A city tour along Berlin's edgiest streets with a local.

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Rates

Private Group (1 to 10 people) - 200€

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Duration

4 hours

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About

The tour starts at Nollendorfplatz, where the first memorial for the persecution of gays and lesbians was inaugurated back in the 1980s. It is also the heart of the Gay Village and it is in this neckof the woods, that Christopher Isherwood used to stay between 1929 and 1933. The building he lived in survived the war unscathed. From there, we zig-zag through the Village while I point out certain places, bars, clubs, etc. whose history has had some relevance to gay life in Berlin, like, for instance, the notoriously sleazy El Dorado nightclub, one of Berlin’s hottest tickets back in the 1920s, attracting Berliners and foreigners alike, among them Marlene Dietrich, no less!

Then we'll board the bus 100 to take us to the Spree-Ufer, where I'll show you the newly inaugurated memorial to the first Gay Emancipation Movement while also pointing out where exactly Magnus Hirschfeld's ground-breaking Institute for Sexual Research used to be located (its building no longer exists).

Then we'll walk back to the bus stop, taking the bus 100 to Brandenburg Gate, from where we'll walk to the Official Memorial for the Murdered Gays and Lesbians, designed by Dragset and Elmgreen. Walking over to Potsdamer Platz, we'll take the bus to Lützow Strasse, where our tour finishes at the world’s only Gay Museum, a museum dedicated to the Gay Movement in Berlin, but which also offers glimpses in gay life and gay movements around the globe and often showcases topics related to the gay community.

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Meeting Point

Nollendorfplatz, 10777 Berlin, Deutschland