Sauhund

In the organizer's words:

Off to a new life!

Bavaria, early 80s. Franz Josef Strauß, Freddie Mercury and Rainer Werner Fassbinder all live at the same time in a pulsating Munich of contradictions.

The beginnings of the HIV pandemic fuel the stigmatization of homosexual people. During this time, young Flori grows up in Wolfratshausen. He does community service in an old people's home, experiences his first love and discovers a fascination for women's clothes in a department store. Soon his longing for the big city grows stronger and Flori embarks on a painful yet liberating journey. Into a new life, a life in the metropolis of Munich and an openly gay life.

Director Florian Fischer, who has repeatedly dealt with queer stories in productions at Schauspielhaus Bochum and NT Gent, celebrates a lost Munich in a visually powerful way. Lion Christ's debut novel is a humorous and emotional plea for solidarity in the queer scene and for friendship between the generations.

"What particularly fascinates me about Munich in the 80s is the ambivalence. Munich was considered a gay party city, had flair, was sometimes magnanimously mentioned in the same breath as San Francisco or New York, you could sometimes run into the arms of Freddie Mercury, Barbara Valentin or Donna Summer on the dance floor. On the other hand, the city also became increasingly queer-hostile due to Bavarian AIDS policy, a place of repression. Flori from my novel also moves through this field of tension."

- Lion Christ, writer