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The Pink Tour – Cycling from Mitte through Tiergarten to the queer Nollendorf neighborhood

Start your tour by bike, or do parts of it on foot, to learn more about queer heroes, activists, role models, and pioneers of history at this historic site, such as Claire Waldoff, Magnus Hirschfeld, Dora Richter, Eva Siewert, and Karl Heinrich Ulrichs.

The tour is about 18 kilometers long, and the actual cycling time is approximately 1 hour. If you listen to the 20 audio clips at the various locations, this will also take about 2 hours, so you will be out and about in the neighborhoods for a total of around 3 hours. You can also cycle to the next location with your headphones on, which will of course be faster. Along the way, there are some nice places to take a break in the Tiergarten or at a café.

In some places, signs with QR codes have been installed, in others this will happen in the future, but unfortunately in some cases this is not possible. If there is a QR code on site, it is indicated at the top of the website next to the address. On the map, you can always see where the historical locations of our queer heroes are located.

#12 QR-Code Ludwig Levy-Lenz, Praxis / Practice 1918-1926, Rosenthaler Str. 2, 2024, Quelle: R. Nasemann, CC BY 4.0
#12 QR-Code Ludwig Levy-Lenz, Praxis / Practice 1918-1926, Rosenthaler Str. 2, 2024, Quelle: R. Nasemann, CC BY 4.0
#12 QR-Code Ludwig Levy-Lenz, Praxis / Practice 1918-1926, Rosenthaler Str. 2, 2024, Quelle: R. Nasemann, CC BY 4.0
#26 QR-Code Schwules Museum / Gay Museum, Lützowstr. 73 Berlin, 2024, Quelle: R. Nasemann, CC BY 4.0 2025
#26 QR-Code @ Schwules Museum Theke / Gay Museum Front Desk, 2025, Quelle: R.
#30 Café Ulrichs & QR-Code, Berlin 2025, Quelle: R. Nasemann, CC BY 4.0
#37 Wohnhaus Dora Richter bis 1934, heute Magnus-Apotheke / residential building Dora Richter bis 1934, today Magnus-Apotheke, Motzstraße 11 Berlin 2025
#44 Gedenktafel & Wohnort / Memorial plaque and residence Claire Waldoff 1919-1933, Regensburger Str. 33, Berlin, Quelle R. Nasemann, CC BY 4.0, 2025
#44 QR Code @ Gedenktafel / Memorial plaque Claire Waldoff, Regensburger Str. 33, Berlin, Quelle R. Nasemann, CC BY 4.0, 2025
#42 - QR-Code Eva Siewert, Keithstr. 9/10 (ehemals 6), Berlin-Schöneberg / Quelle: R. Nasemann

Start Tour Pink:

13 - Charlotte von Mahlsdorf

Museum founder, woman & GDR transvestite

@ Location of the Mulackritze bar

further stops on the Tour Pink:

12 - Ludwig Levy-Lenz

Physician at 1st gender-affirming surgeries

@ Practice 1918-1926, Rosenthaler Str. 2

11 - Claire Waldoff

Chansonette of the 1920s, loved openly lesbian

@ Memorial, Friedrichstadt-Palast

10 - Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

1st one in the world to come publicly out as gay

@ Residence 1846/1847, Marienstr. 23

2 - Magnus Hirschfeld

Founder of the world's 1st queer NGO “WhK”

@ Monument Institute for Sexual Science

3 - Karl Giese

Activist and partner of Magnus Hirschfeld

@ Stumbe Stone, House of World Cultures

5 - Memorial to gay Nazi victims 

for homosexuals persecuted by the NS regime

@ Memorial at Tiergarten, side towards Ebertstr.

26 - Gay Museum

Since 1985 Place of queer culture & history

@ Schwules Museum, Lützowstr. 73

32 - Audre Lorde

Shaped lesbian & Afro-German movements

@ Residence 1989, 1st floor, Zietenstr. 8

33 - Toppkeller

Women's club for wild nights at fair prices

@ Schwerinstr. 13

34 - Christopher Isherwood

World-famous by movie & musical “Cabaret”

@ Memorial at residence, Nollendorfstr. 17

35 - Hilde Radusch

Lesbian activist, communist, resistance fighter

@ Memorial Eisenacher Str. / Winterfeldstr.

36 - Albrecht von Krosigk

In KZ & psychiatric ward due to §175 until death

@ Stumble Stone, Motzstr. 9

37 - Dora Richter

1st person with gender-affirming surgery

@ Residence unril 1934, Motzstr. 11

41 - Int. Stele "Always Remember"

Place of remembrance for the victims of AIDS

@ Memorial, An der Urania 22

42 - Eva Siewert

A love story during the Nazi era with Alice

@ Residence from 1938, Keithstr. 9

44 - Claire Waldoff

Chansonette of the 1920s, loved openly lesbian

@ Residence 1919-1933, Regensburger Str. 33

46 - Anita Augspurg

successfully fought for women's suffrage

@ Residence 1898, Eisenacher Str. 80

51 - Jürgen Baldiga

Aids activist, portrayed “SchwuZ-Tunten”

@ Grave, Alter St. Matthäus Kirchhof

Note on terminology:

Some of the terms used in the texts are used as they were common at the time of the queer heroes, such as the word “transvestite”, which was chosen as a self-designation by some people. Today, we would express this in a much more differentiated way, including as trans*, crossdresser, draq king, draq queen, gender-nonconforming or non-binary. Where possible, the terms that the person (presumably) chose for themselves are used, but in some cases we do not know how the people described themselves or how they would describe themselves using today’s vocabulary.

In addition, the word “queer” is also used, which did not even exist at the time of most of the queer heroes described. Nevertheless, today it is the most appropriate word to describe inclusively all those who do not correspond to the heterosexual cis majority.

A project by Rafael Nasemann affiliated to the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft e.V., Berlin.

Funded by the Hannchen-Mehrzweck-Stiftung

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