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Before WW2, Germany saw a brief period of conflicted social progress that allowed its queer community to become more visible than ever before. What was life like for the queer folks of Weimar Germany? Come learn with me about LGBTQ Germany before the Nazis, and the film star who appeared as the first on-screen sympathetic gay character: Conrad Veidt.
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Sources:
Homosexuality and Comradeship: Destabilizing the Hegemonic Masculine Ideal in Nazi Germany by Jason Crouthamel
Sex and the Weimar Republic German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis By Laurie Marhoefer
Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy
Queer Identities and Politics in Germany: A History, 1880–1945 by Clayton J. Whisnant
German Expressionism: Art and Society. Rizzoli New york
The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans
Art in Berlin 1815-1989. High Museum of Art
New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic 1919-1933 by Stephanie Barron and Sabine Eckmann
“Inhuman Acts of Lesbian Love” : The Lesbian Stigmatization Process from Weimar Germany to KZ Ravensbrück by Giulia Iannucci
Film Censorship in the Weimar Republic: Cinema Reform, Political Crisis, and the Rise of the Nazis by John Paul Mason
Among abnormals: The queer sexual politics of Germany's Weimar Republic, 1918–1933 By Laurie Marhoefer
Queer European Cinema: queering cinematic time and space by Leanne Dawson
The Seduction of Youth Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic By Javier Samper Vendrell
“The Agony of Love and Fear”: Nazism and the German Queer Community 1920-19451 Introduction: Breaking the Silence by Sydni Zastre
Cinema and Censorship in the Weimar Republic: The Case of Anders als Die Andern by James D. Steakley
Degeneration, Sexual Freedom, and the Politics of the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 by Laurie Marhoefer
"We Too Deserve a Place in the Sun": The Politics of Transvestite Identity in Weimar Germany by Katie Sutton
Defining Identity via Homosexual Spaces: Locating the Male Homosexual in Weimar Berlin by David James Prickett
Caligari: The Story of a Famous Film by Liam O. Laoghaire
Conrad Veidt on Screen: A Comprehensive Illustrated Filmography By John T. Soister
Schaulust: Sexuality and Trauma in Conrad Veidt’s Masculine Masquerades by Elizabeth Otto
An Imagined Binary: The Exilic Body and the Host Nation in the Hollywood Films of Peter Lorre, Béla Lugosi and Conrad Veidt, 1930-1956 by Gabor Gergely
The Homosexuality of Men and Women By Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld and the Quest for Sexual Freedom: A History of the First International Sexual Freedom Movement By Elena Mancini
Indians, Jews, and Sex: Magnus Hirschfiels and Indian Sexology by Veronika Fuechtner
Render unto Cesare: The Queerness of Caligari by Alexander Doty
From "Caligari" to Dietrich: Sexual, Social, and Cinematic Discourses in Weimar Film by Richard W. McCormick
“SPIRITS SURROUND US ON EVERY SIDE”: 100 YEARS OF CALIGARI by Miranda Corcoran [ Ссылка ]
Conrad Veidt: From Caligari to Casablanca by Jerry C. Allen
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film by Siegfried Kracauer
Footage:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Different from the Others (1919)
The Man Who Laughs (1924)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Jew Süss (1934)
Casablanca (1942)
The Student of Prague (1926)
Metropolis (1927)
Kino Film Archive
