{"title": "Angela Rohr – Über Wilmersdorf nach Moskau: Psychoanalyse als Schule des Schreibens – Lesung", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heinrich-Schulz- Bibliothek", "address": "Otto-Suhr-Allee 98, 10585 Berlin", "price": "frei (ohne Anmeldung)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin", "literature/reading"], "description": "A reading from works by the writer, psychoanalyst and physician Angela Rohr (1890–1985), who became known only posthumously through her biographical account of the Gulag and much later as an expressionist poet and feuilletonist. She is introduced by Georgia Lummert of the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research, with passages read by acting students Émilie Defeu and Asena Ersöz of the Berlin University of the Arts. The reading looks at Rohr's Berlin years – she moved into the Uhlandstraße in 1920 and later the Hindenburgstraße – and her life after following her husband Wilhelm to Moscow in the mid-1920s. It is the third instalment of the series 'Literarische Heimat Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf', in which the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf public library together with the ZfL and the acting programme of the UdK presents authors who lived in Wilmersdorf and Charlottenburg.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/angela-rohr-uber-wilmersdorf-nach-moskau-psychoanalyse-als-s-29016/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/angela-rohr/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fb2aa5ed1dfd8cffb5fac87c9b784ac0f64dc34b30ddcaadeab158e22c04186e-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heinrich-Schulz- Bibliothek", "address": "Otto-Suhr-Allee 98, 10585 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "CHARLOTTENGRAD – EIN STÜCK RUSSLAND MITTEN IN BERLIN", "start": "2026-11-19T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Theater im Palais", "address": "Am Festungsgraben 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/exile", "literature"], "description": "A staged reading about Russian writers in 1920s Berlin, when the city became a hub of literary exile after the October Revolution. The performers are Alina Gause (acting, singing), Carl Martin Spengler (acting, singing) and Lidia Kalendareva (piano), with a text version by Ildiko Bognar. The piece explores how émigrés such as Vladimir Nabokov, Marina Tsvetaeva or Maxim Gorki lived in and perceived Berlin at that time. Back then, the Berlin district of Charlottenburg was nicknamed „Charlottengrad“.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/charlottengrad-ein-stuck-russland-mitten-in-berlin-8107/", "official_url": "https://www.theater-im-palais.de/event/charlottengrad-ein-stueck-russland-mitten-in-berlin/2026-11-19/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9e886615b38cd4e7f1639d89b56d16707eb828033e24160c72c927ed725ef1c7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Anna Seghers und Die Macht der Worte", "start": "2026-11-12T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Akademie der Künste", "address": "Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin", "price": "6 EUR (Ermäßigt: 3 EUR)", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/german-literature"], "description": "A themed tour through the faithfully preserved apartment of the writer Anna Seghers in Berlin-Adlershof, where she lived from 1955 until her death in 1983. The Akademie der Künste invites visitors; after registering by email, the apartment can be viewed with its furnishings, personal mementos and some 10,000 books. The tour asks about the power of words: Seghers returned in 1947 as a world-famous author from Mexican exile and put her writing at the service of the new society, also as president of the writers' association of the GDR. While her work met with rejection in West Germany, she was a role model for many authors of the young GDR such as Christa Wolf and Heiner Müller.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/anna-seghers-und-die-macht-der-worte-72030/", "official_url": "https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/rf/anna-seghers-und-die-macht-der-worte/596571", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6212b3d8b44620132aa264c918adb5532fb2b5f00c43335e4ea9325c1df693be-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Vortrag und Lesung: Literarische Heimat Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf: Dina Nelken (1900–1989)", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heinrich-Schulz- Bibliothek", "address": "Otto-Suhr-Allee 98, 10585 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/exile", "literature/biography"], "description": "A talk with readings about the writer Dinah Nelken (1900–1989), who was born in Charlottenburg and is now largely forgotten. Nina Weller of the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research gives the talk, while Julie Thiele and Roman Vetrov of the Berlin University of the Arts read texts by the author. The Heinrich-Schulz-Bibliothek is staging the series together with the Leibniz Centre and the acting programme of the Berlin University of the Arts. Nelken wrote novels, screenplays and feuilletons, lived for a time in the Berlin-Wilmersdorf artists' colony and returned to Berlin in 1950 after years of exile.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vortrag-und-lesung-literarische-heimat-charlottenburg-wilmer-125535/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c53a159c82c4845d7af4e87d86795d9607906f55ec65ec19c4e3649a4c61716a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Lesereihe: „Auf den Spuren vergessener Schriftstellerinnen“", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Brunnenstr. 181, 10119 Berlin", "address": "Brunnenstr. 