Wolfram Setz (Hg.): Neue Funde und Studien zu Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

D 2004, 192 S., Broschur, € 12.34
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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs ist eine der bedeutendsten und interessantesten Persönlichkeiten der Geschichte schwuler Identitätsfindung und Emanzipation. Nicht nur lesen sich seine Aufsätze und Pamphlete, in denen er schwulem Begehren und Lebensgefühl als einer der ersten öffentlichen Ausdruck verleiht, vielfach, als wären sie nicht weit über 100 Jahre alte Texte. Als Jurist wagte Ulrichs Vorstöße zur rechtlichen Gleichstellung für Schwule, die in ihrer Schärfe ihresgleichen suchen. Aber Ulrichs war eine komplexe Persönlichkeit mit vielen Interessen. Von der lateinischen Sprache begeistert gab er jahrelang eine lateinische Zeitschrift heraus. Als politischer Mensch bewarb er sich um öffentliche Ämter. Dieser Band zeigt viele neue und überraschende Aspekte aus Ulrichs' Leben.

Wolfgang Joop: Im Wolfspelz

D 2004, 319 S., Pb, € 9.20
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Der deutsche Stardesigner Wolfgang Joop hat seinen ersten Roman geschrieben, der natürlich in der Welt der Schönen und Reichen spielt. Der Modezar Wolf entflieht, dem Glamour der Laufstege überdrüssig, aus dem Sündenbabel New York. Als stiller Beobachter blickt er hinter die schrille Oberfläche der Parties, Clubs und Orgien und entdeckt nur einen Abgrund, in dem sich die Begehrten wie leblose Puppen bewegen. Die Menschen sind leblose, aber exaltierte Hüllen, die vollgepumpt mit Drogen, gierig nach Sex und mit grenzenloser Selbstverliebtheit nach einem Rest menschlicher Wärme suchen. Als Wolf auf den geheimnisvollen Josh trifft, glaubt er einen Gefährten der Seele gefunden zu haben.

Inge Jens, Walter Jens: Frau Thomas Mann

Das Leben der Katharina Pringsheim. D 2004, 352 S., Pb, € 10.18
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Katia Mann war eine zentrale Figur im Reich des »Zauberers« Thomas Mann. Sie war Mutter seiner Kinder und seine engste Vertraute. Auch fungierte sie als Managerin für seinen manchmal erfolgreichen, manchmal angeschlagenen Betrieb. Den homoerotischen Verhältnissen ihres Mannes zu hübschen jungen Männern wie Klaus Heuser oder dem Kellner Franz schaute sie manchmal achselzuckend, manchmal erleichtert, manchmal besorgt zu. Insgesamt war sie an Schwule in ihrer Umgebung gewöhnt. Und wenn es Thomas Mann nicht übertrieb, war sie gewillt, ein Auge zuzudrücken. Insgesamt ermöglichen die Tagebuchzitate und das hier zusammengetragene fotografische Material einen sehr privaten Einblick in das Leben der Familie Mann.

John Massey: American Adonis

USA 2004, 144 pp., hardback, € 42.39
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Nowadays nearly everyone is a member of a gym, and perfecting the body beautiful is taken to the point of obsession. This phenomenon can be traced back to one man: Anthony Sansone (1905-1987), the first male physique icon and the most admired bodybuilder of his time. Like his contemporary actor Rudolph Valentino, Sansone was one of the first to make male beauty a desirable commodity. Images of Sansone's body spurred the physical culture movement that would sweep the country. Through innumerable reproductions of his photographs, his fitness program publications, and the gyms he founded, Sansone set and shaped the physical ideal that a whole generation of men would follow.

E. Lynn Harris: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted

A Memoir. USA 2004, 266 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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Widely known for his sexy, urban African-American novels like »Just as I Am«, Harris now reveals the story of his own life. Harris's smooth, Southern accent and conversational tone immediately put listeners at ease. Convinced he would die »one of the brokenhearted«, Harris recalls his struggles with his abusive father, his 1990 suicide attempt, his battle with depression and his first gay relationship. Though much of the memoir focuses on the difficulties he faces growing up poor in a small town and of a race that largely considered his homosexuality »inappropriate«, the author's underlying message - that you can triumph through perseverance - is universal.

Patrick Hunt: Caravaggio

UK 2004, 164 pp., brochure, € 19.19
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Caravaggio (1571-1610) was the most revolutionary artist of the Italian Baroque. Consistently emphasising the humanity of his religious subjects, he established a new canon. The intensity and drama of his chiaroscuro style is matched only by his life. Outlaw, heretic, murderer and sensualist are a few of the charges brought against him by his contemporaries. Given the paucity of verifiable biographical documents, Caravaggio remains mysterious and elusive to modern admirers. Patrick Hunt interprets Caravaggio's complicated religious and classical imagery while anchoring his art in his life taking a holistic approach to Caravaggio and his work. Hunt shows Caravaggio as the poster boy of bad behaviour he was, but he resists the temptation to interpret him by that dark light alone.

Paul Monette: Becoming a Man

USA 2004, 278 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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Paul Monette first made a name for himself in 1978 with his debut novel »Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll«, a comic romp with serious overtones. He established himself as a writer of popular fiction with three more novels before he and his lover were both diagnosed with HIV. In 1988 he wrote »On Borrowed Time«, a memoir of living with AIDS and of his lover's death. - A child of the 1950s from a small New England town. »Perfect Paul« earns staight A´s and scholarships and shines in social and literary pursuits, all the while keeping a secret - from himself and the rest of the world. Struggling to be or at least to imitate a straight man, through Ivy League halls of privilege and bohemian travels abroad, loveless intimacy, and unrequited passion. Paul Monette was haunted, and finally saved, by a dream - »The thing I´d never even seen: two men in love and laughing«. This searingly honest, witty, and humane merging of memoir and manifesto has become the definitive coming out story - and a classic of the coming-of-age genre. It was awarded the 1992 National Book Award for nonfiction.

Darwin Porter: Katharine the Great

A Lifetime of Secrets Revealed. USA 2004, 569 pp., brochure, € 16.59
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»The Advocate« had thrown down the gauntlet for someone willing to go behind the carefully constructed public persona Hepburn protected throughout her years in film. Celebrity expose author Darwin Porter accepted the challenge, and released »Katherine the Great«, a mammoth volume presenting a wealth of evidence that the late, great Kate was not necessarily straight. »Katharine the Great« takes an in-depth look at a Hepburn the public never knew, presenting information gleaned from interviews with Joan Crawford, Tallulah Bankhead, Patricia Peardon, Truman Capote, Garson Kanin and his wife Ruth Gordon, Hepburn’s »deflowerer« Kenneth MacKenna, and many more. In this 570-page unauthorized biography, Porter delves into the spicy sexual conquests of the Connecticut born and bred actress and her cadre of high-profile companions. Hepburn was indeed bisexual, and that she and American Express heiress Laura Harding conducted a closeted, long-term relationship from 1928 until Harding's death in 1994, a relationship that over-lapped her »lavender marriage« to Ludlow O. Smith who himself had gay affairs.