Non-Fiction Spring 2023

Sawsan Chebli gets hate speech messages and experiences online harassment almost daily. The hate speech becomes particularly bad whenever she contributes to the public discourse or passionately c...

When Spiegel correspondent Kazim was sent to Islamabad, he found himself in a highly contradictory country. What makes this nuclear power with its many religious extremists tick? What keeps a cou...

Economic growth is used to measure social progress, wealth and satisfaction. Yet in these uncertain times, consumerism is on the decline, and materialism is taking a back seat to other values. As...

Many women earn significantly less per month than men and receive only half as much pension. On the other hand, they spend about a third more time on housework than their partners, while men face...

The young socialists whom Hertha Walcher (1894–1990) joined in the 1910s believed that there was an alternative to capitalism, and that the world didn’t have to be full of war, poverty and exploi...

It takes at least two to have sex, and you can’t get pregnant (not even by accident) without sperm. But around the world, women are bearing the greatest share of the responsibility for contracept...

Our relationship with other people, closeness and intimacy has fundamentally changed. This is due not only to the "safe distances" and lockdowns of the past couple of years or so, but to a social...

Unconditional, self-sacrificing, selfless – those are the attributes of a "good mother". And every woman is programmed for motherhood from birth. Or is she? Welcome to the science that finally ex...

A year is a long time in a concentration camp. It is a time that divides life into a before and after. Rachel Hanan was 15 when she was sent to a concentration camp, and survived Auschwitz, Berge...

Sápmi – northern Scandinavia’s indigenous name – is wild, unique, and so vast that even the huge reindeer herds can appear small. "Reindeer Have Priority" takes us on a long journey by night trai...