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The Orange Tour - from the Gay Museum through the queer Nollendorf neighborhood

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

The tour is about 6 kilometers long and takes about 1 hour. If you listen to the 13 audio contributions at the 12 locations, this also takes about an hour, so you will be out and about in the Kietz for a total of 2 to 2.5 hours. There are some nice opportunities for a break at a café along the way.

There are signs with QR codes in some places, in others this will still happen, but sometimes this is unfortunately not possible. You can always see on the map where the historical location of our queer heroes is.

Start Tour Orange:

6 - Gay Museum

Since 1985 Place of queer culture & history

@ Schwules Museum, Lützowstr. 73

further stops on the Tour Orange:

30 - Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

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

@ Café Ulrichs, Karl-Heinrich-Ulrichs-Str. 11

31 - Pink Triangle Memorial 

Berlins 1st memorial for homosexual NS victims

@ Nollendorfplatz subway station

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 reassignment surgery

@ Residence unril 1934, Motzstr. 11

37 - Magnus Hirschfeld

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

@ Magnus Pharmacy, Motzstr. 11

44 - Claire Waldoff

Chansonette of the 1920s, loved openly lesbian

@ Residence 1919-1933, Regensburger Str. 33

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

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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