Download or read book A Whore in Berlin written by Kimberley Wulf and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Street prostitution in Berlin (Germany)? I know what I´m talking about. I´ve made my own experiences in this business on Kurfürstenstraße (Berlin). This is my story!The clothes and gestures are the same in all women who stand along Kurfuerstenstraße (Berlin) around the clock. Potential clients are enticed with kisses, smart phones in one ear, tight miniskirts and unique gestures. F****ng and b***jobs are done in cars, behind bushes or in one of the w*** cabins. I stood there too, not so long ago. I kept my high heels on during a f***. Most clients came quicker then.I remember very well how my first client eja******** into my right hand for the first time. This happened nearly five years ago. I was quite surprised how little it bothered me. It was already clear to me then, that things weren´t going to stay like that forever. You only make money if you get f****d and do a good b***job.B***jobs of all variations turned quite quickly into my specialty deals. I used up a tremendous amount of lipsticks, because I used to reapply it to my lips very heavily after I got the job done.Bright red lips and gleaming white teeth soon became my trademark."Do you wanna f*** me?" was the way I would start a conversation with my clients.Kimberley:"This is all written and told from my own perspective. The police or a client may perceive and judge things very differently. The prostitutes themselves already have their own opinions. A 21-year old Bulgarian woman once told me: "What are you complaining about? It´s much better here for me than it was in Bulgaria. And it´s even better for you here than it is for me! The men are friendly and most of the time they aren´t even drunk. But nevertheless, I want to get away from here. I miss my kids. But for now, I have to stay here, because my husband lost me playing cards with a pimp. I don´t know what to expect when I get back to Bulgaria. I´ll probably be passed around my relatives. But I won´t get any money anymore for f***ing. I'm better off here. If it wasn´t for my kids, then I would never go back to Bulgaria. Berlin is fantastic!"Since 2002, prostitution is legal in Germany. This decision has turned our country into a pimp´s paradise and clients came from all over Europe.There are more working prostitutes in Germany than there are in Thailand. It is estimated that there are 400,000 women who prostitute themselves involuntarily or 'voluntarily'.Every single day, 1,200,000 men visit brothels or pick up a street prostitute. 15,000,000,000 Euros are made in Germany by women who sell s**. This is three times as much as Porsche´s sales.Between 2002 and 2014, the turnover nearly tripled. Mostly all of the money is unreported and back-handed and ends up somewhere in the channels of the organized crime.Berlin is the capital of prostitution, more so than Amsterdam.I will tell you about my time on Kurfürstenstraße.
Download or read book Berlin Coquette written by Jill Suzanne Smith and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the "Whore of Babylon." Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual clichés about prostitutes and actually explored complex visions of alternative moralities or sexual countercultures including the "New Morality" articulated by feminist radicals, lesbian love, and the "New Woman." Combining extensive archival research with close readings of a broad spectrum of texts and images from the late Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, Smith recovers a surprising array of productive discussions about extramarital sexuality, women’s financial autonomy, and respectability. She highlights in particular the figure of the cocotte (Kokotte), a specific type of prostitute who capitalized on the illusion of respectable or upstanding womanhood and therefore confounded easy categorization. By exploring the semantic connections between the figure of the cocotte and the act of flirtation (of being coquette), Smith’s work presents flirtation as a type of social interaction through which both prostitutes and non-prostitutes in Imperial and Weimar Berlin could express extramarital sexual desire and agency.
Download or read book Commodities of Desire written by Christiane Schönfeld and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commodities of Desire investigates the figure of the prostitute in modern German literature, from the Wilhelmine Empire to the Weimar Republic, and provides the social, legal and cultural contexts necessary for their interpretation.
Download or read book Berlin Coquette written by Jill Suzanne Smith and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the "Whore of Babylon." Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual clichés about prostitutes and actually explored complex visions of alternative moralities or sexual countercultures including the “New Morality” articulated by feminist radicals, lesbian love, and the “New Woman.” Combining extensive archival research with close readings of a broad spectrum of texts and images from the late Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, Smith recovers a surprising array of productive discussions about extramarital sexuality, women's financial autonomy, and respectability. She highlights in particular the figure of the cocotte (Kokotte), a specific type of prostitute who capitalized on the illusion of respectable or upstanding womanhood and therefore confounded easy categorization. By exploring the semantic connections between the figure of the cocotte and the act of flirtation (of being coquette), Smith’s work presents flirtation as a type of social interaction through which both prostitutes and non-prostitutes in Imperial and Weimar Berlin could express extramarital sexual desire and agency.
