{"title": "80. Waisenhausgespräch", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "SchuleEins Waisenhaus, Betsaal, Berliner Straße 120-121, 13187 Berlin", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei / free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "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-72986/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "SchuleEins Waisenhaus, Betsaal, Berliner Straße 120-121, 13187 Berlin", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "„Nie wieder ist jetzt?“ – Erinnerung und Gedenken an den Holocaust zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft und Schule", "start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "diekleinegalerie", "address": "Goßlerstraße 21, 12161 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/holocaust/commemoration"], "description": "diekleinegalerie invites to a conversation on a current topic: „Nie wieder ist jetzt?“ – Remembrance and commemoration of the Holocaust between historical scholarship and school. The conversation is between Prof. Wolfgang Benz, a historian, and Jakob Ciré, a teacher of history at a Berlin integrated comprehensive school. It addresses how remembrance can be conveyed when there are no more contemporary witnesses, how it can be kept alive in our post-migrant society, and what the claim of „never again“ means in the present. Due to limited seating, registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nie-wieder-ist-jetzt-erinnerung-und-gedenken-an-den-holocaus-22255/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Erinnerungsort Kolonialismus. Call & Response mit Alice Hasters und Khuê Phạm.", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "A keynote dialogue on the question of how a central place of learning and remembrance for the history of colonialism and its continuities can be shaped. Following an introduction by literary scholar and curator Ibou Diop, Alice Hasters and Khuê Phạm take up questions about forms, practices and politics of remembering and bring them into conversation with each other, after which the exchange continues with the audience. The event reflects on the Erinnerungskonzept Kolonialismus (2025), initiated by actors of Berlin's civil society, which combines activist, scholarly and artistic positions and presents guidelines for engaging with and remembering Berlin's long-suppressed colonial history. In cooperation with Kolonialismus erinnern, the dialogue opens the event „Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort.“ on 13 November.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/erinnerungsort-kolonialismus-call-response-mit-alice-hasters-283/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/kolonialismus-erinnern/20261109-1700/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Erinnerungen sterben nicht", "start": "2026-11-15T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "4 EUR / ermäßigt 2 EUR", "price_from": "4.00", "price_to": "4.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/death/grief", "literature/childrens-books"], "description": "The Humboldt Forum hosts a reading for children in which picture books about parting and remembrance are read aloud. The programme belongs to the Bilderbuchkino series, forms part of the programme accompanying the exhibition un_endlich. Leben mit dem Tod, and is aimed at children aged three to six, whom adults may accompany only. The books read are “Die Farbe von Zitronen” by Kenesha Sneed, “Als Oma immer kleiner wurde” by Inka Pabst and Mehrdad Zaeri, and “Wenn die ganze Welt…” by Joseph Coelho and Allison Colpoys. At their centre stand memories of friends and relatives who are no longer there – some bring sadness, others give a feeling of being safe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/erinnerungen-sterben-nicht-79957/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e8d2b16cac1de8a0d28487da7785d59f962146cd6154fb9e73591f24f90f4bab-600.webp"}, {"title": "DemokratieGEDICHTE: Erinnerungen neu gestalten - Demokratiegeschichte als gemeinsame Aufgabe", "start": "2026-11-16T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus für Poesie", "address": "Knaackstr. 97 (Kulturbrauerei), 10435 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/democracy", "literature/spoken-word"], "description": "An evening of poetry slam and a panel discussion on how the history of democracy is remembered. At the third evening of the \"DemokratieGEDICHTE\" series, poetry slam on democracy past and present meets experiences from memorial work. The focus lies on whose democratic history is told, which voices are missing, and how remembrance can be shaped openly and with many voices. The event takes place at the Haus für Poesie in the Kulturbrauerei and participation is free of charge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/demokratiegedichte-erinnerungen-neu-gestalten-demokratiegesc-96878/", "official_url": "https://www.deutsche-gesellschaft-ev.de/veranstaltungen/diskussionsreihen/2184-demokratiegedichte-reihe.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/03faa6179bc7152671053557f26f1f554402955af53a677c0d06b56b14c108bb-600.webp"}, {"title": "Hör hin!Ein Abend über Erinnern, Erzählen und Heilung", "start": "2026-11-14T21:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Biergarten Weltwirtschaft", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/memory-culture", "literature/spoken-word"], "description": "\"Hör hin!