Commemoration of the death of Magnus Hirschfeld

Deposition of a wreath on the tomb of German activist and sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld on the occasion of the commemoration of the 90 years of his death in exile in Nice on May 14, 1935.

Magnus Hirschfeld
Born in 1868 in Kolberg, is a German doctor, inventor of modern sexology and one of the founding fathers of homosexual liberation movements. He fought against the persecution of German homosexuals under paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code. Consistent with Adolf Hitler’s taking of power in 1933, the Nazis attacked and looted his Institute of Sexology, founded in Berlin in 1918, and his important library fed their first self-dafés. He is an exile in France.

As part of the tributein Magnus Hirschfeld and Lionel Soukaz
The Openers are pleased to join again this year at the Cinémathèque de Nice for a double tribute to the occasion of the exceptional screening of a small rarity of queer cinema, Race d’Ep. Tribute to his director, Lionel Soukaz, a faithful figure of In♣Out, who left us last February. Also tribute to the militant sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld whose film offers a beautiful evocation.