Lesbian and gay city festival Berlin

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The Lesbian-Gay City Festival (also called Motzstrasse Festival ) is an annual gay-lesbian street festival around Nollendorfplatz in the Schöneberg district of Berlin .

Motzstrasse Festival 2006 in Kalckreuthstrasse

The lesbian-gay city festival is organized by the Berliner Regenbogenfonds e. V. It has taken place every summer since 1993 - always on the weekend before the Berlin CSD  - and extends over Motzstrasse , Eisenacher Strasse, Fuggerstrasse and Kalckreuthstrasse. With 420,000 visitors (as of 2007) it is the largest homosexual street festival in Europe today.

The patronage of the festival has been taken over in recent years by the then governing mayor Klaus Wowereit and the former district mayor of Schöneberg Elisabeth Ziemer . Previous umbrella women were Andrea Fischer and Renate Künast . On the Thursday before the city festival, the rainbow flag is hoisted in front of Schöneberg Town Hall every year .

program

Since 2004 the festival has been divided into six “city festival worlds”, which are dedicated to the topics of radio, sport, travel, film, politics and AIDS and are presented by appropriate associations and organizations with events and information stands.

Different programs and styles of music are offered on several stages. The well-known recurring program items include the Sunday appearance of DJ WestBam and Gerhard Hoffmann's talk show Das wilde Sofa , which has seen politicians and celebrities such as Klaus Wowereit , Gregor Gysi , Volker Beck , Renate Künast , Christian Ströbele , Claudia Roth , Jürgen Trittin in recent years , Brigitte Zypries , Cem Özdemir , Klaus Lederer , Dirk Bach , Andrea Fischer , Peter Kurth , Georg Uecker and Luci van Org took part. Traditionally, for many years, “The Cousins” have closed the festival on Sunday on the main stage live with cult hits from the 1970s.

history

The rainbow fund e. V. has its origins in the founding of the KAB (Concerted Action Lesbian-Gay Economy in Berlin) in 1992 - an amalgamation of initially six gay Berlin hosts. This circle grew in the following years to up to 30 hosts. The founding of the KAB, in turn, is a result of the work of the Maneo gay attack phone from Mann-O-Meter , Berlin's gay switchboard . The reason for this was persistent attacks on gays. With joint actions, the violence should be countered with more self-confidence and determination.

In 1992, the project manager of the gay attack phone, Bastian Finke, and the first contact person of the Berlin police for same-sex lifestyles, Heinz Uth , developed trust-building conversations in the Schöneberg neighborhood between gay hosts and the police. With the aim of showing more self-confidence and commitment against homophobic violence in the historic neighborhood on Nollendorfplatz , the first lesbian-gay city festival took place in the summer of 1993 under the motto “Living safely together” in Motzstraße. The city festival goes back to an idea by Bastian Finke, who organized and directed it from 1993 to 1998 under the umbrella of Mann-O-Meter. In 1998 the management and organization passed into the hands of local landlords. The city festival ushers in the Christopher Street Week in Berlin with steadily growing success .

Rainbow Award

A highlight of the city festival is the presentation of the Rainbow Award to people and organizations that have particularly campaigned for homosexual issues. It is funded by the Regenbogenfonds e. V. awarded.

Previous winners are:

See also

Web links

Commons : Lesbian-Gay City Festival Berlin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Wowereit : Greetings from the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, for the 15th Lesbian and Gay City Festival on 16./17. June 2007
  2. Renate Künast : Greetings from the Federal Minister for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture, Renate Künast, patron of the 10th Lesbian and Gay City Festival Berlin on 15./16. June 2002 ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv2.regenbogenfonds.de
  3. ^ Rainbow Award
  4. Enough is enough! Open your mouth!
  5. http://www.helden-berlin.de/