LGBTQ Life in Weimar Germany

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in twentieth-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. 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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0:31.8	Hello and welcome to radio podcasts.
0:38.0	Hello and welcome to You're Dead to Me, the Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history seriously. My name is Greg Jenner. I'm a public historian author and broadcaster.
0:42.0	And today we are bobbing our hair and bopping down to the Kitcat
0:45.3	club as we learn all about LGBTQ life in Weymah, Germany and to help us we have two very special
0:51.2	guests in History Corner. They're a research fellow at the Liedlips Zentrum
0:55.0	for Z-Z-Z-F in Pottsdam,
0:58.8	where they specialize in politics, gender and sexuality in Germany
1:02.0	from the 18th to 20th centuries.
1:03.8	You'll remember them from our episode on Prussian King.
1:06.2	Frederick the Great, it's the equally great Dr Body Ashton.
1:09.1	Welcome back Body, or should I say, Wilkerman.
1:11.6	You can say that, Greg, but you can't say Leibn't
1:14.3	sent from the site to the historic Shaforshauch on Potsdam.
1:17.0	I tried so hard.
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