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    Queer Lives Across the Wall
    Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970

    Andrea Rottmann (Author)

    9781487547806

    Paperback / softback, published 18 May 2023

    266 pages, 21 b&w illustrations, 1 b&w map
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.38 kg

    "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)

    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. With a theoretical toolkit informed by feminist, queer, and spatial theories, the book goes beyond previous histories that focus on state surveillance and the persecution of male homosexuality.

    List of Illustrations and Map

    Acknowledgments

    List of Abbreviations

    Introduction: "Mamita invites you in"

    1. Homes

    2. Surveilled Sociability: Queer Bars

    3. Passing Through, Trespassing, Passing in Public Spaces

    4. Bubis Behind Bars: Prisons as Queer Spaces

    5. Conclusion

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index
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