Forgotten Fun: Recollecting the Working-Class Pleasurescape of Hamburg's East End, 1880s-1950s. (November 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Just, Alina L.
• Other Names: Kosok Lisa guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of urban history. Volume 48:Number 6(2022)
• Page Start: 1281
• Page End: 1303
• Publication Date: 2022-11
• Subjects: entertainment -- public pleasures -- port city -- East End -- working class -- pub culture -- inland skippers -- emigrants -- civil associations; Cities and towns -- History -- Periodicals; 909.09732
• DOI: 10.1177/00961442221089873
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0096-1442

Abstract

In the early twentieth century, St. Pauli was not the only place in Hamburg to go to have fun. In the city's East End, a wide range of pubs, clubs, and ballrooms turned working-class quarters into a vibrant pleasurescape. Based on historical-topographic and archival research, this paper explores eastern Hamburg's forgotten pleasurescape with the aim of drawing attention to pleasure culture as a social driving force and of redressing the balance in the city's one-sided history of pleasure culture. In the course of the study, the term "pleasurescape" is more clearly nuanced and geo-spatial historical mapping further explored as a tool for urban history.