Book Talk with Andrea Rottmann

Andrea Rottmann (she/they) is postdoctoral research fellow in the project "Human Rights, Queer Genders and Sexualities since the 1970s" at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin. She got her PhD in German Studies at the University of Michigan in 2019. Her book Queer Lives Across the Wall. Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970 came out with the University of Toronto Press in May 2023. Andrea has researched and published on queer spaces, on sexuality and gender in museums, on the politics of queer history and the LGBTIQ movement in Germany and the US. With Martin Lücke (FU Berlin) and Benno Gammerl (EUI Florence) she coordinates the network "Queer Contemporary Histories of German-speaking Europe," which brings together queer history scholars from the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.