{"title": "1989 als Auftrag: Verpasste Chancen? Neue Perspektiven", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "5 Euro/ 3 Euro ermäßigt", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.de/e/elshan-ghasimi-reinterpretation-des-radif-dastgah-e-chahargah-tickets-1997393231925", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/reunification"], "description": "A panel discussion exploring the legacy of 1989 and asking whether opportunities were missed back then. It takes place as part of a series on 1989 that aims to open up new perspectives on the era of change. Experts on stage debate which of that period's tasks still resonate today. Visitors can follow the discussion live and contribute their own ideas.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/1989-als-auftrag-verpasste-chancen-neue-perspektiven-33824/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Sturzlage", "start": "2026-11-07T10:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-16T18:30:00+01:00", "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr/peaceful-revolution"], "description": "\"Sturzlage\" is an event dealing with the democratic awakening of 1989/90. It centers on the Central Round Table at Schloss Schönhausen in Pankow, where crucial decisions were made. From December 1989 to March 1990, representatives of the citizens' movements and parties met there. 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It asks questions such as: can people with different political opinions still talk to each other? What divides East and West, what connects them, and what has changed in recent years? The series is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for East Germany and has previously travelled through East Germany and Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/pen-berlin-gehts-noch-3773/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/pen-berlin-gehts-noch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/33b1cbab610ffda3d8005e5c5ef3739321581f59829c18d13e9a6b19846bbd58-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Aufbruch und Abbruch. Vom Runden Tisch zum Parlamentssaal im Palast der Republik", "start": "2026-11-07T16:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://indiv.themisweb.fr/0426/fChoixSeanceWidget.aspx?idstructure=0426&EventId=1341&request=QcE+w0WHSuAzuy2B4/OGXXM5SHkQriVyPpSnIlSPgwi/SvTcAfT+aEjjNRciovQIRNkHdQdPpEPbes4EX/49Cg==", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr/peaceful-revolution"], "description": "A talk about two significant sites of the Peaceful Revolution: the Central Round Table at Schönhausen Palace in Pankow and the parliamentary chamber in the Palace of the Republic. Behind the event are the Humboldt Forum, the ORTS-Termin and the installation „Sturzlage“, held on the occasion of the Berlin Freedom Week 2026. The speaker is Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper, one of the most prominent voices in Berlin's culture of remembrance, who explores the history and significance of these two places. She asks why their history is told so little today and why the democratic potential of the Round Table and the freely elected Volkskammer remains relevant.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/aufbruch-und-abbruch-vom-runden-tisch-zum-parlamentssaal-im-2562/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e34564113d159a91a5b5353bba257fd8d87edaeb255452c59f585bb9f7f1bf1c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Umbruch 1989/90 und die deutsche Einheit: Gemischte Gefühle?", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "East Side Gallery", "address": "", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/berlin-bike-berliner-mauertour-mit-dem-fahrrad#/experience/BTM00020101074869526", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/street-art", "history/gdr"], "description": "A spotlight guided tour at the East Side Gallery presenting some of the more than one hundred artworks painted on the Berlin Wall in 1990. They tell of hope and joy, but also of worries and unsettling experiences in the period of upheaval 1989/90. The tour looks at how the artists, more than 35 years after the fall of the Wall, view German unity: what would they paint on the wall today, and are the messages still relevant? It takes place as part of Berlin Freedom Week 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/umbruch-198990-und-die-deutsche-einheit-gemischte-gefuhle-20156/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/east-side-gallery/besuch/programm/umbruch-198990-und-die-deutsche-einheit-gemischte-gefuehle-0?date=2026-11-08T11%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d85c4d00aab736be0800091f9d1ee42f74a3ab1b181d9ae3f0d39d409f17285a-600.webp"}, {"title": "WahlheYmat Talks: Democracy for everyone", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek (AGB)", "address": "Eva-Mamlok-Platz 1, 10961 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.gratis-in-berlin.de/component/flexicontent/24-wissen-live/2081884-web-seminar-nachhaltig-gesund-und-guenstig-einkaufen", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/democracy"], "description": "WahlheYmat Talks: Democracy for everyone is an English-language panel discussion on democratic participation in Berlin, where around one million residents cannot vote. Behind it is WahlheYmat e.V., whose monthly series is supported by the Berlin Central and Regional Library (ZLB). The guests are Chantal Chisley (Polnischer Sozialrat e.V.), Esther Nass (StimmlosTrend, WahlheYmat e.V.) and Jonas Drechsler (D2030 – Deutschland neu denken e.V.). Together with the audience they explore how democracy can be made accessible to everyone and adapted to a diverse society – no registration needed, but places are limited.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wahlheymat-talks-democracy-for-everyone-2594/", "official_url": "https://www.zlb.de/veranstaltungsuebersicht/wahlheymat-talks-democracy-for-everyone/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3fcceda21c60b934a6d7cc56d97e5c4b26267ef593cb30afb5877f3443fb9910-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Palästina zwischen Augen: Zwischen Solidarität und Schweigen: Was bleibt? Palästinensische Stimmen in der DDR und heute", "start": "2026-10-31T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK)", "address": "Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11-13, 10178 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/gdr"], "description": "A conversation event within the project „Palästina zwischen Augen“ at the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) in Berlin-Mitte. Mahmoud Dabdoub and Sophie Ataya talk with each other, moderated by Irit Neidhardt; the topic is Palestinian voices in the GDR and today, between solidarity and silence. The conversation is held in English and admission is free. An awareness team will be present at all events, and the nGbK has a complaints procedure.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/palastina-zwischen-augen-zwischen-solidaritat-und-schweigen-10275/", "official_url": "https://ngbk.de/de/programm/termine/palaestina-zwischen-augen-between-solidarity-and-silence-what-remains-palestinian-voices-in-the-gdr-and-now", "image": ""}, {"title": "80. Waisenhausgespräch – “Lernt die Menschheit nie? Erinnerungskultur als Mehrgenerationenprojekt”", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Betsaal, Berliner Straße 120-121, 13187 Berlin", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei / free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/memory-culture", "literature/reading"], "description": "The 80th Waisenhausgespräch asks how a culture of remembrance can succeed as a project across generations. Organized by the Cajewitz Stiftung together with the SchuleEins and the Theater OfW, it features pupils presenting their research into the history of the former orphanage, a staged reading by Anja S. Gläser and Florentine Schara (text and staging by Philipp Urrutia, with English surtitles), and a panel discussion with Lena Ditte Nissen and Rosa Jellinek. In this way the historic building's Betsaal becomes a place of living memory where past and present enter into dialogue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/80-waisenhausgesprach-lernt-die-menschheit-nie-erinnerungsku-72986/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "DDR-Philosophie 1945–1995. Vom Schließen und Aufstoßen der Fenster", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Helle Panke e.V.", "address": "Kopenhagener Straße 76, 10437 Berlin", "price": "2 €", "price_from": "2.00", "price_to": "2.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "A conversation about philosophy in the GDR and its effects reaching into the present. Prof. Dr. Hans-Christoph Rauh speaks with the long-time publisher Dr. Christoph Links, drawing on his latest book \"DDR-Philosophie 1945-1995. Geschichte und Kritik\". They discuss how the party built up its \"Kader-Philosophie\", pushed aside free thinking and its representatives, and what outcomes there were from this \"philosophy for a closed world\". The talk is deliberately held on the anniversary of the 1989 Alexanderplatz mass demonstration, where Stefan Heym declared: \"It is as if someone has opened the windows\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ddr-philosophie-19451995-vom-schlieen-und-aufstoen-der-fenst-22789/", "official_url": "https://www.helle-panke.de/de/topic/3.termine.html?id=4124", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4972af2a261b6bb7198937851254d498f329892de982a7f39f3945016bb6e767-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Freiheit, Solidarität