Günter Grau

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Günter Grau in 2000

Günter Grau (born March 10, 1940 in Quedlinburg ) is a German sexologist , medical historian , author and editor .

Life

Günter Grau studied economics in the GDR and passed his state examination in 1962. From 1963 to 1971 he worked as editor of the scientific journal of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . He also studied external psychology from 1968 to 1971.

Grau worked at the university institutes for the history of medicine in Leipzig and the Charité Berlin. He has published numerous articles, including dealing with the fate of homosexual men in the Third Reich.

At the beginning of December 2002 Günter Grau wrote a protest letter including an extensive list of signatures to the German President Johannes Rau "because of the award of the Federal Cross of Merit to Günter Dörner ", since Dörner hypothesizes in his teaching on the "functional deformities" that homosexuality is prenatal, neuroendocrine and "deformity" to be treated with it.

In 2009, together with Volkmar Sigusch, he published his personal encyclopedia of sexual research , in 2011 he published his encyclopedia on the persecution of homosexuals 1933–1945 , subtitled institutions - competencies - fields of activity .

At the beginning of 2012 , Grau gave a lecture on homosexuality in the Third Reich at the Osthofen concentration camp memorial .

Grau is an associate at the Research Center for the History of Sexology at the Magnus Hirschfeld Society in Berlin.

Fonts (incomplete)

  • Günter Grau: Lexicon on the persecution of homosexuals 1933–1945. Institutions - Competencies - Fields of Activity , with a contribution by Rüdiger Lautmann , in the series History, Research and Science , Vol. 21, Lit, Berlin / Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-8258-9785-7
  • Volkmar Sigusch, Günter Grau (Eds.): Personal Lexicon of Sexual Research , Camus, Frankfurt am Main / New York, NY 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-39049-9
  • Günter Grau: Iwan Bloch , dermatologist, medical historian, sex researcher , published by the Centrum Judaicum , Hentrich & Hentrich , Teetz / Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-938485-41-8 (= Jewish miniatures , volume 57).
  • Günter Grau (Red.): The fight for the Frankfurt Institute for Sexology. Appeal - Protests - Resolutions , ed. from the Clinic of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Institute for Sexology, Frankfurt am Main: Institute for Sexology, 2006 (PF, 493 kB, 92 pages)
  • Günter Grau (Ed.): Homosexuality in the Nazi era. Documents of discrimination and persecution , with a contribution by Claudia Schoppmann, revised new edition, in the series Die Zeit des Nationalozialismus , Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-15973-3
  • Lutz van Dijk: I've never been lonely. Gays under the swastika 1933–1945 , with the collaboration of Günter Grau, with an afterword by Wolfgang Popp, Berlin: Querverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-89656-097-2
  • Günter Grau: Homoszexualitás a Harmadik Birodalomban / a diszimináció és az üldözés documentumai (Hungarian), írta és szerk. Günter Grau [Ford. Czeglédi András ...], Budapest: Osiris, 2001 ISBN 963-389-114-0
  • Günter Grau (Ed.): Schwulsein 2000 / Perspektiven im Vereinigte Deutschland , with contributions by Olaf Brühl and others, in the series Edition Waldschlösschen , Vol. 2, Hamburg: MännerschwarmSkript-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-928983-90-3
  • Günter Grau (Ed.): Hidden Holocaust? Gay and lesbian persecution in Germany 1933–45 (engl.), With a contribution by Claudia Schoppmann, translated by Patrick Camiller, London: Cassell, 1995, ISBN 0-304-32956-8 and ISBN 0-304-32958-4
  • Detlef Grumbach (ed.): The left and the vice. Gay emancipation and left prejudice , with contributions by Günter Grau and others, Hamburg: MännerschwarmSkript-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-928983-30-X
  • Günter Grau, Peter Schneck (Ed.): Academic careers in the Third Reich: Contributions to personnel and appointment policy at medical faculties , Berlin: Institute for the history of medicine at the Humboldt University Berlin, 1993, ISBN 3-9803520-0-5
  • Günter Grau (Ed.): Lesbians and gays - what now? / Spring 1989 to Spring 1990 / Chronicle - Documents - Analyzes - Interviews , Berlin: Dietz, 1990, ISBN 3-320-01612-1
  • Günter Grau: AIDS / Disease or Disaster? , in the series Nl concrete / worth knowing for young people , issue 86, Berlin: Verlag Neues Leben, 1990, ISBN 3-355-00931-8
  • Günter Grau (Hrsg.): And this love too / Theological and sexual science insights into homosexuality , with a preface by Heinrich Fink, contributions by Lykke Aresin and others, Berlin: Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, 1989, ISBN 3-374-00502-0

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the German National Library
  2. ^ A b Günter Grau: Short biography , subpage on guentergrau.de
  3. ↑ a b Information according to the spine of the lexicon on homosexual persecution ...
  4. ^ Protest letter from Günter Grau to Federal President Johannes Rau dated December 4, 2002
  5. ↑ Christian Geyer: It is still too early to praise impartial desire , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung online from August 1, 2010, last accessed on March 13, 2011
  6. ↑ Ulrike Schäfer: Dr. Günter Grau gives a lecture at the Osthofen concentration camp memorial about homosexuality in the Third Reich  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Wormser Zeitung online on January 28, 2012, last accessed on March 13, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wormser-zeitung.de  
personal data
SURNAME Gray, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sexologist, medical historian, author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg