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Love Is Not on the State Plan

The first authentic investigation: Sexuality in the Soviet Union. In frank talks with young women and men the authors show the effects of the changing society on the people and their personal relations. Love, sex and perestroika – an insight into the everyday life in the Soviet Union.

„This book is about the still existing unequality of man and women, about sexist behaviour of Soviet men and the intolerance against everything which differs from the norm. But Adrian Geiges and Tatyana Suvorova also write about the resistance especially of women against these old norms. Their report is the first investigation of the sexual state of the Soviet society after decades of moral stagnation.“
Günter Amendt in his epilogue to the book

„The beds are governed by frustration. A Moscow female journalist and her West German male colleague wanted to know whether the perestroika has changed the sex life of the Soviet people. Result: The old prudery continues.“
Katja Gloger, Stern

„The book not only names the puritanic, legal and official taboos, but also asks what stands behind them… Adrian Geiges and Tatyana Suvorava succeeded in the nearly impossible, because each time when they visited a factory, a school, an institute or a ministry, they first had to break a hole into the wall of the ‚responsible comrades‘ through signatures, stamps and telephone approval. But after they succeeded getting past the bureaucrats, they met open people. The young women and men replied willingly and sincerely.“
Vladimir Pylyov, Moscow News

Revolution Without Shooting

Everybody talked about perestroika during that time – but what was it like on location? In a richly nuanced report Adrian Geiges tells of his experiences with the young people of the industrialized city of Rostov. He worked with them on an assembly line for harvester combines and studied with them in their middle school classes. He accompanied them to the youth club, the rock concert hall and the soccer stadium. He talked with them about love and sex, about punk rock and heavy metal, about old habits and new thinking.

„If somebody would ask me how best to inform himself about perestroika in books, I would recommend him two: The 1987 published book of the greatest statesman of our time, Mikhail Gorbachev, which draws the big lines about this topic, and the one just now published by Adrian Geiges, which describes the everyday life of perestroika in the year 1987.“
Juergen Kuczynski, Professor for Economic Sciences, author of the East German bestseller „Dialogue With My Great-Grandson“

Awakening China

In 1986, Adrian Geiges visited the People’s Republic of China as the first representative of the Moscow-oriented West German Communists after decades of ideological fighting between the parties of both countries. He takes the reader with him on a fascinating journey full of contradictions into the China of that time.

Brazil is Burning

Brazil is more than football and carnival. It is an awakening giant, and it is a wonderful country.

Many people fail to see the rise of Brazil as a new giant. As the fifth-largest country on earth, multicultural, rich with resources, young and dynamic, Brazil is in the process of overcoming its paralyzing past. The awakening is strong, and so are the inner tensions.

Adrian Geiges, a foreign correspondent for many years, lives in Brazil among ordinary people, sharing their daily life. His reporting is full of sympathy, guiding the reader through the vibrant life of this country. In a mix of big topics and personal stories, Geiges puts a human face on this country.

Managing Editor of The Autostadt Magazine

After many years as a foreign correspondent in China, Russia, the United States and Brazil, Adrian Geiges is using his international experience in his capacity as the Managing Editor of the (English-language) Autostadt Magazine International Edition. It is targeted at readers worldwide interested in mobility and culture.

Editor-in-chief at BISSINGER[+]

Adrian Geiges is now the Editor-in-chief of BISSINGER[+], a leading German media agency for content marketing. It was founded in 2013 by Manfred Bissinger, former deputy editor-in-chief of German weekly Stern and former editor-in- chief of the the travel magazine Merian, the ecological magazine Natur and weekly newspaper Die Woche.

Brazil is Burning

The new book of Adrian Geiges „Brazil is Burning“ has been published in Germany. It offers a first hand view: The author has been living in a favela in Rio de Janeiro. He spent time with native people in their longhouses in the Amazon region. He met former drug gangsters, reported on a brutal ritual murder of a former child soldier, and visited an assembly line at the Volkswagen factory in São Paulo. In the middle of the jungle, he interviewed Glenn Greenwald, the associate of Edward Snowden. Geiges presents two countries in one: On the one hand, there are drug gangs, inflation, and corruption. On the other hand, there is the resistance to hardships, the limitless joy of life and a growing self-confidence of the younger generation.