Alice Schwarzer discontinues the magazine “Emma”.

After 398 issues Alice Schwarzer discontinues magazine “Emma” Status: October 21, 2026 • 10:40 a.m

After 50 years it's over. The feminist magazine “Emma” is discontinued. Founder and editor Alice Schwarzer emphasized that the reasons were not economic. "We think it's enough."

“Emma” is about to end: After 50 years and 398 issues, the magazine is over, announced editor Alice Schwarzer. The December 8th edition will be the last. In it, the team wants to review the past decades.

“We are not leaving for economic reasons,” emphasized Schwarzer in a statement. Circulation is falling, but income still covers expenses and there is also a financial cushion. "No, we're leaving because we think it's enough."

The magazine has held its ground for three generations of feminists, resisted all fashions and taken a stand against a lot of nonsense in the name of feminism, it continued. "So allow me: now we are exhausted."

Over the past decades, the feminist magazine has repeatedly covered topics that other media did not focus on at the time - such as spousal splitting or genital mutilation.

Schwarzer emphasized that she founded “Emma” because of the misogyny she perceived in the media at the time.

The first issue of "Emma" appeared on January 26, 1977. Schwarzer founded the magazine because she noticed misogyny in the media at the time and wanted to do something to counteract it, as she explains it today. Female journalists needed their own magazine, their own voice.

The archive of “Emma” is to be included in the holdings of the German Literature Archive in Marbach. From 2029 it will be open to interested parties and researchers.

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