Bauhaus-Universität Weimar: Events

As in 2022, Campus Pride Week will already begin on the Monday before CSD with unfurling of the »Inter*-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag« on the central balcony of the Main Building. The president of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Prof. Peter Benz says: »The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar welcomes people of all backgrounds and biographies. We do not tolerate discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity and work continuously to remove barriers for all students and staff and especially for trans/inter/non-binary (TIN*) people. This is why we display the ›Inter-inclusive Progress Pride Flag‹.«

At 6 pm on Monday, the project group »Porn is political!« of the like-named Bauhaus.Module and the QueerFilmFestival Weimar will host a jointpanel discussion in the Bauhaus.Atelier. According to the motto of »Porn is political!«, experts from PornBetter, DIV porn performers like Ann Antidote and other exciting guests will discuss the political potential and social relevance of queer feminist pornography. Afterwards, from around 8:30 pm, the project group will show a selection of queer feminist pornographic films (18 rating) in the Bauhaus.Atelier together with the QueerFilmFestival.

From 4 pm on Tuesday 27 June, the »Family is colourful« street festival organised by CSD Weimar will take place in Schützengasse and around the Wittumspalais. With various activities, the festival seeks to celebrate the diversity of different family formats and to show that a family exists when people take responsibility for each other. The Diversity Department and Equal Opportunity Office will be involved in the street festival with two activities: In the participatory campaign »Familie bedeutet für mich ...« [»For me, family means ... «] passers-by can share their concepts of family on a pin board. University staff will also read stories from inclusive children’s books. All those interested in participating in these activities are warmly invited to contact the Equal Opportunity Office or the Diversity Department.

The programme will continues on Thursday 29 June with an open-air cinema on the lawn in front of the Van de Velde Building. From 10:15 pm, the Equal Opportunity Office will show the film »Wildhood« in cooperation with CSD Weimar. This coming-of-age romantic drama follows 16-year-old Link, who lives with his half-brother Travis and their violent father in a trailer park on the east coast of Canada. When Link learns that his indigenous mother might in fact still be alive, contrary to what his father had always told him, the brothers set out to find her and a better life. On their way, they meet the young pow-wow dancer Pasmay, who was cast out by his Christian Mi’kmaq family as a Two Spirit. Pasmay not only helps Link to explore his indigenous roots and identity, but also awakens entirely different feelings in him ... The film will be shown in the original version in English and Mi’kmaq with German subtitles. In case of bad weather, the event will take place in the Audimax.

At 7 pm on Friday 30 June, the gay porn star Florian Klein alias »Hans Berlin« will come to the Bauhaus.Atelier. In an interview with Tino Ranacher (AIDS-Hilfe Weimar & Ostthüringen e. V.), he will talk about his life with HIV, his commitment to combatting the HIV stigma as a role model for the German AIDS association and of course also his job as an internationally successful porn star. Further discussion topics will include ageing in the gay community and the »protection through therapy« and pre-exposure prophylaxis (»PrEP«) safer sex strategies.

Campus Pride Week will end on Sunday 2 July – as in the previous year, with a memorial service for the »Rosa Winkel« prisoners of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps. Organised annually by AIDS-Hilfe Weimar and the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, this event commemorates the men persecuted and murdered by the National Socialists as homosexuals, around 650 of whom were deported to the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps between 1937 and 1945. University employees will take part in the memorial service and lay a wreath at the memorial in memory of the homosexual men imprisoned and murdered in Buchenwald. All students, doctoral researchers and employees of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar are invited to join them in remembering the homosexual victims of National Socialism.

For the full »Campus Pride Week« programme, see: www.uni-weimar.de/campus-pride-week

More information is also available on the new Instagram channel of the Equal Opportunity Office and Diversity Department: www.instagram.com/gender.diversity.bauhaus_uni

For further details of the »Family is Colourful« street festival, see: www.instagram.com/csdweimar

Contact:
Dr. Michael Wallner, Equal Opportunity and Diversity Advisor: michael.wallner[at]uni-weimar.de