Marcus Lachmann

Berlin Bohème is a German television series, produced in 53 episodes from 1999 to 2005. The series depicts the lives of Bohemian artists in Berlin; the majority of the protagonists were gay or lesbian. The creator and producer of this show is Andreas Weiss, who produced several other gay and lesbian TV-series before.

Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells the story of his life in the context of the gay pride movement, the normative pressures of the Schlager music industry, and the profound changes currently underway.

A German documentary studying concepts of hell developed over time in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, often overlapping -but not in Catholicism- with purgatory. Special attention goes to 'physical' methods of torture in the afterlife, as in Dante's Inferno. Their inspiration stems partially from judicial torments, as used during the Inquisition to redeem 'Satanic' sinners, from witches and heretics to mere gay people. Also treated is hell's theological and 'educational' meaning.

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Two actors improvise biographical scenes about Hitler and Jesus. They discover more and more similarities and set out in search of the reasons for their enormous success. Jesus wants to give love. Many conflicts have to be resolved until Hitler can finally come to accept this.

The gay couple Tobi and Ernie are being visited by Ernie's old friend Uta. What at first looks like an innocent house-call, turns into an insidious attack on the couple's relationship.

Bruno Lüdke, who was mentally disabled, is said to have brutally murdered 53 people in Berlin and throughout Germany. In 1944, he died under unexplained circumstances at the Central Institute of Forensic Medicine of the Security Police in Vienna, where numerous experiments had been performed on him. In 1991, doubts arose as to whether Lüdke could have committed a single murder at all.