{"title": "2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß", "start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bildungswerk Berlin der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung", "address": "Olivaer Platz 16, 10707 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "The evening shows Malte Ludin's documentary \"2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß\", framed by a short introduction and a concluding discussion with historian Sophia Schmitz and social scientist Dirk Reinink. In the film, the director approaches his own father, the Nazi diplomat Hanns Ludin, whom Hitler sent to Slovakia in 1941 as envoy to enforce Berlin's interests, above all the \"Final Solution\". Sixty years after the end of the war, the director and his siblings speak openly about repression, loyalty and shame within their family, while relatives embellish, deny or suppress the truth about the father. The film is a rare and unsparing document of how the Nazi past continues to affect later generations and how differently one family can deal with the same history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/2-oder-3-dinge-die-ich-von-ihm-wei-21940/", "official_url": "https://calendar.boell.de/de/event/der-vater-das-schweigen-und-reden-film-2-oder-3-dinge-die-ich-von-ihm-weiss", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bildungswerk Berlin der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung", "address": "Olivaer Platz 16, 10707 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "\"Bilder der Verbrecher\" – Filmische Blicke auf Täter im Nationalsozialismus | im RegenbogenKino", "start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "RegenbogenKino", "address": "Lausitzer Straße 21a, 10999 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Spenden willkommen", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A screening with a short introduction and a following discussion, showing „2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß“ by director Malte Ludin. The film takes as its starting point the filmmaker's own father, the Nazi diplomat Hanns Ludin, whom Hitler sent in 1941 as envoy to Slovakia to enforce Berlin's interests there, above all the „Endlösung“. After the war Hanns Ludin was handed over, sentenced to death and executed in 1947. Together with his siblings and relatives, the director speaks openly about denial, loyalty and shame within his own family, asking whether the father was a hero and martyr or a criminal.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/bilder-der-verbrecher-filmische-blicke-auf-tater-im-national-96879/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7cfd982ec87ccb66a9a6e4d37179fce25438688ff6403db252ab633b51dec5d-600.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", "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": "Das Himmler-Projekt", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zeughauskino", "address": "Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "„Das Himmler-Projekt“ is a documentary in which actor Manfred Zapatka, at a lectern, reads the transcript of a speech by Heinrich Himmler before 92 SS officers, created from the original audio recording. The secret speeches from Posen are known today because they openly speak of the murder of Jews, Soviet prisoners of war and forced labourers. Director Romuald Karmakar confines himself to a few changes of shot size and camera perspective. Film historian Tilman Schumacher introduces the screening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/das-himmler-projekt-10168/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/zeughauskino/vorfuehrung/default-title-14835/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5ab2562a095cffcf263ea675461eb4c7157d91a6f96eaa30011fddb6993d3b17-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Jetzt leben – Juden in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-14T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zeughauskino", "address": "Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/identity"], "description": "Helma Sanders-Brahms' 1994 documentary portrays a Jewish family that immigrated from Odessa to Berlin. In long conversations, father, mother and son reflect on German-Jewish history; sixteen-year-old Leonard speaks openly about belonging, exclusion and responsibility and develops a self-confident relationship to his Jewishness. In the face of right-wing extremist tendencies, he sees his life in Berlin as a deliberate statement. According to Sanders-Brahms, the film avoids folklore, rituals and political statements, asking the viewer to engage long and intensively with three people who came to Berlin from Odessa nine years earlier.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/jetzt-leben-juden-in-berlin-12742/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/zeughauskino/vorfuehrung/default-title-14763/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ad849b2bfd980c36e4dd5c4c59541a761def315e257f3ba2d5debc3b9866d396-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Vaterland", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hackesche Höfe Kino", "address": "Rosenthaler Straße 40-41, 10178 Berlin", "price": "8,-- € (Kinotag)", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/postwar-germany"], "description": "The cinema screens the feature film „Vaterland“, a German-language production from Germany, Poland, Italy and France. After the Second World War, Nobel laureate in literature Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, an actress, author and cabaret artist, travel through a Germany in ruins, from Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar. Pawel Pawlikowski directs, with Hanns Zischler, Sandra Hüller, August Diehl and Devid Striesow in the cast. For the first time since the war, Mann returns to the homeland he once fled into exile – a journey into the wounded German soul that becomes a journey inward for father and daughter.