Visual media such as magazines, photographs, posters or films were not only an expression of profound social, political and cultural upheavals and conflicts after World War I, but also acted as multipliers. As spaces for negotiating current debates and indications of new social developments especially with regard to contemporary gender concepts and/or the thematization of sexual desire they also created an experimental field for social, cultural and political movements and encounters. The contributions in this present issue deal with various visual media of the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on commercial and artistic practices as well as the producers and consumers of visual culture. They examine forms, types of manifestations, motives and figures that circulated in this context, as well as production and reception spaces and their emancipatory potential.