A lecture performance by Hans Hütt. Moderator: Volker Woltersdorff.

Venue: Museumscafé. Time: 7-9 p.m. Free Admission. In german spoken language.

The rosa Winkel publishing house was founded 50 years ago.
Schwules Museum is celebrating this anniversary with five individual evenings, during which former publisher Hans Hütt will present six important books from the publishing program.

The volume “Schwule Lyrik – schwule Prosa” (Gay Poetry – Gay Prose), edited by Elmar Kraushaar, was a literary anthology that claimed to help establish an independent gay literature with diverse voices and vivid imagery. What was the response to it – years after Hubert Fichte and Rosa von Praunheim had already paved the way with their own works? How did literary scholars and critics react to it? Was the claim to help gay authors find their own voice taken seriously or ridiculed? How did gay literature compare internationally (England, France, America, Latin America)? What standards were applied to it or – to put it optimistically – developed specifically for it?

Hans Hütt is a political scientist. Dudenverlag has published several books on words from five decades. Hütt worked for 15 years as a strategic planner for communications agencies in Frankfurt, London, and Berlin. Since 2014, he has been writing as a freelance author for the arts sections of the FAZ, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Die Zeit. In 2014, he received the FAZ’s Michael Althen Prize for his essay “Angst vor der Gleichheit” (Fear of Equality). From 1978 to 1981, Hans Hütt was one of the two publishers at rosa Winkel.