Madchen in Uniform

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🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Today's episode of Queer as Fiction dives into the 1931 German film, Madchen in Uniform. Join us for a discussion of young women getting drunk off one cup of punch, performing male roles in plays and dealing with the looming threat of authoritarianism.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer's Fiction, where we talk about queer historical media.
0:04.3	My name is Eli.
0:05.4	I'm Jason.
0:06.2	And today we're talking about the 1931 film Machen in Uniform.
0:18.8	So I think it's only best that we start this episode off with acknowledging that we can't say
0:22.9	German words and are going to say them throughout anyway.
0:25.5	We formally apologize.
0:27.0	There is nothing to be done.
0:29.8	We also have some content warnings before we start the episode proper.
0:33.7	The film contains, and therefore we will be discussing an attempted suicide, a relationship
0:39.1	between an adult and a child, neglect of children by authority figures, and we'll also
0:45.3	be discussing periodical homophobia and the Nazis.
0:49.5	Yep.
0:50.1	Yep.
0:50.3	Which, I mean, as soon as we said 30s film.
0:53.2	Yeah, German film, 1931.
0:56.5	You sort of know what you're in for.
0:58.1	Unfortunately so.
0:59.2	So if any of that sounds like something you don't want to listen to,
1:02.7	feel free to skip this one and listen to a different episode.
1:05.8	So we'll start off by giving a plot summary.
1:08.9	So if you're very anxious not to be spoiled for this film that is
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