among them one about Petra Kelly and Gert Bastian, called Eine tödliche Liebe (Deadly Love), and biographies of Romy Schneider and Marion Dönhoff. In total, she has released 19 books as a writer, and 21 as publisher, as of 2014. She published an autobiography, Lebenslauf (Curriculum vitae), in 2011. She has written in favor of the continued legality of circumcision of male children. In June 2018, Schwarzer married her long time life and business partner Bettina Flitner. Her most recent book, Transsexualität. Was ist eine Frau? Was ist ein Mann? Eine Streitschrift (2022), she criticised transgenderism as a trend and advocates for retaining protections exclusively for biological women. For this, she has been criticised as "transphobic". In February 2023, she and Sahra Wagenknecht wrote the Manifest für Frieden , a petition against the delivery of weapons to Ukraine.

In the 1980s, Schwarzer set up an account at the Zürich based private bank Lienhardt & Partner to keep her assets hidden from German tax authorities. During the following years, Schwarzer transferred earnings gained from book sales and public presentations to this Swiss bank account, thus avoiding taxation in Germany. Including interest and compound interest, her illegal assets piled up to an amount of 4 million euros. As a reaction, Schwarzer made a statement on her private webpage on the matter. Under the heading "In eigener Sache" ("on one's own account"), Schwarzer admitted to being a tax fraudster. In May 2014, German tax authorities and criminal prosecutors raided a number of properties owned by Schwarzer. At the same time, judge issued search warrants on several of Schwarzer's banking accounts were executed.