Walking Tours
Isherwood's Neighbourhood
A circular walk through the Schöneberg of the late 1920s as seen by Christopher Isherwood
Visit the places he lived, socialised and documented in his Berlin Diaries of 1929 to 1933, the vibrance and edge of the Weimar Era. Accompanied by short readings from his works, see where 'Cabaret' was born, genders were blurred and films caused riots.
Tours are every Saturday at 11am and by arrangement. Please book via 10777tours.com.
Duration: approximately 75 minutes
Distance: one kilometre
Start and finishing point: Nollendorfplatz U-Bahn
Language: English
Price: 15€ per person; discounts for larger groups
To book, email Brendan or send an SMS to +49 151 25 22 03 42
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- Review: The Tap Pack at the Tipi am Kanzleramt
- Nollendorfplatz
- Joseph Schmidt
- Britain’s Best season at Bar Jeder Vernunft
- Kakadu Bar and Barbarina Cabaret
- Briefs – Excentric Body-Circus at The Tipi
- Early-Bird discount for Cabaret, 2015 season
- Jeanne Mammen
- A Walk Along The Ku’damm
- Review – Oropax in Chaos Royal at the Tipi am Kanzleramt
- Oskar ‘Ossy’ Gades
- Walter Jurmann
- One House In One Street in Berlin.
- Cabaret Is Ten!
- Happy Birthday Mr. Bachardy
- April 24th 1970
- Review: Gayle Tufts ‘Love’
- Marlene Dietrich’s Berlin
- Preview – Ein Bisschen Leichtsinn
- Walter Kollo
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- Review: Carrington-Brown, Dream A Little Dream.
- Eva von Sacher-Masoch
- Strandbad Wannsee
- Siegfried Arno – ‘The German Charlie Chaplin’
- Hans Otto
- Bowie’s ‘Dschungel’ – The Femina-Palast
- Cabaret comes home
- A Very Weimar Christmas Party
- The Titania-Palast
- The Alabama Song
- The Silhouette
- The Jockey Bar
- Renate Müller
- Happy Birthday Mr. Isherwood.
- The Sportpalast
- A Moonlit Boat Trip – August 3rd 1929
- Paul O’Montis
- Leo Monosson
- The AVUS
- The Blue Stocking
- May 13th, 1933
- The Renaissance-Theater
- Hilde Hildebrand
- Haus Vaterland
- Coney Island on the Kurfüstendamm
- Peter Jöback walks Isherwood’s Neighbourhood.
- Clärchens Ballhaus
- Berlin’s Lesbische Frauen
- Conrad Veidt
- Six Degrees of Separation – Sally Bowles to Stephanie Flanders
- Nollendorfstraße 17
- Stork’s Nest
- The “Resi”
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- One Year on…
- Norbert Schiller
- Elow – Erich Lowinsky
- Marlene Dietrich
- Josephine Baker in Berlin
- December 1932
- Cabaret – Das Musical
- Anita’s Anniversary
- Paul Graetz
- Trude Hesterberg
- Anita Berber
- Goya
- Ilse Bois
- Curt Bois
- Bertolt Brecht in cabaret.
- Margo Lion
- Kate Kühl
- Weisse Maus Cabaret
- Wilhelm Bendow
- Claire Waldoff – A Musical Biography
- Camilla Spira
- Erik Charell Exhibition
- Weren’t You Once In Love With Me?
- Max Hansen
- Blandine Ebinger
- Christopher Isherwood’s Haunts
- Rosa Valetti
- Marlene, First and Last.
- Das Lila Lied ( The Lavender Song)
- Kurt Gerron
- tingeltangel
- Claire Waldoff
- Sally Bowles
- Kadeko
- Paul Morgan
- Berlin’s Got Talent *
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