Javier Samper Vendrell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5693612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Javier Samper Vendrell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Javier Samper |
| FAMILY NAME | Vendrell |
| SIGNATURE | VENDRELL J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6008-0012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
After Weimar; Beyond Hirschfeld? Nostalgia, Hagiography and What Comes Next
The Weimar Republic looms large in the histories of queer liberation and sexual reform movements, both in Europe and transnationally. The promise of increased openness and plurality that shaped public discourse on a variety of issues in Germany’s first democracy was especially pronounced in the realms of sexual politics and gender identities. Within this progressive environment, the Institute for Sexual Science, established in Berlin in 1919, bec…
Christopher Ewing. The Color of Desire
‘I am rooted, but I flow’
For the Swiss writer Kim de l’Horizon, writing is a political act that seeks to heal the wounds caused by the constraints of gender identities and the yoke of masculinity. I argue in this article that de l’Horizon elaborates a critical mode called écriture fluide in Blutbuch (2022). By taking this queer and feminist standpoint, de l’Horizon emphasizes that people are always in the process of becoming. This approach captures how de l’Horizon chall…
Queer print culture and German studies
Queer people have written and read novels and scientific treatises, circulated pamphlets, found each other in classified advertisements, made albums and zines with their friends and lovers, handed out political flyers and buttons, pasted posters on walls, and created private and public archives for these often ephemeral materials. It is through print culture that queer people realized they were part of something larger than themselves. Indeed, pr…
Von Gloeden’s Dog
Jojo Rabbit , or On Education
As fictional figures, children elicit strong emotional responses. This potential for identification presents a challenge in the case of Taika Waititi’s Academy Award–nominated film Jojo Rabbit (2019). Who would want to feel sorry for a Nazi child? Instead of portraying children as either inherently innocent or evil, the film shows that the Nazi regime has corrupted the child through humiliation and violence. This form of poisonous pedagogy is the…
Queer Adolescence in Mädchen in Uniform
Most critics have examined Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform (1931) within one of two frameworks: either the film depicts Germany's authoritarian nature or it is a ground‐breaking work of lesbian filmmaking. This article considers an alternative possibility, namely, that the film illustrates the queerness of adolescence and society's efforts to repress it. To support this claim, it engages with the developmental theories of Charlotte Bühler (18…
Queer Utopia in Klaus Mann's Der fromme Tanz
Klaus Mann's Der fromme Tanz (1926) was the first German mainstream novel featuring a homosexual character. Critics have focused on autobiographical aspects in the novel, particularly the difficult relationship the author had with his father, Thomas Mann, as well as on the author's open and positive attitude towards homosexuality. The article contends that Mann's novel is more than a historical document of queer life in Weimar‐era Germany; it als…
The Seduction of Youth
The Seduction of Youth offers a new perspective on the history of the Weimar Republic by exploring the intersection between the homosexual movement, print culture, and homophobic fears about the seduction of young boys
German, Jew, Muslim, Gay
The title of Marc David Baer’s book—German, Jew, Muslim, Gay—captures the multiple identities that Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) had throughout his life. Baer analyses Marcus’s essays, literary prose and poems in order to paint a picture of his fascinating life, intellectual trajectory and religious journey. Indeed, Hugo Marcus becomes a prism through which the reader gains new insight into German history. Hugo Marcus was in some regards a typical Germ…
Coming to Terms with the Queer Past
On September 7, 2017, the Lesbian and Gay Federation of Berlin-Brandenburg (LSVD) unveiled a monument for the first homosexual emancipation movement. The memorial is composed of six thirteen-foot calla lilies in rainbow colors. The chosen flower, according to the organization, “has feminine and masculine blooms in one plant and is therefore a symbol for the normality of sexual and gender diversity in nature” (LSVD 2017). The monument was erected …
Adolescence, Psychology, and Homosexuality in the Weimar Republic
The Queer Threat to Civilization in Fritz Lang's M
This article draws from the insights of queer theory to argue that Fritz Lang's M relies on a homophobic discourse in its portrayal of the child murderer Beckert. This character represents a queer threat, not because he is a homosexual, but because his attack against children in the film is an assault against the reproductive logic of the nation. The article situates the film within responses to the real serial killer Fritz Haarmann to show how h…
