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The Institute for Sexual Science: Berlin’s forgotten centre for trans activism
Today only a small plaque along the Spree commemorates the villa where Magnus Hirschfeld carried out the […]
The Gay Berliner
Tuntenhaus Forellenhof 1990: The most anarchic summer Friedrichshain has ever seen
On the occasion of the exhibition at Schwules Museum, the Gay Berliner reminisces about his drug-fuelled visits […]
History
Red Wedding: The Communist history of Berlin’s reddest district
You’d never know it from from reading official historical markers, but Wedding was the site of the […]
Interview
Ai Weiwei: “Home is the place to share”
From 2015 to 2019, Ai Weiwei lived in a roomy Altbau on Greifswalder Straße. But when he […]
Red flag
Meet Leo Jogiches, Rosa Luxemburg’s spymaster who lived in Neukölln
Leo Jogiches, one of Rosa Luxemburg's closest collaborators, was also murdered by the police. Historian Nathaniel Flakin […]
Red flag
When Berlin was a centre of worldwide anti-colonial struggles
With the 12th Berlin Biennale is focusing on decolonial engagement, we remember Berlin's history of anti-colonial struggle.