\" is an evening of conversation, film, spoken word, poetry and an open mic about remembering, telling and healing. Asila Taifour invites guests on the occasion of the podcast \"Der Mörder meiner Mutter\" (ZEIT Verbrechen). Spoken-word artist Jessy James LaFleur and Carolin Haentjes with an impulse will take part. Admission is free, registration is possible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/hor-hinein-abend-uber-erinnern-erzahlen-und-heilung-40404/", "official_url": "https://weltwirtschaft.berlin/event/hoer-hinein-abend-ueber-erinnern-erzaehlen-und-heilung/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9f95a8d92003bfbb39f68b1221d02da296308427aa359895a7431ff228c393f3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort", "start": "2026-11-13T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "„Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort“ is an evening devoted to the question of how a central learning and memorial site on the history of colonialism could be designed in Berlin. The event brings together perspectives from academia, art, architecture, activism and memorial policy practice, sharing with a broad audience the conceptual and spatial foundations of the future site as well as the structures and networks that could sustain it. Artistically, the evening is framed by the dance company Fii ak Fee with the work DEM DEM and by Nathalie Vairac, who reads for the first time from Felwine Sarr's „Traces – A Speech to African Nations“. The event takes place in cooperation with „Kolonialismus erinnern“ and further partners, with simultaneous translation into English and French.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kolonialismus-erinnern-vom-konzept-zum-ort-293/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/kolonialismus-erinnern/20261113-1900/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Gedenkfeier am Gedenkort Eichborndamm 238", "start": "2026-11-13T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gedenkort Eichborndamm 238", "address": "Eichborndamm 238, 13437 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist entgeltfrei.", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A public memorial ceremony at the memorial site with history lab at Eichborndamm 238, which recalls the so-called \"Kinderfachabteilung Wiesengrund\" set up in 1941, where children classified as \"unworthy of life\" under the National Socialist doctrine of heredity and race were admitted and died following medical experiments and a lack of medical help. The sponsorship project \"Mein liebes Kind\" was initiated there in 2018 by the artist Karen Scheper in cooperation with the Museum Reinickendorf, in which Berlin young people and schools take on a sponsorship for one of the murdered children. At the ceremony the participants present their projects, including pupils of the Carl-Bosch-Schule and the Georg-Herwegh-Gymnasium. District mayor Emine Demirbüken-Wegner and Dr. Sabine Ziegenrücker speak, Bozsó Fehér provides guitar music, and there is a laying of flowers at the memorial plaque and a tour of the memorial site with Imke Küster.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gedenkfeier-am-gedenkort-eichborndamm-238-12355/", "official_url": "https://museum-reinickendorf.de/termine/gedenkfeier-am-gedenkort-eichborndamm-238-3/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68779e46f793ad73fd00ace484215c8c64755f3b58b99ae95f138d6ef54ff01d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Literarische Erinnerungsbilder", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung", "address": "Straße der Pariser Kommune 8A, 10243 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/germany", "literature"], "description": "\"Literarische Erinnerungsbilder\" is a reading followed by a conversation. The authors Regina Scheer and Annett Gröschner read from their family novels \"Machandel\" and \"Schwebende Lasten\", in which individual fates form a multiperspectival mosaic of twentieth-century German history; the conversation is moderated by literary scholar Therese Hörnigk. The event takes place in the Eva-Mamlok-Bibliothek of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and is accessible, registration is requested. Literary images of memory are meant to broaden the range of society's perceptions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/literarische-erinnerungsbilder-97085/", "official_url": "https://www.rosalux.de/veranstaltung/es_detail/YWZCR/literarische-erinnerungsbilder?cHash=784309a7c779e052580b64ff3c5d54eb", "image": "https://noky.io/images/575c4c578c748ea7fdb4b59a6de9414192fc00aa1475a32faab15ae71ceac786-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Über Grenzen: Ziehen, Einreißen und Verschieben", "start": "2026-08-14T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall"], "description": "A talk in the BERLIN GLOBAL exhibition at the Humboldt Forum. It is the first of four events in the series „Über Grenzen: Ziehen, Einreißen und Verschieben“, held 65 years after the building of the Berlin Wall. Under the title „Grenzen/los?“, Elise Landschek (DIE ZEIT) talks with Ngoc Anh Nguyen, Juliane Meckert and Flor Fischer about the perspectives of the third and fourth generation East.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/uber-grenzen-ziehen-einreien-und-verschieben-79965/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3b60cf5bd71cdbc32b34c118b37f0d770cce0dd340a98c7296c05c1574ae23de-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Aufbruch und Abbruch", "start": "2026-11-07T16:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "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-2562/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e34564113d159a91a5b5353bba257fd8d87edaeb255452c59f585bb9f7f1bf1c-600.webp"}, {"title": "THERE IS NO PAST IN BERLIN: Ioana Cristina Casapu in conversation with Alexander Wells", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lettrétage", "address": "Veteranenstr. 21, 10119 Berlin", "price": "on a donation basis (recommended 5-10€)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin", "literature"], "description": "A literary evening of readings, conversation and mutual interviewing at Lettrétage. Romanian author and curator Ioana Cristina Casapu welcomes Australian writer and critic Alexander Wells for the second edition of her series „THERE IS NO PAST IN BERLIN“, which she initiated together with Lars Jongeblod. Starting from Karl Scheffler's verdict that Berlin is „condemned forever to becoming“, they ask how much of the past we carry into a new life, tracing writers who came to Berlin to begin again – from Isherwood's Schöneberg and Joseph Roth's streets to today's perpetually unfinished capital. Casapu draws on her essay collection „Berliner Tagebuch – Die Geschichte meiner inneren Mauer“ (2025), Wells on essays following Joseph Roth, questioning young Australians in Berlin and examining how the Stasi became part of a reassuring Western narrative.