Urning

• Verfasst von: Pretsell, Douglas Ogilvy [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Urning
• Titelzusatz: queer identity in the German nineteenth century
• Verf.angabe: Douglas Pretsell
• Verlagsort: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: xii, 272 Seiten
• Format: 24 cm
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-5560-3
• Schlagwörter: (g)Deutschland / (s)Homosexueller / (s)Geschlechtsidentität / (z)Geschichte 1862-1897
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Pretsell, Douglas: Urning. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2024
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Pretsell, Douglas Ogilvy: Urning. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (284 Seiten)
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Pretsell, Douglas Ogilvy: Urning. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 272 Seiten)
• Sach-SW: Homosexuels masculins - Allemagne - Identité - Histoire - 19e siècle
• Sach-SW: Activistes homosexuels - Allemagne - Histoire - 19e siècle
• Sach-SW: Gay activists
• Sach-SW: Gay men - Identity
• Sach-SW: History
• Geograph. SW: Germany
• Zeit-SW: 1800-1899
• K10plus-PPN: 1889689718

Abstract

"In 1864, the German jurist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs coined the term "urning" as a word for same-sex attracted men. Over the next few years, first anonymously and then publicly, he campaigned against the public persecution of these men. "Urnings" engaged with Ulrichs to negotiate the finer points of their new identities and then set about trying to change the world around them. In Urning, Douglas Pretsell writes of same-sex attracted men in German-speaking Europe who used the neologism "urning" as a personal identity in the late nineteenth century. This was in the period before other terms such as "homosexual" gained currency. Drawing on letters, memoirs, and psychiatric case studies, the book uses first-hand autobiographic accounts to map out the contours of urning society. Urning explores the activist attempts of individuals seeking to transform society, even though they had no formal organization and, after Ulrichs left the scene, no spokesperson. As the century drew to a close, the efforts of Ulrichs and his followers paved the way for the launch of the world’s first queer rights organization. Urning argues that these men were self-identified, self-constructed agents of their own destinies."--