First nationwide Magnus Hirschfeld day in Berlin

First nationwide Magnus Hirschfeld day in Berlin

The doctor, sex researcher and social reformer Magnus Hirschfeld will be honored for the first time by the state of Berlin on May 14th with a nationwide commemoration day. Hirschfeld founded the first Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin in 1919, where he dealt intensively with the diversity of sexuality. On the initiative of Alfonso Pantisano, the Berlin queer representative, the pioneering work will be reminded of Hirschfeld on this day.

Hirschfeld, who is considered the father of the queer emancipation movement, was massively attacked by the National Socialists. His institute was looted and destroyed by the National Socialists in 1933, while Hirschfeld was on a trip around the world. His books and scientific writings were burned on May 10, 1933 on the opera field. Hirschfeld himself died on May 14, 1935 in exile French.

In the memory of Magnus Hirschfeld and as part of the reparation for the destruction of the queer infrastructure by National Socialism, the Magnus Hirschfeld Federal Foundation was launched. The foundation based in Berlin is researching Queerer People in the 20th century and is committed to exclusion and group -related misanthropy through educational measures.

On the occasion of the Magnus Hirschfeld day, the Humboldt library and rainbow Reinickendorf e.V. invites you to a lecture with Helmut Metzner, board member of the Magnus Hirschfeld Federal Foundation. Metzner will introduce the doctor and sex researcher and highlight the topicality of his work for today's political debates about diversity in the open society of modernity. Alfonso Pantisano will speak a greeting.

The following table lists some relevant facts about the work of Magnus Hirschfeld:

| Birth year | 1868 |
| Year of death | 1935 |
| Founding year of the Institute for Sexual Science | 1919 |
| Date of book burning on the opera place | May 10, 1933 |
| Date of death in exile | May 14, 1935 |

Source: www.berlin.de