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The Queer Threat to Civilization in Fritz Lang's M
This article draws from the insights of queer theory to argue that Fritz Lang's M relies on a homophobic discourse in its portrayal of the child murderer Beckert. This character represents a queer threat, not because he is a homosexual, but because his attack against children in the film is an assault against the reproductive logic of the nation. The article situates the film within responses to the real serial killer Fritz Haarmann to show how h…
Coming to Terms with the Queer Past
On September 7, 2017, the Lesbian and Gay Federation of Berlin-Brandenburg (LSVD) unveiled a monument for the first homosexual emancipation movement. The memorial is composed of six thirteen-foot calla lilies in rainbow colors. The chosen flower, according to the organization, “has feminine and masculine blooms in one plant and is therefore a symbol for the normality of sexual and gender diversity in nature” (LSVD 2017). The monument was erected …
Adolescence, Psychology, and Homosexuality in the Weimar Republic
The Seduction of Youth
The Seduction of Youth offers a new perspective on the history of the Weimar Republic by exploring the intersection between the homosexual movement, print culture, and homophobic fears about the seduction of young boys
German, Jew, Muslim, Gay
The title of Marc David Baer’s book—German, Jew, Muslim, Gay—captures the multiple identities that Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) had throughout his life. Baer analyses Marcus’s essays, literary prose and poems in order to paint a picture of his fascinating life, intellectual trajectory and religious journey. Indeed, Hugo Marcus becomes a prism through which the reader gains new insight into German history. Hugo Marcus was in some regards a typical Germ…
Queer Utopia in Klaus Mann's Der fromme Tanz
Klaus Mann's Der fromme Tanz (1926) was the first German mainstream novel featuring a homosexual character. Critics have focused on autobiographical aspects in the novel, particularly the difficult relationship the author had with his father, Thomas Mann, as well as on the author's open and positive attitude towards homosexuality. The article contends that Mann's novel is more than a historical document of queer life in Weimar‐era Germany; it als…
Queer Adolescence in Mädchen in Uniform
Most critics have examined Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform (1931) within one of two frameworks: either the film depicts Germany's authoritarian nature or it is a ground‐breaking work of lesbian filmmaking. This article considers an alternative possibility, namely, that the film illustrates the queerness of adolescence and society's efforts to repress it. To support this claim, it engages with the developmental theories of Charlotte Bühler (18…
Jojo Rabbit , or On Education
As fictional figures, children elicit strong emotional responses. This potential for identification presents a challenge in the case of Taika Waititi’s Academy Award–nominated film Jojo Rabbit (2019). Who would want to feel sorry for a Nazi child? Instead of portraying children as either inherently innocent or evil, the film shows that the Nazi regime has corrupted the child through humiliation and violence. This form of poisonous pedagogy is the…
‘I am rooted, but I flow’
For the Swiss writer Kim de l’Horizon, writing is a political act that seeks to heal the wounds caused by the constraints of gender identities and the yoke of masculinity. I argue in this article that de l’Horizon elaborates a critical mode called écriture fluide in Blutbuch (2022). By taking this queer and feminist standpoint, de l’Horizon emphasizes that people are always in the process of becoming. This approach captures how de l’Horizon chall…
Queer print culture and German studies
Queer people have written and read novels and scientific treatises, circulated pamphlets, found each other in classified advertisements, made albums and zines with their friends and lovers, handed out political flyers and buttons, pasted posters on walls, and created private and public archives for these often ephemeral materials. It is through print culture that queer people realized they were part of something larger than themselves. Indeed, pr…
Von Gloeden’s Dog
After Weimar; Beyond Hirschfeld? Nostalgia, Hagiography and What Comes Next
The Weimar Republic looms large in the histories of queer liberation and sexual reform movements, both in Europe and transnationally. The promise of increased openness and plurality that shaped public discourse on a variety of issues in Germany’s first democracy was especially pronounced in the realms of sexual politics and gender identities. Within this progressive environment, the Institute for Sexual Science, established in Berlin in 1919, bec…
Christopher Ewing. The Color of Desire
Sociology (11 works) · Art (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · European history and politics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works)