Professor Dr. Sabine Stövesand taught social work at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences until April 2026. Prior to that, she worked for 14 years as a social worker, including in a women's shelter and in community work. She was the long-time chairwoman of the German Society for Social Work…
Susanne Scharch is a key figure in the work with perpetrators of domestic violence in Middle Franconia. A qualified social worker, she has been active in offender rehabilitation since 2000 and has worked at "RESPEKT! Fachstelle Mittelfranken – Täter*innenarbeit häusliche Gewalt" (RESPECT! Specialist Center Middle Franconia – Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence) of Treffpunkt eV in Nuremberg since 2020. In…
Dr. Wolfgang Hammer. As a freelance sociologist and author, he has been researching child protection, children's and women's rights, and misogynistic narratives in family court proceedings since 2013. He gained national and international attention with his studies on family law in Germany in 2022…
My name is Mareike Engels, and I have been a member of the Hamburg Parliament since 2015, directly elected for constituency 3, Altona. Within the Green Party parliamentary group, I am the spokesperson for women and equality. I am also Vice President of the Hamburg Parliament and…
Specialist in psychiatry, psychotherapist specializing in trauma therapy and medical hypnosis. 20 years of experience in victim support services in Hamburg, providing low-threshold counseling and crisis intervention for adult victims of violence and crime. Since November 2026, self-employed as a supervisor…
As federal chairwoman of VelsPol, the queer employee network in the police, judiciary, and customs, Diana Gläßer advocates for the rights and safety of queer people. Her professional focus is on queerphobic hate crime, which she examines from a criminological perspective…
Dr. Tamara Candela studied at the University of Hamburg and received her doctorate in sociology from the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (University of Bielefeld). She co-founded the anti-femicide network in Hamburg in 2022. Since then, she has been researching and publishing on the topic…
Suna Tanış manages the women's shelter in Oberhausen, is a board member of the LAG Autonomous Women's Shelters NRW, and volunteers as an expert for the #DieNächste initiative. In addition to supporting women and their children affected by violence, she is heavily involved in…
Anne Dittmann is a journalist and Spiegel bestseller author. She writes about family policy issues, including for Zeit Online, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Brigitte magazine, and has focused her research over the past three years primarily on masculinity norms and parenting. Her latest book is *Boys of Today, Men…*
Dr. Susanne Kaiser is a journalist and author. She writes, reads, and speaks for publications including Die ZEIT, DER SPIEGEL, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur. She also appears as an expert on Arte, WDR, SWR, ZDF, ARD, Pro7, and RTL.
