Mahide Lein
Mahide Lein | |
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_at_Side_By_Side_2009.JPG) At the 2009 Side by Side Festival | |
| Born | 1949 (age 76–77) Höchst, Germany |
| Education | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Occupation | Activist |
Mahide Lein (born 1949) is a German LGBTQ+ activist, organiser and head of a concert agency. She has also campaigned for sex workers' rights and with the anti-psychiatric movement.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Lein was born in 1949 in Höchst and was raised as a Protestant.[1] She attended Goethe University Frankfurt.[citation needed]
Lein became involved with the New Women's Movement and ran the women's café Café Niedenau in a squatted house on Kettenhofweg in Frankfurt am Main from the 1970s.[2] The café hosted exhibitions, political discussions and concerts.[3] She was also one of the founders of the first lesbian centre in Frankfurt.[2]
After moving to Berlin, Lein is credited with shaping Berlin's lesbian scene in the 1980s and 1990s.[4][5] She was an organiser of the Berlin Christopher Street Day (CSD, Germany and Switzerland's counterpart to pride parades),[6] the anti-psychiatric Irren-Offensive Tribunals,[3] and the KultHur-Festival to promote sex workers' rights.[3]
During the 1990s, Lein worked with gay men on a Russian-German cultural exchange.[3] In May 1992, Lein, the German filmmaker and LGBTQ+ activist Andreas Strohfeldt and the Tschaikowsky Foundation in Saint Petersburg organised the first Russian CSD.[2]
Lein launched the lesbian magazine TV programme Läsbisch TV,[4][1] with 27 one-hour episodes broadcast on Berliner Kabel from 1991 to 1993.[2][7][8] She has also been interviewed for lesbian documentaries, commenting on "the problems of speaking openly about taboo desires in sexually less tolerant societies"[9] and on queer aging for Vice magazine.[10] She sat on the jury for the queer film prize TEDDY for two decades[2] and spoke at the 2nd Side by Side LGBT Film Festival in 2009.[citation needed]
Lein is the founder and head the international concert agency AHOI.[2][11][12]
Awards
[edit | edit source]- CSD Berlin Civil Courage Prize at CSD 2004[3][6]
- Rainbow Award given at Lesbian and Gay City Festival Berlin 2018[3][6][13]
She was also honoured with an award for her 75th birthday by the Berlin Music Commission.[14]
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