The Mahnmal Rosa Winkel is an inverted triangle of pink stone, chiseled with the words, "Slaughtered. Silenced. To the homosexual victims of National Socialism." It is set into the exterior wall of the Nollendorfplatz subway station, a…
Schöneberg Queer History Walk
This walk takes you through Schöneberg's historic queer neighborhood, tracing a century of LGBTQ+ resilience, legendary Weimar-era cabaret, and the local haunts of Christopher Isherwood and David Bowie.
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1. Mahnmal Rosa Winkel
2. Residential building of Christopher Isherwood
Nollendorfstraße seventeen is a residential building recognizable by the austere memorial plaque mounted near its entrance. Between nineteen thirty and nineteen thirty-three, the British writer Christopher Isherwood lived here in a…
3. Eldorado at Motzstr. 15
The Eldorado at Motzstraße fifteen was once one of the most famous cabarets of the Weimar Republic. It was a primary destination for the city’s queer scene during the late nineteen twenties and early nineteen thirties, celebrated for its…
4. Hafen
Hafen occupies a storefront on Motzstraße in Schöneberg, marked by a name that has come to represent a long-standing fixture in Berlin’s queer nightlife. Opening on November sixteen, nineteen ninety, it became the first gay bar in the…
5. Gedenkort Hilde Radusch
The Gedenkort Hilde Radusch is marked by three tablets embedded into the sidewalk at the corner of Winterfeldtstraße and Eisenacherstraße. It honors Hilde Radusch, a politician and resistance fighter who lived in this neighborhood for…
6. Cafe M
Cafe M on Goltzstraße is recognizable by the neon lights that glow within its dining room and a no-frills interior that has changed little in over four decades. Founded in nineteen seventy-nine, the establishment initially carried the name…
7. Apostel-Paulus-Kirchengemeinde
The Apostel-Paulus-Kirche rises above the Schöneberg neighborhood as a massive, red brick structure built in the neogothic style. Designed by the architect Franz Schwechten and inaugurated in eighteen ninety-four, its presence was…
8. David Bowie's former apartment
A memorial plaque at Hauptstraße one hundred fifty-five in the Schöneberg district marks the first-floor apartment where David Bowie lived between nineteen seventy-six and nineteen seventy-eight. You can identify the building by its heavy…
9. Neues Ufer Café Bar
Neues Ufer occupies a storefront at Hauptstraße one hundred fifty-seven, recognizable by the large windows that offer a clear view from the street into its interior. When it opened in nineteen seventy-seven under the name Anderes Ufer, or…