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I don't have a #Stolperstein in Ireland that I can clean today, but I can remember Expressionist poet and painter John Höxter, who has one on Hardenbergstraße 28a in #Berlin, in front of the new Romanisches Café. #KeinVerblassen 
Born 1884 in Hannover, he went to Berlin to study arts but soon immersed himself fully in the café scene around Ku’damm. Höxter became a permanent fixture of the Romanisches Café and was friends Else Lasker-Schüler, Renee Sintenins and Erich Mühsam.
He painted and composed lyric, had affairs with men and women (among them actresses Spela Albrecht and Emmy Hennings), and soon developed a lasting morphine addiction. Leo von König painted Spela and John together in 1909 under the title ‘Boheme-Café’.
