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June 11, 2024: Film Screening "Verbotenes Begehren"

Beginning at 6:00 PM at the Circus of Knowledge
(Doors open at 5:30 PM)

Vienna 1919: Margarethe Csonka (Christina Cervenka), a young middle-class daughter, is a lesbian and her parents send her to see Sigmund Freud (Karl Markovics).

 

[Translate to Englisch:] Filmstill Verbotenes Begehren ©© Foto: Paya/Vucsina/V-Set

They want him to "cure" her of her "forbidden desire" towards a scandalous baroness and high-class prostitute. Gretl, however, fights for her love and misleads the psychiatrist. Freud concludes that homosexuality can neither be treated - nor does it need to be.

Scenes from the film:

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[Translate to Englisch:] Ankathie Koi
[Translate to Englisch:] Gretl Csonka bei Freud
[Translate to Englisch:] Filmstill Verbotenes Begehren
[Translate to Englisch:] Gretl Csonka im Luftschutzkeller
[Translate to Englisch:] Caroline Frank als Irma Csonka
[Translate to Englisch:] Regisseur Fritz Kalteis mit Karl Markovics

Following the film:

A post-film discussion

with director Fritz Kalteis (Feature Film)
and
Johann Kirchknopf (enter for Queer History Vienna)

moderated by Elisabeth Greif (head of the JKU Department of Legal Gender Studies).

 

The Institute for Legal Gender Studies and the Department of Gender and Diversity Management would like to cordially invite you to attend the screening!

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