{"title": "Berlinized", "start": "2026-11-30T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/berlin"], "description": "The documentary „Berlinized“ captures the special feeling of 1990s Berlin-Mitte, where after the fall of the Wall a lively and very motley scene of young people used vacant houses and apartments as a stage for living and celebrating their easygoing freedom. Filmmaker Lucian Busse, an active protagonist of this era, took his camera everywhere to document the changing cityscape, the art scene, clubs, concerts, and the construction sites where free space was filled up with faceless office buildings. Alongside the great political upheavals and commercialized techno culture, the world of basement bars and backyard creatives shaped the city's spirit. Busse searched for the protagonists from back then and found them: in interviews they describe their current view on the 1990s and how much of that freedom can still be found in the Berlin of today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/berlinized-9404/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/berlinized/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/34a8ab92c9682bd056d430a54d81461815a510e2d23fa4dcf31869a348d757bb-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-30T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Gestern Mitte Morgen", "start": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "The documentary »Gestern Mitte Morgen – Yesterday Mitte Tomorrow« is a portrait of the alternative culture scenes in Berlin's central district of Mitte after 1989. It was written, directed, shot and edited by Peter Zach, who will be present; it was produced by PZF Produktion in co-production with ZDF – Kleines Fernsehspiel, featuring Mark Ates, Guy Bettini, Christine Hill, Yuko Kaseki and Sasha Waltz, among others. In the early 1990s, in the so-called Spandauer Vorstadt near Friedrichstrasse, young international artists found an affordable, freely inhabitable space in the empty houses of the former border zone, a freedom that had already vanished in their expensive home countries. The film tells of these people, the places they lived, their longings, everyday life and their art – of those who lived almost without money and felt this part of Berlin to be their personal centre of the world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gestern-mitte-morgen-48539/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/gestern-mitte-morgen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/848dac6e6d247f1160c5fe5761bfb12f85089bdedbdf27100b26978c9d0bee19-2000.webp"}, {"title": "GRENZGESCHICHTEN. Filmzeugnisse zur Berliner Mauer (1961–1989)", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Leibniz-Saal", "address": "Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "Film records from the holdings of the Landesarchiv Berlin show the history of the Berlin Wall from 1961 to its fall in 1989 in rarely seen images, many of which are part of the UNESCO Memory of the World. The historian and deputy Berlin commissioner for reappraisal Jens Schöne, the director of the Landesarchiv Berlin Sven Kriese and the BAB education officer Anna Kokenge comment on the footage and explain its historical background. A subsequent panel discussion explores the significance of these film records for remembering Germany's division. Carmen Schwietzer, deputy director of the Landesarchiv Berlin, hosts the evening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/grenzgeschichten-filmzeugnisse-zur-berliner-mauer-19611989-82521/", "official_url": "https://www.aufarbeitung-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/detail/grenzgeschichten-filmzeugnisse-zur-berliner-mauer", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30796f4e44771c7979beec97c854047b683a3c5506907a8aff4be63708deaca9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hella De Santarossa \"Ins Offene\" – Bilder der Wendezeit in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-11T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Beyond Reality", "address": "Schlüterstraße 70, 10625 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/reunification"], "description": "The exhibition „Ins Offene – Bilder der Wendezeit in Berlin“ presents photographs and paintings by Hella De Santarossa, who since the fall of the Wall in 1989 has approached the changing city of Berlin in a new way. Born in Düsseldorf in 1949, the artist was a defining figure of the Junge Wilde in the 1980s and has since combined photography and painting into a distinctive visual language. She photographs buildings, unfinished structures and construction sites, including the „Löwenbauten“ such as the Reichstag, the Federal Chancellery and the new buildings at Potsdamer Platz, and reworks the enlarged images in expressive, multi-layered layers of colour on canvas or paper. Her works preserve a moment in which Berlin is in transition, between the end of the old and the still open beginning of the new.