Finkenbude
The Finkenbude was a restaurant in the city of Altona , which was notorious for its seedy audience. The restaurant was located at Finkenstraße 13 near the Nobistor and was a so-called "Penne", which meant that there were low-quality overnight accommodations available here at low prices.
Name, location and location
It seems obvious that the owner, a certain A. Stuhlmann, named the Finkenbude after the street in which it was located, but it is not certain. The term “finch” was used to refer to crooks in the Rotwelsch , male prostitutes worked on the so-called “finch line” and the remuneration for bought love in Hamburg was already known as “finch money” in the Middle Ages. The dubious meaning of the word was also borne out by the verse:
The finches are beating
The noise is there
And no one can say
how it happened
The finch booth was regularly searched by the police. From the outside, the restaurant gave the impression of a storage room; inside there were few tables and benches, but no chairs. Overnight guests could spend the night in a back room. The Finkenbude was probably closed in the mid-1930s and demolished on December 15, 1936.
Cultural reception
Kurt Tucholsky described a visit to the Finkenbude in 1927 under his pseudonym “Peter Panter” in the Vossische Zeitung :
“In the 'Finkenbude' (Finkenstrasse), when we entered, that fast, cool draft of air whizzed through the restaurant that always wafts through when people enter who have no business there - an inaudible bell signal goes telepathically through the room 'Attention ! Polente! ' And then people look so at ease, and the card players play so eagerly and so harmlessly and everyone is so busy ... "
In his 1958 log book of Satans , a story of piracy, Hans Leip compared the conditions in Nassau , which was shaped by scattered pirates, at the beginning of the 18th century with the finch booth, in which the implicitly low official control was even more significant than in the city on New Providence .
literature
- Jochen Wiegandt (Ed.): Hamburger Liederbuch Lieder and Lexikon , Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich, 2001, ISBN 3-935549-13-X
Web links
- The Finkenbude around 1930 , photographed by Emil Puls .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Barbara Müller-Wesemann in J. Wiegandt (Hrsg.): Hamburger Liederbuch Lieder and Lexikon. Munich 2001, p. 53.
- ↑ Peter Panter: On the Reeperbahn at half past twelve . In: Vossische Zeitung . Ullstein, Berlin, August 19, 1927 ( PDF online ).
- ^ Mary Gerold , Fritz J. Raddatz (ed.): Kurt Tucholsky Collected Works Volume 5 1927 . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989, p. 282.
- ^ Tucholsky - Hamburg: On the Reeperbahn at half past twelve. In: textlog.de. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
- ↑ Hans Leip: Log of Satans . Arthur Moewig Verlag, Rastatt 1986, ISBN 3-8118-2349-3 , p. 66.