{"title": "Behzad Karim Khani liest aus seinem Roman \"Als wir Schwäne waren\"", "start": "2026-11-19T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Die Buchkönigin", "address": "Hobrechtstraße 65, 12047 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "22.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel", "society/migration/diaspora"], "description": "Behzad Karim Khani reads from his novel „Als wir Schwäne waren“. In it, a boy flees Iran with his family to the Ruhr region in the 1990s and experiences Germany as an affront. While his mother believes in getting ahead and his father is a writer, the son's anger grows in a neighbourhood ruled by violence. The novel tells of the diaspora as home, of the freedom in being a stranger and of the truth of swans.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/behzad-karim-khani-liest-aus-seinem-roman-als-wir-schwane-wa-108905/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/10add6015782b7610535d30efe534e01a89df8596bb48bcad59ab1e61f8ac837-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Die Buchkönigin", "address": "Hobrechtstraße 65, 12047 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Home & Reckoning: Edwin Nasr in conversation with Sharmaine Lovegrove", "start": "2026-11-18T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Chapters", "address": "Wilsnacker Straße 60, 10559", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction", "society/migration"], "description": "A book launch and conversation at Chapters: Edwin Nasr presents his debut novel \"Fear Eats Ali\", celebrated as a first collaboration with the publisher Wirklichkeit Books. The novel follows Ali, who left southern Lebanon for Berlin almost a decade ago and now stands accused of assaulting a police officer at a Palestine solidarity demonstration. Carried by tragic humour and political reckoning, it is a forthright novel about the time and place of resistance, the debt it leaves behind, and the helplessness of men in the face of immense historical change. In conversation with Chapters founder Sharmaine Lovegrove, Nasr discusses migration, sexuality and belonging, and how questions of identity connect us to the political landscape in Berlin and Germany today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/home-reckoning-edwin-nasr-in-conversation-with-sharmaine-lov-40416/", "official_url": "https://www.chaptersberlin.com/events/gw1lpnn44wzm11sgribao9oxp56vbu-c7278", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dfdce5429f997509f934568b72e430820f0de046355ce05b3bb6644c1763ef55-2000.webp"}, {"title": "She said Premiere \"Fear eats Ali\" with Edwin Nasr and Edna Bonhomme", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "She said", "address": "Kottbusser Damm 79, 10967 Berlin", "price": "€10,00", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel"], "description": "The bookstore She said hosts a premiere and conversation: the author Edwin Nasr presents his novel \"Fear eats Ali\" and talks with critic, journalist and historian of science Edna Bonhomme. The novel follows Ali, a gay Catholic who immigrated to Berlin from southern Lebanon almost a decade ago and stands accused of assaulting a police officer at a Palestine solidarity demonstration, now facing possible deportation and preparing to say goodbye to a city in ebullition. It is described as a forthright novel about the time and place of resistance, the debt one carries in its wake, and the helplessness of men in the face of immense historical transformations. A number of solidarity tickets are available, which can be requested by email from the bookstore.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/she-said-premiere-fear-eats-ali-with-edwin-nasr-and-edna-bon-104563/", "official_url": "https://www.shesaid.de/products/premiere-fear-eats-ali-with-edwin-nasr-and-edna-bonhomme", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7ed8de9e080d5b0c2c41c4123598d2c5ae96e6ba02eacf137ab403622b31d53-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Exiltexte: Kunst, Macht, Erinnerung. Lesung mit Tania Arcimovich, Karima Shabrang und Fariba Vafi", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schloss Schönhausen", "address": "Tschaikowskistraße 1, 13156 Berlin", "price": "15 €, ermäßigt 12 €", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/poetry"], "description": "A reading titled \"Exiltexte: Kunst, Macht, Erinnerung\" at Schloss Schönhausen. The writers in exile Tania Arcimovich (Belarus), Karima Shabrang (Afghanistan) and Fariba Vafi (Iran) read texts born from a literary engagement with the palace and its history during the Nazi era, drawing on their own experiences of exile and political pressure, in their original languages. Actress Melika Foroutan presents the German translations, and cellist Basilius Alawad accompanies the evening with music. The event is inspired by the Weiter Schreiben interventions and ends with a reception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/exiltexte-kunst-macht-erinnerung-lesung-mit-tania-arcimovich-12534/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bac59a00fc6e07b1c6b537c7dae5d24dad5e3004a3463316b846a6b01b1aecb4-600.