Queer and Trans histories
Seminar questions:
What was the legal situation of gay women in Nazi Germany? In what ways did it change to Weimar Republic? How did it relate to men?
Why the struggle to commemorate the persecution of queer women by the Nazis?
How do you explain the homophobia of the prisoner society?
Core readings:
Laurie Marhoefer,
Wanda P贸艂tawska, And I am afraid of my dreams, trans. Mary Craig (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1987), pp. 57-59.
Linda Breder's video interview from the University of Southern California Visual History Foundation (segment 22)
Further readings:
Bibliography on lesbian and trans women in Nazi Germany:
A Special Day, dir. Ettore Scola (1977).
Cathy Gelbin, "Double Visions: Queer Femininity and Holocaust Film from Ostatni Etap to Aim茅e & Jaguar," Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature & Culture, 23 (2007), pp. 179-204.
Anna H谩jkov谩, "
Samuel Huneke, 鈥� The Journal of Contemporary History. First published 3 April 2017
Andreas Pretzel, "Homosexuality in the Sexual Ethics of the 1930s: A Values Debate in the Culture Wars between Conservatism, Liberalism, and Moral-National Renewal,"
Javier Samper Vendrell,
Claudia Schoppmann, Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbians During the Third Reich, trans. Allison Brown (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
Claudia Schoppmann, 鈥溾��:鈥� Descriptions of Lesbian Behaviour in Nazi Concentration Camps,鈥� Getuigen tussen geschiedenis en herinnering/Testimony between history and memory (125, 2017): 82-90 (translated chapter from Schoppmann 1997).
Claudia Schoppmann, 鈥�: Elli Smula (1914-1943), working woman from Berlin,鈥� Getuigen tussen geschiedenis en herinnering/Testimony between history and memory 125 (2017): 91-94.
Pierre Seel, I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual (New York: Basic Books, 1995).