Sex in Berlin goes live at Luftschloss Tempelhofer Feld with a format that treats dating horror stories not as private embarrassment, but as public entertainment, collective therapy, and cultural material all at once.
Nike Wessel, the host of the Studio36 podcast Sex in Berlin, brings her show onto a stage under the summer sky at Tempelhofer Feld. She is joined by the Paulis, Paulita Pappel and Pauline Schmiechen, and comedian Nadu for a live podcast built around bad dates, wild stories, and the strange social choreography of intimacy in Berlin.
What the Nike Wessel live podcast is
The Nike Wessel live podcast is not a sex party. It is a social room for people who want to hear Berlin talk honestly about desire, disappointment and the weird little failures that often tell the truth better than polished success stories.
Between personal confession, comedy, sex talk and community conversation, the evening touches not just on dating fails, but on sexuality, relationships and the spaces in which new forms of intimacy and self-determination are negotiated.
The Paulis. Expertise meets self-exposure
The Paulis are known from Pauli², a podcast by two women who know a great deal about sex professionally and still find themselves in the usual chaos of modern dating.
Paulita Pappel works as a director, performer and producer in the adult industry. Pauline Schmiechen runs a consultancy and speaks openly about desire, relationships and the mechanics of dating. Together, they built a podcast that refuses to separate professional knowledge from personal messiness.
That combination gives the night its particular edge. Part expertise, part self-exposure, part "how did this happen to me again?"
Nadu. Comedy as sharpening tool
Nadu brings a comedy perspective that matters here.
She is not there as decoration, but as someone who can sharpen the absurdity, hold the awkwardness, and turn dating disaster into something the room can actually laugh through instead of just cringe at. In a format that lives from vulnerability, a comedian's timing decides whether a story lands as tragedy or as shared relief.
An audience pulled into the story
The event is designed as interactive. The audience is pulled into the storytelling rather than left sitting safely at a distance.
That is the point where a live podcast becomes something different from a recording. Listeners in the room become material. The line between guests and audience gets porous. Berlin dating becomes not a private topic, but a collective one, out loud, together, under one roof.
Why this format works in Berlin right now
Berlin is a city where dating culture, sexuality and relationship models are constantly being renegotiated. Apps, kink spaces, open relationships, sex-positive parties, and the endless conversations that go with them shape a scene where intimacy is rarely just private business.
A live podcast about bad dates fits into that landscape. It takes the frustration people usually carry alone and turns it into culture. Not as advice column, not as therapy, but as a shared night where the failures get to speak.
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