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung mit Hannah Mann aus ihrem Debüt: „Zeppelin und Karpfen“", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ingeborg-Bachmann-Bibliothek", "address": "Nehringstraße 10, 14059 Berlin", "price": "kostenlos, ohne Anmeldung", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/contemporary-fiction"], "description": "A reading from Hannah Mann's debut novel „Zeppelin und Karpfen“. The author found the courage to develop her own literary voice after studying political science and writing her first short texts. The book tells the story of three generations of women between origins and the present: the photographer Suzanna captures other people's dreams and keeps the family's ghosts at bay, until her mother disappears overnight and the family has no choice but to follow her into her memories. It is a book about emancipation and the longing for a home.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-hannah-mann-aus-ihrem-debut-zeppelin-und-karpfen-120306/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/?detail=296501", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cebd861295785f6395c6a9da26fcdb0678ecb306d0cf7c62bde72f8b27755263-600.webp"}, {"title": "Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç: \"Hundesohn\"", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bezirkszentralbibliothek Pablo Neruda", "address": "Frankfurter Allee 14a, 10247 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç reads from his debut novel “Hundesohn” at the Bezirkszentralbibliothek Pablo Neruda, moderated by Georgina Fakunmoju. The novel tells a love story: Zeko lives in Berlin, meeting men in parks, cafés and on dating apps, but whenever their lips touch his thoughts drift back to Hassan, the neighbour's boy in Adana whom his grandfather only ever called “Hundesohn”. The book tells radically and poetically of love and desire, of euphoria and vulnerability, fear and happiness. Keskinkılıç, born in 1989, studied political science and in 2025 was among others awarded the ZDF-»aspekte«-Literaturpreis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ozan-zakariya-keskinklc-hundesohn-116195/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-friedrichshain-kreuzberg/bibliotheken/bezirkszentralbibliothek-pablo-neruda/veranstaltungen-projekte/ozan-zakariya-keskinkilic-hundesohn-1720641.php", "image": "https://noky.io/images/06978e5e10d9090b9820505fa02f7dcbe9ab7b23f72499ea8fc57a1902b90d41-600.webp"}, {"title": "Literatur vor Ort: Autorenlesung mit Turgut Altuğ und Tuncay Gary", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-11T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "REDSdeli", "address": "Kreuzbergstraße 10, 10965 Berlin", "price": "Kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/reading", "society/migration"], "description": "„Literatur vor Ort“ is a joint author reading at the REDSdeli Speisenmeisterei in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Tuncay Gary reads from his book „Mein grünes Niltagebuch“ as well as previously unpublished poems about personal experiences, memories and the search for identity and home. Turgut Altuğ reads from his second book „Von den Baumwollfeldern Anatoliens bis ins Berliner Parlament“, telling of his life between Anatolia and Berlin, of migration, losses and the will to take his own life into his hands. The result is an evening with two authors, personal stories and literary perspectives on origin, paths through life and home.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/literatur-vor-ort-autorenlesung-mit-turgut-altug-und-tuncay-72187/", "official_url": "https://roter-baum.berlin/event/literatur-vor-ort-autorenlesung-mit-turgut-altug-und-tuncay-gary/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/417b4dffe9e2417ca04bb08c541ff85baad12c2c7246e1ca5c1f3100dc346758-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung mit der Dramatikerin und Autorin Ishbel Szatrawska aus dem Roman „Die Tiefe”", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-18T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin", "address": "Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/war", "literature/fiction"], "description": "A reading from the novel „Die Tiefe” as part of the series „Polish Affairs. Polnische Kultur zu Gast in der Stabi”. The dramatist and author Ishbel Szatrawska takes the family home in the Masurian province of the former East Prussia as the starting point for a moving tale of four generations of a family, of the region's multiculturalism and the painful experiences of war, flight, loss of homeland and a new beginning. The event takes place in the Theodor-Fontane-Saal of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, in cooperation with the Zentrum für Historische Forschung Berlin of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the editor and translator Benjamin Voelkel. Registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-der-dramatikerin-und-autorin-ishbel-szatrawska-au-109760/", "official_url": "https://blog.sbb.berlin/termin/lesung-mit-der-dramatikerin-und-autorin-ishbel-szatrawska-aus-dem-roman-die-tiefe/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ef5d0cc37c18f59cb79010c0aa0ccfa7d7fe6bfb52183bf2f98c24fb7dbd6ee2-1200.webp"}]}