Andreas Salmen

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Andreas Salmen (born May 26, 1962 in Göttingen ; † February 13, 1992 in Berlin ) was a German LGBT activist.

Life

While still at school, Salmen was politically active. He researched the neo-Nazi scene in West Berlin “undercover” and published his research results a short time later. In 1977 he became a member of the Young Democrats , the left-wing youth organization of the FDP under Jürgen Kunze . Among other things, Salmen fought against the NATO double resolution . Until shortly before the evacuation in 1984, he was one of the occupiers of the Tuntenhaus at Bülowstrasse 55 in Berlin, studied political science at the Free University of Berlin from 1984 , initiated the first gay family reunification between West and East Berlin in 1984 and was co-founder of the Victory Column , the Berlin monthly newspaper (at that time) for gays. In addition to political and AIDS coverage, he wrote a lot, mostly about British pop music.

In 1984, Salmen took a violent position in the magazine Victory Column against the demand contained in the election manifesto of the then Berlin AL that sections 174 and 176 should be retained and not abolished as part of a reform of the criminal law. In contrast, he defended the "pedosexuals". The abolition would have decriminalized the sexual abuse of children.

Together with Rosa von Praunheim , he was one of the initiators and co-founders of the first German Act Up group in the summer of 1989 . Salmen got involved in AIDS projects in Germany, such as the establishment of a stop AIDS project in Berlin. He wrote various books and articles on the topic of AIDS and, according to his own statements, tried to raise awareness among gays of the existential threat posed by AIDS through the activities of the bookstore founders Hedenström and Weber .

Andreas Salmen died on February 13, 1992 of complications from AIDS. His estate is kept in the archive of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research .

Fonts

  • with Albert Eckert : 20 years of the West German gay movement. 1969-1989. Federal Association for Homosexuality, Cologne 1989.
  • with Rolf Rosenbrock (ed.): AIDS prevention. Edition Sigma, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-89404-660-0 .
  • Act up: fire under your ass. The AIDS action groups in Germany and the USA. DAH, Berlin 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick Hamm: Trigger - Gays in the fight against AIDS since 1983 . German AIDS Help , 1992/1997
  2. ↑ Weekly magazine Der Spiegel , 1984, No. 22: Pink Front. For the first time, a homosexual applied for family reunification with his partner from the GDR.
  3. ^ Journal of the Siegessäule , A. Kusserow, C. de Briquette, D. Pusch, A. Huwe, A. Maydorn, E. Kraushaar , P. Hedenström, SM Weber, E. Zastrau , T. Brüggemann , A. Eckert , K. -H. Albers, 1999: Former employees, founders and colleagues tell their best experiences with Berlin's gay city magazine. 1st part of our three-part series. ( Memento from February 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Andreas Salmen, The rule of law falls into oblivion, Siegessäule, November 1984, cit. in: Commission to review the attitude of the Berlin regional association of Bündnis 90 / DIE GRÜNEN on pedophilia and sexual violence against children from the founding phase up to the 1990s, report and recommendations for action , pp. 40, 85, published by Bündnis90 / DIE GRÜNEN, Landesverband Berlin, May 2015
  5. ↑ a b c Jörg Hutter: Gay inability to conflict under the sign of AIDS , events no.122, Leske & Budrich, Opladen 1993
  6. ↑ Siegessäule , Andreas Salmen: 5 1/2 , 1989, 6th year / No. 9
  7. ↑ https://www.his-online.de/archiv/bestaende/sondersammlung-protestbewegungungen/
personal data
SURNAME Salmen, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German LGBT activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1992
Place of death Berlin