A lecture performance by Hans Hütt. Moderator: Volker Woltersdorff. Special Guest: Peter Hedenström.
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 first evening on October 30 (7-9 p.m.) is dedicated to the Verlag rosa Winkel’s first publication and, at the same time, the first strategic debate of the still young gay movement: the “Tuntenstreit”.
“Tuntenstreit” – there was no better way to put into words that something was at stake that had no place in other publishing houses.
What was it about (on the surface)? Who were these radical queers (“Tunten”) and what did the so-called feminist faction want?
Or was the grandiose rhetoric actually a battle for leadership in the gay movement?
The objection was obvious: Couldn’t you think of anything better than to beat each other up in public in almost unreadable neo-Marxist prose?
Does the Tuntenstreit still have something to say to us today, despite its now outdated appearance?
In addition, there will also be insights into the motivations, environment, and conditions that made it possible to found the publishing house.
Further evenings (7–9 p.m. each):
November 20, 2025: Elmar Kraushaar (ed.), “Schwule Lyrik – Schwule Prosa. Eine Anthologie”
January 22, 2026: The Gay Medicine Men, “Sumpf Fieber: Medizin für schwule Männer”
February 19, 2026: A Look at France, “3 Millionen Perverse” and “Elemente einer homosexuellen Kritik”
March 19, 2026: Ralf König/Wolfgang Müller, “Schwul-Comix”
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.