Abstract

The cafés of Kurfürstendamm enjoy iconic status in the history of both Berlin and the Weimar Republic. They drew a liberal, cosmopolitan, and tolerant public. Conservatives denounced them as places of permissiveness, decadence, and decline.

Café Wien on Berlin’s Kurfürstendamm, with the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the Background (1929)

Willy Römer

Source

Source: Café Wien on Kurfürstendamm, with the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church [Gedächtniskirche] in the Background, 1929. Photographer: Willy Römer.
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Recommended Citation

Café Wien on Berlin’s Kurfürstendamm, with the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the Background (1929), published in: German History in Documents and Images, <https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/weimar-germany-1918-1933/ghdi:image-4184> [March 16, 2026].