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.

With their non-fiction book “Sumpffieber – Medizin für schwule Männer” (Swamp Fever – Medicine for Gay Men), a group of medical students from Berlin and Munich responded two years before the start of the HIV/AIDS pandemic to the blind spots of a healthcare industry that, apart from the liberal enclave of West Berlin, treated openly gay patients at best with indifference and ignorance, and at worst with harsh discrimination. The authors had the advantage that they were supported in their project at an early stage by established doctors in their field, who had noticed how homosexual men were being discriminated against in the healthcare sector. Although there was already a network of contact points for diagnosis and therapy (in West Berlin) in the form of counseling centers for sexually transmitted diseases, these often provided an environment where gay men were treated with condescension and contempt alongside sex workers. The book was an early milestone in the autonomous approach of gay men to health and illness.

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.