Queer Lives Across the Wall by Andrea Rottmann, Paperback, 9781487547806 | Buy online at The Nile
Departments
 Free Returns*

Queer Lives Across the Wall

Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970

Author: Andrea Rottmann   Series: German and European Studies

Paperback

Queer Lives across the Wall draws on personal letters, photo albums, and state records in order to tell the history of East and West Berlin in the early Cold War through an LGBTIQ* perspective.

Read more
New
$87.37
Or pay later with
Check delivery options
Paperback

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Summary

Queer Lives across the Wall draws on personal letters, photo albums, and state records in order to tell the history of East and West Berlin in the early Cold War through an LGBTIQ* perspective.

Read more

Description

Queer Lives across the Wall draws on personal letters, photo albums, and state records in order to tell the history of East and West Berlin in the early Cold War through an LGBTIQ perspective.

Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the end of the Nazi regime through the gay and lesbian liberation movements of the 1970s.

Andrea Rottmann explores how certain spaces including homes, bars, streets, parks, and prisons facilitated and restricted queer lives in the overwhelmingly conservative climate that characterized both German postwar states. By examining both public and private urban spaces, the book draws a complex picture of how queer lives were lived, going beyond previous histories that focus on state surveillance and the persecution of male homosexuality. With a theoretical toolkit informed by feminist, queer, and spatial theories, the book combines previously unknown sources from the archives of the feminist and LGBTIQ movements in police, Stasi, and prisoner files. As an intersectional history of lesbian, trans, and gay male lives in East and West Berlin, Queer Lives across the Wall illuminates the entanglements of gender, sexuality, and class.

Read more

Critic Reviews

"I gobbled this book up. It is a quick read with lots of information. If you love history, then add this Queer Lives across the Wall to your list."

- Mx. Phoebe (Mx. Phoebe’s Viewpoint) "This book stands as a shining example—to non-queer as well as to queer historians—of how to find creative solutions to archival issues and how to persevere in the face of adversity. In daring to articulate these most hidden aspects of the "love that dare not speak its name," Rottmann provides us with courageous models and antecedents. The book itself feels like a labor of love." - Mark Fenemore, Manchester Metropolitan University (German Studies Review)

Read more

About the Author

Andrea Rottmann is a postdoctoral research fellow in history at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Published
18th May 2023
Pages
277
ISBN
9781487547806

Returns

This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.

New
$87.37
Or pay later with
Check delivery options