Hohenzoffern Hall / H-Lounge / Hohenzoffern-Café

Hohenzoffern Hall / H-Lounge / Hohenzoffern-Café

Lesbian cafe, club, lounge

The oldest lesbian café in the city. At one point it featured an all-male cabaret, for lesbians only. Its atmosphere was "easygoing [and] somewhat faded", with blacked-out picture windows (to hide the interior from prying eyes) and large restaurant-style booths with padded chairs; its clientele mainly consisted of "married" lesbian couples, many of them older women, conversing over coffee while a gay duo performed pop music on violin and piano or accordion. Occasionally social dances or box-steps would be danced. Men were tolerated in the establishment and sometimes danced with the femmes/Mädis, always requesting permission first from the Mädis' "Daddies"/Bubis/butches. (Gordon 2006, 280)

Priscilla Lagunas and Jean Patton

University of Michigan, Gay Berlin Institutions List

Gordon, Mel. 2006. Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin. Expanded ed. Feral House.

English

Weimar Berlin, Germany - Berlin West, near Nollendorfplatz

1921-1933

Bülowstrasse 101, Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany

"married" lesbian couples, older women, gay musicians, male dancers, straight men