Café Gnosa
The Café Gnosa in Hamburg - St. Georg is a traditional café and has been a gay and lesbian meeting place that has meanwhile been known nationwide since the 1980s.
history
The café with its own pastry shop in the listed Langen Reihe 93 has existed since around 1900. Elli and Gerhard Gnosa took over it in 1939, and it has been named after that ever since. In keeping with contemporary tastes, it was dark, and curtains hung in front of the lead-glazed windows. After the Second World War , small dishes were also offered.
With the decline of St. George in the 1950s, the café's customers changed. It developed into a "housewife line" in which destitute women mainly offered themselves to sales representatives in order to prostitute themselves .
Elli Gnosa ran the café until 1987, most recently with her daughter as a pastry chef. With the sale, the appearance of the café changed little, but the windows facing the Lange Reihe were cleared and the curtains disappeared. There was also outside seating. The gay and lesbian scene in Hamburg became new customers. As the oldest still existing café in the Lange Reihe, it is now mentioned in travel guides. Exhibitions take place regularly in his rooms, for example Wolfgang Tillmans ' first solo exhibition in 1988.
Individual evidence
literature
- Rainer Ahlers: Sankt Georg book. Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-88506-059-8
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Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 31.7 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 46.1 ″ E