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vaterland-8496/", "official_url": "https://moviemento.de/film/vaterland/3679977113", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c1bced9a4d4227c9c0781c17d98bf83b5b3ae0a517f7b2710179183d6d6a741f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Friedrich Burschel liest & diskutiert: PRESENT PAST. Wie Nachfahren ihre NS-Familiengeschichte erforschen", "start": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Die gute Seite", "address": "Richardplatz 16, 12055 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A reading and conversation with author Friedrich Burschel, who talks about his own family research into the National Socialist era. At the centre is the volume „Present Past“, in which ten descendants describe how they investigated their family's Nazi past and how they deal with what they found. Burschel, who works on anti-fascism at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, contextualises the stories and then invites an audience discussion on memory politics. The event is part of the autumn series 2026 of the Neukölln bookshops against right-wing populism and racism.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/friedrich-burschel-liest-diskutiert-present-past-wie-nachfah-48498/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a49c27e608476b4c56a6c9195696c4be5a36311623fceb5d740b3742f4278648-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Das Deutsche Volk", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T22:00:00+01:00", "place": "Ulme 35", "address": "Ulmenallee 35, 14050 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Reservierung erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/racism"], "description": "An interculture cinema evening with a documentary about the racist attack in Hanau on 19 February 2020, in which nine young people were murdered. The event is run by Interkulturanstalten Westend e.V.; the film is by director Marcin Wierzchowski, who for four years accompanied the victims' families and survivors in their fight for justice and recognition. The film makes structural racism visible – both in the attack itself and in the authorities' treatment of the bereaved – and asks who belongs to Germany. A talk with the director follows the screening; admission is free with a reservation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/das-deutsche-volk-90017/", "official_url": "https://interkulturanstalten.de/events/das-deutsche-volk-interkulturkino/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/980acf0d5dac01ba4ba741fdda2e5d56f38eb63c339191e8bdbea73e9a1b7fcc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Gedenkveranstaltung zum 9. November: Filmvorführung von „Des Vaters Schweigen“ („The Father’s Silence“) & Gespräch & Musik", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heilig Kreuz-Kirche", "address": "Zossener Straße 65, 10961 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/holocaust", "occasion/memorial"], "description": "A memorial event for 9 November at the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Kreuzberg, featuring a screening of the documentary „Des Vaters Schweigen“ („The Father’s Silence“) followed by a talk and music. It is organised by the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde vor dem Halleschen Tor. The film tells the story of Sylvia Salomon, who only learned a few years before her father’s death that he had survived the Holocaust. Afterwards the director Mariella Santibáñez Koref and the film’s protagonist Sylvia Salomon will talk about it, with music by Yael Gat and Ofer Löwinger and moderation by pastor Christina Biere.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gedenkveranstaltung-zum-9-november-filmvorfuhrung-von-des-va-121011/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Das Ungesagte", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bali Kino", "address": "Teltower Damm 33, 14169 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": [], "description": "“Das Ungesagte” is a documentary about the silence that fell over Germans after 1945, when the Nazi era became taboo in nearly every family. Taking a psychological approach, the film explores what people at the time actually thought and felt. It asks how they today judge their own participation in and involvement with the Nazi regime. Behind the film is the directing team of Patricia Hector and Lothar Herzog.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/das-ungesagte-8931/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ef32dabd809feda83b4163729f52932047d92322bbfbe27d8a4d055764e1ead-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Zwischen Herkunft und neuem Zuhause", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Dokumentationszentrum)", "address": "Bernauer Straße 111, 13355 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "The film „Die noch unbekannten Tage“ by filmmaker Jola Wieczorek is a cinematic journey of remembrance into the 1980s. At its center is the story of her family and their emigration from Poland to Austria. The filmmaker asks how a key event in her own family might have turned out differently and what it would be like to look at the details of the past today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause-11960/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause?date=2026-11-10T18%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/69f4f1336e055102790bff38eb82a5e89baad1ca2c3b80be395c5541c6149b06-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Misha Schoeneberg liest aus „Vielleicht wollte er gar nicht schweigen er fand bloß die Worte nicht” mit musikalischer Begleitung", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Buchhandlung am Schäfersee", "address": "Markstraße 6, 13409 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature", "music"], "description": "Misha Schoeneberg reads from his book „Vielleicht wollte er gar nicht schweigen er fand bloß die Worte nicht“, accompanied by musician Michael Gerlinger, who sings songs by Leonard Cohen in German to the guitar. In this deeply personal book, the author traces the story of his father, a member of a Jewish Berlin family who survived the horrors of Auschwitz. It is about silence and speechlessness in the family, remembrance culture and the upheavals of the present up to the events of October 7. The reading takes place at Buchhandlung am Schäfersee in Berlin; advance registration is possible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/misha-schoeneberg-liest-aus-vielleicht-wollte-er-gar-nicht-s-13471/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b76d528393fa3deeeebccf968b564e266c0db82854844ae3c870ae2192546799-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Einar Schleef – Ich habe