A Different Perspective on Berlin in the 1920s
This project is based on the extensive historical depiction of the evolution of Magnus Hirschfeld’s institute in Rainer Herrn’s groundbreaking book For Love and for Sorrow. The series will be an international, English-language coproduction overseen by a German and Dutch team, who are working together with an American author. To pave the way for the adaptation, Herrn and Suhrkamp have produced a rough English version of the book.
In For Love and for Sorrow, Rainer Herrn tells the eventful history of this famous institution for the first time. He introduces the protagonists who shaped it, describes the struggles for the abolition of Paragraph 175, which criminalised homosexuality in Germany, follows the fates of the people who sought help at the institute, bringing the spirit of the Weimar Republic to life along the way.
In For Love and for Sorrow, Rainer Herrn tells the eventful history of this famous institution for the first time. He introduces the protagonists who shaped it, describes the struggles for the abolition of Paragraph 175, which criminalised homosexuality in Germany, follows the fates of the people who sought help at the institute, bringing the spirit of the Weimar Republic to life along the way.