Since 2010, I have repeatedly worked with various media, filmmakers, students and journalists. In general, I am happy to talk about my life, the stigmatization of people with pedophilic tendencies and especially about peer-support. Unfortunately, there have also been some negative experiences, which is why I have become cautious, but in no way want to let myself be paralyzed. So if you are working on a piece on related subject and you are interested in my work, feel free to drop me a line.
More information about events I have attended will be collected elsewhere at a later time.
My personal favorites among these interviews are:
This list is not yet translated to english. The links usually lead to the finished articles, radio programmes, or videos.
Radio FRITZ Podcast Tabulos Episode 3, aired 21.03.2020: “Pädophilie – Max hat seine Neigung unter Kontrolle” (listen to the episode at Apple Podcasts). Tabulos (literally meaning “taboo-free”) is a podcast by Kim Neubauer and Claudia Kamieth, where each episode addresses another taboo topic. And an additional article that came out with the podcast.
SWR SWRaktuell aired 4.11.2019: “Forensiktage der Klinik Nette-Gut 2019 ‘(Sexuelle) Gewalt und ihre Opfer’”. A news segment about the Forensiktage-symposium in Andernach (see “Forensiktage - Archiv”). Old links: SWR video + article | another article
VICE/HBO VICE News aired 26.08.2019: “The Men Who Call Themselves Non-Offending Pedophiles”. Originally aired as part of the HBO show VICE News Tonight. The link leads to the video and a short article. Interviewees were Max, another pedophilic man, Prof. Elizabeth Letourneau and Prof. Klaus M. Beier.
ABC Radio Australia The Signal part 1: “The truth about paedophilia” at 13.05.2019 and part 2: „Can you fix a paedophile?“ from 15.05.2019 (Flint Duxfield).
Badische Zeitung, issue of 25.08.2018: “Verbotene Gefühle” (“Forbidden Feelings”) part 7 of a series about secrets titled “Geheimnisse”. (Theresa Steudel).
Deutschlandfunk Das Feature published 6.03.2018: “Unter Kontrolle – Wie Pädophile mit ihrer Neigung leben” (Philine Sauvageot). Read and hear it at Philine’s blog Phinyl, at Soundcloud and at the Webseite of Deutschlandfunk Kultur . — together with Mascha
Deutschlandfunk Kultur Zeitfragen. Feature published 9.10.2017: “Stigmatisierung ist kein Ausweg – Über den Umgang mit Pädophilie”, German for “Stigmatisation is no help — How to deal with Pedophilia”, (Dorothea Brummerloh). — together with Caspar
Blog Phinyl, published 22.03.2017: “‘Das tut mir nichts mehr’ Interview mit einem Pädophilen”, German for “‘That isn’t doing anything to me anymore’ Interview with a Pedophile” (Philine Sauvageot and Theresa Steudel) has long been available in German at Philine’s blog Phinyl (now here on YouTube) and in French at the site of the journalism school CUEJ in Strasbourg.
RTL: Two short pieces on the new data released by Dont’t Offend, included in the news formats RTL Aktuell and RTL Nachtjournal on 25.10.2016 (Markus Heggen).
DRadio Wissen (now Deutschlandfunk Nova) Eine Stunde Liebe (meaning “One our [about] Love”) published 26.08.2016: “Wir sind pädophil, aber wollen niemals Täter werden!” (“We are pedophilic and we want to never offend!”) (Till Opitz). A piece of our interviews was split off into another episode “Therapierbar oder nicht?” (“Is Treatment possible or not?”) which aired at 19.08.2016. — together with Lisa and NewMan
Joiz live&direkt: “Ein Leben mit Pädophilie”, German for “Living with Pedophilia”, published at 4.08.2016 as part of the theme week titled “Love&Hate – What I love to hate or what I hate to love” (Mareike Witte, Ariane Böhm).
The Medical Republic at 29.04.2016: “How is paedophilia a health issue?” (Ruby Prosser Scully)
Morgenpost am Sonntag (now “Tag24”) at 8.11.2015: “Projekt hilft Pädophilen, keine Täter zu werden” (german for “A Project to help Pedophiles not to become Offenders”) (Markus Griese). The old website mopo24.de does not exist anymore and tag24.de removed this article at some point. But it is archived at the Wayback Machine.
