1. Alice Sophie Schwarzer was born on 3 December 1942 and is a German journalist and prominent feminist.
19 Facts About Alice Schwarzer
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Alice Schwarzer is founder and publisher of the German feminist journal EMMA.
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Alice Schwarzer authored many books, including biographies of Romy Schneider, Marion Donhoff, and herself.
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Alice Schwarzer was one of the founders of the Feminist Movement in Paris, and spread their ideas to Germany.
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Alice Schwarzer convinced the Stern magazine to do something similar in Germany; and in June 1971, Schwarzer and 374 German women, including Romy Schneider and Senta Berger, confessed that they had an abortion in a successful campaign to legalize abortion in Germany.
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Decades later, Alice Schwarzer revealed she had never had an abortion.
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Since its release, Alice Schwarzer has become Germany's most high-profile but most controversial feminist.
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Alice Schwarzer argued against the law that required married women to obtain permission from their husbands before beginning paid work outside the home.
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From 1992 to 1993, Alice Schwarzer was host of the TV show Zeil um Zehn on German TV channel Hessischer Rundfunk.
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Alice Schwarzer published an autobiography, Lebenslauf, in 2011.
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Alice Schwarzer has been highly critical of political Islamism and the position of women in Islam; she favors prohibitions against women in public schools or other public settings wearing the hijab, which she considers a symbol of oppression.
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Alice Schwarzer is a believer in the Eurabia conspiracy theory, a conspiracy theory popular among far-right activists and neo-nazis.
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Alice Schwarzer has written in favor of the continued legality of circumcision of male children.
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In June 2018, Alice Schwarzer married her long-time life and business partner Bettina Flitner.
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Alice Schwarzer has been called a TERF for these reasons.
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Alice Schwarzer attempted to make such disclosure in secret to German tax authorities.
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Under the heading "In eigener Sache", Alice Schwarzer admitted to being a tax fraudster.
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In that statement, Alice Schwarzer tried to self-exculpate her crimes by claiming that in the past, she had been scared of political opponents in Germany and "was honestly afraid" that she might have to leave the country and thus needed to be financially prepared.
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Consequently, in July 2016, Alice Schwarzer was fined for tax fraud with a penalty of a six-figure amount by the of Cologne.