Oswalt Kolle (2 October 1928, in

Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland ...

– 24 September 2010, in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...

Oswalt Kolle, German sex education pioneer, dead at 81
Retrieved 3 October 2010.) was a German

sex educator Sex education, also known as sexual education, sexuality education or sex ed, is the instruction of issues relating to human sexuality, including emotional relations and responsibilities, human sexual anatomy, sexual activity, sexual reproduc ...

, who became famous during the late 1960s and early 1970s for his numerous pioneering books and films on

human sexuality Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually. This involves biological, psychological, physical, erotic, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors. Because it is a broad term, which has varied ...

. His work was translated into all major languages, while his films found an audience of 140 million worldwide. In his 1997 book ''Open to Both Sides'' he

came out Coming out of the closet, often shortened to coming out, is a metaphor used to describe LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity. Framed and debated as a privacy issue, coming out of ...

as bisexual.Rolf Gindorf
Laudation for Oswalt Kolle
. Retrieved 4 October 2008. He was awarded the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal in 2000. He had lived in the relatively more sexually liberal city of

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

since the 1970s with his three children to escape harassment of his family by conservative German journalists, and was also a Dutch citizen. His wife died in 2000.

References

External links

* 1928 births 2010 deaths Bisexual men Bisexual writers German emigrants to the Netherlands German sexologists LGBT writers from the Netherlands LGBT writers from Germany Writers from Kiel Sex educators German male writers {{Germany-writer-stub