Felicitas Schirow

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Felicitas Schirow , b. Weigmann , (born June 14, 1957 ) is a German prostitute and prostitution activist.

For the first time, Schirow gained more public attention because of a lawsuit she had requested by the Berlin district office of Wilmersdorf to close her brothel , the Café Pssst! , and won with the judgment of the Berlin Administrative Court on December 1, 2000. In the judgment of the court it was said that prostitution is no longer to be regarded as immoral today, that there has been a change in values. Although the district office of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf filed an application for approval of the appeal against the judgment in February 2001, Schirow received the concession for its operation again in October 2002. The judgment can be regarded as a precedent and is considered significant for the coming into force of the Prostitution Act, which came into force on January 1, 2002 .

Schirow gained further notoriety through her public engagement against the social discrimination of prostitution and for its political and legal recognition as a profession. In this context, she appeared several times on talk shows and gave interviews in the press.

After Café Pssst! Due to rent and tax debts in 2015, Schirow has been working as a prostitute again since 2017.

She is married but separated from the father of her son (* 2008), whom she received via egg donation . Schirow is the half sister of Diane Weigmann .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the district office of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in Berlin: "Café Pssst" against the State of Berlin, February 28, 2001 (accessed on September 2, 2009)
  2. ↑ Felicitas Schirow (59) Berlin's most famous whore - all dreams fizzle out berliner-kurier.de from June 18, 2017, accessed on September 27, 2019
  3. ↑ Why buy a noble prostitute (60) again bild.de from December 28, 2017, accessed on September 27, 2019
  4. ↑ Pssst! It's a boy bz-berlin.de from March 12, 2008, accessed on August 13, 2019
  5. ↑ Broadcast »3 nach 9« from Radio Bremen on April 7, 2006 (last accessed on May 25, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Shirov, Felicitas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weigmann, Felicitas (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prostitute, entrepreneur and brothel operator
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1957