Rosa Winkel

[Dave Monroe]

Rosa Winkel (Pink Triangle?) I don't know, but, from
what little German I can follow, a cursory (and not
only because I had to use a cursor) internet search
suggests that this might be the German title for the
Martin Sherman play, Bent, indeed about homosexual
concentration camp prisoners.  Caused a bit of a
scandal here, as I recall.  Sexually explicit,
although onstage the sexual acts involved were spoken
instead of enacted.  The film was NC-17, though it was
highly stylized in its own way as well.  Featured Mick
Jagger in drag, among other things.  Did eventually
see that Paragraph 175 documentary as well, very
interesting ...


--- lorentzen-nicklaus
<lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> jbor schrieb:
> 
> > I'm not sure whether the different types of
> prisoners had coloured triangles
> > on their clothes or painted on their backs so they
> were immediately
> > identifiable in Dora as they were at Auschwitz or
> while they were on the
> > "Death Marches"
>                  
>     from the photos i've seen i got the impression
> that the                     
>     dora prisoners did not regulary wear the
> coloured triangles.   
> 
> > -- Horak describes this tagging and the
> "hierarchy" of
> > prisoners in Auschwitz and the Eastern labour
> camps she was in in vivid
> > detail. If so it is something which Pynchon has
> omitted from his text.
> 
>     on the hierachy of prisoners see also eugen
> kogon's buchenwald-report     
>    (it's also, imo, still one of the most profound
> studies on the concentration 
>    camp system): "der ss-staat. das system der
> deutschen konzentrationslager"   
>    (22. edition, münchen 1989: heyne), where kogon
> reports that the queer       
>    prisoners, wearing the pink triangle, were always
> at the hierachy's low      
>    end. there's an impressive theatre play on queer
> concentration camp        
>    prisoners i've seen once in the 80s.
> unfortunately i forgot the author's     
>    name, but i still remember the title: "rosa
> winkel". anyone? 
> 
> kfl
>     
> 
>   
> 


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