: Berlin hosts a high concentration of professional fetish performers and "content creators" (sometimes called "queens" within their respective niches) who utilize the city's liberal environment to produce adult media and host private sessions. Safe Spaces and Privacy
In the winter of 2018, the three Queens met for the first and only time. The location was a disused flak tower in Humboldthain, repurposed as an illegal venue called Die Vertikale (The Vertical). The room was a concrete cylinder seven stories high, with an echo that lasted eleven seconds. berlin scat queens
She was the Queen of the Almost-There. She sang a duet once with a broken ventilator machine in a squatted chapel in Friedrichshain. The machine provided the rhythm— clunk-hiss, clunk-hiss —and Lina filled the gaps with shhh… tsss… bzzzz . It was two minutes of unbearable intimacy. Half the audience wept. The other half didn’t notice they were weeping until it was over. : Berlin hosts a high concentration of professional
Scat is the language of the throat before it learned to lie. It is the guttural launchpad— shoobedoo-wah —the bubble of the glottis, the pop of the lips, the hiss of a secret. In New Orleans, it was jazz’s happy idiot savant. In Berlin, it became something else: a weapon, a prayer, a last testament. The room was a concrete cylinder seven stories