Tuntenball

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Tuntenball , often in the plural Tuntenbälle , even after Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Urnings- and Urnindenbälle are ball-like dance festivals, most of which have events in Berlin more than a hundred and twenty years of tradition. Though it is more common in big cities , it was not unknown in the province . The audience made a distinction between gay and lesbian events: while brisk couleur students often appeared at the lesbian events with mighty prestige throws, mercenaries , fat mendicants or sailors populated the ballroom, large female rococo robes made of taffeta and silk were more common at the gay balls see, high-backed hairstyles with matching hats and an impressive perfume.

Time Before Stonewall (1969)

Probably the first film recordings of a tuna ball from the time before Stonewall can be found in Anders als die Andern , a film by Richard Oswald on the subject of homosexuality from 1919. Scenes from the film Taxi to the toilet by Frank Ripploh, shot in 1980, play on the Berlin tuna ball .

With interruptions after the Harden-Eulenburg affair and during the entire period of National Socialism (with a flare-up during the 1936 Olympics), such events were regularly held, especially in the winter months of the 20th century. A distinction was made between masked balls, orchestra balls and debutante balls. In the time of the turn of the century before the First World War and in the twenties , the Tuntenballs were social highlights, at which social celebrities also frequented.

Time after Stonewall

At the beginning of the 1970s, the innkeeper Andreas Höhne (actually: Willi Höhne; owner of "Andreas' Kneipe" on Wittenbergplatz) and Arthur, then operator of the Kalesche, started the Berlin Tuntenball in Walterschen's Ballhaus at Bülowstraße 37. After Walterschen's Ballhaus was demolished in 1975, the Tuntenball moved to the Neukölln “New World”. From 1978, Andreas Höhne organized the Tuntenball without Arthur. Continued in 1979 in the newly opened Berlin ICC - Hildegard Knef was a comeback guest star - this became a cult ball every year at the beginning of the season in November. The celebrations were held in the ICC until 1995, and from 1996 in the Palais am Funkturm . In 1998 it was canceled - too high costs, too few guests. As a small legacy of the Tuntenball in Berlin was the "Fummelball", which took place six times until 2000, including in the Universal Hall in Moabit. Events such as the “Rainbow Ball”, held in the Schöneberg town hall in 2001, no longer succeeded in continuing this tradition. Since the 1990s , a tune ball has been held every year on December 25th in the Hirscheneck pub collective in Basel .

After the emergence of the second gay movement , which initially rejected commercial events with a strong political left, Tuntenballs were more and more replaced by large discos such as Heaven in London or - smaller - the Metropol and Lipstick as well as Die Busche in Berlin.

In Vienna, too, tunten balls were guaranteed in the 1920s under the name “Lila Redoute” in the “Myrthenhof”. In the 1960s there was the “Bal Parée” in the “Kopernikusstüberl” in Corneliusgasse, as the “Nightshift” was still called back then.

present

Tunten balls as masked balls on a large scale are rare. The Hamburg Tuntenball, which took place for the 28th time in 2011 after a five-year break and was announced for 2012, can look back on a certain continuity. The explicitly non-commercial tune ball has a certain tradition in Freiburg.

In Austria the Tuntenball started in Graz in 1990 in the university canteen of the ÖH Graz and over the years has developed into a high point of the ball season in the Graz Congress with a wide audience. It is organized by the RosaLila Panthers . The Viennese Life Ball with its glamorous costumes, which has been taking place since 1993, also emerged from the tradition of the tuna balls . The Vienna Rose Ball, which has been taking place since 1992 , began as a mixture of clubbing and tuna ball.

literature

  • Berliner Zeitung of October 30, 2001, p. 21

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crouch down, 800 he! In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1975, pp. 173 ( Online - Nov. 24, 1975 ).