Martin Dannecker

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Martin Dannecker (2011)

Martin Dannecker (born November 1942 in Oberndorf am Neckar ) is a German sexologist and author . He taught as an associate professor at the Institute for Sexology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Clinic in Frankfurt am Main. His main topics were male homosexuality , sexual minorities HIV / AIDS , sexology and psychoanalysis. Dannecker also published numerous non-fiction books, including several standard works on homosexuality, and, together with Heide Schlüpmann, conducted film seminars on the construction of genders and sexuality in film. He has lived in Berlin since his retirement.

Life

Martin Dannecker grew up in a small town in the Black Forest. He first trained as an industrial clerk and later attended an acting school in Stuttgart . Around the age of 18 he discovered that he was homosexual and began to study the literature on homosexuality that existed at the time. Since it seemed "inadequate" and too pathologizing to him, and was neither consistent with his ideas nor with his own experiences, he decided to one day do a study of homosexuality himself. In 1966 he moved to Frankfurt am Main and worked as a research assistant for the freelance sociologist Maria Borris. He caught up with the Abitur and then studied philosophy, sociology and psychology. In 1974, together with the psychoanalyst Reimut Reiche, he published the large empirical study “The Ordinary Homosexual”. After completing his doctorate, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Sexology at the Clinic of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, headed by Volkmar Sigusch . After completing his habilitation in sexology, he worked there as a professor until he retired in 2005. His main research interests were in the field of male homosexuality, HIV / AIDS, pedosexuality, and the theory of sexuality and male sexuality. After his retirement he moved to Berlin . At the moment he is mainly concerned with the topic of internet sexuality. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Queer Nations eV initiative based in Berlin, was a member of the advisory board of the Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation and had a permanent seat on the advisory board of the Hannchen Multipurpose Foundation from its establishment in 1991 until the end of 2018.

Together with Sophinette Becker, Hertha Richter-Appell and Andreas Hill, he is the editor of the book series Contributions to Sexual Research , which is published by Psychosozial-Verlag (107 volumes so far). For a long time he was also the editor and editor of the Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung , which is published by Georg Thieme-Verlag in Stuttgart. He held various functions on the board of the German Society for Sexual Research (DGfS) and has been its first chairman again since 2016.

Martin Dannecker was a co-author of Rosa von Praunheim 's first film success Not the homosexual is perverse, but the situation in which he lives (1971). After this film was broadcast, initially only on the “third” of WDR television and only much later in the first program (with the exception of Bavaria) and after many regional screenings of this film with subsequent discussions, the first political gay groups of the post-war period were founded. Dannecker himself was a co-founder of the homosexual emancipation group Rotezelle Schwul (RotZSchwul) in Frankfurt am Main, which he gave a lot of impetus to.

“Gays don't want to be gay, they want to live as stuffy and kitschy as the average citizen. Gays require gays to be an esthete. Since the gays are despised by the philistine as sick and inferior, they try to become even more bourgeois in order to dispel their guilt with an excess of bourgeois virtues. Their political passivity and their conservative behavior are thanks for not being beaten to death. "( Quote from the film )

That was part of the text that goes back to Martin Dannecker and was spoken from the off by Volker Eschke in the film .

In 1974, the first scientific work on homosexuality, The Ordinary Homosexual , appeared, which Martin Dannecker published together with Reimut Reiche in S. Fischer Verlag .

"The first study that looks at the entire life context of homosexuals and shows in detail the connection between the individual instinctual fate of homosexuals and the social compulsion to which they are exposed." ( Cover text of the book )

He has published numerous publications on his main research areas.

Awards

In 1997 Martin Dannecker received the Rainbow Award from the "Regenbogenfonds eV" Berlin.

Together with Judith Butler , who refused to accept the prize coram publico , Dannecker was awarded the CSD Berlin's moral courage prize in 2010 .

On July 7, 2012, Martin Dannecker was honored with the “compass needle” for his services at the ColognePride in Cologne by the NRW gay network.

The Schwule Museum * Berlin will honor him in autumn / winter 2017/18 with the exhibition “Fascination Sex: The Theorist & Activist Martin Dannecker”.

Publications (selection)

  • The common homosexual. A sociological study of male homosexuals in the FRG , with Reimut Reiche. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main. 1974. 393 pp. ISBN 3-10-014801-0 . 2nd edition 1974. Pre-print (excerpt) in 'Leviathan' vol. 2nd issue 1. 1974. Pages 61–79. Review in the magazine 'Spontan'. Issue 1, January 1974. Pages 61-79.
  • The homosexual and homosexuality . Syndicate, Frankfurt am Main. 1978, ISBN 3-8108-0067-8
  • Sex theory and sexual politics with Volkmar Sigusch. Results of a meeting. Enke, Stuttgart 1984, 130 pp. ISBN 3-432-93701-6
  • The drama of sexuality . Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main. 1987, ISBN 3-610-08468-5
  • Homosexual Men and AIDS. A sex science study of sexual behavior and lifestyle. Series of publications by the Federal Minister for Youth, Family, Women and Health (also publisher). Volume 252. For Volkmar Sigusch on June 11, 1990. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne. 1990, 301 pp. ISBN 3-17-011429-8
  • The homosexual man under the sign of AIDS . Klein, Hamburg. 1991, ISBN 3-922930-02-6
  • Predominantly homosexual. Essays, comments, speeches . Swarm of Men Script, Hamburg. 1997, ISBN 3-928983-50-4
  • Sexuality and society. Festschrift for Volkmar Sigusch (edited together with Reimut Reiche). Campus, Frankfurt am Main. 2000, 418 pp., ISBN 3-593-36617-7
  • 100 years of Freud's "Three Essays on Sexual Theory". Topicality and demands , with Agnes Katzenbach. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen. 2005, ISBN 3-89806-494-8
  • Fascinating sexuality. Theoretical, empirical and sexual-political contributions [For Agnes Katzenbach. Collection of articles from 2004–2016]. Contributions to sex research. Volume 106. Psychosozial-Verlag. To water. 2017. 200 pp. ISBN 3-8379-2740-7 . Review by Rüdiger Lautmann on Socialnet.de from June 1, 2018 (accessed: May 4, 2019).
  • Ongoing Intervention Essays, lectures and speeches on AIDS and HIV from four decades. With an afterword by Clemens Sindelar and Karl Lemmen. Swarm of men. Berlin. 2019. 321. S. ISBN 978-3-86300-271-8 .

Web links

Commons : Martin Dannecker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cf. on this Florian G. Mildenberger : On the sociology of homosexuality in the Federal Republic of Germany: Origin and impact of the study 'The Ordinary Homosexual' by Martin Dannecker and Reimut Reiche (1974). In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 209–222.
  2. ↑ Henze, Patrick: Gay emancipation and their conflicts: on the West German gay movement of the 1970s . Querverlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89656-277-7 , p. 424 .
  3. ↑ cf. Jannis Plastargias : RotZSchwul. The beginning of a movement (1971–1975). Querverlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89656-238-8 .
  4. ↑ Was Judith Butler's rejection the right signal? , taz, June 20, 2010
  5. ↑ Compass needle for love and the intellect. Cologne CSD reception. July 8, 2012, accessed August 29, 2013 .
  6. ↑ The fascination of sex. The theorist & activist Martin Dannecker. October 26, 2017, accessed October 31, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Dannecker, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sexologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberndorf am Neckar