Title
Mikado
Subject
Transgender Club
Description
Mikado was a famous club where costume balls were held for trans (and cross dressing) women. Outside the club was also a known location for sex workers to wait and meet up with people. One of the first crossdressers at Mikado was someone called Sir Willibald von Sadler-Grün (better known as Baroness) where she arrived at the club “done to the nines like Marie Antoinette”, and sang a song written by a closeted German diplomat.
Under this source there are two still pictures and one audio file.
The first picture is an image of the Mikado Bar [black and white, chairs, tables, pictures on the wall].
The second picture is an image of “The Baroness” who sung while crossdressed in this institution [black and white picture of a person who is crossdressed as a woman in regal costume, much like Marie Antoinette].
The audio file is a recording of the song sung by the Baroness, sung here by Lotte Lehmann in 1926.
Under this source there are two still pictures and one audio file.
The first picture is an image of the Mikado Bar [black and white, chairs, tables, pictures on the wall].
The second picture is an image of “The Baroness” who sung while crossdressed in this institution [black and white picture of a person who is crossdressed as a woman in regal costume, much like Marie Antoinette].
The audio file is a recording of the song sung by the Baroness, sung here by Lotte Lehmann in 1926.
Source
Relation
Coverage
Weimar era Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Dates
1907-1933
Address
Puttkamerstraße 15 – Kreuzberg
Participants
Key People:
Sir Willibald von Sadler-Grün "The Baroness" - supposedly the first person to cross dress at the club (like Marie Antoinette) and it began to stick
Demographics:
“female cross-dressers to the Mikado” The Smart Set
“The people who ran these venues used images and code words, such as “mondän” (the German world for “worldly” or “sophisticated”), to reach LGBTQ people.” (ATAG)
“for trans women there was the legendary Mikado off Friedrich, raging strong since the imperial era” (TMN)
“sex workers thirty and up hanging outside the Mikado” (TMN)
Sir Willibald von Sadler-Grün "The Baroness" - supposedly the first person to cross dress at the club (like Marie Antoinette) and it began to stick
Demographics:
“female cross-dressers to the Mikado” The Smart Set
“The people who ran these venues used images and code words, such as “mondän” (the German world for “worldly” or “sophisticated”), to reach LGBTQ people.” (ATAG)
“for trans women there was the legendary Mikado off Friedrich, raging strong since the imperial era” (TMN)
“sex workers thirty and up hanging outside the Mikado” (TMN)