Alice Schwarzer

Alice Schwarzer (born December 3, 1942 in Wuppertal) is a German journalist, a prominent contemporary feminist and convicted white-collar criminal. She is founder and publisher of the German feminist journal EMMA and a columnist of Germany's best-selling tabloid Bild. Since the 1980s, Schwarzer hid around 4 million Euros in a Swiss bank account and was therefore convicted in July 2016 for tax fraud by the Amtsgericht Cologne.

As the daughter of an uninvolved 22-year old single mother, she was raised by her maternal grandparents in Wuppertal, whom she says were outspoken anti-nazis. During World War II she evacuated to Bavaria, only returning to the Ruhr in 1950. After studying in France, Schwarzer began a trainee journalism job in Düsseldorf in 1966. In 1969 she started working as a journalist.

From 1970 to 1974 she worked as a freelancer for different media in Paris. At the same time she studied psychology and sociology, amongst others lectured by Michel Foucault. Schwarzer met Jean-Paul Sartre and Daniel Cohn-Bendit. She was one of the founders of the Feminist Movement in Paris (Mouvement de Liberation des femmes, MLF) and also spread their ideas to Germany. In April 1971, Schwarzer joined Simone de Beauvoir, Catherine Deneuve, and 340 frenchwomen, in publicly announcing that they had each had illegal abortions in a successful campaign to legalize abortion in France.

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