und der Wunsch nach Erneuerung -", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Katholische Akademie in Berlin", "address": "Hannoversche Straße 5b, 10115 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["occasion/anniversary"], "description": "A discussion event marking the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian popular uprising. The Catholic Academy in Berlin, together with Renovabis, invites guests to talk about the meaning of \"1956\" in Hungarian memory culture and politics, as well as Hungary's present and future. Speakers include Zsuzsa Breier, Kornélia Kiss, Konrád Dejcsics and Gergely Romsics, moderated by Kai-Olaf Lang. The Research Prize Eastern Europe 2026 will be awarded directly afterwards.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/freiheit-solidaritat-und-der-wunsch-nach-erneuerung-9177/", "official_url": "https://www.katholische-akademie-berlin.de/veranstaltung/freiheit-solidaritaet/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/946a2019808db63b1e647b63b54d108542fd54e332ca08ea9e3ac9400b788086-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Themenführung zur Berlin Freedom Week", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Forum Willy Brandt Berlin", "address": "Behrenstraße 15, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall"], "description": "During Berlin Freedom Week, the Forum Willy Brandt Berlin invites visitors to a themed guided tour. It centres on Willy Brandt and the years 1989/90, asking what made those events so special for him, how his policies for the East and for Germany helped overcome the country's division, and why he could imagine German unity only in a European context. Taking part costs nothing, and no registration is needed. The tour is offered in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/themenfuhrung-zur-berlin-freedom-week-22412/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fa73292fffdca2963d0804daf6615581bdc76084ce9805334e5e34d1e217c0a6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ask Me – Ruin und Rausch", "start": "2026-11-05T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturforum, Neue Nationalgalerie", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/modern-art", "history/weimar-republic"], "description": "In the „Ask Me“ format, art mediators are on hand directly in the exhibition rooms of the Neue Nationalgalerie for conversations, questions and short impulses – here under the title „Ruin und Rausch“. Starting from the painting „Potsdamer Platz“, the shared conversation explores the faces Berlin wore in the tumult of the 1910s to 1930s, offering a quick look at the history of the era. Afterwards, visitors can explore expressive and New Objectivity works from the collection on their own, in dialogue with the poetry of the time. The offering is part of the „Volkswagen Group Art4All“ series and the exhibition „Ruin und Rausch. Berlin 1910–1930“, and admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ask-me-ruin-und-rausch-10918/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/ask-me-ruin-und-rausch-2026-11-05-160000-162873/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ea71078bf868424315528506d23be3bdb242fb85593d76615a99cccc7d9d15fa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Theateraufführung \"Mikrokosmos 1990. Anfang und Ende eines Landes\"", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen", "address": "", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.stiftung-hsh.de/ihr-besuch/veranstaltungen/anmeldung", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "history/gdr"], "description": "The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial presents the research-based theatre piece „Mikrokosmos 1990. Anfang und Ende eines Landes“ by the theatre collective Vajswerk. It follows four young people from Leipzig, Rostock, Hoyerswerda and Berlin through the year 1990, who after the Peaceful Revolution and the fall of the Wall face the question: „Und wie geht es weiter?“ Based on research into historical material, the piece creates a many-layered portrait of a country in upheaval, telling of a generation's experiences in the year of German unity and drawing a line to the present. The joint event with the district's business development office of Lichtenberg sets the stage for the Berlin Freedom Week 2026 and invites reflection on the upheavals of the Wende era as well as on freedom and democracy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/theaterauffuhrung-mikrokosmos-1990-anfang-und-ende-eines-lan-45229/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-hsh.de/ihr-besuch/veranstaltungen/mikrokosmos-1990", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7fa097dec5bcfe2a975448da157f828b5b285f149b466ee80511507b77ee8c3b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "ZEIT-Recherchen: War Opa ein Nazi?", "start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "16/9 EURO", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "\"ZEIT-Recherchen: War Opa ein Nazi?