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.
Andreas Strohfeldt
Director, Writer
Jochen Hick
Writer, Director
Peter Bausdorf
Bettina Dziggel
Michael Eggert
Andreas Fux
Marinka Körzendörfer
Jürgen Litfin
Marina Krug
Klaus Laabs
Gerhard Plöse
Welcome to Chechnya69%
Tongues Untied66%
Inside Deep Throat64%
Looking for Richard68%
The Celluloid Closet72%
Sherman's March67%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Public Speaking70%
My Mom Jayne80%
Disclosure78%
Tab Hunter Confidential72%
The Class of ‘9271%
Harmontown66%
McQueen74%
The Captains63%
Senna81%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Fata Morgana65%
Gilbert67%
Paris Is Burning80%