Queering German Culture

by Leanne Dawson
Queering German Culture
Author: Leanne Dawson
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1571139656
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Contributions exploring the representation and reality of LGBTQ+ individuals and issues in historical and contemporary German-speaking culture. The German-speaking lands have a long history of engagement, ranging from celebratory to horrific, with non-normative genders and sexualities, including through cultural output, language, and politics. Queering German Culture, volume 10 of the Edinburgh German Yearbook, foregrounds this via new analyses of a variety of LGBTQ+ cultural artifacts - archives both physical and digital, literature in the form of novels and periodicals, and film both narrative and documentary - to consider a spectrum of gender and sexual identities. Individual chapters employ a range of lenses, including psychoanalysis, feminism, and postcolonial and queer theory, to analyze work by ThomasMann, Thomas Brussig, Jenny Erpenbeck, Terézia Mora, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Fatih Akin, among others. Contributors: Nicholas Courtman, Leanne Dawson, Kyle Frackman, Sarra Kassem, Lauren Pilcher, John L. Plews, Gary Schmidt, Cyd Sturgess. Leanne Dawson is Lecturer in German and Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Queer Identities and Politics in Germany

by Clayton J. Whisnant
Queer Identities and Politics in Germany
Author: Clayton J. Whisnant
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2016-06-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1939594103
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Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in LGBT history, including the growth of the world's first homosexual organizations and gay and lesbian magazines, as well as an influential community of German sexologists and psychoanalysts. Queer Identities and Politics in Germany describes these events in detail, from vibrant gay social scenes to the Nazi persecution that sent many LGBT people to concentration camps. Clayton J. Whisnant recounts the emergence of various queer identities in Germany from 1880 to 1945 and the political strategies pursued by early homosexual activists. Drawing on recent English and German-language scholarship, he enriches the debate over whether science contributed to social progress or persecution during this period, and he offers new information on the Nazis' preoccupation with homosexuality. The book's epilogue locates remnants of the pre-1945 era in Germany today.

Queering the Canon

by Christoph Lorey
Queering the Canon
Author: Christoph Lorey
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 542
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781571131782
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This collection of essays exposes points of queerness, marginality, and alterity present in the German canon and introduces further deviation from traditional German literature and culture in the form of openly lesbian and gay works. It provides new queer analyses of texts by canonical authors such as Goethe, Schiller. Thomas and Klaus Mann, Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Reinig, and Elfriede Jelinek, yet discusses works that have seldom received scholarly attention. It also breaks the traditional limitation of Germanistik to the study of literature by including essays on aspects of German culture such as music, film, fine art and art history, and politics and law.

Sexual Culture in Germany in the 1970s

by Janin Afken
Sexual Culture in Germany in the 1970s
Author: Janin Afken
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2019-12-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 3030274276
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This book is the first attempt to present a comprehensive picture of LGBT culture in the two German states in the 1970s. Starting from the common view of the decade between the moderation of the German anti-sodomy law in 1968 (East) and 1969 (West) and the first documented case of AIDS (1982) as a ‘golden age’ for queer politics and culture, this edited collection traces the way this impression has been shaped by cultural production. The chapters ask: What exactly made the 1970s a 'legendary decade'? What was its revolutionary potential and what were its path-breaking political and aesthetic strategies? Which elements, movements and memories had to be marginalized in order to facilitate the historical construction of the 'legendary decade'? Exploring the complex picture of gay, lesbian and – to a lesser extent – trans cultures from this time, the volume provides fascinating insights into both canonized and marginalized texts and films from and about the decade.

Gay Berlin

by Robert Beachy
Gay Berlin
Author: Robert Beachy
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2015-10-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0307473139
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Winner of Randy Shilts Award In the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berlin became the undisputed gay capital of the world. Activists and medical professionals made it a city of firsts—the first gay journal, the first homosexual rights organization, the first Institute for Sexual Science, the first sex reassignment surgeries—exploring and educating themselves and the rest of the world about new ways of understanding the human condition. In this fascinating examination of how the uninhibited urban culture of Berlin helped create our categories of sexual orientation and gender identity, Robert Beachy guides readers through the past events and developments that continue to shape and influence our thinking about sex and gender to this day.

The Queer German Cinema

by Alice A. Kuzniar
The Queer German Cinema
Author: Alice A. Kuzniar
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2000
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780804739955
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On German homosexual cinema

Warm Brothers

by Robert Deam Tobin
Warm Brothers
Author: Robert Deam Tobin
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2000-06-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0812235444
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"Well argued, clearly written, with interesting emphases and ambitious breadth, this excellent book maintains a uniformly high level of scholarship."--Choice

Queering the Color Line

by Siobhan B. Somerville
Queering the Color Line
Author: Siobhan B. Somerville
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2000
Genre: Culture in motion pictures
ISBN: 9780822324430
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The interconnected constructions of race and sexuality at the turn of the century.

The Seduction of Youth

by Javier Samper Vendrell
The Seduction of Youth
Author: Javier Samper Vendrell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487536062
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A simple man from the provinces, Friedrich Radszuweit merged popular culture, consumerism, and politics as the leader of the League for Human Rights, Germany’s first mass homosexual organization. The Seduction of Youth is the first study to focus on the League and its leader, using his position at the centre of the Weimar-era gay rights movement to tease out the diverging political strategies and contradictory tactics that distinguished the movement. By examining news articles and opinion pieces, as well as literary texts and photographs in the League’s numerous pulp magazines for homosexuals, Javier Samper Vendrell reconstructs forgotten aspects of the history of same-sex desire and subjectivity. While recognizing the possibilities of liberal rights for sexual freedom during the Weimar Republic, the League’s "respectability politics" failed in part because Radszuweit’s own publications contributed to the idea that homosexual men were considered a threat to youth, doing little to change the views of the many people who believed in homosexual seduction – a homophobic trope that endured well into the twentieth century.