The Guardian at 16.10.2015: “How Germany treats paedophiles before they offend”. (Kate Connolly) — together with Anne
UnAufgefordert, Volume 232 (Oktober 2015): “Eine Dosis Kinderschutz” (german for “One Dose of Child Protection”) (Stephan Detert). Main topic of this edition of the Berlin Humboldt-University's student newspaper are drugs. This article deals with medication that reduces sex drive and is based on interviews. There is also a PDF version of the whole journal. — together with NewMan
BBC Radio 4 News: “Germany urges paedophiles out of the shadows”, aired at 13.07.2015 (Damien McGuinness).
ARD Report München about “child porn” at 19.05.2015 (Pia Dangelmayer, Christiane Hawranek). This piece is based on interview material that had originally been recorded for a B5 aktuell report. Said report was aired on 1.03.2015; One could originally listen to and read about it here but all links seem to be dead now.
ARD Panorama, at 18.12.2014: “Hass auf Pädophile” (german for “Hate towards Pedophiles”) (Ben Bolz). Main topic of this report was the case of Sebastian Edathy and his appearance before the Investigation Committee on that same day.
Südwest Presse at 18.11.2014: “Pädophilie: Therapieerfahrung und Hilfsangebote” (Pedophilia: experiences with therapy and offering support) (Samira Eisele). This article was part of a series under the title “Strafe und Therapie” (Punishment and Therapy) for which “Emmanuel Goldstein” from the Virtuous Pedophiles forum was interviewed as well.
RTL Extra at 14.07.2014. Wolfram Kuhnigk had originally interviewed us for Undercover Deutschland but later moved that interview to RTL Extra. Sadly we later found out that he had massively abused everyone’s trust: while interviewing us as “the nice pedophiles” he attacked others with criminal allegations — that destroyed several lives and then turned out to be totally false. — together with NewMan
Deutsche Welle Inside Europe at 4. and 5.07.2014: ”How Germany is taking a radical approach to curb paedophilia” (Andrew Bowen). This piece also aired at NPR Berlin.
Deutsche Welle Themen: “Kindesmissbrauch ‒ Urlauber sollen Hinweise auf Kinderprostitution melden” (Julia Mahncke), an online article published at 30.05.2014 about nicht-wegsehen.net , a platform raising awareness in the context of the 2014 soccer world championship in Brazil that people should not look away if they notice potential signs for child prostitution.
tink.ch and mokant.at at 13.05.2014: “Ich will doch keine Kinder vergewaltigen” (I don't want to rape children for sure) (Alternativer Link) article based on an interview with Max by Tatjana Pürro. It was also publish in the accompanying magazine mokant . — together with NewMan
ZDF Mona Lisa at 1.03.2014: “‘Hilfe ‒ ich bin pädophil’ Prävention und Therapie” (“‘Help ‒ I'm a pedophile’ Prevention and Therapy”) (Andrea Schreiber)
Deutsche Welle Politik direkt, at 06.02.2014: “‘Kids Turn Me On’ – A Project for Potential Abusers” (Oliver Sallet). This piece is available on YouTube in German as well as English and has been broadcast by Deutsche Welle in both languages.
GMX, WEB.DE and 1&1 Internet publiched this at 02.12.2013: “Leben mit Pädophilie: Therapien können helfen” (Silke Stadler), Rubrik Gesundheit > Psychologie.
Deutsche Welle worldlink, radio interview “Living with pedophilia” broadcast at 26.05.2013 (Diana Ach). An accompanying article: “If I'm attracted to children, I must be a monster”. — together with Lisa
ZDF Mona Lisa, an interview in the edition broadcast at the 14.04.2012 (Andrea Schreiber)
RTL Explosiv Weekend at 26.11.2011 “Pädophilie ‒ eine (un)heimliche Macht” (Melanie Wolfram). The German title sounds quite lurid and plays with the double meaning of heimlich=secret/hidden and unheimlich=spooky. So one may translate it to “pedophilia ‒ an ominous power”.
RTL Punkt12 an interview segment in the editions of 8. and 9.11.2011 (Silke Brunners) — together with NewMan
Münchner Merkur edition of 13.12.2010 (page 3) “Der Schatten des Begehrens” (German for “the dark side of desire”) (Katharina Blum). The author receive a journalism price for this article, the Dr. Georg Schreiber Medienpreis in 2010. — together with Marco and NewMan
ORF2 19.04.2010 Thema Spezial: “Missbrauch – Abgründe der Sexualität” (German for “[child] abuse – abysses of sexuality”) (Christoph Feurstein). At YouTube here