Weimar's Queer Visual Cultures

Birgit Lang

ISBN 10: 148756080X / ISBN 13: 9781487560805

Published by MNG University Presses Jun 2026, 2026

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Neuware - Why do we keep returning to the Weimar Republic as a focal point for queer and trans histories, and why are images so crucial to our understanding of this period This volume brings together research from disciplines including history, art history, literature, film, performance, and gender studies to explore the ongoing resonances of visual and narrative queer mythologies from Weimar Germany, often considered a 'golden age' for queer culture and a period of relative rights and freedoms. Chapters contribute new readings of classic Weimar art and film while significantly expanding the archive of queer Weimar by examining new or previously overlooked visual materials and relations: from occult practices to the vagaries of human-animal love, and from trans representations on film to the ambiguous tensions of forbidden intergenerational desire. Taken together, this volume generates a deep understanding of the twentieth-century emergence of queer and trans subjects through visual media; it develops methods that give prominence to the voices and perspectives of the historical subjects of sexual science; and it critically interrogates past practices of sexual knowledge production for understandings of LGBTQI lives today.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Weimar's Queer Visual Cultures
• Publisher: MNG University Presses Jun 2026
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 148756080X
• ISBN 13: 9781487560805
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 233W x 156H x 25D millimeters 233 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 650 grams

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Synopsis

Why do we keep returning to the Weimar Republic as a focal point for queer and trans histories, and why are images so crucial to our understanding of this period? This volume brings together research from disciplines including history, art history, literature, film, performance, and gender studies to explore the ongoing resonances of visual and narrative queer mythologies from Weimar Germany, often considered a “golden age” for queer culture and a period of relative rights and freedoms.

Chapters contribute new readings of classic Weimar art and film while significantly expanding the archive of queer Weimar by examining new or previously overlooked visual materials and relations: from occult practices to the vagaries of human-animal love, and from trans representations on film to the ambiguous tensions of forbidden intergenerational desire. Taken together, this volume generates a deep understanding of the twentieth-century emergence of queer and trans subjects through visual media; it develops methods that give prominence to the voices and perspectives of the historical subjects of sexual science; and it critically interrogates past practices of sexual knowledge production for understandings of LGBTQI+ lives today.

About the Author

Birgit Lang is a professor of German at the University of Melbourne. Ina Linge is an associate professor of German, and gender and sexuality studies at the University of Exeter. Katie Sutton is an associate professor of German and gender studies at the Australian National University.