kein Deutschland gefunden", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "€7 – €9 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "stage/theatre"], "description": "The documentary „Einar Schleef – Ich habe kein Deutschland gefunden“ portrays the theater-maker and all-round artist Einar Schleef, who died far too early in 2001, having fled from the East and never arrived in the West. Director Sandra Prechtel composed a richly faceted portrait from historical footage, interviews and archive material of a defiant loner with an enfant terrible reputation. The film tells of theater, the repressive mechanisms of postwar society and, unlike familiar accounts, of German-German reality. It premiered in the Forum of the 2026 Berlinale and won the Documentary Audience Award at the NFF and the CLIO Award 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/einar-schleef-ich-habe-kein-deutschland-gefunden-8525/", "official_url": "https://www.filmgalerie451.de/de/filme/einar-schleef-ich-habe-kein-deutschland-gefunden", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f69baadd571de498be47814603860def6ae0169f7a72db07b098e04de4705e1b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Transport aus dem Paradies | Die Enkelinnen", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus der Wannseekonferenz", "address": "Am Großen Wannsee 58, 14109 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/holocaust"], "description": "A matinee combining a screening of „Transport aus dem Paradies“ with the ensuing talk „Die Enkelinnen“. The multi-award-winning Czechoslovak film, directed by Zbyněk Brynych in 1962, is based on Arnošt Lustig's story „Nacht und Hoffnung“ and is set in 1944 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where the Nazis had a propaganda film made that pretended a normal camp life with fulfilling work and rich cultural activity, while all participants were afterwards deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp, to which the title bitterly ironicly alludes. In the talk, Eva Lustigová, daughter of Arnošt Lustig, and Jacqueline Gies, granddaughter of the personal secretary of Karl Hermann Frank, a key figure of the Nazi terror in the so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, speak, moderated by Aya Zarfati and Dr. Wolfgang Schwarz. The event is a cooperation of the Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz with the Arnošt Lustig Stiftungsfonds, the Kulturreferat für die böhmischen Länder im Adalbert Stifter Verein, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin and the Czech Centre Berlin, funded by the Deutsch-Tschechischer Zukunftsfonds.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/transport-aus-dem-paradies-die-enkelinnen-12040/", "official_url": "https://www.ghwk.de/de/termine/termin/transport-aus-dem-paradies-die-enkelinnen", "image": "https://noky.io/images/acd4478464de2bf7ee35d38e4781dc246c97ef81b488ce2ac6f8820f1c1d86bc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Judith Hermann – Ich möchte zurückgehen in der Zeit", "start": "2026-11-09T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Buchhandlung Braun & Hassenpflug", "address": "Fischerhüttenstraße 79, 14163 Berlin", "price": "15,- €", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "A literary evening with Judith Hermann about her new book »Ich möchte zurückgehen in der Zeit« (S. Fischer Verlage, 2026). In it, she follows the traces of her grandfather, who was stationed in Radom, Poland, for the SS during the Second World War. She links her writing to his long-denied history, travels from Poland to her sister in Naples, and explores the remembering and forgetting of later generations. Admission is 15 euros.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/judith-hermann-ich-mochte-zuruckgehen-in-der-zeit-13450/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/19d1dd811743c90346f47bc12eeee13a4f0c7cd87e1c68cae3836a3aab32f6ee-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Mad Dog of Europe", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ACUDkino", "address": "Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "THE MAD DOG OF EUROPE is a film about a screenplay that was never made. In 1932, Herman J. Mankiewicz, later famous for Citizen Kane, wrote an anti-Nazi film project depicting the collapse of a German-Jewish family at the start of Hitler's rise to power. Fearful of economic and diplomatic consequences, the Hollywood studios ultimately shelved the visionary script despite several committed attempts to realize it. Director Rubika Shah, who also co-wrote the screenplay, draws parallels between this story and today's political pressure on media and culture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-mad-dog-of-europe-21426/", "official_url": "https://www.realfictionfilme.de/the-mad-dog-of-europe.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9bb1ddfe8eac38ebb83b0f8c4fb9c715556ba1f2c7c2531fdeb5e8447a89f45d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mein Berlin - ein Ort mit Gedächtnis?", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-09T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "KulturMarktHalle", "address": "Hanns-Eisler-Straße 93, 10409 Berlin", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/antisemitism"], "description": "\"Mein Berlin - ein Ort mit Gedächtnis?\" is a film offering an artistic and journalistic approach to the uncertainty that many Berlin Jews have experienced since October 7, 2023. It portraits six Jewish people living in Berlin without showing their faces; the renunciation of identifiability is both a protective measure and part of the artistic concept. The camera stays close but never revealing, observing movements, gestures and living spaces, showing apartments, workplaces, family objects and favorite places in the city. At a time when antisemitism is becoming visible and more radical again in Germany, the film looks not only at those affected but also at the majority society – at its reactions, withheld empathy, distance and silence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/mein-berlin-ein-ort-mit-gedachtnis-20445/", "official_url": "https://www.kulturmarkthalle.berlin/event-details/film-mein-berlin-ein-ort-mit-gedachtnis", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f73b455b1470f0057773d4f06131c621ad7cc9ce52444fb1b8938abe5476a194-1200.webp"}]}