Detlef Stoffel

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Detlef Stoffel (born July 20, 1950 in Bielefeld ) is a German activist of the lesbian and gay movement , director of a film and entrepreneur.

Life

Stoffel grew up in Herford and, after graduating from high school in 1970, went to Miami in the United States for a year , where his aunt lived. There he met an American with whom he had his first homosexual relationship. Back in Germany, he then began to get involved in the gay movement.

1972 Stoffel moved to Bielefeld and started at the local university sociology and film study. At the same time he worked, among other things, as a student assistant .

In 1972, shortly after he made his first contacts with the gay movement in Germany, Stoffel founded the Homosexuality Bielefeld initiative group . This saw itself as a political homosexual group and organized various provocative actions. Some members founded Bielefeld's first homosexual shared apartment in 1975 .

As part of his studies, he directed the documentary Rosa Winkel? Together with Peter Recht and Christiane Schmerl . That is long gone , which deals with homosexuality in the time of National Socialism . The film was completed in 1976 and shown the following year at the Mannheim International Film Week . However , the film was not accepted as a thesis . Stoffel dropped out without a degree.

In 1977 Stoffel founded the first Bielefeld organic food store Löwenzahn . Originally the workforce consisted exclusively of homosexuals. Other shops followed later, and from 1984 the company also supplied other natural food stores in the area as a wholesaler. In 2000, Stoffel sold the Löwenzahn company. Since then he has been working as a freelance management consultant.

Detlef - 60 years gay

The directors Stefan Westerwelle and Jan Rothstein shot a documentary about Stoffel in 2010 and 2011. This is called Detlef and was premiered in 2012. The film took part in the Panorama competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival . In addition to the protagonist, the documentation also includes contributions with Lilo Wanders , Corny Littmann , Anneliese Stoffel and Gustav-Peter Wöhler.

Also in 2012, the film was shown under the title Detlef - 60 years gay as part of the 16th Perlen - Queer Film Festival in Hanover in the Kino im Künstlerhaus .

Publications

Own

  • Detlef Stoffel, Peter Recht, Christiane Schmerl: Rosa Winkel ? That was long over , film documentary, Germany 1976

Public legal radio

  • NN: Detlef. 60 years gay. A touching cinema documentary , announcement by the TV magazine west.art on October 30, 2012 and November 3, 2012 on wdr .de

literature

  • Sebastian Markt: Detlef's Future , in: Sissy. Homosexual's Film Quarterly , issue fifteen, September to November 2012, ed. by Björn Knoll, Berlin 2012: Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH, ISSN  1868-4009 , p. 18ff.
  • Perlentaucher_innen: Detlef - 60 years gay , in: Perlen. Queer Film Festival Hannover. Cinema in the Künstlerhaus. 21.-27. October 2012 , ed. from the state capital Hanover, Kino im Künstlerhaus, 2012, p. 30f.

Web links

Commons : Detlef Stoffel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Program in the archive ( memento of February 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) of the 26th International Film Week Mannheim 1977
  2. ^ History of dandelions on the company homepage
  3. ↑ Detlef (PDF; 128 kB) in the Berlinale program
  4. ↑ a b Marco Müller: Detlef. 60 years gay. A touching cinema documentary
  5. ↑ Stephan Weil (patron): The gay and lesbian film festival PERLEN is going into its 16th round, so it's sparkling again! , in: Perlentaucher_innen: Perlen. Queer Film Festival Hannover. Cinema in the Künstlerhaus. 21.-27. October 2012
personal data
SURNAME Stoffel, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and activist of the gay movement
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld