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About Us
About Us
About Us

About Us

Berlin Guide offers guided walking tours in Berlin – harnessing the power of augmented reality to boost your experience – along with online presentations and workshops. My tours cover Berlin’s History of Sex, the Story of Berlin’s Clubs, and Berlin’s Queer & Trans* History

Additionally, I offer blog posts, articles, presentations and workshops about human sexualities, sexual sciences, Berlin, LGBTIQ issues, club culture, politics, history, human-animal relations, sociology, social psychology, society, and culture. Berlin Guide is run by Jeff Mannes. 

My name is Jeff Mannes (pronouns: he/him or they/them). 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. I wrote my Bachelor Thesis about the social construction of eating meat, and it was chosen for publication in the German sociological magazine. 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, as well as Beyond Carnism

Since 2018, I have been successfully hosting my critically acclaimed guided tour Berlin’s History of Sex, supported by the Federal Foundation Magnus Hirschfeld. In 2020, I started offering this tour as an online version, and in 2021, I launched this tour in Augmented Reality – powered by ZAUBAR. In 2023, I launched my second guided tour about The Story of Berlin’s Clubs, as well as my third tour about Berlin’s Queer & Trans History.

I have been working with companies such as Apple, Mastercard, Siemens, or Tik Tok, and educational institutions like Northwestern University (Illinois, USA) or the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. My work has been featured in global media, such as Germany’s SPIEGEL ONLINE, Berlin’s public broadcaster RBB, Spain’s Yahoo News, Germany’s SWR2, Luxembourg’s RTL, New Zealand’s Herald, or Germany’s Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Deutschlandfunk Nova

ZAUBAR

ZAUBAR is a Berlin based startup that builds a platform to help passionate locals create, host and monetize their own location based tours in Augmented Reality. For this, historical photos, drawings, audio guides and films are transformed into 3D experiences that feel like time travel – directly at the places of interest. Jeff Mannes’ tour Berlin’s History of Sex in AR is the first official guided AR tour powered by ZAUBAR. 

ZAUBAR’s projects have already been nominated several times, including for the Grimme Online Award 2021 (Knowledge & Education) and took 2nd place at the delina-award 2021 in the category “Society and Lifelong Learning” and 3rd place at the Prix Europa 2020 (Digital Media). ZAUBAR is an official partner of Google for ARCore’s Earth Cloud Anchors, which enable markerless content placement worldwide for the first time.

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Kristina Marlen 

Kristina Marlen is a sex worker, bondage expert and coach for intimacy, bodywork, BDSM and Tantra. Her sessions offer pleasure and healing for all genders. In workshops and retreats throughout Germany she creates research spaces for a sexual culture free of stigma: www.marlen.me  

Since November 2022 Kristina Marlen’s first online programme has been launched: In *S*EXPLORATIONS you get a so far unique, bundled access to her knowledge and experience as a sex and kink educator gathered for more than a decade: www.marlen.me/sexplorations 

Dominus.Berlin 

Worship. Pain. Training. From the SM metropolis Berlin. Only in professional studios. Master André is Germany’s most successful male dominatrix and offers his services for all genders: www.dominus.berlin 

Media Features

Autumn 2023

DE

m. Magazine

To Be Published

September 2023

DE

Spiegel Magazine

Queerer Sex früher und heute: Leider bin ich 100 Jahre zu spät

September 2023

DE

Spiegel Magazine

Damals waren wir an einem ähnlichen Punkt wie heute – bis Nazis alles zerstört haben

September 2023

US

Sex & Psychology Podcast

From KitKat to Berghain, Inside Berlin's Sex Clubs

September 2023

US

Sex & Psychology Podcast

Berlin's Kinky Sexual History

September 2023

DE

SWR2 Radio

Drag Race Germany: Eine Show, die Stereotypen durchbrechen kann

August 2023

DE

Deutschlandfunk Kultur Radio

Berliner Clubszene: Freiraum ohne gesellschafliche Normen

August 2023

DE

Hannoversche Allgemeine Newspaper

Tanz oder gar nicht: Die Disko stirbt

July 2023

DE

RBB Kultur Radio

Stadtführungen rund um den CSD

July 2023

DE

RBB radio eins

Stadtführungen zu Berlins queerer und trans* Geschichte und zu Berlins Geschichte der Sexualität

June 2023

DE

SWR2 Podcast

Dragqueens erobern die Popkultur: Mehr Mainstream, weniger Hass?

May 2023

DE

visit berlin Blog

Top 11 New Openings in May in Berlin

May 2023

LUX

RTL TV

De Jeff Mannes kläert iwwert d'Geschicht vun der Sexualitéit op

October 2021

EN

Woanderlust Magazine

Discover Berlin with Jeff Mannes: Sex & the City

June 2021

DE

Queer einsteigen Podcast

Flg. 3 - Jeff Mannes

August 2019

ES

Yahoo News

El erotismo pasado y presente de Berlín, “la ciudad más sexual de la tierra

July 2019

LUX

RTL Radio

Summer RoadShow zu Berlin, mam Jeff Mannes op ënger spezieller Visite guidée

July 2019

DE

iHeartBerlin.de Blog

Celebrate Pride with these 5 Fun Experiences

July 2019

DE

Airbnb Newsroom Blog

Sex, Drag and Rock ’n’ Roll: LGBTQ+ Entdeckungen auf Airbnb zur Gay Pride

April 2019

NZ

Viva Magazine

A Unique Tour Of Berlin's Sexual History

October 2018

DE

Deutschlandfunk Nova Radio

Stadtführungen heißen jetzt Experiences