In the nineties the radical left intensified their discussion about patriarchism and sexism, especially within their own lines. These debates also took place in the Flora. Many of them concentrated specifically on the habits of some particular men, who we cannot and will not repeat here. Even so, there are a few conflicts connected with the Flora that do have to be mentioned. The general perception of the Flora was broadly painted by its positions and its influence in the sexism debates in the 80s.

The exhibition "World War III"

In the summer of 1990, an exhibition of comic stories made by American artists had been organised in the Flora by Flora activists. One of the stories took place in New York featuring a looser as the main character, who hangs around, sleeps with a prostitute and then gets beaten up by her pimp. One drawing shows the sexual act in progress along with a depiction of the penis. That image ended up with a censorship sticker and the penis was cut off.
The responsibility for that action was taken by a women's group, who pointed to the Flora as being yet another area ingrained by sexism. The organisers of the exhibition called for an open discussion, which did not take place. In spite of that, several flyers appeared whose contents ranged between ignorance against sexism, common misunderstandings and reproaches of anti-lustism. The majority of the people who were involved in this process left the Flora. The author of the flyer "some men" was thrown out and the organizer of the exhibition drew back in frustration. The groups associated to woman and lesbian projects increased their distance towards the Flora.

"Heiter bis Wolkig"(title of the group: transl. -sunny to cloudy): there's a scandal in town.
Since the end of the 1980s, there was a group of Cologne comedians touring around the country who liked to poke fun at internal conflicts within the scene, which was even noticed by the opponent's press. In February 1994, "Heiter bis Wolkig" once again had a live performance in the flora. At the time their programme included a persiflage of the "Lindenstraße", a German daily soap, in which one of the protagonists (Father Beimer) was being penetrated by a broom stick.
Some people in the audience were not only surprised and irritated by that scene, but also by the reactions of the overwhelmingly male public, who yelled comments at the event such as "deeper, deeper" and so on. A number of the irritated people climbed on to the stage in order to express an opinion that in their eyes a lot of shit was going on.
Consequentially, they were asked to leave the stage for interrupting the "fun". Following that, they came together with some other audience members and insisted on stopping the event.
The subsequent discussion was mainly reduced to the fact that there was an offensive scene of rape in this performance. Afterwards. in other towns such as Hanover, there were also actions against the band. In Hamburg the situation escalated when a feminist censorian commando attacked the St. Pauli football clubs fan shop with butanoic acid and posters. This occurred in reaction to publications in the fans magazine "ÜBERSTEIGER", where the activism against "Heiter bis Wolkig" had been criticised.
All this led to a rupture in the entire scene. On the one side were those who saw in "Heiter bis Wolkig" a spearhead against anti-lustism and politically correct thinking. On the other were the party who claimed that the whole event proved the existence of sexism within the scene and the missing discussion about it. And of course in the middle stood the majority: people who were either uninterested and indifferent, or who did not want to side with either one of these fractions.
A further escalation of the conflict was achieved when one member of a Paderborn women's group accused a member of "Heiter bis Wolkig" of having raped a woman. That in turn led to a final ban against the group which was not carried out by the whole of the scene. Hand in hand with the boycott against the satirical comedian Wiglaf Droste, which also took place between 1994 and 1995, the scene was set for groups to accuse each other of betraying leftist ideals. Within the Flora, the position about "Heiter bis Wolkig" and sexism was nearly completely homogeneous: The group was taken for a sexist one and was being put under boycott.
Quarrels with the fan shop were followed by an estimation of the Flora as a home for Stalinistic ZK-Dogmatics by certain circles within Hamburgian scene.

Further than that....
The Flora could be looked upon as very well sensitized in regards to sexism. Again and again there are quarrels relating to certain persons, about moods or propaganda for the parties. There is also the fact that between plenum and users is an obvious gap.
When in march 1995 the "love Thank Sound system" organized a party which was published with MoPo-sex-ads in the background, the plenum decided to boycott the party and to put other posters over there existing advertisements all around the Schanzenviertel. In ignorance of the action, the party was well visited, demonstrating to the plenum that it actually spoke for very few people. This caused, among other consequences, the dissolution of the Flora plenum in the Summer of 1995.