Overview
- Schwarzer announced on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, that Emma will publish a penultimate issue on October 27 and a final, double-sized jubilee on December 8 that will close the magazine after 398 issues.
- She told reporters the choice was driven by editorial fatigue and an inability to find a successor for the small core team rather than insolvency, saying circulation has fallen but revenues still cover costs.
- In recent years Emma and Schwarzer drew controversy for a peace manifesto on the Ukraine war and critical stances on transgender issues, and she has acknowledged that about one in five readers canceled subscriptions in protest.
- The magazine’s complete editorial archive — issues, correspondence, campaign materials including Aktion PorNO and boxes of editorial records — will be transferred to the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach and opened to researchers from 2029.
- Emma leaves as an independently owned, long-running voice in German feminism that brought topics such as child sexual abuse, Islamism and the Ehegattensplitting debate into public view, and the team says it will end the title actively while exploring ways to keep parts of its work alive.