To Be Seen - Queer Lives 1900 - 1950

Seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert traten immer mehr Menschen selbstbewusst für die Anerkennung queerer Lebensweisen ein. Diese Pionier*innen bildeten Kollektive, verschafften sich Gehör und stellten dominante Geschlechterkategorien politisch, wissenschaftlich und künstlerisch infrage. In Form von Essays, Interviews und Kunstwerken beleuchten Autor*innen und Künstler*innen diesen Kampf um Anerkennung, der mit der Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten gewaltsam unterbunden, zerstört und nach 1945 kaum erinnert wurde.

Künstler*innen:
Katharina Aigner | Maximiliane Baumgartner | Zackary Drucker | Chitra Ganesh | Philipp Gufler | Lena Rosa Händle | Zoltán Lesi | Henrik Olesen | Ricardo Portilho | Karol Radziszewski u. a.

Beiträge von G. Doğtaş, M. Dudley, F. Ewert, S. L. Gilman, D. Herzog, U. Klöppel, B. Miller, C. Schweitzer, S. Tremblay, S. Varatharaja

Text: Deutsch / Englisch
400 Seiten, 285 Abbildungen in Farbe

English:

A volume examining queer lives caught between empowerment and stigmatization in early twentieth-century Germany.

The contributions in this volume present the story of queer lives in Germany during the first half of the twentieth century--from the first emancipation movements around the turn of the century via attempts at self-empowerment in the Weimar Republic to the destruction of queer subcultures under the National Socialist regime and the continued discrimination against LGBTIQ* persons in the postwar period. Since the late nineteenth century, increasing numbers of people have self-assuredly championed the recognition of queer lifestyles. These pioneers formed collectives, made their voices heard, and questioned dominant gender categories politically, scientifically, and artistically. Through essays, interviews, and artworks, the authors and artists illustrate this struggle for recognition which was forcefully prevented and destroyed following the seizure of power by the National Socialists and almost forgotten after 1945.