Interviews
13 March 2024
"21 Erwachsene, 9 Kinder: Entlastet die Gross-WG die
Kleinfamilie?"
"21 grown-ups, 9 kids: can communal living absorb the burden of the nuclear family?"
Interview with Julia Lüscher. Podcast "Input" of the Swiss channel SRF
Audio & summary on the SRF-Website (in German)
14 April 2023
"Erst wollen sie ein Kind, dann kümmern sie sich um ihren Job".
"First they want a child, then they care about their job"
Mother's Day interview with Alexandra Eul.
7 March 2023
Radio Bayern, radioWissen.
"Vater, Mutter, Kind - Ist die Kleinfamilie am Ende?"
"Father, mother child - is the nuclear family done and over?"
Interview with Justina Schreiber.
broadcast 27 September 2023, on radio station Bayern 2: radioWissen | Bayern 2 | Radio | BR.de
25 May 2021
"Eltern erleben das Zuhause als Ort nie endender Belastung"
"Parents experience home as a place of never-ending burden"
The state is leaving families alone in the pandemic, says scientist Mariam Tazi-Preve. However, the small family model was already obsolete before Corona...
Link to the article on ZEIT ONLINE (full access for subscribers) - in German
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of May 27, 2021
24 March 2019
"Weder Erwachsene noch Kinder sind darin glücklich"
“Neither adults nor children are happy in it”
Since the lecture in Bregenz was canceled for the time being at the beginning of April, there is now an interview on the subject of the lecture, "The failure of the nuclear family?"
„The failure of the nuclear family?“
10 January 2019
Kränkung in der Familie:"Der Kontakt versandet einfach"
"Mortification in the family: Contact just
peters out"
Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve on fathers who have separated and lose their relationship with their children, methods of separation and insults that can be carried over generations.
The full interview in German: profil.at/shortlist and in the printed version of "Profil 02/19
13 December 2018
Kein Leben mit der Kleinfamilie
No life with the nuclear family
Interview in the December issue of EMMA on the subject.
Excerpt:
Is the nuclear family the source of all evil?
(laughs) Well, maybe rather: much evil. The
family is one of the cornerstones of patriarchy,
alongside politics, business and religion.
Had women had the power of definition, families would look very different today.But they didn't.
...
9 September 2018
Interview on Arte.tv on the topic:
Das neue Ideal der Familie?
Towards a New Family Ideal?
Although the traditional nuclear family is culturally dominant in literature, film and advertising, new family compositions are becoming more common. A debate on family values and the value of the family.
27 Min.
7 May 2018
Menschen im Gespräch
People in Conversation
14 April 2018
Interview with Birgit Neges (in German)
this interview can also be accessed under the following links:
4 April 2018
Familienarbeit
Family work
In our society, family work is still mainly done by women. If you wanted to do all these activities commercially, you would need umpteen qualifications. But family work takes place in an invisible area, where there is no appreciation, no payment or social recognition. Hardly anything has changed in this regard over the centuries. Since women are still gainfully employed today, the women are doubly burdened and often completely overwhelmed.
Why is our society doing this to women? Who benefits from this model, who earns from it?
Podcast (in German): Familienarbeit- Arbeitswelt im Wandel
6 March 2018
“Neugier genügt”
"Curiosity is enough"
WDR 5 Live Interview
The end of the small family - Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve
speech time 30:26 mins
Father-mother-child - the ideal small family enjoys great popularity over the long term. Almost without exception, young people strive for it. But does the family really live up to the high expectations placed on them?
Guest: Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve
Moderator: Ralph Erdenberger
30 January 2018
Die Kleinfamilie am Rande des Nervenzusammenbruchs?
The small family on the verge of nervous breakdown?
Interview with the Budrich Verlag
Excerpt:
"Ms. Tazi-Preve, what made you decide to write this book?"
Mariam Tazi-Preve: "I've been asked that in many interviews. Most of my readers have understood the content very well and in numerous responses I have been told, for example, that I "finally do justice to the mothers" and generally say exactly "where the rub is"...
25 January 2018
Interview in the Stuttgarter Zeitung
The Austrian Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve has been concerned with the social developments of the family for a long time. In her opinion, the traditional nuclear family no longer has a future in today's everyday life.
