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Berlin's History of Sex in Augmented Reality
Joined 2023
Discover the unbelievable history of sexuality in Berlin in this one-of-a-kind guided city tour with Augmented Reality elements! Delve deeper into the colorful world of sexuality in this city with a trained sociologist, certified sex educator, and Berlin local on a unique walking tour that hits spots you just won’t find in the guidebook.
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
At your hotel or right in front of the palace
Meeting point
At your hotel or right in front of the palace
Schloss Bellevue
Introduction
Nudism from the mid-19th century to the present day (focus on 1920s)
Magnus-Hirschfeld-Ufer
Brief overview of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, “the world’s first gay man”
Brief overview of Magnus Hirschfeld, §175 and the world’s first organization for LGBTQIA+ rights
Feminism, Johanna Elberskirchen and Helene Stöcker
Hirschfeld’s theory of sexual intermediaries
Intersexuality
Early trans identities
Dora Richter, Lili Elbe, Karl M. Baer and the world’s first gender affirmation surgeries
The Institute for Sexual Science
The Sex Museum
Precursors to Viagra
The destruction of the Institute by the Nazis
Hirschfeld’s death, his legacy and post-colonial critique
Memorial to the Persecuted Queers under National Socialism
Ernst Röhm and Hitler’s attitude to homosexuality
The Night of the Long Knives
LGBTQIA+ people in the concentration camps
Kurfürstenstraße
Sex work, kinks and fetishes in the Roaring Twenties
Schwerinstraße
Lesbian life in Berlin in the 1920s
the lesbian club Toppkeller
the Lavender Song
Claire Waldoff
Josephine Baker, bisexuality and racism
Nollendorfstraße
Christopher Isherwood in gay Berlin
From Isherwood’s novels to the cabaret musical
Speisekammer im Eldorado
The Eldorado as the Berghain of the 1920s, Drag and the so-called “Transvestites”
Ernst Röhm at the Eldorado
Vogue magazine’s search for “Berlin’s most beautiful woman”
International Stele Always Remember
LGBTQIA+ Emancipation Movements in West and East Berlin
The sexual revolution and sexual satisfaction in West and East Germany
Nudism in the GDR
Rita Süssmuth and the AIDS crisis
Nollendorfplatz
Folsom Europe
Sexual Clubs
Kit Kat Club
Insomnia
Berghain
Bunker & Snax
Ostgut
Elon Musk
the no-photo policy of Berlin clubs
Sexuality at Berghain
the Lab.Oratory, Snax parties today and Lady Gaga
Ending point
At your hotel or at Nollendorfplatz
Ending Point
At your hotel or at Nollendorfplatz
Want to personalize this tour?
This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.
Inclusions & Exclusions
guide fee
ticket for public transport
Tour Important Information
Pick-up only for hotels within the "Ring" (within the S-Train track circling the city center). We can start the tour any time between 9 am and 6 pm.
Important message from the supplier
My availability varies weekly, and I require a request first, which I can then confirm or decline (offering an alternative).
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
Joined 2023
About Tour Guide Jeff M.
I am a social scientist, speaker, tour guide, sex educator, and freelance writer born in Luxembourg-City, Luxembourg and living in Berlin, Germany.
I studied sociology and gender studies (B.A.) in Trier and Göttingen (Germany). I focussed my studies mainly on human sexualities, queer studies, and human-animal relations. In Berlin, I finished a training to become a certified sex educator in 2023.
I have more than ten years of experience as a freelance writer and public speaker. I have been speaking publicly and writing for magazines such as SIEGESSÄULE (Berlin’s highest-circulating city magazine, as well as Europe’s most-read LGBTIQ magazine) or the Lëtzebuerger Journal, as well as for non-profits such as the German AIDS Service Organization (Deutsche Aidshilfe).
I have been volunteering and working for several NGOs, including the German AIDS Service Organization (Deutsche Aidshilfe), Luxembourg’s HIV-Berodung and Stop AIDS Now / ACCESS.
Since 2018, I have been successfully hosting my critically acclaimed guided tour Berlin’s History of Sex, supported by the Federal Foundation Magnus Hirschfeld.
I have been working with educational institutions like Northwestern University (Illinois, USA) or the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. I am also currently studying gender studies (M.A.) at the Humboldt University in Berlin, focussing my studies on human sexualities.
$350/ per group
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