Download or read book Women in German Yearbook written by Women in German Yearbook and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 12 of Women in German Yearbook opens with a cluster of cross-disciplinary articles. Sara Lennox explores pertinent theoretical issues and introduces articles by historian Atina Grossman, sociologist Myra Marx Ferree, and political theorist Joan Cocks. Three subsequent articles focus on the nineteenth century: Todd Kontje challenges the notion that the Wars of Liberation renewed conservatism regarding gender, Irmela Marei Kr_ger-F_rhoff presents a new reading of the father-daughter relationship in Kleist?s Marquise of O . . . , and Helen G. Morris-Keitel describes the ?cultural work? of Louise Otto?s Castle and Factory. ø Barbara Hales analyzes the criminal femme fatale as evidence of Weimar Germany?s deep-seated discomfort with modernity; Kathrin Bower discusses poems by Nelly Sachs and Rose AuslÜnder as searches for the (M)other; Charlotte Melin analyzes gender differences in reworkings of the Alice in Wonderland motif; Helgard Mahrdt explores connections between Ingeborg Bachmann?s prose and the cultural criticism of the Frankfurt School; and Frederick A. Lubich interviews the writer Elisabeth Alexander. Two articles focus on cultural differences: Karen Jankowsky reads The Facade by Libuse Mon�kov¾, a Czech author writing in German, and Leslie Adelson discusses Eva Demski?s Afra in terms of Afro-German discourse. The volume closes with the editors? views on the yearbook?s role in creating an ?American Germanics.?
Download or read book The Politics of Prostitution in Berlin Alexanderplatz written by Nicole Shea and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz is an examination of the gradual disintegration of Germany in the aftermath of the Great War. This study engages the seminal image of the prostitute, the commodified woman, as a central and dominant motif in Döblin's work.
Download or read book The Weimar Republic Sourcebook written by Anton Kaes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduces (translated into English) contemporary documents or writings with an introduction to each section.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin written by Andrew Webber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an informative overview of literary developments in Berlin since 1750, with more detailed readings of exemplary key texts.
Download or read book Amity Sorrow written by Peggy Riley and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother and her daughters drive for days without sleep until they crash their car in rural Oklahoma. The mother, Amaranth, is desperate to get away from someone she's convinced will follow them wherever they go: her husband. The girls, Amity and Sorrow, can't imagine what the world holds outside their father's polygamous compound. Rescue comes in the unlikely form of Bradley, a farmer grieving the loss of his wife. At first unwelcoming to these strange, prayerful women, Bradley's abiding tolerance gets the best of him, and they become a new kind of family. An unforgettable story of belief and redemption, Amity & Sorrow is about the influence of community and learning to stand on your own.
Download or read book Berlin Cabaret written by Peter JELAVICH and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into Ernst Wolzogen's Motley Theater, Max Reinhardt's Sound and Smoke, Rudolf Nelson's Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaender's Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoff's rendering of a lower-class Berliner, Kurt Tucholsky's satirical songs, and Walter Mehring's Dadaist experiments, as Peter Jelavich spotlights Berlin's cabarets from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi regime brought it down. Fads and fashions, sexual mores and political ideologies--all were subject to satire and parody on the cabaret stage. This book follows the changing treatment of these themes, and the fate of cabaret itself, through the most turbulent decades of modern German history: the prosperous and optimistic Imperial age, the unstable yet culturally inventive Weimar era, and the repressive years of National Socialism. By situating cabaret within Berlin's rich landscape of popular culture and distinguishing it from vaudeville and variety theaters, spectacular revues, prurient nude dancing, and Communist agitprop, Jelavich revises the prevailing image of this form of entertainment. Neither highly politicized, like postwar German Kabarett, nor sleazy in the way that some American and European films suggest, Berlin cabaret occupied a middle ground that let it cast an ironic eye on the goings-on of Berliners and other Germans. However, it was just this satirical attitude toward serious themes, such as politics and racism, that blinded cabaret to the strength of the radical right-wing forces that ultimately destroyed it. Jelavich concludes with the Berlin cabaret artists' final performances--as prisoners in the concentration camps at Westerbork and Theresienstadt. This book gives us a sense of what the world looked like within the cabarets of Berlin and at the same time lets us see, from a historical distance, these lost performers enacting the political, sexual, and artistic issues that made their city one of the most dynamic in Europe.
Download or read book Ten Life Histories written by Jill Suzanne Smith and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an annotated translation into English of Zehn Lebensläufe Berliner Kontollmädchen und zehn Beiträge zur Behandlung der geschlechtlichen Frage (1905) [Ten Life Histories of Berlin Prostitutes under Police Control and Ten Contributions to the Management of the Sexual Question] by Dr. Wilhelm Hammer (1879-1940(?)). The author trained as a doctor in Freiburg and Berlin and worked as an assistant physician at the women's ward at the Berlin municipal homeless shelter in the Fröbelstrasse, where he recorded Ten Life Histories. Dr. Hammer wrote Ten Life Histories as a contribution to Grossstadt-Dokumente [Metropolis Documents], a sociological work in fifty volumes edited by Hans Ostwald (1873-1940) published between 1904 and 1908. In addition to its interest for prostitution research, Ten Life Histories sheds valuable light on aspects of cultural and social life in the German Empire of this period, particularly on the school system and the welfare institute and, more generally, on women's role in society at the time"--
Download or read book Tales of Berlin in American Literature up to the 21st Century written by Joshua Parker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the ways Berlin has been narrated across three centuries by some 100 authors. It presents a composite landscape not only of the German capital, but of shifting subtexts in American society.
