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Berlin's Sexual & Nightlife – Past & Present in AR
Joined 2023
Discover the thrilling history of sexuality and nightlife in Berlin from the 1850s to today. Get exclusive behind-the-scenes access to a famous Berlin club. Discover selected elements in Augmented Reality. This is a one-of-a-kind experience that you will not find anywhere else.
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 in front of the palace
Meeting point
At your hotel or in front of the palace
Schloss Bellevue
Introduction: What is marginalization?
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”
Connection Club
The Berlin Wall dividing the city
Chez Romy Haag: The trans community & the nightclub revolution
Metropol
Metropol: The gay community & the techno precursor
Lunch Break
Lunch in a restaurant in the area
SchwuZ
§175 and the Homosexual Action Westberlin
Queer people in West-Berlin escaping military service
SchwuZ, Pepsi Boston & the AIDS crisis
Politics and Diversity at SchwuZ
SchwuZ today
SO36
West-Berlin & the economic situation in the 1970s
Punk and feminism
David Bowie, Iggy Pop and the Opening of SO36 on the Anniversary of the Berlin Wall
Hilal Kurutan, the Turkish Community and the Diversification of SO36
Other examples of diversification: Black Gay Night, Gayhane, Kreuzberg CSD, Mad & Disabled Pride
Trümmertunten, Kiezbingo & neighbourly solidarity
SO36 today
Tresor
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Clubs in abandoned buildings along the former Berlin Wall and the GDR
The old Tresor
Techno DJs from Detroit’s Black Community
Kit Kat Club
From 1920s Eldorado to the Cabaret Musical
Kit Kat today: Sexuality & parties
Club Commission
Clubs as safer spaces
Clubs as political places: “AfD wegbassen”
Clubs as cultural venues
Kater Blau / Holzmarkt
Fighting for an affordable city
YAAM
Black Carribeans
Refugees Welcome & youth work for tolerance
Reggae Music
Berghain
Bunker & Snax
Ostgut
Elon Musk and the Berghain as heterotopia
The no-photo policy of Berlin clubs
The music
Substance use in Berlin clubs
Sexism and heteronormativity
Sexuality in Berghain
Judith Butler, Gender Performance and Gender Fucking
Criticism, change and respectful party tourism
The Lab.Oratory, Snax Parties today and Lady Gaga
RAW Gelände
Overview of clubs:
Suicide Circus
Crack Bellmer
Haubentaucher
Cassiopeia
Badehaus
Astra Kulturhaus
Der weiße Hase
Gentrification
Ending point
At your hotel or at Oberbaumbrücke
Ending Point
At your hotel or at Oberbaumbrücke
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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, lunch
Tour Important Information
Please note that the visit to the inside of the club is only possible if there’s no event in the club during our tour.
Pick-up only for hotels within the "Ring" (within the S-Train track circling the city center). Please note that the time from pick up to first stop, as well as from end of the tour to the drop-off is not included in the total time of the tour and might make the tour longer. We can start the tour any time between 9 am and 1 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.
$700/ per group
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