Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR

Film

Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR

10.020131h 34mDocumentary
Germany
Director
Andreas Strohfeldt
Year
2013

Paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punishable by law, was abolished in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1968. At that time, heterosexual nuclear families constituted the center of socialist society, and homosexuality was considered a peripheral issue in the GDR. Out in East Berlin —Lesbians & Gays in the GDR tells the impressive-to-absurd personal histories of gay men and lesbians in the GDR, from the post WWII years until the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Top cast

Directed by

Andreas Strohfeldt, Jochen Hick

Written by

Jochen Hick, Andreas Strohfeldt

Produced by

Jochen Hick