The Einstein of sex
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| Original title | The Einstein of sex |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Rosa von Praunheim |
| script | Chris Kraus , Valentin Passoni |
| production | Rosa von Praunheim |
| music | Karl-Ernst Sasse |
| camera | Elfi Mikesch |
| cut | Mike Shepard |
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The Einstein of Sex - Life and Work of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld is a film drama by Rosa von Praunheim from 1999. Based on real-life events, the film tells the story of the doctor, sex researcher and pioneer of the homosexual movement Magnus Hirschfeld . With a total cost of DM 1.8 million, the film is considered a low-budget production. It was released in theaters on March 16, 2000.
action
Magnus Hirschfeld studies medicine with his foster brother Richard. However, the opinions of the two differ during their studies. While Richard wants to adapt conventional doctrines, Magnus defends himself against the widespread condemnation of homosexuality as pathological and unnatural. After Magnus rejects a young officer who has asked for help on a spontaneous visit and the latter shoots himself shortly afterwards because of his forbidden love for a man, he decides to devote himself to sex research . He tries not to reciprocate the love of his colleague Baron Hermann von Teschenberg in order not to endanger his career.
Hirschfeld founds the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee to abolish Paragraph 175 , which criminalizes homosexuality.
While working with transvestites , he met Dorchen, who had just lost her job due to her inclination, and hired her as a housekeeper. His work is strongly criticized, among others, by the first editor of a homosexual magazine, Adolf Brand , who rejects the "effeminate" behavior patterns supported by Magnus. During the First World War he worked as a hospital doctor and then founded the Institute for Sexology . After a lecture in Munich, he is seriously injured by "völkisch hooligans". The student Karl Giese comes to his aid. Giese later became Hirschfeld's employee and lover. At the invitation of the government of the USSR, Hirschfeld travels to Moscow and Leningrad; In 1931 a world tour followed through North America, Asia and the Orient. He met his new partner Li Shiu Tong. Meanwhile the National Socialists come to power in Germany . Magnus fled into exile in France and saw in a newsreel in a Parisian cinema how his life's work, the Institute for Sexology, was being destroyed by the National Socialists.
Quotes about the film
“Some will be disappointed that the film tells a real story with exciting characters that make you cry at the end. I wanted the historical figure of the father of the gay movement to be taken seriously and for the moral history of the turn of the century to be credible. I hope that my film contributes to the fact that the name Hirschfeld is better known again and that the Nazis are wrong, who did everything to ensure that his name is forgotten. "
criticism
"Rapid ascent and early suffering, political furor and private disaster, pleasantly conventionally told against the political background of the Weimar Republic - a filmic poetry album of upright feeling."
"A commendable attempt, which at times turns out to be extremely amateurish."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Einstein of Sex. In: rosavonpraunheim.de. Retrieved November 30, 2017 .
Web links
- The Einstein of Sex in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Einstein of sex. In: rosavonpraunheim.de
- The Einstein of sex at filmportal.de