Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR (2013)
Paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punishable by law, was abolished in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1968. At that time, heterosexual nuclear families constituted the center of socialist society, and homosexuality was considered a peripheral issue in the GDR. Out in East Berlin —Lesbians & Gays in the GDR tells the impressive-to-absurd personal histories of gay men and lesbians in the GDR, from the post WWII years until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Directors: Andreas Strohfeldt, Jochen Hick.
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Peter Bausdorf as |
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Bettina Dziggel as |
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Michael Eggert as |
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Andreas Fux as |
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Marinka Körzendörfer as |
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Jürgen Litfin as |
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Marina Krug as |
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Klaus Laabs as |
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Gerhard Plöse as |
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Christian Pulz as |
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Michael Raimann as |
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Peter Rausch as |
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Eduard Stapel as |
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Peter Tatchell as |
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Günter Litfin as archive |
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Wolfgang Beyer as |
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Lothar Dönitz as |
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Fred Frumberg as |
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Dieter Neuendorf as |
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Brigitte Schütze as |
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Bernd Stapel as |
| Directing | Andreas Strohfeldt | Director |
| Writing | Jochen Hick | Writer |
| Writing | Andreas Strohfeldt | Writer |
| Directing | Jochen Hick | Director |
| Editing | Thomas Keller | Editor |
| Production | Jochen Hick | Producer |
| Camera | Thomas Zahn | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Jochen Hick | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Stefan Kuschner | Music |
| Sound | Matthias Köninger | Music |
| Sound | Jörg Theil | Sound |