\" is a talk as part of a discourse event on the anniversary of the November pogroms of 1938. Caterina Lobenstein speaks with Götz Aly and Christian Staas, in cooperation with DIE ZEIT. Millions of Germans were in the Wehrmacht and the NSDAP, yet many of their descendants knew nothing about it; recently anyone can search the membership files for relatives with just a few clicks. The discussion asks what looking into one's own family reveals about German culture of remembrance, when coming to terms with the past becomes honest confrontation or merely a soothing ritual, and how remembrance changes as more Germans have no personal connection to the Nazi era.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zeit-recherchen-war-opa-ein-nazi-3781/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/zeit-recherchen-war-opa-ein-nazi", "image": "https://noky.io/images/75b21b28fad8ef289a588522ebde26e73b59e215f54fa8e020ae894cc2067f44-600.webp"}, {"title": "L*Ost : Lesben in der Provinz“ – damals und heute Vortrag von Judith Geffert und Zeitzeug*innengespräch, Ort: EWA e.V. – Frauenzentrum Prenzlauer Allee 6 10405 Berlin", "start": "2026-10-30T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sonntags-Club", "address": "Greifenhagener Straße 28, 10437 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/queer/lesbian", "history/gdr"], "description": "A talk by Judith Geffert with a conversation featuring contemporary witnesses about the lives of lesbians in the East German provinces. In 1989, Christiane Kloweit and Ina Röder Sissoko interviewed lesbians living in small towns and presented these conversations at the first GDR lesbian conference, „Lesben im Umfeld der Kirche“, in Halle. Geffert has researched this conference and will talk with contemporary witnesses about the events of that time and their significance in the transformation process of 1989. She will also connect them to the situation of lesbians living outside big cities today; the event takes place at the women's centre EWA e.V.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lost-lesben-in-der-provinz-damals-und-heute-vortrag-von-judi-76227/", "official_url": "https://programm.sonntags-club.de/programm/lost-lesben-in-der-provinz-damals-und-heute-vortrag-von-judith-geffert-und-zeitzeuginnengespraech-ort-ewa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0572be631cbe32e9bbcb66085617a842a0ca8e2c2755623b0a59e9a1b98aaa3f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "L*Ost DDR Vortrag: „Lesben in der Provinz“ – damals und heute", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Spinnboden Lesbenarchiv & Bibliothek e.V.", "address": "Anklamer Straße 38, 10115", "price": "Spende erwünscht.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "A talk with a contemporary witness conversation about lesbians in the GDR's provinces, then and now. Judith Geffert, who researched the 1989 lesbian conference in Halle, will talk with contemporary witnesses about the events of that time and their significance in the transformation process, and draw connections to the situation of lesbians living outside big cities today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lost-ddr-vortrag-lesben-in-der-provinz-damals-und-heute-42855/", "official_url": "https://spinnboden.de/angebot/lost-ddr-vortrag-lesben-in-der-provinz-damals-und-heute/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0572be631cbe32e9bbcb66085617a842a0ca8e2c2755623b0a59e9a1b98aaa3f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lesben in der Provinz – damals und heute", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "EWA-Frauenzentrum", "address": "Prenzlauer Allee 6 10405 Berlin", "price": "Gratis / free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "A talk with photos and a conversation with contemporary witnesses about the lives of lesbians in small towns of the GDR. In 1989, Christiane Kloweit and Ina Röder Sissoko researched the realities of lesbian life in the provinces; their findings were presented at the first lesbian conference of the GDR in Halle. Judith Geffert illuminates the history of this conference in the autumn of the 1989 political upheaval and its significance for the visibility of lesbian life. She draws connections to the situation of lesbians outside large cities today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesben-in-der-provinz-damals-und-heute-16579/", "official_url": "https://www.ewa-frauenzentrum.de/Kultur/Veranstaltungen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b5aa69eeb67d8799b25766deda7caeae4b7231c585a01254afbc8c14fcd810b7-600.webp"}]}