Umsonst Gelebt Walter Schwarze

This film is part of a series of films on gay men who survived the Nazi era I met Walter Schwarze when he was already in his eighties My camera recorded his first public account of his fiveyear incarceration as a homosexual at Sachsenhausen concentration camp He was in his fifties when he met Ali in his hometown of Leipzig the two men became partners and remained close until his demise And yet Walter told me he felt he had lived in vain because he had not had the good fortune of todays gays who are able to grow up in freedom Walter Schwarze died of cancer on May 10 1998 Rosa von Praunheim