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Berlin also had a museum of sexuality during the Weimar period, at Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute of Sexology. [11] These were nearly all closed when the Nazi regime became a dictatorship in 1933. Artists in Berlin became fused with the city's underground culture as the borders between cabaret and legitimate theatre blurred.
Ruth Margarete Roellig (14 December 1878 – 31 July 1969) [1] was a German writer, she is known for documenting Berlin's lesbian club scene of the late 1920s during the Weimar Republic. [2] Additionally she published support of Nazism starting in the 1930s, and she stopped writing after the end of World War II.
Prostitution rose in Berlin and elsewhere in the areas of Europe left ravaged by World War I. This means of survival for desperate women, and sometimes men, became normalized to a degree in the 1920s. During the war, venereal diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhea spread at a rate that warranted government attention. [46]
Dietrich, who was bisexual, enjoyed the thriving gay bars and drag balls of 1920s Berlin. [93] [94] Bars included the Mali und Igel, run by Elsa Conrad. [95] She also defied conventional gender roles with her boxing at Turkish trainer and prizefighter Sabri Mahir's boxing studio in Berlin, which opened to women in the late 1920s.
Käthe "Kati" Reinhardt, born Katharina Erika Selma Reinhardt (23 September 1896 – 28 June 1987), was a German activist in the lesbian movement. She was a formative figure in Berlin's lesbian subculture from the time of the Weimar Republic to the early 1980s as an organizer of clubs, balls, and meetings, and as a bar operator.
This Women's History Month, take a look at vintage photographs that show what life was like at home and work for women in the 1920s. This Women's History Month, take a look at vintage photographs ...
The proliferation of German women sports pilots in the 1920s and early 1930s camouflaged the much larger scale quiet training of male sports pilots as future Luftwaffe officers. The overwhelmingly male aviation environment was hostile to the presence of women but reluctantly went along with the propaganda efforts.
Organizer and activist Lotte Hahm founded Damenklub ('ladies club') Violetta in Berlin after her arrival in Berlin in 1926. The word "Violetta" was a code word for lesbian. The club featured the "calling card ladies ball", "fashion shows for masculine women and transvestites", and singalongs of German LGBT pride anthem "The Lavender Song".