On National Coming Out Day (October 11\, 2022 ) and as part of LGBT History Month\, Cinema Thinks The World is delighted to present a free screening of Heiner Carow’s landmark film\, Coming Ou t\, the first – and last – East German feature film to deal openly wit h homosexuality. It was the last because Coming Out was also relea sed in cinemas on the day (November 9\, 1989) that the Berlin Wall came dow n\, an event that overshadowed the film’s initial release – even as the fil m has become a cult classic. The screening also coincides with the publicat ion of Prof. Kyle Fra ckman’s landmark study of the film\, published by Boydell & Brewster in 2022 – and Prof. Frackman will lead a discussion about the film after the screening.
The screening takes place at UBC Robson Square at 6pm and is open to everyone. This is the second of five free screenings that will b e held at Robson Square as part of the Cinema Thinks the World series.
Philipp\, a closet
ed teacher\, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night
\, however\, he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. Transformed by
this love\, he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is. Coming Out
was the first and last film to deal openly with homosexuality in the
former East Germany\, with its release having coincided exactly with the fa
ll of the Berlin Wall (November 9\, 1989).
Kyle Frackman is an As sociate Professor of German and Nordic Studies in the Department of Central \, Eastern\, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Col umbia in Vancouver. His research and teaching interests include 19th- to 21 st-century German and Nordic media studies\, queer studies (including histo ry of gender and sexuality)\, media\, book\, and print history\, and the hi story and culture of the former East Germany. He is the author of Comin g Out (Camden House\, 2022) and An Other Kind of Home: Gender-Sexu al Abjection\, Subjectivity\, and the Uncanny in Literature and Film ( Peter Lang\, 2015)\, as well as the editor of Gender and Sexuality in E ast German Film: Intimacy and Alienation (with Faye Stewart\, Camden H ouse\, 2018)\, Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic: Produ ction and Reception (with Larson Powell\, Camden House\, 2015)\, and < em>From Weimar to Christiania: German and Scandinavian Studies in Context (with Florence Feiereisen\, Cambridge Scholars Press\, 2007).
“Cinema Thinks the World” is sponsored by the Public Humanities Hub at t he University of British Columbia. Through a series of public screenings\, panel talks\, and discussions\, it aims to explore the ways in which global cinema represents and helps us to think about the world.
Featu red images: (c) DEFA-Stiftung Wolfgang Fritsche and Camden House / Boydell & Brewer
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