SOPHIA FRITZ & DANIEL SCHREIBER

"The Man, the Victim" Book Launch

Men: Victims of Patriarchy? Bestselling authors Sophia Fritz and Daniel Schreiber will explore this question at the book launch for “The Man, the Victim.” Join us, discuss, and celebrate the launch with us and the authors at Heimathafen Neukölln!

Following her bestseller “Toxic Femininity,” Sophia Fritz offers an empathetic critique of masculinity—one that seeks to understand rather than accuse.
Men—victims? No—and yes. It is still primarily men who rule, own, decide, and win. Yet behind this dominance lies a contradictory reality: men shut others out, ride roughshod over others, remain silent, and disappear. They are absent—from families and relationships, from one another, and from themselves.

Drawing on the loss of her brother, Sophia Fritz explores what it means to become a man in the present day. She searches for the cultural and emotional mechanisms that explain why masculinity, in its current form, causes so much pain—for those who embody it and for those who suffer under it. Following *Toxic Femininity*, *The Man, the Victim* is an urgently needed and empathetic critique of patriarchal masculinity, but above all, it is an invitation to replace it with something new, freer, and more vulnerable.

"The Man, the Victim" will be published on October 6, 2026, by Hanser Verlag, 240 pages.
An event presented by Heimathafen Neukölln in cooperation with Buchbox.