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/there-is-no-past-in-berlin-ioana-cristina-casapu-in-conversa-7372/", "official_url": "https://www.lettretage.de/programm/there-is-no-past-in-berlin-ioana-cristina-casapu-in-conversation-with-alexander-wells", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e09be97596bab3997375df8499f6ed2c59095e2ee59382927e1616fdeeb5a42-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Zeitfragengottesdienst – Kindheit und Kriegserfahrung nach 1945", "start": "2026-11-15T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Emmaus-Kirche", "address": "Onkel-Tom-Straße 80, 14169 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "worship", "tags": ["art/architecture/bauhaus", "religion"], "description": "A Zeitfragengottesdienst is an evening church service in which an external speaker gives a talk on a social, religious or ethical topic, framed by song, a biblical reading and prayer. On the topic \"Bauhaus-Moderne und Religion\", Dr. Andreas Butter of the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau speaks on the tension between religion and modern movements, including religious moments in artists from Walter Gropius to Bruno Taut. The illustrated lecture is followed by an invitation to questions and discussion over a cup of tea. The series is run by the congregation and offers a forum to representatives of various fields.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zeitfragengottesdienst-kindheit-und-kriegserfahrung-nach-194-14682/", "official_url": "https://www.ema-gemeinde.de/gottesdienste/zeitfragengottesdienste", "image": ""}, {"title": "Übers Sterben sprechen", "start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/death/grief"], "description": "An evening between reading and performance that creates an intimate space for telling and listening together about death, dying, loss and grief. Six Berliners under the artistic direction of Korbinian Schütze share personal experiences and different ways of dealing with the inevitable. The evening asks what happens when we speak honestly and without glossing over finitude. It is made in cooperation with the Ambulante Hospiz- und Familienbegleitdienst Berlin and the children's project Pfützen springen of the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e. V.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ubers-sterben-sprechen-4404/", "official_url": "https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/freiboxen-uebers-sterben-sprechen", "image": ""}, {"title": "Wie erinnern wir? Wie erinnerst du?", "start": "2026-09-29T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-05-09T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit", "address": "Britzer Straße 5, 12439 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A special exhibition about the changing nature and significance of remembrance. The Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit presents it at the historical site of a former Nazi forced labor camp, using objects from its collection to show personal, family and public forms of remembering forced labor. Students from Archenhold-Gymnasium, participants of an international youth encounter and local neighbors co-created the exhibition. Interactive stations invite visitors to do their own research and reflect on the past, present and future of remembrance and its meaning for a democratic society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wie-erinnern-wir-wie-erinnerst-du-11738/", "official_url": "https://www.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/ausstellungen/wie-erinnern-wir", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a9684c4e4a2ad3f75a44fe128a583c6f95747a086e276b444c5f0cd9eeb83476-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Wider das Vergessen", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturring in Berlin e.V.", "address": "Ernststraße 14-16, 12437 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/nazi-era/commemoration"], "description": "\"Wider das Vergessen\" invites people to join a joint walk to Stolpersteine. These small memorial plaques commemorate people who were persecuted, driven out or murdered during the Nazi era. The event is organised by Kulturring in Berlin; registration is handled by the Ev. Kirchengemeinde Hellersdorf. Participation is free of charge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wider-das-vergessen-89628/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "»Jüdisches Weißensee« – Jüdische Geschichte(n) in der Gegenwartsliteratur. Lesung & Gespräch mit Marina Frenk, Slata Roschal, Britta Wauer & Alexander Estis", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "€8 – €10 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/jewish-history", "literature"], "description": "A literary evening of readings and conversation about Jewish history and Jewish life in contemporary literature and film, with Weißensee and its large Jewish cemetery as an example of regional places of Jewish life. Reading and discussing are the writers Marina Frenk and Slata Roschal and the author and filmmaker Britta Wauer, with Alexander Estis moderating. The evening asks about regional references in the work of Jewish and non-Jewish authors. It also shows connections with other arts such as film and music.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/judisches-weiensee-judische-geschichten-in-der-gegenwartslit-24489/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/juedisches-weissensee-juedische-geschichten-in-der-gegenwartsliteratur-lesung-gespraech-mit-marina-frenk-slata-roschal-britta-wauer-alexander-estis/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7aa03cefa9225588537a71a1b4cc898cc495990abe24dca58d954ddb23868d72-1200.webp"}]}