Verena Brunschweiger

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Verena Brunschweiger (born 1980 in Passau) is a German media personality.[1]

Biography

Verena Brunschweiger was born Verena Maier and is of Jewish ancestry. She studied German Studies, English Studies, and Philosophy at university. She received her doctorate in Medieval German Studies from the University of Regensburg in 2007.[2] Since 2018, she has worked as a secondary school teacher in Regensburg.[3][4][5]

In 2013, she published her first non-fiction book, *Fuck Porn*, against the spread of pornography in everyday life. In 2019, her book *Childfree Instead of Childless* was published, reaching number 40 on the Spiegel bestseller list for paperback non-fiction.[6] In it, as well as in numerous subsequent interviews, she advocated for antinatalism for climate policy reasons, i.e., foregoing children to reduce CO2 emissions and thus slow down climate change.[7][8]

Brunschweiger rejected the wearing of face masks to combat the coronavirus pandemic and, according to her own statements, advocated for the protection of “vulnerable groups” during the coronavirus pandemic. She criticized the coronavirus measures, among other things, as “epidemic hysteria” and “fascist measures”.[9][10][11]

Writings

  • Heroism and Femininity: Wolfram's Parzival, Gottfried's Tristan, and Richard Wagner's Music Dramas. Dissertation 2007 as Verena Maier-Eroms. Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8288-9913-1
  • Fuck Porn. Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8288-3153-7
  • Child-free instead of childless. Büchner-Verlag, Marburg, 2019, ISBN 978-3-96317-148-2
  • The Childfree Rebellion: Why "too radical" is just radical enough. Büchner-Verlag, Marburg, 2020, ISBN 978-3-96317-196-3
  • Fuck Sexism: Ageism, Lookism and Slutshaming. Polyamory. Edition Critic, Berlin, 2021, ISBN 978-3-946193-36-4
  • Do Childfree People Have Better Sex?, Lantern Publishing and Media, New York City, 2022, ISBN 978-1-59056-664-0
  • Child-free people of all countries, unite!, Edition Critic, Berlin, 2023, ISBN 978-3-946193-40-1

References

  1. Stefanie Flamm (2019-04-04), "Mutter? Niemals!", Die Zeit, no. 15/2019, ISSN 0044-2070, retrieved 2019-12-03
  2. Verena Eleonore Maier-Eroms (2007-11-25), "Heldentum" und "Weiblichkeit" im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit: am Beispiel von Wolframs Parzival, Gottfrieds Tristan und Richard Wagners Musikdramen, doi:10.5283/epub.10599, retrieved 2020-03-03
  3. "Verena Brunschweiger" (Verlags-Website). buechner-verlag. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  4. Stefanie Flamm (2019-12-02), [online "Sie hat jetzt Zeit"], Die Zeit, p. 59, ISSN 0044-2070, retrieved 2019-12-03 {{citation}}: Check |url= value (help)
  5. Patrick Beckerle (2019-10-16). "Verena Brunschweiger: "Herzlos" oder Weltretterin?" (Interview). idowa.de. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  6. "Kinderfrei statt kinderlos" (Bucheintrag). Buchreport. 2019. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  7. "Alles für mein Kind – SWR Nachtcafé" (Video (89 min.)). SWR. 2019-02-02. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  8. "Verzicht aufs Kinderkriegen – Wie weit soll Klimaschutz gehen?" (Video (23 min.)). ZDF heute. 2019-11-14. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  9. "Für einen Aufstand der Denkenden". verenabrunschweiger.net. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
  10. Marianne Sperb (2020-10-23). "Lehrerin warnt vor "Corona-Irrsinn"". mittelbayerische.de. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  11. Clemens Heni, ed. (2020), Gefährderansprache: wie die Regierungs-Politik, eine nicht evidenzbasierte Virologie und Verschwörungswahnwichtel die demokratische Gesellschaft zerfleddern, Berlin: Edition Critic, pp. 303 ff, ISBN 978-3-946193-34-0, retrieved 2021-12-07