Sex brennt (exhibition)
[...] brennt (German: [...] burns) was an exhibition on Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for [...] Research and the Burning of the Books held from May 6, 2008 to September 14, 2008 at the Medical History Museum of the Charité University Medical Center in Berlin.
Initiated by the Magnus Hirschfeld Society, the exhibition commemorated the work of German physician and sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld and opened 75 years after the raid on Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in May 1933. Inaugural addresses were delivered by Klaus Wowereit, Governing Mayor of Berlin, and Walter Momper, President of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin and former Governing Mayor.
Curated by Rainer Herrn, and designed by Eran Schaerf and Christian Gänshirt, the exhibition showed historic material as well as artwork by contemporary artists created for the occasion. Involved were American composer and visual artist Arnold Dreyblatt, visual artists Pauline Boudry und Renate Lorenz, Danish artist Henrik Olesen, German filmmaker and documentarian photographer Ulrike Ottinger, visual artist Eran Schaerf and writer Eva Meyer.