LGBTQ Life in Weimar Germany (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Greg Jenner is joined in 20th-century Germany by Dr Bodie Ashton and comedian Jordan Gray to learn all about LGBTQ life and culture during the Weimar Republic.

After the failure of the First World War and the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II, German politics underwent something of a revolution. With the end of the old imperial order came the questioning of its conservative social values, and feminist and socialist campaigners sought to rethink old assumptions about gender roles, family life and sexuality. Part of this included a flourishing of LGBTQ life and culture in the 1920s and early 1930s.

In this episode, Greg and his guests explore the political and economic circumstances of Weimar Germany, queer club culture, magazines and filmmaking; alongside research into sexuality and campaigns for transgender and gay liberation, to discover why Weimar Germany was such a focal point for LGBTQ life in this period.

This is a radio edit of the original podcast episode. For the full-length version, please look further back in the feed.

Hosted by: Greg Jenner Research by: Jon Norman Mason Written by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Emma Nagouse, and Greg Jenner Produced by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow and Greg Jenner Audio Producer: Steve Hankey Production Coordinator: Ben Hollands Senior Producer: Emma Nagouse Executive Editor: James Cook

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0:42.0	My name is Greg J Jenna. I'm a public
0:44.2	historian author and broadcaster and today we are bobbing our hair as we learn all about
0:48.6	LGBTQ life in Weymah, Germany and to help help us, we have two very special guests. In History Corner,
0:54.6	they're a research fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum for Z-H, Z-Z-F in Potsdam.
1:00.4	You'll remember them from our episode on Prussian King Frederick the Great,
1:03.8	it's the equally great Dr. Bodie Ashton. Welcome back Bodie or should I say
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