Thomas Brüggemann

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Thomas Brüggemann (born May 1, 1957 , † February 11, 2004 ) was a German psychologist and pioneer of the second gay movement in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Life

Brüggemann grew up in Munich . After high school and community service, he first went to Osnabrück to study psychology in West Berlin in the early 1980s . In addition to his studies, he played a leading role in the Berlin Gay Groups (TBS) meeting, which coordinated the cooperation between West Berlin lesbian and gay groups and was also derisively called the Thomas Brüggemann Show (TBS). At the same time, he founded the Working Group Parliamentary Initiative (API) , which provided politicians and political groups with information, aids to argumentation and an archive and encouraged parliamentary questions. The initiative aimed to re-establish an institute for sexology in Berlin and collected political statements on the topics of sexual criminal law, raids and pink lists . From Kreuzberg's Körtestrasse he helped initiate numerous projects, several of which still exist today, including - against the resistance of the then Senator for Science Wilhelm Kewenig - the gay lecture at the ASTA of the Free University of Berlin , the monthly magazine Siegessäule and in the course of the anti-AIDS movement together with other students a telephone advice center (TBS), today's Mann-O-Meter . At an early stage - in accordance with its balancing character - he encouraged roundtables, including those in the tropical medicine department of the then state vaccination institute , which brought representatives of different social groups from science, politics and art to one table, including Ulrich Bienzle , Rosa von Praunheim and Stefan Reiss . After stays in London , Copenhagen and Amsterdam , Brüggemann worked as a psychologist and psychotherapist for the Berlin gay counseling service from 2000 , for which he had already been involved in the 1980s.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stefan Reiss website
  2. ↑ bruno gmünder verlag , Rainer Schillung, 1984: berlin from behind. Reading and travel book for gays, gays and other friends , Berlin, 1985, page 197
  3. ^ Thomas Brüggemann: Critical Companion ( Memento from January 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) memories
  4. ↑ Jörg Bressau , Schwulenberatung Berlin : Obituary Thomas Brüggemann ( Memento from May 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (former website of www.denk-mal-posithiv.de in the Internet archive, May 29, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Brüggemann, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and pioneer of the second gay movement in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1957
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2004
Place of death Berlin