Beate Uhse Erotic Museum

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Beate Uhse Erotic Museum, 2011

The Beate Uhse Erotic Museum was from 1996 to 2014 a museum on the subject of eroticism and the life of Beate Uhse in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg .

history

The museum was opened by Beate Uhse on January 19, 1996 and was located in City West in the Leineweberhaus on the corner of Kantstrasse and Joachimsthaler Strasse , near the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church between Kurfürstendamm and Zoo station .

The privately run museum, located above a Beate Uhse sex shop , showed around 5000 examples of eroticism from all times and peoples on two floors with 1800 m² of exhibition space .

The museum closed in August 2014, and the sex shop under the museum rooms was also closed on September 14, 2014.

A reopening at a new location was initially aimed for, but could not be realized in view of the market development. In the 2015 annual report, a loss in value of 1.2 million euros was determined for the exhibits .

On January 25, 2020, over 500 former exhibits from the Beate Uhse Erotic Museum were auctioned off by the Historia auction house.

exhibition

The exhibition showed Japanese and Chinese picture scrolls from the last centuries, Indian miniatures, Persian harem scenes , phallic motifs and an original phallic shrine from Japan. Fertility sculptures came from Indonesia , and dance and genital masks from Africa . Mostly erotic graphics and the first condoms came from Europe . The erotic work of Heinrich Zille was expanded especially for Berlin and the life of Magnus Hirschfeld was given special praise. The world's first pornographic films from France , Bohemia and Hungary were shown in a cinema . There was also an insight into the life of the entrepreneur who founded the world 's first sex shop after the Second World War .

See also

Web links

Commons : Beate Uhse Erotic Museum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beate Uhse opens the Erotic Museum. In: Neues-Deutschland.de. January 9, 1996, accessed January 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ January 19, 2006 - Ten years ago: Opening of the Berlin Erotic Museum. In: 1.WDR.de. January 19, 2006, accessed January 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Erotic Museum pulls on the Tauentzien. In: BZ-Berlin.de. August 27, 2014, accessed November 13, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Beate Uhse in Berlin-Charlottenburg: Erotic Museum withdrawn from circulation. In: tagesspiegel.de . August 8, 2014, accessed December 13, 2017 .
  5. ^ Annual report of Beate Uhse AG 2015. In: Beate Uhse AG website . Retrieved December 13, 2017 .
  6. ^ 147th auction of the auction house Historia . In: Katalog.Historia.de. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Stefanie Hildebrandt: Action House auctions Beate Uhse exhibits. In: Berliner-Kurier.de. January 25, 2020, accessed January 26, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 19.8 ″  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 53 ″  E