Raimund Wolfert
Charlotte Charlaque: Transfrau, Laienschauspielerin,"Königin der Brooklyn Heights Promenade".
Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2021. First edition. 9783955654757 124 pages.
Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.25" x 8", is new.
"The life of the German-American Charlotte Charlaque (1892–1963) leads across the Atlantic several times - from Moravian Schönberg via Berlin, San Francisco and Prague to New York. As a Jew, Charlaque left Nazi Germany in 1934. Eight years later she made the life-saving “jump” to the USA. In New York, she became a dazzling celebrity as the uncrowned queen of the Brooklyn Heights waterfront. She now liked to call herself Charlotte von Curtius. But what not even her closest friends knew was that her new last name was a play on her old birth name. Because when Charlotte Charlaque was born, her parents assumed she was a boy and gave her the name Curt..."