181, 10119 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction", "society/women"], "description": "A reading from the series „Auf den Spuren vergessener Schriftstellerinnen“ dedicated to the Berlin writer Annemarie Weber. Publisher Britta Jürgs introduces the author, born in 1918 and died in 1991, and Simone Hausdorf reads. Weber's novel portrays with wit the contrasting worlds of the wild sixties in West Berlin, between marriage and pills, left-wing demos and stylish receptions. The event is free and requires no registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesereihe-auf-den-spuren-vergessener-schriftstellerinnen-96850/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f4ef89a2cb1e5b4323ec5040459bde9ecf4e63745cf7fd28a08eec0913b7626d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Anna Seghers im Kreis ihrer Freundinnen", "start": "2026-11-17T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Akademie der Künste", "address": "Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin", "price": "6 EUR (Ermäßigt: 3 EUR)", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/biography"], "description": "A themed tour of the Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof. In the faithfully preserved apartment where the writer lived from 1955 until her death in 1983, the tour looks at the support Anna Seghers found among her close women friends. These included the actresses Steffie Spira and Helene Weigel, the author Berta Waterstradt and the politician Lore Wolf, with whom she remained closely connected until the end of her life. Her library of around 10,000 volumes, including books by writer friends from many countries, can also be viewed; registration by email is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/anna-seghers-im-kreis-ihrer-freundinnen-72032/", "official_url": "https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/rf/anna-seghers-im-kreis-ihrer-freundinnen/596567", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fad3f639517fa7d1c2d407bf8e147bbf10a4c0e6b97e06e984d7dd7d620248b5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Anna Seghers im Kreis ihrer Freundinnen", "start": "2026-11-17T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kunstsammlung der Akademie der Künste", "address": "Luisenstraße 60, 10117 Berlin", "price": "6 EUR (Ermäßigt: 3 EUR)", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/biography"], "description": "A guided tour through the Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof, where the writer lived from 1955 until her death in 1983. Organised by the Akademie der Künste, it looks at the circle of friends who gave the often shy and cautious author support, among them the actresses Steffie Spira and Helene Weigel, the author Berta Waterstradt and the politician Lore Wolf. Her apartment has been preserved in its original state, holding furnishings, personal mementoes and a library of some 10,000 volumes spread over four rooms and the hallway. The tour is held in German; visitors can register at annaseghersmuseum@adk.de.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/anna-seghers-im-kreis-ihrer-freundinnen-89632/", "official_url": "https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/rf/anna-seghers-im-kreis-ihrer-freundinnen/596567", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fad3f639517fa7d1c2d407bf8e147bbf10a4c0e6b97e06e984d7dd7d620248b5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Anna Seghers und Die Macht der Worte", "start": "2026-11-12T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kunstsammlung der Akademie der Künste", "address": "Luisenstraße 60, 10117 Berlin", "price": "6 EUR (Ermäßigt: 3 EUR)", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/writers"], "description": "A themed guided tour of the Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof. The writer Anna Seghers lived there from 1955 until her death in 1983, and her flat has been preserved in its original state. 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The tour is organised by the Archive of the Academy of Arts and requires registration by email. It focuses on Anna Seghers' circle of women friends who gave support to the often shy author: the actresses Steffie Spira and Helene Weigel, the author Berta Waterstradt and the politician Lore Wolf. On display are the furnishings, personal mementoes and her library of around 10,000 volumes, including books by writer friends from many countries.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/anna-seghers-im-kreis-ihrer-freundinnen-15774/", "official_url": "https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/rf/anna-seghers-im-kreis-ihrer-freundinnen/531115", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9e08afc20e0db8225168c0353141c93b5eb73f9bc414fcbec8296e3d410642d6-600.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": "Else Ury (1871 – 1943) und Berlin", "start": "2026-11-14T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Dorotheenstädtische Buchhandlung", "address": "Turmstraße 5, 10559 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin", "literature/biography"], "description": "A talk about the writer Else Ury, the “Nesthäkchen author” who set most of her works in Berlin. In it, Hannelore Kempin traces the little-known novel “Wie einst im Mai” from 1930. She conveys urban history, biographical information and Jewish family history, and describes a changing image of women. In this way Ury’s children’s and young adult books also become a portrait of middle-class life in Berlin during the imperial era and the Weimar Republic.