Nov
28
Regimes of Spectacle in Weimar Cinema - Double Bill of Queer
Film Screening and Discussion
Double Bill of Queer
Weimar Film.
ANDERS ALS DIE ANDERN! §175
[DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS]
RICHARD OSWALD, 1919; 51 MINS
Reconstruction of this banned
and highly controversial first film
about homosexuality co-written
by the pioneering sexologist Dr.
Magnus Hirschfeld; English
intertitles; improvised piano score
by Joachim Bärenz.
MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM
[GIRLS IN UNIFORM]
LEONTINE SAGAN, 1931; 83 MINS
This feature-length drama about
Prussian gender politics in a
boarding school for girls is based
on Christa Winsloe’s theater piece
Gestern und heute, considered one
of the first plays of the Weimar
Republic that engaged issues
of lesbianism; in German with
English subtitles.