In the organizer's words:

Reading with literature from three eras

"I had a chance to read 'The Well of Loneliness' that had been translated into Polish before I was taken into the camps. I was a young girl at the time, around twelve or thirteen, and one of the ways I survived in the camp was by remembering that book. I wanted to live long enough to kiss a woman."
This is how a Shoa survivor described it to Joan Nestle, founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archive, in the 1980s. Today, the diversity of queer literature from the interwar period seems almost unimaginable. For many non-heterosexual and gender-nonconforming people, it was a source of identity and later even essential for survival. The reading collective would like to present an excerpt from this multitude of works and then address the destruction of queer literature and thus ultimately the disappearance of diversity, representation and remembrance of the diverse ways of life in the Weimar Republic.
Queer life did not disappear during the Nazi era, but it had to remain hidden. A little of what we know of it today will be read in the second part.
The third part deals with the after-effects of National Socialist gender ideology: a destroyed subculture, homophobia, the continued existence of §175 and a lack of recognition of the victims, including their erasure from the historical record.

The reading is intended to commemorate them and celebrate sexual diversity.

The event is part of the series of events on January 27.

An event organized by associazione delle talpe in cooperation with the Bremen Chamber of Employees and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Initiative - The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Bremen.