Read the whole interview (in German): Stuttgarter Zeitung
25 October 2017
Interview for the Süddeutsche Zeitung
Austrian social scientist Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve researches on the life conditions of mothers and fathers. In doing so, she calls an estsablished life model into question: the nuclear
family. A conversation about myths and false expectations.
by Barbara Vorsamer
The interview (in German): www.sueddeutsche.de
24 October 2017
"Familie ist ein hochpolitischer Ort!"
"Family is a highly political place!"
Why aren't things really moving forward with equality? And are decisions about women's withdrawal into the private sphere after childbirth really purely private, personal decisions?
Here is a link to the full interview in German: mama-arbeitet.de
28 August 2017
Frau Tazi-Preve, warum sind Mütter heute so erschöpft?
Ms. Tazi-Preve, why are mothers so exhausted nowadays?
Today's mother image drives women to exhaustion, says the Austrian political scientist Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve. The supposed ideal of the small family is to blame.
Interview: Claudia Landolt
The full interview in German can be found at this link: Fritz und Fränzi
23 May 2017
On the publication of my new book, The Failure of the Nuclear Family. Capitalism, Love and the State, an interview was held on occasion of receiving the publishing house's Award for Author of the Month.
13 May 2017
Mother's Day interview with the daily newspaper Der Standard
Excerpt:
STANDARD: In your new book you write that the nuclear family has failed. Why do you think that?
Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve: My central thesis is that the nuclear family is wrong. This is mainly due to two things: that the lifelong romantic relationship does not work and that it takes a lot
more than two people to raise children safely. There is no such thing as eternal love, just think of the separation and divorce numbers...
The full interview can be found in the print version of STANDARD from May 13, 2017 and under the following link on the newspaper’s website: Mariam Tazi-Preve, the interview
More about this topic in my book: Das Versagen der Kleinfamilie. Kapitalismus, Liebe und der Staat.
29 April 2017
Die Familie ist nur eine vermeintliche Idylle
The family is just a presumed
idyll
My interview with Judith Wittwer for the swiss TagesAnzeiger quickly became one of the most read articles in the national daily newspaper.
For those who haven't read the interview yet, here is a small excerpt and a link to the newspaper's website.
Today more than ever, young couples dream of family happiness. But you are writing a book about the failure of the nuclear family. How does that fit together?
Starting a family of your own is actually high on the wish list for boys. We are experiencing a re-familiarization. The more insecure the world in which we live and work, the greater the longing for a stable place of retreat. But the family idyll is only supposed. It leaves behind failed marriages, abandoned mothers, insecure fathers and sad children.
Why does belief in the family remain intact despite high divorce rates?
Because young people are being led to believe that the nuclear family is the desirable ideal of a private lifestyle. A good job, a functioning family life...
You can find the full interview in German on the website Tagesanzeiger
2 November 2016
Wie sind Kinder und Beruf vereinbar?
Interview on the topic: How are children and work compatible?
In the Swiss parent's magazine Fritz und Fränzi
13 October 2016
Radio interview on “Unwanted Pregnancies”
Ö1 Journal Panorama
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26 July 2016
Interview on the desire to have children in Austria
Kinderwunsch in Österreich, Oberösterreichische Nachrichten
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14 October 2013
Interview with Sybille Stillhart for her book „Müde Mütter – Fitte Väter. Warum Frauen immer mehr arbeiten und es trotzdem nirgendwohin bringen“ (Tired Mothers – Fit Fathers. Why Women work ever more and still don't get anywhere)
- Film Trailer: 10 years Matriarchal Conferences 2003-2014 > Link (Dropbox)
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24 October 2013
Interview with SFR (Swiss National Broadcast Radio) on parental leave for fathers
SFR-Radio Interview (in German)
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Autumn 2012
Cover story: Vienna’s Arbitration Panel for In Rem Restitution - Mariam Tazi-Preve on gender and the welfare state & more
Interview with the Austrian Studies Newsmagazine (Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota). Gender and the Welfare State, Vol.24, No.2, Fall 2012, p. 16-18, 31
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26 July 2012
Interview for the online journal diestandard.at “Mütter haben überhaupt keine Lobby“ (Mothers don't have any lobby at all)
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11 May 2012
Interview at the National Conference.
The Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. San Francisco, May 11, 2012
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19 July 2011
Interview on Daycare and Motherhood
Radio Ö1 Vienna
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7 October 2010
Guest appearance, live discussion on introducing laws against the Gender Wage Gap
Radio FM4 Vienna
8 - 10 June 2009
Four-part show on Fatherhood
Interview Radio Ö1 Vienna - in German
