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Queer Tours for All! // Queer Touren für Alle! in February! (descriptions, start points and pricing below)

Monday 1.2., 10:45-12:30, P-Wald
Tuesday 3.2., 17:45 - 20:30, Queer Kreuzberg
Friday 6.2., 17:45 - 20:30, Radical Prenzlauer Berg
Saturday 7.2., 14:45-17:30, ArtHotel Connection
Sunday 8.2., 10:45-15:30, KZ Sachsenhausen
Tuesday 10.2., 17:45 - 20:30, Queer Kreuzberg
Friday 13.2., 14:45-17:30, Radical Prenzlauer Berg
Saturday 14.2., 14:45-17:30, ArtHotel Connection
Wednesday 18.2., 16:45 - 19:00, „Gay and Sapphic Schöneberg“
Friday 20.2., 16:45 - 19:30, Radical Prenzlauer Berg
Saturday 21.2., 14:45-17:30, ArtHotel Connection
Sunday 22.2., 12:45-15:30, K-Wald
Tuesday 24.2., 17:45 - 20:3, Queer Kreuzberg
Wednesday 25.2., 16:45 - 19:30, Queer Kreuzberg
Friday 27.2., 17:45 - 20:30, Radical Prenzlauer Berg
Saturday 28.2., 14:45-17:30, ArtHotel Connection

Mal has been guiding for 20 years and is deeply embedded in the nightlife and political communities of Berlin, including producing content for LSVD MILES and numerous queer and feminist orgs visiting or in the city. Upsi (she/her) works as an assistant-person and helps to facilitate organisation. We will always end somewhere with food, bars/clubs, and public transportation. We are hosted by the locally-owned, queer-run, and hetero-friendly Art Hotel Connection that are helping to sponsor us and support a more sustainable and critical form of travel and queer community. Sometimes hotel guests will join us on the tour, but are asked to contribute more. Our tours are meant for everyone who loves queer people! 

Language:
All tours offered in English and/or German. We will do single or dual-language depending on participation.

„Queer Kreuzberg“
Start Location:
In front of Südblock, Admiralstraße 1-2, 10999 Berlin (view location)
„Queer Kreuzberg“ (min. 2.5 hours) This one dives into the post-war period in Kreuzberg, queer refugees, migrants, and outsiders like Audre Lorde, Blixa Bargeld, and Rio Reiser. We will see Berlin’s most famous squat used as a queer refugium and for political organising. Some street art will be highlighted too.

„Radical Prenzlauer Berg“
Start Location:
under the raised train line, on the south side of Konnopke's Imbiss Schönhauser Allee 44b, 10435 Berlin (view location)
„Radical Prenzlauer Berg“ (min. 2.5 hours) Prenzlauer Berg is known as a gentrified quarter. However, we will look for the radical contemporary that still exists. How resistances forged by alliances between punks and the church or Quakers and Jews set the foundations for the Tunten Haus project. And, Where a blind and deaf anarchist saved people from the Nazis and a policeman saved a Synagoge from the SS and NS-Fanatics.

Art Hotel Connection
Start Location:
In front of the Art Hotel Connection, Fuggerstraße 33, 10777 Berlin
From this location the group chooses which tour we do that day. The possible tours depending on pay and participation are:
1. „Gay and Sapphic Schöneberg“ (min. 2 hours) This tour covers Lotte Hahm who founded Germany’s first trans club in the 20s, the friendship and works of Erika Mann and Isherwood along with numerous other artists, as well as how the NS regime changed everything overnight. 
2. „Queer Kreuzberg“ (min. 2.5 hours)
3. „Radical Prenzlauer Berg“ (min. 2.5 hours)

KZ Sachsenhausen
Location:
we meet at street level on the north side of the Bösebrücke entrance to Bornholmer Str. S-Bahn (view location) and we end at the Memorial Information Centre (view location)
The former concentration camp of Sachsenhausen (min. 4.5 hours) this tour has the distinction of being the only regular tour on offer in Berlin which takes an explicitly queer and anti-colonial gaze of the former KZ of Sachsenhausen. Mal is a KZ Sachsenhausen Memorial certified guide.
Over just the last decade much more acknowledgement has been given to queer and other genocides by the NS regime. Until recently, much information was prevented from reaching the light of day by lack of funding, normative ignorance or even outright bigotry.
'Never Again' means that we stop it from happening to all peoples.

K-Wald
Location:
we begin on Südostallee near the entrance of Kleingarten-KGA on Sudostallee (view location)
My sibling the Königsheide forest (2,5 hours) What is your relationship to the forest? Do you bathe in it, hunt, gather, build or walk your dog in it? What if you could have a real relationship to the forest, like it was your sibling? Not just a place you did things? As part of this tour, we will learn about sustainable, playful and engaging things we can do to repair Königsheide, one of the most negatively impacted forests in Berlin. By the end of the tour, you will see the forest, especially Königsheide in a completely different light.
Bring work-gloves to handle wood, water-protected shoes and prepare for the weather!
Mal is a Stiftung Naturschutz Berlin certified nature guide (ZNL) that has been guiding for 20 years.

P-Wald
Location:
we begin at the Plänterwald entrance at the corner of Bulgarische Str. & Neue Krugallee (view location)
Children's Ecology or Pilzchen in Plänterwald (1,5 hours) What do mushrooms and kids have in common? They both belong in the forest! But, they can also both help or hurt the forest.
On this very short tour with games and exploration, children and their adults will discover how to play in the Plänterwald without hurting it and without fear.
It is recommended for the adults to bring work gloves for handling wood. All should have waterproof shoes and be prepared for the weather!
Mal is a Stiftung Naturschutz Berlin certified nature guide (ZNL) that has been guiding for 20 years.

Tour pricing and participation transparency: 
Everyone deserves access to culture and history. The tour has a sliding-scale that assures the guide gets a chance at a fair wage and the guests a chance at an exceptional tour. 
Stressfaktor-Guests: 0€ - 60€ per person
Hotel Guests: 20€ - 60€ per person
For my pre-booked/ customised tours I charge 60€ - 120€/hr, with soli possible for those who can't afford it. Freelance minimum wage is around 15€/hr in Germany, beginner commercial guides earn around 40€/hr.

Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions about barrier-freedom of any kind.

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