No - Eine Anstiftung zum Neinsagen (An Incitement to Say No)

On the great power of a small word: People are born with a "no." They scream because something is wrong. As defiant girls, they are sweet at first, but then their protest is trained out of them. They are meant to please, not cause problems.


With this book, Maike Schöfer gives her readers back the "no." A "no" can be an act of self-assertion, a sign of rejection, but also something much greater: resistance. Whether as a liberating "no" to things we don't want to do, or as an angry "no" to entrenched structures and discrimination. An inspiring, personal exploration of arguably the most feminist word people can choose.


Maike Schöfer, born in 1989, is a pastor under the Berlin sky. Feminist, queer, and uncomfortable, she writes digitally as @ja.und.amen and in person, wearing a cassock, against injustices – in society and in her church. She is committed to interreligious dialogue, including with the podcast "331 - 3 Women, 3 Religions, 1 Topic," which she runs together with a Judaist and an Islamic theologian and which won the German PR Award in 2023.


Edith Löhle is a German journalist and author. After working primarily for lifestyle magazines for over ten years, most recently as editor-in-chief of the German Nylon Magazine and Blonde Magazine, she is now driven by stories that highlight social injustices and, in particular, discrimination against people perceived as female.

• Wednesday, August 27, 2025 | 8:00 PM
  

Location: Buchbox! Kastanienallee
Kastanienallee 97
10435 Berlin


(IN GERMAN)