Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon crumbles when the young man he pays to be his lover reveals the doctor's homosexuality in a public humiliation that leads into his destruction. As anti-Semitism spreads ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child

UK 2012, 564 pp., pb, € 19.95
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Picador

In late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at Two Acres, the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's 16-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her a ... Weiterlesen

Mark Cornwall: The Devil's Wall

The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha. USA/UK 2012, 352 pp., hardbound, € 59.95
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Harvard University Press

In interwar Czechoslovakia, Sudeten German nationalists conceived a radical mission to try to restore German influence across the region. Heinz Rutha - earnest, seductive, and deeply conflicted by his homosexual longings - was the pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over Czech space. Czechoslovak authorities misinterpreted Rutha's mission as a ... Weiterlesen

Edmund de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes

USA 2011, 354 pp, pb, € 15.95
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Vintage

264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the �netsuke�, they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de ... Weiterlesen

Paul Russell: The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov

USA 2011, 383 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Cleis

Russell's protagonist is an outsider because of his sexuality. He is the eyewitness to world-changing events and manages to find a place for himself at the heart of the creative life of his times. Russell gives us incisive portraits of Cocteau, Diaghilev, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas and their Charmed Circle, and Vladimir and V�ra Nabokov, and glimpses into ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child

UK 2011, 564 pp., brochure, € 14.60
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at Two Acres, the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's 16-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her ... Weiterlesen

Nigel Barley: Island of Demons

Singapore 2010, 388 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Monsoon

In the 1920s and 30s, Walter Spies - gay German ethnographer, choreographer, film maker, natural historian and painter - transformed the perception of Bali from that of a remote island to become the site for Western fantasies about Paradise as it underwent an influx of foreign visitors. The rich and famous flocked to Spies' house in Ubud and his life ... Weiterlesen

Harry Oosterhuis/ Hubert Kennedy (eds.): Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Pre-Nazi Germany

The Youth Movement, the Gay Movement and Male Bonding Before Hitler's Rise. USA 2010 (Reprint), 271 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Routledge

This is a landmark publication featuring English translations of selections from the early gay German journal, �Der Eigene�. This collection, previously scattered and difficult to read in the original German, allows readers direct access to primary source material on the early gay movement. Neglected for years, these articles provide insight into the early gay movement, particularly in its relation to ... Weiterlesen

Geoffrey Sax (R): Christopher and His Kind

UK 2010, OF, 90 min., € 24.99
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Based on Christopher Isherwood's memoir �Christopher and His Kind�, this landmark BBC adaption gives a glimpse into the decadent and politically unstable world of 1930s Berlin with Nazism rapidly rising. A young wide-eyed Christopher is keen to escape repressive English society when his friend W.H. Auden invites him to come to Berlin where gay sex seems so easy to find ... Weiterlesen

Alain Claude Sulzer: A Perfect Waiter

Transl. by John Brownjohn. UK 2009, 215 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Bloomsbury

This gay classic of the new century is now available in an English edition for the first time: Erneste is the perfect waiter, and his private life seems to embody the qualities he brings to his profession. But inwardly this polite and dignified man is in the grip of a violent passion: he yearns for a young waiter-in-training, Jakob, who ... Weiterlesen

John Evans (ed.): Journeying Boy

The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938. UK 2009, 576 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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Britten documented his childhood and adolescence in a daily journal he kept for a decade. From his arrival as a boarder at Gresham's School and his private lessons in London with Frank Bridge, to his student days at the Royal College of Music and apprenticeship in London, we trace the progress of a journeying boy. The 1930s brought successful collaborations ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: The Berlin Stories

USA 2008, 408 pp., pb., € 24.95
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First published in the 1930s, �The Berlin Stories� contains two astonishing related novels, �Mr. Norris Changes Trains� and �Goodbye to Berlin�, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and caf�s; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Whitaker (R): Portrait of a Marriage

UK 2008, engl.OF, engl.UT, 219 min., € 29.95
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BBC

Drama following the scandalous relationship between historian, Harold Nicolson, novelist, Vita Sackville-West, and her lover, Violet Keppel, in post WWI England. Sir Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West appear to have the perfect marriage, but beneath the glossy veneer, Nicolson is a fervent homosexual, constantly away from home, pursuing new conquests. Vita, happy at first to go along with her husband's ... Weiterlesen

Timothy Snyder: The Red Prince

The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke. USA 2008, 344 pp. with numerous b/w photos, brochure, € 24.95
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Perseus Group

Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and, every so often, a dress. He could handle a saber, a pistol, a rudder, or a golf club. He handled women by necessity and men for ... Weiterlesen

Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisted

Film Tie-in. UK 2008, 324 pp., Pb, € 14.95
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At the end of World War II, Captain Charles Ryder and his troops, looking for a billet, have just arrived at Brideshead, the now-dilapidated family castle belonging to Lord Marchmain, a place where Charles Ryder stayed for an extended period just after World War I, the home of his best friend from Oxford, the outrageous and obviously gay Lord Sebastian ... Weiterlesen

Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster: Brian Howard - Portrait of a Failure

USA 2007, 398 pp., brochure, € 0.00
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A paradox at every turn, he was a son of American expatriates at Eton, where he produced �The Eton Candle� and met Edith Sitwell, who encouraged him as a poet. At Oxford he was the leading light of the most extravagant social set and an aesthete who hunted. In the 20s he was the impresario of the wildest parties and ... Weiterlesen
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Sybille Bedford: Quicksands

UK 2006, 369 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Beginning in 1956 with the publication of �A Legacy�, Sybille Bedford has narrated - in fiction and nonfiction - what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this memoir, her first new book in over ten years, she provides the moving culmination to an epic personal story that takes readers from the Berlin of World War ... Weiterlesen

Mel Gordon: Voluptuous Panic - The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin

USA 2006, 307 pp., hardcover, € 32.95
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This sourcebook of hundreds of rare visual delights from pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period �Babylon on the Spree� has the distinction of being praised both by scholars and avatars of contemporary culture, inspiring clubgoers, filmmakers, historians, straights and gays, graphic designers, and musicians like the Dresden Dolls and Marilyn Manson. �Voluptuous Panic�'s expanded edition includes the new illustrated chapter �Sex Magic and the ... Weiterlesen

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