Download or read book Representing Berlin written by Dorothy Rowe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlin, city of Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, cabaret and German Expressionism, a city identified with a female sexuality - at first alluring but then dangerous. In this fascinating study, Dorothy Rowe turns our attention to Berlin as a sexual landscape. She investigates the processes by which women and femininity played a prominent role in depictions of the city at the end of the nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries. She explores how in the aftermath of the horrors of World War I, increasing anxieties about the liberation of women and the supposed increase of female prostitution contributed to the demonization of the city not as a focus of desire and pleasure but rather as one of alienation and anxiety.
Download or read book Berlin Now written by Peter Schneider and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "longtime Berliner's ... exploration of the heterogeneous allure of this vibrant city. Delving beneath the obvious answers--Berlin's club scene, bolstered by the lack of a mandatory closing time; the artistic communities that thrive due to the relatively low (for now) cost of living--Schneider takes us on an insider's tour of this rapidly metamorphosing metropolis, where high-class soirees are held at construction sites and enterprising individuals often accomplish more without public funding--assembling a makeshift club on the banks of the Spree River--than Berlin's officials do"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Spatial Turns written by Jaimey Fisher and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2010 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase "spatial turns" signals the growing importance of space as an analytical as well as representational category for culture. The volume addresses such emerging modes of inquiry by bringing together, for the first time, essays that engage with spatial turns, spatiality, and the theoretical implications of both in the context of German culture, history, and theory. Migrating from fields like geography, urban studies, and architecture, the new centrality of space has transformed social-science fields as diverse as sociology, philosophy, and psychology. In cultural studies, productive analyses of space increasingly cut across the studies of literature, film, popular culture, and the visual arts. Spatial Turns brings together essays that apply a spatial analysis to German literature and other media and engages with specifically German theorizations of space by such figures as Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin. The volume is organized in four sections: "Mapping Spaces" addresses cartography in all forms and in its intersection with culture; "Spaces of the Urban" takes up one of the key sites of spatial studies, the city; "Spaces of Encounter" considers how Germany has become a contact zone for multiple ethnicities; and "Visualized Spaces" concerns the theorization of space in film and new media studies.
Download or read book Private Berlin written by James Patterson and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Berlin has the extraordinary pace and international sophistication that has powered The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Patterson's #1 bestseller The Postcard Killers. IN EUROPE'S MOST DANGEROUS CITY Chris Schneider is a superstar agent at Private Berlin, Germany headquarters for the world's most powerful investigation firm. He keeps his methods secret as he tackles Private's most high-profile cases-and when Chris suddenly disappears, he becomes Private Berlin's most dangerous investigation yet. AN INVESTIGATOR IS SEARCHING Mattie Engel is another top agent at Private Berlin, gorgeous and ruthlessly determined-and she's also Chris's ex. Mattie throws herself headfirst into finding Chris, following leads to the three people Chris was investigating when he vanished: a billionaire suspected of cheating on his wife, a soccer star accused of throwing games, and a nightclub owner with ties to the Russian mob. Any one of them would surely want Chris gone-and one of them is evil enough to want him dead. AND SHE'S AFTER MORE THAN THE TRUTH Mattie's chase takes her into Berlin's most guarded, hidden, and treacherous places, revealing secrets from Chris's past that she'd never dreamed of in the time they were lovers. On the brink of a terrifying discovery, Mattie holds on to her belief in Chris-in the face of a horror that could force all of Europe to the edge of destruction and chaos. James Patterson has taken the European thriller to a masterful new level with Private Berlin, an adrenaline-charged, spectacularly violent and sexy novel with unforgettable characters of dark and complex depths. Private Berlin proves why Patterson is truly the world's #1 bestselling author.
Download or read book Kitty s Salon written by Nigel Jones and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic - the city of Cabaret. But after the Nazis took power, it became something more dangerous: a spying centre with every room wired for sound, staffed by women agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients. Masterminded by Reinhard Heydrich, the spymaster whom Hitler himself called 'the man with the iron heart', the exclusive establishment turned listening post was patronised by the Nazi leaders themselves, not knowing that hidden ears were listening. One of the last untold stories of the Second World War, Salon Kitty's sensational true history is now revealed by historians Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner and Dr Julia Schrammel. After years of painstaking research and investigation, the story they tell sheds new light on Nazi methods of control and coercion, and the way that they used and abused sex for their own perverse purposes.
