Guy Hocquenghem

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Guy Hocquenghem (born December 10, 1946 in Boulogne-Billancourt , † August 28, 1988 in Paris ) was a French author , philosopher , university professor and LGBT activist.

Life

The son of mathematician Alexis Hocquenghem met his lifelong friend and scientific partner René Schérer as a high school student - he was his philosophy teacher. As a student at the École normal supérieure , he took part in the French protests in May 68 and was briefly a member of the Communist Party during this time .

In 1971 he joined the organization "Front Homosexuel d'Action Révolutionnaire" (FHAR), founded by former members of the organization Mouvement Homophile de France . After the establishment of the University of Paris VIII , he taught philosophy together with Schérer as a lecturer there , but until shortly before his death they refused to appoint him as a full professor. Hocquenghem authored several books; in particular, he addressed the issue of homosexuality and became one of the masterminds of queer theory . His book Homosexual Desire from 1972 was one of the first works of this theory internationally. From 1975 to 1982 he worked as a journalist for the newspaper Liberation . In the last years of his life he worked mainly as a novelist .

With the film director Lionel Soukaz he produced the documentary about the history of homosexuality Race d'Ep! In 1988 Hocquenghem died of complications from AIDS .

Works by Hocquenghem (selection)

  • 1972: Le Désir Homosexuel. Editions Universitaires, Paris
    • German edition: The homosexual desire. Translated from the French by Burkhart Kroeber . Hanser, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-446-11865-9 .
    • German new edition: The homosexual desire. From the French by Lukas Betzler and Hauke ​​Branding based on the first translation by Burkhart Kroeber. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-96054-208-7 .
  • 1974: L'Après-Mai des faunes
  • 1976: Co-ire, album systématique de l'enfance (German Co-ire. Childhood Myths , Munich: Trikont, 1977) (with René Schérer)
  • 1976: Fin de section , short stories
  • 1977: La Dérive homosexuals
  • 1979: La Beauté du métis
  • 1980: Le Gay voyage: guide et regard homosexuels sur les grandes métropoles
  • 1982: L'Amour en relief
  • 1985: La Colère de l'agneau (German: The Wrath of the Lamb , Frankfurt / M .: Ullstein, 1992)
  • 1986: L'Âme atomique: pour une esthétique d'ère nucléaire (with René Schérer)
  • 1986: Lettre ouverte à ceux qui sont passés du col Mao au Rotary
  • 1987: Ève (German Eva , St. Gallen: Ed.Diá, 1991)
  • 1988: Voyages et adventures extraordinaires du Frère Angelo
  • 1994: L'Amphithéâtre des morts , memoirs

literature

  • Antoine Idier: Les vies de Guy Hocquenghem. Politique, sexualité, culture . Fayard, Paris 2017.
  • Bill Marshall: Guy Hocquenghem. Beyond Gay Identity. Duke University Press, Pluto Press, London / Warriewood, NSW 1996, ISBN 0-7453-1059-1 .
  • Stefan Ripplinger : gay, rebel, refusal. A biography and new editions of his polemics are reminiscent of the writer Guy Hocquenghem. In: Konkret , 5, 2017, pp. 44–46
  • Heinz-Jürgen Voss (Ed.): Making music on the idea of ​​homosexuality: On the topicality of Guy Hocquenghem. Psychosocial, Giessen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8379-2783-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antoine Idier: Les Vies de Guy Hocquenghem. Politique, sexualité, culture . Fayard, Paris 2017, ISBN 2-213-70202-0 .
  2. ↑ https://www.ina.fr/video/I00009975/guy-hocquenghem-journaliste-militant-a-liberation-video.html
  3. ↑ https://www.ina.fr/video/I00009975/guy-hocquenghem-journaliste-militant-a-liberation-video.html
  4. ↑ The homosexual desire , edition-nautilus.de, accessed on October 17, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hocquenghem, Guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-Billancourt
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1988
Place of death Paris