Gin Müller, Birgit Peter, and the Sodom Vienna team (Denice Bourbon, Thomas Hörl, Larissa Kopp, Peter Kozek, Elise Mory, Denise Palmieri, Stefanie Sourial, Florian Aschka, and more) with DJ Drehli Robnik

Sodom Vienna. A Queer Tour of the Red Vienna Era

A Book Release Party with Live Acts and a Lot of Music

brut nordwest
book presentation / Performance / Live Acts in German and English
{Red Vienna era} {Queer history} {Book release party}

SODOM VIENNA initiator Gin Müller and circus scholar Birgit Peter proudly present their book Sodom Vienna. Queer durch das Rote Wien (‘Sodom Vienna. A Queer Tour of the Red Vienna Era’), published by Edition Atelier. The book release party will feature live acts by performers of the SODOM VIENNA team, including Denise Palmieri, Denice Bourbon, Stefanie Sourial, and piano music by Elise Mory, before continuing with DJ Drehli Robnik – shifting the emphasis to the ‘party’ part.

, © Sarah Hauber

Denice Bourbon und Gin Müller mit Veza Fernández, Hyo Lee, Denise Palmieri, Stefanie Sourial, Alex Franz Zehetbauer u. a. – Sodom Vienna 

, © Sarah Hauber

Denice Bourbon und Gin Müller mit Veza Fernández, Hyo Lee, Denise Palmieri, Stefanie Sourial, Alex Franz Zehetbauer u. a. – Sodom Vienna 

, © Sarah Hauber

Gin Müller und Denice Bourbon – Sodom Vienna 

from left to right: Alex Franz Zehetbauer, Hyo Lee, Denise Palmieri, Veza Fernández, Gin Müller, background in the middle: Denice Bourbon, background above: Stefanie Sourial 

In their book Sodom Vienna. Queer durch das Rote Wien (‘Sodom Vienna. A Queer Tour of the Red Vienna Era’), published by Edition Atelier, Gin Müller and Birgit Peter discuss the collective SODOM VIENNA that, based on the utopia of the Red Vienna era in the 1920s and 1930s, stages contemporary Vienna as a queer-feminist, anti-racist city. The book highlights an artistic election campaign for more political visibility, shows how the Freud Museum was transformed into the SODOM VIENNA Gay House. Don’t forget the spectacular Circus Sodomelli and the SODOM VIENNA REVUE beaming historic 1920s personalities into the present. Not least, the book offers numerous trips to the Prater’s queer past, to the Old Danube, and a lot more. Denise Palmieri, Denice Bourbon, Thomas Hörl, Peter Kozek, Stefanie Sourial, Larissa Kopp, and other SODOM VIENNA performers will accompany the book release with a sodomite class struggle hymn and various performances, with Elise Mory on piano. DJ Drehli Robnik will continue the party according to SODOM VIENNA’s campaign slogan: Make Vienna a great pleasure hole!

Credits

Featuring Gin Müller, Birgit Peter, Elise Mory, Denise Palmieri, Stefanie Sourial, Denice Bourbon, Peter Kozek, Thomas Hörl, Larissa Kopp, Florian Aschka, Drehli Robnik and more

An event in collaboration with Edition Atelier publishing house: www.editionatelier.at

Verein zur Förderung der Bewegungsfreiheit, funded by the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs.

Dates & Tickets

December 2023

Fri. 08.12.2023, 20:00
Fully booked!

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Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
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