Original title: "Charlotte Charlaque. Transfrau, Laienschauspielerin. Königin der Brooklyn Heights Promenade" (Charlotte Charlaque: Trans woman, amateur actress. Queen of Brooklyn Heights Promenade) by Raimund Wolfert.
The life of the German-American Charlotte Charlaque (1892–1963) crosses the Atlantic several times – from Schönberg to 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 "leap" 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 surname was an allusion to her old birth name. Because when Charlotte Charlaque was born, her parents assumed she was a boy and gave her the name Curt ... And she was not the only one.