Weisse Maus
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The Weisse Maus (White Mouse) opened in 1919, at Jägerstraße 18 in the busy Friedrichstadt area of Berlin, famous for it’s numerous cabaret clubs and revue theatres.
It is rumoured to have acquired it’s name as it was across the Friedrichstraße from Rudolph Nelson’s cabaret Chat Noir (The Black Cat.)
It is described as a “beautiful 98-seat cabaret venue with a curtained stage” and was frequented by all manner of people from travelling salesmen on expense accounts to members of the criminal fraternity, alongside elderly couples from the provinces and a smattering of Berlin intellectuals.
In addition to the standard cabaret fare, naked ‘beauty dances’ were staged after midnight, with the proprietor Peter Sachse insisting before each performance that there was absolutely no pornographic content ” We come here for beauty alone”
Customers who wished to conceal their identities were given a choice of a black or white mask to wear.
