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“This excellent book affords fresh transdisciplinary vistas on queer media landscapes, past and present. It discusses various forms of publicity, ranging from print to digital and from the political to the pornographic. The volume addresses key theories and methods, and its case studies show how people actually interacted with texts and images. It is an incredibly helpful resource for media professionals, activists, scholars and students.”
— Benno Gammerl, Professor for the History of Gender and Sexuality, European University Institute, Italy
This book places print media at the centre of studying queer German history. In so doing, it explicitly interrogates the exclusions that certain media forms can engender as well as the possibilities that magazines, novels, poetry, and erotica, among others offered queer and trans* Germans through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It brings together scholars from the separate yet related fields of German history, German literary studies, and media studies, as well as archival and curatorial practices of public history from Austria, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States to provide a collaborative study of these sources. In so doing, it argues that just as we need to take an inclusive approach to defining what queer print media is and could be, we also need to take seriously the textual forms of these sources in order to understand the wealth of queer experiences in the past.
Christopher Ewing is Assistant Professor at Purdue University, USA.
Sébastien Tremblay is Research Associate and Lecturer at Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany.This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Queer Imprints / Reading Queer Media in the German-Speaking World.- Part 1.- 2. “It’s Wonderful that We Again, Finally, Have a Magazine Made Just for Us”: Gay Magazines and the Re-Establishment of a Queer Public Sphere in 1970s West Germany.- 3. Feminist Sex Wars in the East German Lesbian Movement? SM Discussions in the Magazine frau anders in the Early 1990s.- Part 2.- 4. Secret Messages, Hidden Correspondents: Queer Histor/ies in Contemporary Art.- 5. Affordances of Queer Form: Queer Museum Vienna.- Part 3.- 6. Photography and the Homoerotics of Race in Adolf Brand’s ‘Rasse und Schönheit’ (1926).- 7. Speculative Formations: Trans Poetry, Taxonomies, and Com-munities in the Lesbian Magazine Die Freundin (1924-1933).- Part 4.- 8. What is it, then, between us?: Towards Critical Love in a Com-munity Queer Archive.- 9. Writing Queer Failure: Antje Rávik Strubel’s In den Wäldern des menschlichen Herzens.- Part 5: Workshop Report.- 10. Homosexual Magazines and Digital Data Sets: Researching Ori-entalism and the History of Masculinity Using MAXQDA.
About the author
Christopher Ewing is Assistant Professor at Purdue University, USA.
Sébastien Tremblay is Research Associate and Lecturer at Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany.
Summary
This book places print media at the centre of studying queer German history. In so doing, it explicitly interrogates the exclusions that certain media forms can engender as well as the possibilities that magazines, novels, poetry, and erotica, among others offered queer and trans* Germans through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It brings together scholars from the separate yet related fields of German history, German literary studies, and media studies, as well as archival and curatorial practices of public history from Austria, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States to provide a collaborative study of these sources. In so doing, it argues that just as we need to take an inclusive approach to defining what queer print media is and could be, we also need to take seriously the textual forms of these sources in order to understand the wealth of queer experiences in the past.
