Mahide Lein

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Mahide Lein (* 1949 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German cultural mediator, former club owner and director of a concert agency. Lein is seen as a defining figure in the Berlin lesbian scene in the 1980s and 1990s and is still known beyond Berlin as an activist of the LGBT movement.

Life

Mahide Lein was born in Frankfurt-Höchst in 1949 as one of four siblings. Her mother was an accordionist and draftsman, and Lein's father worked as a master goldsmith. Mahide Lein grew up in Frankfurt and went to school there. After an apprenticeship as an office clerk and a year in this field, Lein began to get involved in the Frankfurt alternative scene . As an activist, she was active in the Frankfurt squatter scene and in the women's movement. Lein is considered to be the co-founder of the first lesbian center in Frankfurt and a committed cultural and art mediator, including at Café Niedenau, and was involved in the women's bookstore. Because of her engagement, Lein got her lesbian coming-out. At the same time, Lein studied political science and religion at the University of Frankfurt .

In 1977, Lein moved to Berlin, where she continued her political, social and artistic commitment, initially at Kaffee Winterfeldt . She worked in a women's bookstore and was involved in a lesbian and women's center. From 1983 to 1986 she was active at the Berlin Lesbian Weeks and the Women's Summer University. From 1986 to 1990 she organized the female artists' meeting “PELZE-multimedia” in a former fur shop and was a women's night café with performances, discussions and exhibitions on current topics. She had to end her engagement in 1990. In 1991, Lein founded the first lesbian television magazine “LÄSBISCH-TV” and, together with other women, produced 27 one-hour programs on the cable channel FAB , which were broadcast from 1991 to 1993.

In 1992, Lein became involved with male homosexuals for the first time. Together with Andreas Strohfeldt , the Women's Center and the Tchaikovsky Foundation , she organized the first Russian CSD in St. Petersburg in 1992 . In 1993 the second CSD, in 1994 the first lesbian and gay film festival in Russia followed and in 1995 the retrospective with Rosa von Praunheim and Elfi Mikesch in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Since 1996 she has broadened her engagement and began to campaign not only for LGBTTQI in general, but also for artists of all cultures in Berlin and worldwide. Lein founded her concert agency "AHOI" and has now represented 300 music groups. She also runs a small label for African music and organizes festivals. In the meantime she ran the weekly African cultural salons MoKATO in Club Kato with over 100 bands from Africa and the African diaspora in the Schlesisches Tor subway station and with Lama Gelek produced the big Tibetan New Year parties LOSAR for many years with Nina Hagen and others. Lein accompanied the queer film prize Teddy of the Berlinale section “Panorama” as a supervisor of the jury and is to this day best girl there.

In 2004, Lein received the CSD Berlin's moral courage prize for her special commitment to the equality of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans people. In 2008, Lein took part in the film “Dead Gays, Living Lesbians” by Rosa von Praunheim . In 2018, Lein received the " Rainbow Award " from the Berlin Lesbian and Gay City Festival . In the same year, on her 69th birthday, the Schwule Museum Berlin honored Lein with a special exhibition at the end of the “Year of Women” in the Schwules Museum.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LES Legend: Mahide Lein. In: LESPRESS. October 11, 2015, accessed on January 19, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Waltraud Schwab: Kreuzberger Chronik: My parents were house owners. I became a squatter. - You read the original! from Berlin-Kreuzberg. In: Kreuzberger Chronik. March 2016, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Marcus Weingärtner: Mahide Lein on Berlin: "The wall also gave us a piece of freedom". In: Berliner Zeitung. December 7, 2016, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Christina Kretschmer: I am the world . In: taz.am weekend . No. 7693 . Berlin June 18, 2005, p. 1005 ( taz.de ).
  5. ↑ Kevin Clarke: "The First Lesbian TV Magazine on This Planet". In: Queer.de. March 3, 2018, accessed on January 19, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ "We should talk about sex in old age". In: Tagesspiegel. July 19, 2018, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ SEX IN AGE: Homage to the 69th birthday of Mahide Lein - SMU. Schwules Museum Berlin, November 2018, accessed on January 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lein, mahide
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German LGBT activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main