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How a British writer turned Berlin into world literature
Christopher Isherwood lived in Schöneberg between 1929 and 1933 — and made late Weimar Berlin famous worldwide. His stories later became Cabaret. What is myth, what is city history.
Why this place is more than a grey block in Tiergarten
In Tiergarten, diagonally opposite the Holocaust Memorial, stands the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted under Nazism. It tells a long-overdue story — and is on the must-see list of any queer Berlin visit.
Why this small plaque matters
At Nollendorfplatz U-Bahn station, a memorial plaque with a pink triangle commemorates homosexual victims of the Nazi regime. It is small, easy to miss — and one of the central queer memorial sites in Berlin.
Why the Weimar scene still fascinates
1920s Berlin is legendary as a queer high point. But there's a difference between cabaret myth and historical reality — and it matters for anyone who wants to understand the Rainbow Quarter today.
Why queer Schöneberg history was never only gay history
Schöneberg's queer history is often told as a story about men. That is incomplete. Here is the lesbian side of the Rainbow Quarter — what we know, what we suspect, what we don't.