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/else-ury-1871-1943-und-berlin-22286/", "official_url": "https://www.dorotheenstaedtische.de/event/else-ury-1871-1943-und-berlin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d2cdf997196927516d95cca6dc1212a3515d6659e7aa5698c455b74b58952732-600.webp"}, {"title": "BÜHNENTAUSCH \" Die Frauen tragen die Last\" - Lesung & Gespräch mit Rainer Drews", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilbibliothek Frohnau", "address": "Fuchssteinerweg 17, 13465 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-germany", "literature"], "description": "A reading followed by a conversation under the title „BÜHNENTAUSCH „Die Frauen tragen die Last“ - Lesung & Gespräch mit Rainer Drews“. Behind it is Rainer Drews, an author born in Berlin-Hermsdorf, an educationalist who taught at universities in Berlin and Potsdam, reading from his biographical reportage „Leben am Hermsdorfer Waldsee“. It traces the lives of Maria Koerfgen and her daughter Renate, who from 1947 onwards had to manage alone as a widow and half-orphan after son and son-in-law went missing in the war. Claudia Wasow-Kania of the Museum Reinickendorf gives the welcome; participation is only possible with registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buhnentausch-die-frauen-tragen-die-last-lesung-gesprach-mit-82211/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c63e3e1b8e725a01141475468b78dc7276cdbc54e015ac9f96c9a83e69dde7ce-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Musikalische Lesung R. Tennenbaum -„Bin nur ein armer Großstadtspatz“", "start": "2026-11-11T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt-Haus", "address": "Warnitzer Straße 13A, 13057 Berlin", "price": "6 €", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/weimar-republic", "literature/poetry", "stage/cabaret"], "description": "A musical reading held in memory of the German-Jewish poet Mascha Kaléko, fifty years after her death. Rosa Tennenbaum tells the life story of the poet, who was born in Austria-Hungary, and whose poem „Kein Neutöner“ described everyday life in Berlin of the late 1920s and early 1930s with humour and modesty. With wit, charm and a touch of melancholy, the audience is taken into the lyrical Berlin of the 1920s.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/musikalische-lesung-r-tennenbaum-bin-nur-ein-armer-grostadts-31507/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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": "\"Wassermilch und Spitzenwein\" - Eine Berliner Familiengeschichte", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Flughafen Tempelhof", "address": "Platz der Luftbrücke 5 12101 Berlin", "price": "Kostenlose Tickets!", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/memoir"], "description": "A reading with Irene Bindel from her autobiographical book “Wassermilch und Spitzenwein”. The author, born in Berlin in 1938 as the daughter of a Jewish father, tells of her childhood in the National Socialist era, of persecution and her father having to go into hiding, and of the new beginning after 1945, shaped by encounters with the American occupiers. Afterwards she speaks about her personal experiences and answers questions from the audience, with the evening guided by the historian Irmgard Zündorf. The event takes place as part of Berlin Freedom Week.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wassermilch-und-spitzenwein-eine-berliner-familiengeschichte-12669/", "official_url": "https://www.thf-berlin.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung/berlin-freedom-week-wassermilch-und-spitzenwein", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1bd42dba9ff116a9bb9215b6baddb856dfb97bdac374c2e5ad20bf6614941769-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Exklusive Berlinlesung mit Eva Sichelschmidt", "start": "2026-11-19T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Whisky and Cigar Bar", "address": "Sophienstraße 8 – 9, 10178 Berlin", "price": "15 €", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "An exclusive Berlin premiere: a reading and conversation with author Eva Sichelschmidt in her Whisky and Cigar Bar. In conversation with her editor Marcus Gärtner, she presents her novel „Schön, dass du da warst“, which tells of family life, care and farewell across generations through shifting perspectives. There will be a book table, and the book can be signed by the author. About the author: she grew up in the Ruhr area, worked in Berlin as a costume designer and opened the shop „Whisky & Cigars“ there; she lives in Rome and Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/exklusive-berlinlesung-mit-eva-sichelschmidt-13447/", "official_url": "https://www.buchboxberlin.de/event-calendar/exklusive-berlinlesung-mit-eva-sichelschmidt-der-whisky-and-cigar-bar", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e9248510d0580c4f02d8f259c933b5eb98bdb14d1861c4378cb7fbc5c8118869-600.webp"}, {"title": "Lovis Corinth: Then came Berlin!", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-25T23:59:00+01:00", "place": "Berlinische Galerie", "address": "Alte Jakobstraße 124-128, 10969 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/expressionism", "history/berlin"], "description": "\"Lovis Corinth: Then came Berlin!\" is a major exhibition about the painter Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), one of the most eminent and influential figures in the Berlin art world during his lifetime. The Berlinische Galerie presents his rise to fame after moving from Munich to Berlin in 1900 and his impact on the city's art scene. Lesser-known details are also spotlighted, including his school of painting, where he primarily taught women, and his work for Berlin's theatres. The show continues the museum's successful series of monographic exhibitions devoted to modernism in Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lovis-corinth-then-came-berlin-22067/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/45d8ec697e29eeb15cb69a5d3fc85434945a111e92d47052c896c878a883755a-1200.webp"}]}