Kaiserpassage

Title

Kaiserpassage

Subject

Passageway/Building Complex

Description

The Kaisergalerie was a passageway and building complex was full of many economic attractions, such as stores, performance venues and hotels, etc. It was also a hot spot for people hoping to solicit prostitution, as there were a wealth of sex workers who frequented the area. They were both male and female, though the female prostitutes were much more visible, while the male prostitutes (because of the stigma/illegality of homosexuality) were typically more discreet.

Image From: Kyllmann, Walter. Heyden, Adolf. Berlin: Kaisergalerie (Kaiserpassage/Lindenpassage). Photograph. Google Arts and Culture. 1930. https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/kaisergalerie-kaiserpassage-lindenpassage-walter-kyllmann/XAGPUx4L_5c5_g

Creator

Sam Vander Meulen

Source

Desocio, Domenic. "Queer Berlin Maps". University of Michigan. February 26, 2025. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/weitergeben/2023/03/14/maps/

Relation

Simmons, Sherwin. “Ernst Kirchner’s Streetwalkers: Art, Luxury, and Immorality in Berlin, 1913-16.” The Art Bulletin, vol. 82, no. 1, 2000, pp. 117–48. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3051367. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

Smith, Camilla. “Challenging ‘Baedeker’ Through the Art of Sexual Science: An Exploration of Gay and Lesbian Subcultures in Curt Moreck’s ‘Guide to “Depraved” Berlin’ (1931).” Oxford Art Journal, vol. 36, no. 2, 2013, pp. 231–56. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43826014. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.