The Einstein of Sex

The Einstein of Sex
Theatrical release poster
GermanDer Einstein des Sex
Directed byRosa von Praunheim
Written byChris Kraus
Valentin Passoni
StarringKai Schumann [de]
Friedel von Wangenheim
Otto Sander
Ben Becker
Meret Becker
Wolfgang Völz
CinematographyElfi Mikesch
Edited byMike Shephard
Music byKarl-Ernst Sasse
Release date
  • 1999 (1999)
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

The Einstein of Sex (also known as: The Einstein of Sex – Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld, German title: Der Einstein des Sex) is a 1999 German film by Rosa von Praunheim. The plot follows the life of the Jewish doctor, sexologist, and gay socialist Magnus Hirschfeld.

The film was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival and at the São Paulo International Film Festival in 2000, among others.[1][2]

Plot

Magnus Hirschfeld made a name for himself as a co-founder of sexology and a founder of the first gay rights organization in 1897. In the film, three of Hirschfeld's closest friends are portrayed: Baron Hermann von Teschenberg (with whom Hirschfeld shares a complicated romance), aide Karl Giese, and Dora "Dörchen" Richter. They establish the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin in 1919 and try to keep the institute open during the rise of the Third Reich in the early 1930s. Hirschfeld even gave lectures in the USA while the Nazis condemned his educational work. The Nazis destroyed the Institut in 1933, sending Hirschfeld into permanent exile in France.

Cast

  • Friedel von Wangenheim as Dr. M. Hirschfeld
  • Ben Becker as Adolf Brand
  • Wolfgang Völz as Polizeipräsident
  • Otto Sander as Professor Steinach
  • Meret Becker as Arbeiterin
  • Monika Hansen as Gräfin
  • Gerd Lukas Storzer as Baron von Teschenberg
  • Olaf Drauschke as Karl Giese
  • Tima die Göttliche as Dorchen
  • Harald Glitz as Hochzeitsgast
  • Ulrich Jackwit as Geheimrat
  • Kai Schuhmann as Magnus Hirschfeld (young)

Awards

Reception

The German magazine Spiegel wrote: "Rapid rise and early suffering, political furor and private disaster, told in a pleasingly conventional way against the political background of the Weimar Republic - a cinematic poetry album of upright feelings."[4]

Although inspired by Hirschfeld's life, the film is semi-fictitious, containing invented characters and incidents and attributing motives and sentiments to Hirschfeld and others with little or no historical evidence. (Ralf Dose)[5]

"And the Nazis had really managed to make Hirschfeld almost forgotten for a long time. Until Rosa von Praunheim shot his film The Einstein of Sex about him in 1999 – and thus rescued him from oblivion." (Berliner Morgenpost)[6]

Notes

  1. ^ "Der Einstein des Sex". Mubi. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
  2. ^ "DER EINSTEIN DES SEX - LEBEN UND WERK DES DR. HIRSCHFELD". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
  3. ^ "Rosa von Praunheim - Awards". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
  4. ^ "»Der Einstein des Sex«". Der Spiegel. 12 March 2000. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
  5. ^ Ralf Dose, Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement (New York City: Monthly Review Press, 2014); ISBN 978-1-58367-437-6.
  6. ^ "A pioneer of the Enlightenment". Berliner Morgenpost. 21 October 2022. Retrieved 2023-04-02.

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