Cultural & Theme Tours in Berlin

East Germany may have died in November 1989 when the Wall came tumbling down but the eastern portion of Berlin is still a fascinating monument to the city's strange and intriguing 20th-century history. This Private 3-hour tour immerses you in the East Germany of the Cold War, taking you to the headquarter of the Stasi (the state police), the wide Stalinist building-flanked Karl Marx Boulevard and Berlin Wall, among many other sites. Learn from the guide about the history of the GDR, German Democratic Republic (AKA East Germany) and about Communist rule and East Germans’ growing discontent and their government’s brutal suppression.

Der Ausblick von der Glaskuppel auf dem Reichstagsgebäude gehört zu den Höhepunkten Berlins. Vorher erwartet Sie aber eine unterhaltsame Tour durch das Parlamentsviertel an der Spree. Sie erfahren mehr zu der modernen Architektur, den Kunstwerken und der Geschichte rund um das Kanzleramt und dem Reichstag.

Visit the former Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp on a memorial tour from Berlin. A way to honor the survivors and remember the victims of the Nazi regime, the tour explores the former notorious camp, which became the main concentration camp in the Berlin area. Learn the stories of the prisoners and see key sites including the cells with a professional guide.

Discover the history of Berlin through the eyes of a local, on this private walking tour. Your guide will show you both well-known, big-name sights as well as lesser-known places that you may miss without local help. You'll hear stories about Berlin's eventful past, which will help you better understand its present. An informative and fun trip for active travelers who like to learn new things when they travel.

The Berlin neighborhood of Kreuzberg, crammed with cobblestoned streets and enough street art to fill a vast art museum, is the most fascinating part of the German capital. This 3-hour small-group tour takes you to the heart of the neighborhood, historically a haven for Turkish immigrants. Today the area is made up of a diverse set of Turks, Arabs, hipsters and many others. Learn the history of the area while traversing Kreuzberg on foot and bicycle. This small-group tour is limited to no more than six.

Discover Sachsenhausen, one of the first concentration camps established by Nazi Germany's Third Reich, on this private, 6-hour trip from Berlin. Listen as an expert historian details the facts surrounding Sachsenhausen's creation, as well as a timeline of the atrocities that took place here. Today, this entire location serves as a national memorial to the prisoners who lived and died within its walls. Learn about Germany during the days of the Third Reich and explore the various locations inside the camp, like the command headquarters, execution trench, and more.

Discover the city of Berlin on foot during this full-day, guided tour. Experience the city's old and modern neighborhoods and visit sights like the Bradenburg Gate and the East Side Gallery where murals are painted on the remains of the Berlin Wall. Enjoy a mix of history lessons from your guide, sightseeing, and tasting sessions at local eateries.

Discover the alternative city of Berlin on a private family-friendly tour. Get the children involved with games, activities, and treasure hunts as you traverse the city. Visit some of Berlin's key landmarks such as the Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie, the Berlin Wall, Charlottenburg Palace, and more. This 2-hour tour is completely customizable to the guests' preferences and interests, just let the guide know beforehand.

Come with us to Berlin's second highest elevation - the 120m high Teufelsberg.Between Heerstrasse and Teufelssee Adolf Hitler laid the cornerstone for a building that should have lasted for the next thousand years on November 27th, 1937 - the "Faculty of Defense Engineering", a department of the Technical University of Berlin.  The remaining buildings were filled with rubble after World War II had ended.  The US Army discovered the mountain in the 1950s as an excellent location for a listening post - Field Station Berlin.

Berlin may have been the capital of the 20th century, being at the the epicenter of every history-making, world-changing movement and phenomenon. But this small-group tour takes you back 300 years to trace the roots of Prussian militarism that led up to the 20th century. Learn from the professional guide how Berlin became the world capital of culture, arts and tolerance. Visit the Tiergarten, the former Death Strip where the Wall once ran and Potsdamer Platz.

Learn about East Berlin's history and experience the city's modern-day activity and culture during this half-day, guided walking tour that is private and customizable. Follow your guide through the time from the Cold War to WWII to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and onward to the contemporary street culture of today's Berlin.

Experience Berlin's 'alternative' scene during this edgy 3-hour excursion exploring the city's lesser-known neighborhoods and underground culture. Skip the guidebook highlights and the typical tourist stops as you experience Berlin's legendary subcultural scene, checking out street art, 'squat' communities, and the history that led to the German capital's unique non-conformist streak.

Get a sobering look at the Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg Nazi concentration camp during this 5.5-hour guided excursion from Berlin. Learn about the more than 200,000 prisoners that passed through the camp's gates as you tour its barracks, pathology department, 'appellplatz' (roll call square), 'Zellenbau' (Gestapo prison), and more.

In this guided tour we'll dive together into the history of sexual science and sex life in Berlin, from Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld's institute of sexual science, through past-Berlin's infamous Eldorado to present-day Berlin's Kit Kat Club. We'll start in the late 19th Century and go through the roaring twenties and the downfall of sexual freedom at the hand of the Nazis. We'll cover the resurrection after the war in a divided Berlin, as well as the current state today.

Gain a better understanding of WWII's impact on Berlin during this 3.5-hour Third Reich walking tour. Follow your guide through Germany's capital, and learn about its dark WWII history. Stop by the Memorial to Homosexuals, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Holocaust Memorial), and Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism. See the New Synagogue and Hitler's bunker in Führerbunker. Plus on your stroll, catch sight of the Reichstag building, the Soviet War Memorial, and Berlin's Jewish neighborhood.

Explore Berlin's divided past with a local historian on a 3-hour, small-group tour of the city's key communist-era sites. Start your tour at the Brandenburg Gate that divided East and West Berlin, and learn how families were separated as they tried to pass through the Friedrichstrasse train station. Visit a moving memorial to murdered East Berliners at the once-notorious 'death strip.' See an expansive Soviet housing complex and the headquarters of East Germany's secret police, then finish your tour at Alexanderplatz, where fierce demonstrations helped end Communist rule.

Travel back to 1970s Berlin - a time when the city was split in two and West Berlin was "cut off from its world, art and culture, dying with no hope of retribution" - on this 3-hour tour. Together with a specialist guide, you'll navigate the city on foot and by public transport, in search of the Berlin that inspired David Bowie's seminal Berlin Trilogy. See Hansa Studios, where 'Heroes' and 'Low' were recorded, as well as 155 Hauptstrasse, once home to Bowie and Iggy Pop. You'll also visit Potsdamer Platz, Zoo Station, Neues Ufer Caf e, and other culturally significant sites.

Head to the DDR Museum in Berlin to chat with a former German Democratic Republic (GDR) citizen about life during the Cold War. With first-hand accounts of East Germany, you'll get a fascinating insight into the country during the days of Soviet control. Popular topics of conversation include life in Berlin during the Cold War or the opposition-led activities, but you decide what you want to discuss. Admission to the museum is at your own expense.

Get out of the tourist-crammed center of Berlin and head to the off-the-beaten path neighborhoods, the spots where there are far more locals than tourists on this private guided 5-hour tour. With a knowledgeable local guide, traverse the city in a comfortable van heading, for example, to the diverse and artsy neighborhood, Kreuzberg. See galleries, bustling cafe-flanked street and historical landmarks.

Take a 2-hour private walking tour from Bornholmer Straße to Bernauer Straße in Berlin. Explore East and West Berlin as you follow the old boundaries of the infamous Berlin Wall. Learn about the history of the Cold War in Germany that lasted from 1961 to 1989 and the impacts it had on Berlin and the country. Visit key landmarks along the way and listen to informative commentary from your guide.