Bruno Schnabel and Hans Spors belong to a generation when homosexuality was still a punishable offense. For them, there were no terms like queer; instead, Paragraph 175, which criminalized “homosexual desire,” still applied. In the star the two over 70-year-olds tell their story.–
Bruno Schnabel and his husband Hans Spors live in the very north of Germany. You have chosen the island of Sylt as your retirement home. Spors is 76 years old, and 77 candles will soon be burning on his husband’s birthday cake. The two men only met a little later in life. Coincidentally. In a Sylt gay bar that no longer exists today.