Dialoghaus Hamburg gGmbH

About this audio guide

This guide to Dialoghaus Hamburg opens with an unlit room you cross by sound and touch alone, then reaches back to a young journalist in Baden-Baden who lost his sight in a car crash and asked radio producer Andreas Heinecke for a job. It follows how that encounter reshaped Heinecke's idea of blindness and grew, by 1988, into an exercise that sent sighted visitors into total darkness led by a blind guide. You'll hear how the concept toured before finding a permanent home in Hamburg's Speicherstadi, and why every guide here is blind or visually impaired. Listen closely to the small everyday sounds the darkened rooms recreate, from gravel underfoot to a glass set down at a bar.