Jeff Mannes | BerlinGuide.de

Berlin Guide offers guided tours in Augmented Reality and online experiences about Berlin’s History of Sex and The Story of Berlin’s Clubs! Additionally, I offer blog posts, presentations, workshops, and articles about human sexualities, sexual sciences, Berlin, LGBTIQ, club culture, politics, history, human-animal relations, sociology, social psychology, society, and culture. Berlin Guide is run by Jeff Mannes.

About Jeff Mannes

My name is Jeff Mannes (pronoun: he). I am a social scientist, speaker, tour guide, and freelance writer born in Luxembourg-City, Luxembourg and living in Berlin, Germany.

I studied sociology and gender studies (B.A.) in Trier and Göttingen (Germany). I focussed my studies mainly on human sexualities, queer studies, and human-animal relations. I wrote my Bachelor Thesis about the social construction of eating meat, and it was chosen for publication in the German sociological magazine.

I have more than ten years of experience as a freelance writer and public speaker. I have been speaking publicly and writing for magazines such as SIEGESSÄULE (Berlin’s highest-circulating city magazine, as well as Europe’s most-read LGBTIQ magazine) or the Lëtzebuerger Journal, as well as for non-profits such as the German AIDS Service Organization (Deutsche Aidshilfe).

I have been volunteering and working for several NGOs, including the German AIDS Service Organization (Deutsche Aidshilfe), Luxembourg’s HIV-Berodung and Stop AIDS Now / ACCESS, as well as Beyond Carnism.

Since 2018, I have been successfully hosting my critically acclaimed guided tour Berlin’s History of Sex, supported by the Federal Foundation Magnus Hirschfeld. In 2020, I started offering this tour as an online version, and in 2021, I launched this tour in Augmented Reality – powered by ZAUBAR.com. In 2022, I plan to launch my second guided tour about The Story of Berlin’s Clubs.

I have been working with educational institutions like Northwestern University (Illinois, USA) or die deutSCHule in Berlin.

I am currently studying gender studies (M.A.) at the Humboldt University in Berlin, focussing my studies on human sexualities.