Nollendorfplatz and the Eldorado area
Start in Schoneberg, near the former Eldorado world of queer bars, drag performance, tourism, risk and police attention.
BerlinWalk mini walk
The nightlife mostly vanished, but the geography still helps: Schoneberg for queer Berlin, Zoo for cafe culture, Mitte for cinema and mass city, Bebelplatz for the violent end of that freedom.
Start in Schoneberg, near the former Eldorado world of queer bars, drag performance, tourism, risk and police attention.
Consumer modernity, department-store spectacle and western Berlin glamour help explain who could afford the party.
The lost Romanisches Cafe stood nearby, once a meeting point for writers, artists, journalists and sharp-tongued observers.
The modern mass city of trams, crowds, newspapers, film and Alfred Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz was centred here.
End at the book-burning memorial, where the destruction of ideas in 1933 shows how fragile Weimar freedom was.