Jurgen Wittdorf

  • Jurgen Wittdorf : homoerotic art of the communist era in East Germany

    Jurgen Wittdorf : homoerotic art of the communist era in East Germany

        The German Democratic Republic  (communist East Germany) may have beaten West Germany in decriminalizing sexual acts between men by one year in 1968 but they were just as homophobic as the West. Even though they  called themselves a socialist  “workers’ and peasants’ state”.  When the GDR was formed after WW2  it inherited Paragraph…