The Author: Gary Schmidt received his Ph.D. in German literature from Washington University in St. Louis. He has taught American Studies in Stuttgart, Germany, and German language and literature at the University of Minnesota. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Grinnell College, where he teaches contemporary German culture. He is the author of Koeppen-Andersch-Böll: Homosexualität in der deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur (Hamburg, 2000).

• Contents: Male homosexuality and Postwar West German Literature – Heinrich Böll. Billard um halbzehn. Heterosexual Family and Homosexual State – Der Zug war pünktlich. Fürsorgliche Belagerung. Pornography, Privacy, and Resistance – Wolfgang Koeppen. Criminal or Conformist? Tauben im Gras – Satire and Sexuality. Das Treibhaus – Thomas Mann and Decadent Homoeroticism. Der Tod in Rom – Alfred Andersch. Homosexuality and Antifascism. Die Rote. Winterspelt.

«Schmidt's lucidly argued work sheds new light on a relatively neglected chapter of literary representations of homosexuality – the postwar period – whose negotiations of the relation of gender and fascism may seem overshadowed by the prominence of gay themes during the Weimar Republic years on the one hand and in contemporary culture on the other. The study thus reaffirms the importance of a gendered approach to National Socialism and its literary representations as well as the significance of current queer theory for the analysis of (cultural) history.» (Rolf J. Goebel, German Studies Review)«...the book is a worthy addition to the field of queer studies and to those fields concerned with the intersections between politics and sexuality.» (Richard Block, German Quarterly)

The Author: Gary Schmidt received his Ph.D. in German literature from Washington University in St. Louis. He has taught American Studies in Stuttgart, Germany, and German language and literature at the University of Minnesota. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Grinnell College, where he teaches contemporary German culture. He is the author of Koeppen-Andersch-Böll: Homosexualität in der deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur (Hamburg, 2000).

• Contents: Male homosexuality and Postwar West German Literature – Heinrich Böll. Billard um halbzehn. Heterosexual Family and Homosexual State – Der Zug war pünktlich. Fürsorgliche Belagerung. Pornography, Privacy, and Resistance – Wolfgang Koeppen. Criminal or Conformist? Tauben im Gras – Satire and Sexuality. Das Treibhaus – Thomas Mann and Decadent Homoeroticism. Der Tod in Rom – Alfred Andersch. Homosexuality and Antifascism. Die Rote. Winterspelt.

«Schmidt's lucidly argued work sheds new light on a relatively neglected chapter of literary representations of homosexuality – the postwar period – whose negotiations of the relation of gender and fascism may seem overshadowed by the prominence of gay themes during the Weimar Republic years on the one hand and in contemporary culture on the other. The study thus reaffirms the importance of a gendered approach to National Socialism and its literary representations as well as the significance of current queer theory for the analysis of (cultural) history.» (Rolf J. Goebel, German Studies Review)«...the book is a worthy addition to the field of queer studies and to those fields concerned with the intersections between politics and sexuality.» (Richard Block, German Quarterly)

The Author: Gary Schmidt received his Ph.D. in German literature from Washington University in St. Louis. He has taught American Studies in Stuttgart, Germany, and German language and literature at the University of Minnesota. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Grinnell College, where he teaches contemporary German culture. He is the author of Koeppen-Andersch-Böll: Homosexualität in der deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur (Hamburg, 2000).

• Contents: Male homosexuality and Postwar West German Literature – Heinrich Böll. Billard um halbzehn. Heterosexual Family and Homosexual State – Der Zug war pünktlich. Fürsorgliche Belagerung. Pornography, Privacy, and Resistance – Wolfgang Koeppen. Criminal or Conformist? Tauben im Gras – Satire and Sexuality. Das Treibhaus – Thomas Mann and Decadent Homoeroticism. Der Tod in Rom – Alfred Andersch. Homosexuality and Antifascism. Die Rote. Winterspelt.

«Schmidt's lucidly argued work sheds new light on a relatively neglected chapter of literary representations of homosexuality – the postwar period – whose negotiations of the relation of gender and fascism may seem overshadowed by the prominence of gay themes during the Weimar Republic years on the one hand and in contemporary culture on the other. The study thus reaffirms the importance of a gendered approach to National Socialism and its literary representations as well as the significance of current queer theory for the analysis of (cultural) history.» (Rolf J. Goebel, German Studies Review)«...the book is a worthy addition to the field of queer studies and to those fields concerned with the intersections between politics and sexuality.» (Richard Block, German Quarterly)