A queer voice from the past
<p>Yesterday I saw an interesting post on Instagram by the Magnus Hirschfeld Gesellschaft about the German writer Bruno Vogel, born in Leipzig 125 years ago yesterday. He worked at the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin together with Magnus Hirschfeld etc in the 1920s. Very interesting for me, was the mention of two of the books he wrote. The perhaps most well-known is “Alf”, published in 1929, and is about a young man who falls in love with one of his school friends. The love was mutual, but the pressure of the times they lived in drove them apart. I read the book yesterday (it’s available online), and found it very interesting to read a personal “eye-witness account” of living as a queer man in the early 1900s. Most of what I’ve read so far have been more analytical non-fiction, so it was very interesting to “meet” one of the persons living then through this books and read about his thoughts, love and problems.</p>
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