4 hours
English
Free Cancellation
Explore the colourful history of sex in Berlin on this one-of-a-kind city walking tour. From Europe’s biggest fetish festival to LGBTQIA+ history and sexuality in Berlin’s clubs, get an overview of contemporary sexual life in Berlin today. Your guided tour is enhanced by a selection of augmented reality segments, using the camera on your tour guide’s iPad. Walk past 1920s sex workers, and see how Berlin buildings looked 100 years ago. You can also take pictures of yourself with the augmented reality elements included, as a souvenir from the tour.
Introduction Nudism from the mid-19th century to the present day (focus on 1920s)
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+ rightsFeminism, Johanna Elberskirchen and Helene StöckerHirschfeld's theory of sexual intermediaries IntersexualityEarly trans identitiesDora Richter, Lili Elbe, Karl M. Baer and the world's first gender affirmation surgeriesThe Institute for Sexual ScienceThe Sex MuseumPrecursors to ViagraThe destruction of the Institute by the NazisHirschfeld's death, his legacy and post-colonial critique
Ernst Röhm and Hitler's attitude to homosexualityThe Night of the Long KnivesGay, lesbian, and trans people in the concentration camps
Sex Work & Fetishes in the 1920s
Lesbian life in Berlin in the 1920sthe lesbian club Toppkellerthe Lavender SongClaire WaldoffJosephine Baker, bisexuality and racism
Christopher Isherwood in gay BerlinFrom Isherwood's novels to the cabaret musical
The Eldorado as the Berghain of the 1920s, Drag and the so-called "Transvestites"Ernst Röhm at the EldoradoVogue magazine's search for "Berlin's most beautiful woman"
LGBTQIA+ Emancipation Movements in West and East BerlinThe sexual revolution and sexual satisfaction in West and East GermanyNudism in the GDRRita Süssmuth and the AIDS crisis
Folsom EuropeKit Kat ClubInsomniaBerghain Bunker & SnaxOstgutElon Muskthe no-photo policy of Berlin clubsSexuality at Berghainthe Lab.Oratory, Snax parties today and Lady Gaga
In front of Schloss Bellevue (Spreeweg 1, Berlin, Berlin, 10557)
Duration
4 hours
Start Times
11:00, 15:30
Address
Spreeweg 1, 10557 Berlin, Germany
English
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