Dr. Marcel Strobel
@marcelstrobel.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of German at NC State University | UC Santa Barbara Alumni | Former Duane Rath Endowment Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | Queer German Studies | Queer Archives | Transgender Identities | Sexuality & the Holocaust
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Resisting Erasure and Reclaiming Queer Space: The Urban Crisis of Male Prostitution in Oswald and Hirschfeld’s Anders als die Andern
In 1919, one of the earliest cinematic landmarks that addressed homosexuality, Different from the Others, premiered in the Apollo Theater in Berlin. In their attempt to challenge the criminalization o...
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My book chapter on #MagnusHirschfeld and #AndersAlsDieAndern in the edited collection Urban Discourses of Crises and Resistance by @springer.springernature.com is finally available! #Queer #Weimar #Germany
In case you or someone you know is in Amsterdam this coming Friday. There will be a book event for the edited collection “Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World” (2025) at SPUI25. I contributed a chapter on queer rural amusement park space. Free registration below. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
Het platteland in verbeelding
De uitslagen van recente verkiezingen – nationaal, regionaal en internationaal – worden geduid met verwijzingen naar een toenemende kloof tussen stad en platteland. In hoeverre draagt de culturele, ...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
In case you or someone you know is in Amsterdam this coming Friday. There will be a book event for the edited collection “Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World” (2025) at SPUI25. I contributed a chapter on queer rural amusement park space. Free registration below. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
Babylon Berlin. Big Screen. Tuesday Nov 18. 6:30 PM. Auditorium. Hunt Library. @ncstate.bsky.social @ncsulibraries.bsky.social
Register FOR FREE here: calendar.ncsu.edu/event/global...
#BabylonBerlin
Register FOR FREE here: calendar.ncsu.edu/event/global...
#BabylonBerlin
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Babylon Berlin. Big Screen. Tuesday Nov 18. 6:30 PM. Auditorium. Hunt Library. @ncstate.bsky.social @ncsulibraries.bsky.social
Register FOR FREE here: calendar.ncsu.edu/event/global...
#BabylonBerlin
Register FOR FREE here: calendar.ncsu.edu/event/global...
#BabylonBerlin
Congratulations to @schuneke.bsky.social i can’t wait to read it 😍
My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books
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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Congratulations to @schuneke.bsky.social i can’t wait to read it 😍
Huge congratulations to @ankahajkova.bsky.social for publishing a quintessential book on queer Holocaust history 🥳 #queerhistory
The book is here! This morning the UPS delivered fresh off the press my second monograph, People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, published by @uoftpress.bsky.social translated by @williamrossjones.bsky.social and with a foreword by @jennifervevans.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Huge congratulations to @ankahajkova.bsky.social for publishing a quintessential book on queer Holocaust history 🥳 #queerhistory
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Thank you to all who came to the opening of my 1st show last night! It is wonderful to see all these faces I’ve gotten to know so well shown all together. I hope I did justice to their stories and that they would be happy. The display will be up for Sept. @thegallerybar in New Bedford, MA
September 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Thank you to all who came to the opening of my 1st show last night! It is wonderful to see all these faces I’ve gotten to know so well shown all together. I hope I did justice to their stories and that they would be happy. The display will be up for Sept. @thegallerybar in New Bedford, MA
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This is such an important book. Available now for pre-order at 30% off with the code E26JCMGZ
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Gay Print Culture: A Transnational History of North America
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September 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is such an important book. Available now for pre-order at 30% off with the code E26JCMGZ
www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...
www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...
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Excited to host Andrea Rottman this Friday! Join in person at UBC or over zoom!
CES is excited to announce our second annual Tobin Distinguished Lecture! Historian and author Dr. Andrea Rottmann will give a talk entitled "From Weimar to Berlin: Queer Democratic Citizenship through Hilde Radusch's Five Lives" on September 12, 12-1:30 PM in BuTo 225 and over Zoom. See you there!
September 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Excited to host Andrea Rottman this Friday! Join in person at UBC or over zoom!
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It is twenty years today since my first book Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-57 was published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social and I am feeling contemplative.
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Queer London
In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big ci...
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September 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It is twenty years today since my first book Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-57 was published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social and I am feeling contemplative.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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This fall the DDGC Queer and Trans Studies Research Coop will be hosting a cozy reading book club. Join us to read and discuss Blutbuch by Kim de l’Horizon! Dates and registration can be found here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration for Cozy Reading: Blutbuch by Kim de l’Horizon
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September 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This fall the DDGC Queer and Trans Studies Research Coop will be hosting a cozy reading book club. Join us to read and discuss Blutbuch by Kim de l’Horizon! Dates and registration can be found here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
My review of @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social fabulous book “Anders als die Andern” is finally out with @uoftpress.bsky.social! Go check it out, and purchase Ervin’s masterpiece if you haven’t done so! #queer #utp #bookreview #ervinmalakaj #andersalsdieandern #hotoffthepress
Ervin Malakaj. Anders als die Andern | University of Toronto Quarterly
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September 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
My review of @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social fabulous book “Anders als die Andern” is finally out with @uoftpress.bsky.social! Go check it out, and purchase Ervin’s masterpiece if you haven’t done so! #queer #utp #bookreview #ervinmalakaj #andersalsdieandern #hotoffthepress
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Friendlies: the fabulous comrades over at VPL have fixed the sound system. The event has been rescheduled: October 9! I'll introduce the film and the Magazinist duo will accompany the screening with a NEW score. Registration free and open to public.
