Hanns Fuchs

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Hanns Fuchs (also: Hanns Fuchs-Stadthagen and the pseudonyms Hanns Passeyer and Hanns Harro ; * October 1, 1881 in Stadthagen ; † after 1909) was a German writer who published titles on the subject of homosexuality at the beginning of the 20th century .

Life

Between the age of 20 and 1910, Hanns Fuchs published more than twenty writings. His works often reflect the local color of Hanover . A paper on Richard Wagner and homosexuality published in Berlin in 1903 was later republished in a revised and abridged form by Hans Eppendorfer .

As early as 1901, Fuchs publicly acknowledged his homosexuality. Eugen Wilhelm, the reviewer in the yearbook for sexual intermediate stages published by Magnus Hirschfeld , praised Fuchs in 1904 for his self-confession. In addition to Fuchs, only the poets Adolf Brand , Peter Hamecher and Hermann von Teschenberg are known today as publicly avowed gays of the Wilhelmine era.

Fuchs was also a founding member of the "Community of Own", founded in 1903 by Adolf Brand to distribute his magazine Der Eigen . In the years 1903 to 1905 several articles from his pen appeared there.

Fuchs probably knew the Sulingen- based manufacturer J. Heinrich Dencker , a leading member of the Scientific and Humanitarian Committee and one of the first men in the first gay movement in the Prussian province of Hanover .

After 1909, Fuchs disappeared, probably in the Ottoman Empire . In 1930 he was pronounced dead in Darmstadt.

Fonts (selection)

  • Claire. A masochistic novel in diary sheets and letters.
    • 1st - 4th Th., Caesar Schmidt, Zurich [around 1901]
    • 1st - 4th Th., Barsdorf, Berlin 1903
  • From man's blood. Novella in diary sheets and letters. Marcus, Berlin [1903]
  • Richard Wagner and homosexuality . Barsdorf, Berlin 1903. 2nd edition, reprint [of] 1st edition, Barsdorf, Berlin 1903, revised. and abbreviated by Hans Eppendorfer, Janssen, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-925443-20-7
  • On the Path of Thorns, A Masochistic Novel. Berlin, H. Basdorf, 1904.
  • Sensing and listening. Letters to a friend. A contribution to the psychology of homosexuality. Leipziger Verlag, Leipzig [around 1905]
  • Individual evidence
  1. ↑ a b c Rainer Hoffschildt : J. Heinrich Dencker (1860–1921), activist from the very beginning. In: Jens Dobler (Red.): Communications from the Magnus Hirschfeld Society. No. 50/51, 2014, pp. 92-95
  2. ↑ "We, writers and artists who feel homosexual, will take Hirschfeld's point of view without thinking." Hanns Fuchs: The poetic utilization of homosexuality , in: Der Literat (Braunschweig), Volume 2, 1901, Issue 1, p. 99; reprinted in: Capri, magazine for gay history, No. 24, October 1997, p. 46 f.
  3. ↑ “The fact that Fuchs openly acknowledges that he is homosexual deserves special emphasis. Such a courageous declaration, which today only very few homosexuals can afford, should find general imitation. Because if all homosexuals made their homosexuality obvious, then the continued existence of § 175 would soon be impossible. "Yearbook for sexual intermediate stages, vol. 1904, p. 854.
  4. ↑ Cf. M.Herzer: Going Public 1901. Preliminary remark about the poet Hanns Fuchs, in: Capri, Zeitschrift für Schwule Geschichte, No. 24 (October 1997), p. 45.
  5. ↑ M. Keilson-Lauritz: The story of one's own story. Berlin 1997, p. 404.
  6. ^ Mitchell Morris: Homosexuality and the Manly Absolute: Hanns Fuchs on Richard Wagner . In: The Opera Quarterly. Volume 22, 2006, No. 2, pp. 328–333.
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Hanns
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuchs-Stadthagen, Hanns; Passeyer, Hanns (pseudonym); Harro, Hanns (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer on the subject of homosexuality
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Stadthagen
DATE OF DEATH after 1909