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Berlin, Germany
Germany's first gay bookstore on Motzstraße, open since 1978
Prinz Eisenherz is Germany's first gay bookshop, founded in 1978 and trading today simply as Buchladen Eisenherz. Since November 2013 it has occupied Motzstraße 23 in Schöneberg, the neighborhood at the center of Berlin's queer life since the 1920s. The shelves run wide across LGBTQ+ literature in German and English: fiction, history, biography, queer comics, academic titles, erotica, crime, and children's books for rainbow families, alongside international magazines and zines. In 2025 it was named one of Germany's best bookshops in the Deutscher Buchhandlungspreis (German Bookstore Prize). The shop reads as a working cultural space rather than a browse-and-leave retailer. It runs regular author readings, discussion panels, and film evenings, plus two standing book clubs: the German-language Dramaqueens and the English-language Village Book Club, which makes it an easy landing spot for English-speaking travelers who want to meet locals over LGBTQ+ books rather than over drinks. Its roots in Berlin's queer infrastructure go deep: the Berlinale's Teddy Award, the film festival's queer cinema honor, traces its origins to informal gatherings of festival programmers here during the 1980s. For anyone spending time in the Motzstraße corridor, it's a quieter, more literary anchor a few doors from the bars.
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