Abstract (eng)
During the scientific construction of homosexuality at the end of the 19th and early 20th century, stereotypes (as the construction of images of others) of homosexuality emerged. This thesis, examining the German-speaking region, focuses not only on questioning which stereotypes about homosexual women were constructed in discourses of medicine, jurispru- dence and politics since the 1860s, but also on questioning their (dis-)continuities up to the time of National Socialism. Therefor the testing of the hypothesis is pursued that since the emergence of the sexual sciences, two stereotypes about homosexual women in particular have existed and that these have significantly shaped the discourses under National Social- ism. The sample of about 20 sources was composed of publications that can be considered representative for the respective period and includes, among others, works by Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Wenzeslaus von Gleispach, and Rudolf Lemke. The analysis of the sources is inspired by a qualitative content analysis according to Philipp Mayring. Based on the result- ing analysis tables, it will be shown that in sexual scientific publications between 1860 and 1920, the stereotype of the "real" and/or masculine homosexual woman was constructed, as well as the stereotype of the "pseudohomosexual" woman, but were received differently in discourses in the context of National Socialism.