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August 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Friendlies: the fabulous comrades over at VPL have fixed the sound system. The event has been rescheduled: October 9! I'll introduce the film and the Magazinist duo will accompany the screening with a NEW score. Registration free and open to public.
vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/68a5f...
vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/68a5f...
My book chapter on #MagnusHirschfeld and #AndersAlsDieAndern in the edited collection Urban Discourses of Crises and Resistance by @springer.springernature.com is finally available! #Queer #Weimar #Germany
Resisting Erasure and Reclaiming Queer Space: The Urban Crisis of Male Prostitution in Oswald and Hirschfeld’s Anders als die Andern
In 1919, one of the earliest cinematic landmarks that addressed homosexuality, Different from the Others, premiered in the Apollo Theater in Berlin. In their attempt to challenge the criminalization o...
link.springer.com
August 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
My book chapter on #MagnusHirschfeld and #AndersAlsDieAndern in the edited collection Urban Discourses of Crises and Resistance by @springer.springernature.com is finally available! #Queer #Weimar #Germany
My “Queer Germany” students had the privilege of speaking with film director Yony Leyser about his feature film, Desire Will Set You Free, yesterday. They demonstrated exceptional interviewing skills in the German language. I’m so proud of them! Think and Do! 🏳️🌈 @ncstate.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
My “Queer Germany” students had the privilege of speaking with film director Yony Leyser about his feature film, Desire Will Set You Free, yesterday. They demonstrated exceptional interviewing skills in the German language. I’m so proud of them! Think and Do! 🏳️🌈 @ncstate.bsky.social
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In spite of all the professional chaos lately, I'm pleased to see this piece out today in early view and open access in Unterrichtspraxis. It's the culmination of a couple of years of writing and thinking about these issues, which are more important now than ever. Out in print later this year!
Reframing Gender‐Inclusive Language in German Education: Politics, Pedagogy, and Possibilities
Recently in Germany the question of gender-inclusive language has become another front in the culture wars. Headlines portray these linguistic innovations as disruptive and unnecessary while politici...
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July 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
In spite of all the professional chaos lately, I'm pleased to see this piece out today in early view and open access in Unterrichtspraxis. It's the culmination of a couple of years of writing and thinking about these issues, which are more important now than ever. Out in print later this year!
I just earned my PhD from UCSB and am excited to join NC State as Assistant Professor of German this fall. So grateful to my committee—Patrice Petro, Leila Rupp, Catherine Nesci, and Ervin Malakaj—for supporting my dissertation Queering the Archive: Transgender Identities in Weimar and Nazi Germany.
August 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I just earned my PhD from UCSB and am excited to join NC State as Assistant Professor of German this fall. So grateful to my committee—Patrice Petro, Leila Rupp, Catherine Nesci, and Ervin Malakaj—for supporting my dissertation Queering the Archive: Transgender Identities in Weimar and Nazi Germany.
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My new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London is part of @waterstones.bsky.social summer promotion this week - 25% off pre-orders by entering SUMMER25 at the checkout.
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#WPreorder #history #London #20s30s #sevendials
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#WPreorder #history #London #20s30s #sevendials
July 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London is part of @waterstones.bsky.social summer promotion this week - 25% off pre-orders by entering SUMMER25 at the checkout.
www.waterstones.com/book/songs-o...
#WPreorder #history #London #20s30s #sevendials
www.waterstones.com/book/songs-o...
#WPreorder #history #London #20s30s #sevendials
So thrilled to share my book chapter on amusement parks and queer sexualities in the Midwest—a piece very close to my heart, and rooted in my own coming out as a gay man from Germany thanks to my time in the Midwest over a decade ago. #LGBTQ #Pride #QueerStories #Gay #Love
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Chapter 18 A Place Like No Other: Exploring the Relationship between Amusement Parks and Queer Men in the Midwest
Abstract This chapter investigates the queerness of rural amusement park spaces, challenging the assumption that queer spaces are exclusively urban. Through film analysis of Todd Stephens’s Edge of Se...
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July 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
So thrilled to share my book chapter on amusement parks and queer sexualities in the Midwest—a piece very close to my heart, and rooted in my own coming out as a gay man from Germany thanks to my time in the Midwest over a decade ago. #LGBTQ #Pride #QueerStories #Gay #Love
doi.org/10.1163/9789...
doi.org/10.1163/9789...
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Finally got around to displaying my author copies of Dancing with the Modernist City.
You can use University of Michigan Press’ discount code HOLIDAY24 to get 50% off any books here (press.umich.edu)!
@uofmpress.bsky.social
You can use University of Michigan Press’ discount code HOLIDAY24 to get 50% off any books here (press.umich.edu)!
@uofmpress.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Finally got around to displaying my author copies of Dancing with the Modernist City.
You can use University of Michigan Press’ discount code HOLIDAY24 to get 50% off any books here (press.umich.edu)!
@uofmpress.bsky.social
You can use University of Michigan Press’ discount code HOLIDAY24 to get 50% off any books here (press.umich.edu)!
@uofmpress.bsky.social