In our publication series Splitter, we examine historical and socio-historical topics concerning the LGBTIQ* community as well as biographies of historical personalities.
Splitter 16:
Albert Knoll (Hrsg.): Der Anschlag auf Magnus Hirschfeld. Ein Blick auf das reaktionäre München 1920 [The Attack on Magnus Hirschfeld. A look at reactionary Munich in 1920, in German]
The Berlin based doctor and sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935) was a pioneer of the gay movement. With the founding of the Wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees (Scientific-Humanitarian Committee) in 1897 and the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institut for Sexology) in 1919 he set a precedent for sexual education work. One of his numerous lecture tours took him to Munich on October 4th, 1920. After the event, a group of reactionaries brutally beat him up. Albert Knoll. Erwin In het Panhuis, Philipp Gufler and Ralf Dose shed light on Hirschfeld’s activities, the events in Munich and its background.
88 pages, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-935227-23-0, 7 € plus shipping costs
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Splitter 15:
Ariane Rüdiger: Sag ich’s oder sag ich’s nicht? Die Geschichte des AK Lesben und Arbeit. Lesbenforschung auf eigene Faust [Do I say it or not? The history of the working group ”Lesbians and Work”. Lesbian research on your own initiative, in German]
How are lesbians doing in the workplace? Long before diversity became a favorite topic of HR-departments, the Munich working group “Lesbians and Work” asked this question. Voluntary and in their free time, the small women’s group set up the first study in this field considering several hundred lesbian participants from all over Germany.
88 pages, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-935227-22-3, 7 € plus shipping costs
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Splitter 14:
Philipp Gufler (Hrsg.): I WANNA GIVE YOU DEVOTION (The poster collection of the Forum Queeres Archiv München) [in German and English]
The key element of Philipp Gufler’s installation “I Wanna Give You Devotion” is the poster collection of the Forum Queeres Archiv München. The corresponding artist books combines historical posters/flyers and works by 29 artists and collectives, who Gufler specifically invited in order to question, actualize and expand on the poster collection.
112 pages, Munich 2017 (in cooperation with the Hammann von Mier Verlag), ISBN 978-3-947250-06-6, 16 € plus shipping costs
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Splitter 13:
Albert Knoll (ed.): Der Rosa-Winkel-Gedenkstein. Die Erinnerung an die Homosexuellen im KZ Dachau [The Pink Triangle Memorial (Stone) – Remembering the homosexual victims of the Concentration Camp in Dachau, in German]
„Beaten to death – hushed up“ is the inscription on the memorial plaque dedicated to the prisoners marked with the Pink Triangle. It was the wish of Munich’s gay emancipation groups that this plaque, which is made out of pink marble, would be placed in the museum of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial site in 1985, in order to give (at least) an indication of the persecution of homosexuals. However, what followed was a long-lasting struggle against old prejudices shared by some of the survivors of the concentration camp as well as some politicians, who were in power back then. By not giving up and gaining momentum by the changing spirit of the times the queer scene finally prevailed.
117 pages, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-935227-19-3, 7 € plus shipping costs
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Splitter 12:
Ariane Rüdiger: Lesben sichtbar machen. Die Arbeit des AK Uferlos Lesbenpolitik. Münchner Lesbenpolitik in den 1990er Jahren [Making lesbians visible – The work of the working group “Uferlos” Lesbenpolitik”. Munich’s lesbian policy in the 1990s, in German]
At the end of the 1980s, Bavaria was in a bad state concerning equal opportunity of lesbians and gays in social life. This led to a conflict with the Bavarian state government over the municipal financing of lesbian and gay associations and the social role of homosexual people in Bavaria. The working group “Uferlos Lesbenpolitik” played an important role in Munich.
124 pages, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-935227-18-6, 7 € plus shipping costs
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Splitter 11:
Albert Knoll: „Gott sei dank, dass ich so bin!“ August Fleischmann, ein Vorkämpfer der Münchner Homosexuellenbewegung [“Thank God I’m like this!” August Fleischmann. A champion of the Munich homosexual movement, in German]
August Fleischmann (1859-1931) was the victim of blackmail and subsequently became a trailblazer of gay rights in Munich. His magazine “Der Seelenforscher” was one of the first publications on the small gay media market. With a biography and a reprint of all his works, Fleischmann is to be brought back into the memory of homosexual history.
311 pages, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-935227-12-4, 18 € plus shipping costs
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Splitter 10:
Marita Keilson-Lauritz et al.: 100 Jahre Schwulenbewegung an der Isar I: Die Sitzungsberichte des Wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees München (1902–1908) [100 Years of Gay Movement on the Isar I: The Reports of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee Munich (1902-1908), in German]
The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee Munich, whose meeting reports are presented here newly commented and introduced, marks the birth of the organized gay movement in Munich.
63 pages, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-935227-10-8, 7 € plus shipping costs
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Splitter 9:
Klaus Reichold: Keinen Kuß mehr! Reinheit! Königtum! Ludwig II. von Bayern (1845–1886) und die Homosexualität [No more kiss! Purity! Kingship! Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886) and homosexuality, in German]
In fact, Ludwig II’s homosexuality was no secret even during his lifetime. That is why Ludwig’s recently discovered letters to the royal quartermaster sergeant Karl Hesselschwerdt are not “the first concrete indications” of the king’s homosexuality, as is often claimed. However, they are part of the astonishing wealth of historical evidence on Ludwig’s homosexuality, which was compiled for the first time for this study and leads to surprising findings in connection with the deposition and incapacitation of the king.
