Itinerary
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Stop At: Bellevue Palace, Spreeweg 1, 10557 Berlin Germany
1. Introduction
2. Nudism from the mid-19th century to the present day (focus on 1920s)
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Memorial to the first gay emancipation movement, Magnus-Hirschfeld-Ufer, 10557 Berlin, Germany
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
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Monument to Homosexuals Persecuted Under National Socialist Regime, S-Bhf Tiergarten 2 Opposite the Holocaust Memorial/Ebertstrasse, 10557 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
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Kurfürstenstraße, 10 Berlin, Germany
Sex work, kinks and fetishes in the Roaring Twenties
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Schwerinstraße 9, 10783 Berlin, Germany
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
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Residential building of Christopher Isherwood, Nollendorfstraße 17, 10777 Berlin, Germany
1. Christopher Isherwood in gay Berlin
2. From Isherwood’s novels to the cabaret musical
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Denns BioMarkt, 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”
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: 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
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Nollendorfplatz, 10787 Berlin, Germany
1. Folsom Europe
2. Sexual Clubs (Kit Kat Club, Insomnia, Berghain)
Duration: 15 minutes