Manfred Herzer

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Manfred Herzer (born March 6, 1949 in Berlin ) is a German author , editor and historical researcher .

Life

As a student of sociology at the Free University of Berlin , Herzer was a founding member of the homosexual campaign West Berlin . After graduating, he became a librarian in Berlin.

Under the pseudonym "Mimi Steglitz", Herzer was one of the main opponents in the so-called queer dispute . He was one of the initiators for founding the Magnus Hirschfeld Society . He was also a founding member of the Schwules Museum * . There he edited Capri - magazine for gay history from 1987 to 2019 .

He was honored with a Festschrift Caprices in 2014.

Works

As an author:

  • Thorsten Graf / Mimi Steglitz (1974): Homosexual oppression in bourgeois society, in: Problems of the class struggle, vol. 4, no. 4, p. 17 ff.
  • Bibliography on homosexuality: Directory of the German-language non-belletristic literature on female u. male homosexuality from the years 1466 to 1975 in chronological order. Order , Berlin: Verlag Rosa Winkel , 1982.
  • Max Spohr, Adolf Brand, Bernhard Zack - three publishers of gay emancipation literature in the imperial era: 3 biographical sketches and 3 bibliographies . In: Capri - magazine for gay history, Berlin 1991.
  • Magnus Hirschfeld: Life and work of a Jewish, gay and socialist sexologist , Frankfurt / Main; New York: Campus-Verl., 1992 (2nd edition, library rosa Winkel, Vol. 28, 2001, online ).
  • Magnus Hirschfeld and his time . Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2017. ISBN 978-3-11-054769-6
  • Manfred Herzer-Wigglesworth: Ezra Pounds grave. Poems 2018-2019. Berlin: Self-published 2020 (= Capri 53bis)

As editor:

  • 100 Years of the Gay Movement: Documentation of a series of lectures at the Academy of Arts , Berlin: Verlag rosa Winkel, 1998. ISBN 3-86149-074-9
  • Karl Maria Kertbeny : Writings on homosexuality research (new edition), Berlin: Verlag rosa Winkel, 2000. ISBN 3-86149-103-6
  • Magnus Hirschfeld : From then until now. History of a homosexual movement 1897-1922 , Berlin: Verlag rosa Winkel, 1986. Edited and with an afterword by Manfred Herzer and James Steakley. Series of publications by the Magnus Hirschfeld Society No. 1. ISBN 3-921495-61-X
  • Magnus Hirschfeld : Berlin's Third Sex (new edition), Berlin: Verlag rosa Winkel, 1991. Series of publications by the Magnus Hirschfeld Society No. 5. Library rosa Winkel, Vol. 1. ISBN 3-921495-59-8
  • Manfred Baumgardt, Ralf Dose , Manfred Herzer, Hans-Günter Klein , Ilse Kokula , Gesa Lindemann : Magnus Hirschfeld - life and work. Exhibition catalog . West Berlin: rosa Winkel, 1985 (publication series of the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft 3)
    • 2nd ext. Ed. With an afterword by Ralf Dose. Hamburg: von Bockel, 1992. (Series of publications by the Magnus Hirschfeld Society 6)
  • Jasmine flower. Gay German-language plays around 1900. Hamburg: Swarm of men 2018.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwules Museum: History of the Schwules Museum ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed January 12, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schwulesmuseum.de
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung : Tanz und Terror - The Schwule Museum can set up a permanent exhibition for the first time , December 4, 2004. (Accessed January 12, 2010)
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SURNAME Herzer, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin