Welcoming our new club sister Maryam

At our last club evening, we welcomed Maryam Giyahchi as a new club sister with the candle ceremony.

Maryam has been associated with us for some time. We are all very impressed by her life story and her tireless commitment to women and women's issues. As chairwoman of the Munich Women's Association, an alliance of 70 Munich women's associations, she volunteers her time to address the many issues and concerns that affect women in our city. Among other things, she is campaigning for the erection of a memorial against femicide on the Munich's Frauenplatz.

A warm welcome to you, Maryam!

Tuesday, November  11th 2025

As part of the Orange Days 2025
‘Stop male violence!’ 
The Munich Information Centre for Men presents its work.


 Lecture and discussion

Tuesday, 09 Dezember 2025 at 7 p.m.
Christmas Party
Internal club evening

20 to 22 March 2026
50th anniversary of the
SI Club Munich Schwabing
Programme coming soon
Information and registration:

On Saturday, October 11, 2025, we took the train to Salzburg to see the exhibition “Bodies - Body-conscious Photography" from the SpallArt Collection.” It was nice that sisters from the two other Munich clubs were also there and that sisters from SI Salzburg Nova joined us in Salzburg.

The collector, Andra Spallart, gave us a knowledgeable and engaging tour of the exhibition. She acquired her first contemporary artistic photographs in the 1980s, laying the foundation for the private art collection “SpallArt.” Photographs from the late 19th century to video works were on display.

The 150 works were not presented in a traditional gallery but in a hall, a depot where the works are stored and then exhibited according a theme.

It was not surprising that the photographic depiction of the human, especially the female, body led to lively discussions!

After an inspiring few hours at the exhibition, we drove into the city centre, where a table had been reserved for us at a restaurant. Refreshed, we strolled through the picturesque narrow streets and across the beautiful squares of Salzburg before taking the train back to Munich.

It had been an interesting, inspiring and wonderful day!

Sisters, should prostitution have a prosperous future in Germany?

At one of our last club evenings, we heard a very convincing plea for the so-called "Nordic Model", which is used in Scandinavia to enforce the criminalisation of sex buyers, pimps and brothel operators.

Liane Bissinger and Dr. Inge Kleine from KOFRA (Communication Centre for Women in Work and Life) gave us an insight into the state of the discussion. Contrary to what is often claimed, the legislative changes of 2002 and 2017 have not improved the situation of prostitutes in Germany, on the contrary, they have massively worsened it and made Germany the brothel of Europe.

How should this now look in the future? Laws are legal norms: They determine how something has to be. The current legislation promotes prostitution and in particular leads to sex buyers being able to consider themselves law-abiding.

Feelings of shame due to deliberate violations of norms are either not built up in the first place (young clients) or greatly reduced by the lack of social sanctions and the assumption that they are 'only' using a completely legal service.

In addition, prostitution is a flourishing business in which everyone earns a lot of money, at the expense of the people who have to prostitute themselves and are usually suffering and traumatised. Is this really how it is supposed to go on??

Is this what we want or is it not time for a paradigm shift?

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