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Passauer Straße 8-9, Berlin-Schöneberg. Former location of the "gentlemen's bar" Meine Schwester und Ich (English: My Sister and I). One of at least 2 bars of this name in Berlin; at Passauer Straße 8-9, Berlin-Schöneberg around 1978, and prior to that at Kurfürstendamm 211, Berlin-Charlottenburg.

 

The name of the bar was possibly a reference to the eponymous musical comedy by Ralph Benatzky which premiered at the Komödienhaus in Berlin in 1930, and/or to the film based thereupon Meine Schwester und Ich (1954).

 

An advertisement up-loaded to flickr.com allegedly dated 1978 states:

 

Meine Schwester und Ich (Eng.: My Sister and I)

Die persönliche HERRENBAR (Eng.: The personal GENTLEMEN'S BAR)

geöffnet von 21 bis ? Uhr (Eng.: open from 9:00 p.m. until ? o'clock)

Passauer Straße 8/9 1000 Berlin 30

Direkt am KaDeWe (Eng.: Right next to KaDeWe)

Tel.: 211 60 76

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