LGBTQ Love Stories in the World’s Least Romantic City, Berlin

Berlin is not a romantic city.

It inspires passion, desire, lust and excess. But love? Not so much.
But it has had its moments, so come and join writer and tour guide Brendan Nash for some unlikely love stories from Berlin.
Was it love that British writers Christopher Isherwood and WH Auden were looking for when they decamped to the city in the wild years of the 1920s?
If Isherwood’s diaries are to be believed, Berlin didn’t mean love, ‘Berlin meant boys’.
Over at the ground-breaking Institute for Sexual Science, Dr Magnus Hirschfeld and his lover Karl Giese weren’t consulting the poetry books for inspiration.They were in search of facts and cold hard science.
Scandalous dancer Anita Berber married three times in her short 27 year life. But was in for love? All 3 of her husbands were gay men, and two of them robbed her and fled to the US.
Even Berlin superstar Marlene Dietrich's signature song ‘Falling in Love Again’ wasn’t actually called that when Friedrich Hollander first wrote it in 1929.
And what about Brian, Sally, and Max? Was any side of that exactly love?!

Come to Berlin for Valentine's Day, then we’ll do shots and go out clubbing!