Andreas Sternweiler
Andreas Sternweiler (* 1957 ) is a German author and art historian .
Life
After leaving school, studied Sternweiler at the Free University in Berlin Art History . In 1985, Sternweiler founded the Schwule Museum together with Manfred Baumgardt and Wolfgang Theis . Sternweiler was one of the most important lenders and formative exhibition organizers of the gay museum. Sternweiler authored several books on the subject of homosexuality and wrote biographies of some gay men of the 20th century. He also researched the fate of homosexual men in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In 1997, Sternweiler directed the exhibition 100 Years of the Gay Movement at the Berlin Academy of the Arts .
Honors
- 2011: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Works (selection)
- Eberhardt Brucks. A graphic artist in Berlin , (in collaboration with Bastian Schlüter , Karl-Heinz Steinle ): ISBN 978-3-9812706-2-4
- Self-confidence and perseverance, 200 years of gay history , (book accompanying the permanent exhibition), Schwules Museum (ed.), 2004
- Homosexual men in Sachsenhausen concentration camp (shared with Joachim Müller ), Schwules Museum Berlin, Verlag Rosa Winkel , 2000, ISBN 3-86149-097-8
- Frankfurt, Basel, New York: Richard Plant , Männerschwarm Verlag , 1996
- And all because of the boys: Scout leader and concentration camp inmate: Heinz Dörmer (together with Wolfgang Theis), Männerschwarm Verlag, 1994
- The lust of the gods. Homosexuality in Italian Art. From Donatello to Caravaggio , Verlag Rosa Winkel, 1993
- Photos are my life: Albrecht Becker , Männerschwarm Verlag, 1993
- Love, research, teaching, the art historian Christian Adolf Isermeyer , Männerschwarm Verlag, 1998
- 750 warm Berliners - A catalog for the exhibition of the Friends of a Gay Museum in Berlin eV , (in collaboration with Wolfgang Theis), Verlag Rosa Winkel, 1987, ISBN 3-921495-57-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Andreas Sternweiler in the catalog of the German National Library (born 1959)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Zajonz: Embraced by the gods , article in the 'Tagesspiegel'
- ^ TAZ: Object and Desire , July 2006
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung: Geheime Paradiese , 2006
- ↑ Invertito: Three new publications on the persecution of homosexual men under National Socialism
- ^ Spiegel: Urninge and Uranier , 1997
- ↑ Honor for the founder of the Schwules Museum , Berlin.de, press release of March 14, 2011 (accessed on January 19, 2016)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sternweiler, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , Germany |