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* This tour requires at least one of the following per booking: Adult, Senior
Discover the unbelievable history of sexuality in Berlin in this one-of-a-kind guided city tour with Augmented Reality elements!
Explore Berlin’s History As You’ve Never Experienced It Before
Experience Berlin’s Most Sexual and Thrilling Era: The Roaring Twenties
Discover the Origins of Sexual Science
Understand the Struggles of Marginalized Communities
Find Out What Happened in Nazi Germany
Learn about Sexuality in Berlin Today
Join a Certified Social Scientist and Sex Educator Tour Guide
Enjoy a Fun Day with Augmented Reality
Professional guide
All taxes, fees and handling charges
iPad Pro
Transportation to/from attractions
Departure Point
Schloss Bellevue (Berlin), 10557 Berlin, Germany
Departure Point: In front of the palace "Schloss Bellevue".
Address: Spreeweg 1, 10557 Berlin
Directions: Meeting point: Underneath the tree on the right side in front of the palace (when facing the palace). Careful if you look the address up on Google Maps as it sometimes shows "Spreeweg 1" to be behind the palace. It is in fact by the street!
Bellevue Palace, Berlin, Germany 1. Introduction
2. Nudism from the mid-19th century to the present day (focus on 1920s) 10 minutes
Memorial to the first gay emancipation movement, Magnus-Hirschfeld-Ufer, 10557 Berlin, Duitsland 1. Brief overview of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, “the world’s first gay man”
2. Brief overview of Magnus Hirschfeld, §175 and the world’s first organization for LGBTQIA+ rights
3. Feminism, Johanna Elberskirchen and Helene Stöcker
4. 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)
5. The Institute for Sexual Science
6. The Sex Museum
7. Precursors to Viagra
8. The destruction of the Institute by the Nazis
9. Hirschfeld’s death, his legacy and post-colonial critique 20 minutes
Monument to Homosexuals Persecuted Under National Socialist Regime, Berlin, Germany 1. Ernst Röhm and Hitler’s attitude to homosexuality
2. The Night of the Long Knives
3. LGBTQIA+ people in the concentration camps 10 minutes
Kurfürstenstraße, 10 Berlin, Germany Sex work, kinks and fetishes in the Roaring Twenties 15 minutes
Schwerinstraße 9, 10783 Berlin, Duitsland 1. Lesbian life in Berlin in the 1920s
2. the lesbian club Toppkeller
3. the Lavender Song
4. Claire Waldoff
5. Josephine Baker, bisexuality and racism 10 minutes
Nollendorfstraße 17, 10777 Berlin, Duitsland 1. Christopher Isherwood in gay Berlin
2. From Isherwood’s novels to the cabaret musical 10 minutes
Motzstraße 24, 10777 Berlin, Germany 1. The Eldorado as the Berghain of the 1920s, Drag and the so-called “Transvestites”
2. Ernst Röhm at the Eldorado
3. Vogue magazine’s search for “Berlin’s most beautiful woman” 15 minutes
Internationale Stele GEGEN DAS VERGESSEN, An d. Urania 22, 10787 Berlin, Germany 1. LGBTQIA+ Emancipation Movements in West and East Berlin
2. The sexual revolution and sexual satisfaction in West and East Germany
3. Nudism in the GDR
4. Rita Süssmuth and the AIDS crisis
15 minutes
U Nollendorfplatz, 10787 Berlin, Germany 1. Folsom Europe
2. Sexual Clubs (Kit Kat Club, Insomnia, Berghain) 15 minutes
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Minimum age is 18 years
Please be aware that the tour will be cancelled in extreme weather conditions, like heavy rain or storm, and you will be fully refunded.
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
336katerynam
25 Jul 2023
Absolutely worth attending. Diving into history gives you an understanding what is the cost of freedom in Berlin.
lisahZ4475BX
29 May 2023
Jeff provided well -researched details on a tour that explored history that is not touched on in other tours. I recommend the tour for those looking for a alternative tour to the usual WWII focus.
sod598
22 May 2023
Super informativ and entertaining tour. Jeff answered all our questions, droped many exciting side informations und showed us so many important places of the History of Berlin. Would love to come back and do another tour!
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Berlin's History of Sex
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