80 pages, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-935227-15-5, 7 € plus shipping costs
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Splitter 8:
Albert Knoll et al. (Hrsg.): Die Enterbten des Liebesglücks – Max Spohr (1850–1905), Pionier schwuler Literatur The [Disinherited of Love – Max Spohr (1850-1905), pioneer of gay literature, in German]
This Splitter edition reminds us of Max Spohr, a pioneer of gay literature. As a publisher and individual at the beginning of the emerging gay movement over 100 years ago, he made a significant contribution to the emancipation of homosexuality. This brochure goes back to the beginnings of the gay movement.
62 pages, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-935227-08-7, 5 € plus shipping costs
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Splitter 7:
Florian Mildenberger: Kulturverfall und Umwandlungsmännchen. Die Psychiatrie und die Homosexuellen im Dritten Reich am Beispiel München [Cultural Decay and „Umwandlungsmännchen“ [Transsexual men]. Psychiatry and Homosexuality in the Third Reich, the Example of Munich, in German]
Even before 1933, Munich, the “capital of the movement”, was a stronghold of counter-enlightenment and Brown ideas. Homosexuals were considered objects of research and experiments. Quite a few ‘scientists’ turned to researching homosexuals during National Socialism – the momentous theories and approaches on which they were based were developed in Munich.
32 pages, Munich 2000, reprint 2019, ISBN 978-3-935227-07-8, 5 € plus shipping costs
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Splitter 6:
Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller: Männer, „die mit Männern handeln“, in der Augsburger Reformationszeit [Men “who trade with men” in the Augsburg Reformation Era, in German]
In 1532 a trial took place in Augsburg against a group of middle-class craftsmen and tradesmen, in which clerics and patricians were also involved. The memorial protocols (“Urgichten”), which are an excellent supplement to the (few) sources known to date on the history of homosexuality in Bavaria and the entire empire because of their detailed information and vivid language, are reproduced here in full. The detailed commentary introduces the history of the Reformation period, the social structures of Augsburg as well as the criminal law and sexual science aspects of these “Urgichten”.
68 pages, Munich 2000, reprint 2019, ISBN 978-3-935227-06-3, 5 € plus shipping costs
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Splitter 5:
Florian Mildenberger: Schwulenbewegung in München 1969 bis 1996 [Gay Movement in Munich 1969 to 1996, in German]
In the beginning there was a small group of committed activists, but in the end the Munich gay movement managed to teach the almighty Christian Conservative party (CSU) a lesson during the city council election. In between there were ups and downs: In the 1970s, the “Verein für sexuelle Gleichberechtigung” [society for sexual equality] and the “Homosexuelle Aktion München” promoted emancipation and celebrated several successes. The 80s were marked by AIDS and the politician Peter Gauweiler, but also by the departure for new shores: the founding of the “Rosa Liste” and the gay community center SUB.
39 pages, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-935227-05-1, 5 € plus shipping costs
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Splitter 4:
Albert Knoll: Totgeschlagen – totgeschwiegen. Die homosexuellen Häftlinge im KZ Dachau [Beaten to death – hushed up. The homosexual prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp, in German]
Several hundred prisoners were imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp between 1933 and 1945 because they were homosexual. They were marked with the pink triangle and placed in isolation. About one hundred of them died in Dachau.
36 pages, Munich 2000, reprint 2018, ISBN 978-3-935227-04-9, 5 € plus shipping costs
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Splitter 3:
Peter Jungblut: Ein Streifzug durch die schwule Geschichte Münchens 1813–1945. 2. Auflage [A walk through the gay history of Munich 1813-1945, in German]
A “gay” walk through Munich: From Hofgarten to Odeonsplatz, through Brienner Straße, across Promenadeplatz to Lenbachplatz and finally to Stachus. Before and after 1900, the city center of Munich was the place for gay everyday life
80 pages, 2nd extended edition. Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-935227-03-2
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Splitter 2:
Wolfram Setz: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs zum 175. Geburtstag. Ein (Ge-)Denkblatt [Karl Heinrich Ulrichs on his 175th birthday. A commemoration, in German]
The life and work of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs are still relevant today. It is not only historical interest that we have in this man and his achievements. In his twelve writings “Research on the riddle of male love”, eleven of which were published in the short period from 1864 to 1870 (the twelfth followed in 1879), he not only documented his thoughts and days in the most precise manner, but in just a few years he built up a truly global information network that gives us a detailed picture of the “Urningsleben” [neologism for male homosexual’s life] in those years.
16 pages, Munich n.d., ISBN 978-3-935227-01-8, 4 € plus shipping costs
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SPLITTER 1:
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs: München, 29. August 1867 (eds. Wolfram Setz) [in German]
In 1867, the German Legal Council [Deutscher Juristentag] took place at the Odeon (today the seat of the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior). In the plenary assembly, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs made the – from today’s point of view historic – motion “that innate love for persons of the male sex is only to be punished under the same conditions under which love for persons of the female sex is punished; that it remains unpunished as long as neither rights are violated (by the use or threat of coercion, by abuse of minors, unconscious persons, etc.) nor public nuisance is caused.”
20 pages, Munich, ISBN 978-3-935227-01-9, 4 € plus shipping costs
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Splitter Special:
1999–2009. ten years forum homosexualität münchen e.V. [in German]
In April 1999, the “forum homosexualität und geschichte e.V.” was founded in Munich. In this special volume, the forum looks back on ten successful years of history and cultural work.
120 pages, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-935227-13-1, 5 € plus shipping costs
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