Queer Jewish Lives in Germany, 1897-1945: Movements, Professions, Places

Andreas Pretzel; Andreas Krass

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Queer Jewish Lives in Germany, 1897-1945

Movements, Professions, Places

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Queer Jewish Lives in Germany, 1897-19451Movements, Professions, PlacesAndreas Pretzel & Andreas KrassOneofthebiographiespresentedintheexhibitionattheSchwulesMuseumwasthatof George L. Mosse. His is a particularly prominent example of a queer Jewish life that1 This article is based on a workshop paper written by Andreas Pretzel. It was revised, extendedand edited for publication by Andreas Krass. Many thanks to Luisa C. Böck who contributed to theworkshop paper and to Liesa Hellmann who helped to edit the article. Also, many thanks to Karl-Heinz Steinle for generously making available to us a privately composed, annotated list of 101“Jewish GLBT protagonists of the German homosexual scene”.In summer 2013, theSchwules Museum(“Gay Museum”) in Berlin curated an exhibitiontitledLesbisch,Jüdisch,Schwul(“Lesbian,Jewish,Gay”),documentingtwenty-fourbiogra-phies of queer Jewish women and men who contributed to political, social and culturallife in Germany, mostly in Berlin during the Weimar years (1919-1933). The exhibition,the first of its kind, was curated by Jens Dobler, together with Klaus Berndl, ChristianeLeidinger, Andreas Pretzel, and Claudia Schoppmann. It presented, in alphabetical or-der,the physician Felix Abraham (1901-1938),the secretary Alice Ascher (1880-,deported1941), the clerk Karl M. Baer (1885-1956), the merchant Walter Boldes (1898-1942), thestudent Herbert Budzislawski (1920-1943), the businesswoman Elsa Conrad (1887-1963),the nurse Annette Eick (1909-2010), the lawyers Fritz Flato (1895-1949), Kurt Fontheim(1882-1976) and Kurt Hiller (1885-1972),the physician Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935),theteachers Vera Lachmann (1904-1985) and Käte Laserstein (1900-1965), the actress ErikaMann (1905-1969), the historian George L. Mosse (1918-1999), the lawyer Martha Mosse(1884-1977), the writer Richard Plant (1910-1998), the actor Harry Raymon (1926-), theartist Gertrude Sandmann (1893-1981), the salesperson Henny Schermann (1912-1942),the historian Hans-Joachim Schoeps (1909-1980), the editorial assistant Felice (Rachel)Schragenheim (1922-1945), the sociologist Alphons Silbermann (1909-2000), and thephysician Charlotte Wolff (1897-1986). The exhibition was a pioneering project in that itconnected two formerly independent research areas: German-Jewish history on the onehand (cf. von Braun 2015; Gotzmann 2001; Grab/Schoeps 1998; Zimmermann 1997) andqueer German history on the other (cf. Dobler 2020; Lybeck 2014; Bruns 2008; Schopp-mann 1997; Fähnders 1995, Geuter 1994; Steakley 1993).

Queer Jewish Lives in Germany, 1897-1945

Movements, Professions, Places

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