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/hella-de-santarossa-ins-offene-bilder-der-wendezeit-in-berli-34283/", "official_url": "https://www.klausmemmert-atelier.com/hella-de-santarossa-ins-offene/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e6121ce5292890b1d2c3066e94151622149ad4f0a209f55d9012567df45305a6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Die Allee", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+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/berlin"], "description": "The documentary \"Die Allee\" follows a journey along Berlin's Karl-Marx-Allee, from its significance as an ensemble of architecture to the traces of German history and the filmmaker's personal connection to this street. Director Sven Boeck, who already made a first film about the boulevard in 1991, portrays a street full of utopias, upheavals and memories, whose protagonists of that time are now dead. Sven Boeck is present and will talk with the audience. The film is shown in its German version.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-allee-8530/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/41be532c9bec14c4fef4dcafa73c17f109740d92409e2306ae91f8fe5af19a90-600.webp"}, {"title": "Making Mitte", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne Berlin", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["society/urbanism/urban-development", "art"], "description": "A guided tour through the district of Mitte dealing with art, culture and gentrification. Hardly any place in Berlin brings together such complex developments of recent decades as Mitte. In the 1990s, a strong art scene developed there, which became the starting point of a process of gentrification. The tour explores these changes on site.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/making-mitte-15576/", "official_url": "https://ticket-b.de/en/tour/making-mitte/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/20c6ac923ae115e9bec5629bb00b19414ace93464402682c3315ee57ae87f4ba-600.webp"}, {"title": "Former East / Former West", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/reunification"], "description": "A documentary based on hundreds of street interviews conducted in Berlin two years after reunification, showing what it meant to be German at that particular point in history. The New York artist Shelly Silver questions the notion of a shared language by focusing on shifting definitions of political and economic terms such as democracy, freedom, capitalism and socialism, and of words describing nations and identities such as nationality, Germany, history, foreigner and home. She explores the tension between the public and the private, the narrative and the documentary, and the relationship between subject and object of contemplation. Her works have been exhibited worldwide, including at MoMA in New York, the Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/former-east-former-west-9413/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/former-east-former-west/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4028d731bd9108dfb1c3260ecf594c4de98ab8cd86c08b949f38e6fe66a16f0e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "'Tanzflächen der Wiedervereinigung' im Kraftwerk", "start": "2026-10-03T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-09T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kraftwerk Berlin", "address": "Köpenicker Str. 70 10179 Berlin", "price": "gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/reunification", "music/club-culture"], "description": "The exhibition 'Tanzflächen der Wiedervereinigung' at Kraftwerk shows the social upheaval surrounding the fall of the Wall as seen by club, subcultural and youth culture in Berlin and eastern Germany. More than 30 stories and contributions from private and institutional archives, personal memories and artistic positions create a many-voiced picture of a time between new departures and loss, fresh freedoms, conflict and radical change. The contributions lead from Berlin clubs to eastern German cities and rural areas, and from pre-1989 youth and subcultures to the open spaces of the post-reunification years. Visitors can experience the former cult club and the extraordinary industrial building.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/tanzflachen-der-wiedervereinigung-im-kraftwerk-2524/", "official_url": "https://tanzflaechen-der-wiedervereinigung.de/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/565b41755486a48f6081dcb468ed4e81f6c4c02aa701b773076842284f036828-600.webp"}, {"title": "Scherbenland", "start": "2026-11-18T20:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-18T22:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "€7 – €9 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary/music-documentary", "music/rock"], "description": "\"Scherbenland\" is a documentary about the band Ton Steine Scherben, whose first album began with the question \"Warum geht es mir so dreckig?\" (\"Why do I feel so lousy?\"). In the early 1970s, Kreuzberg became a testing ground for a counterculture, and with songs like \"Macht kaputt, was euch kaputt macht\" the band gave a generation a voice. In their film, Lutz Pehnert and Ferdinand Hübner trace what became of this awakening, meeting musicians in today's Berlin such as the rap trio RAPK and songwriter Maike Rosa Vogel. It is a film about music and poetry as resistance, then and now, and about whether they still have the power to change a city.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/scherbenland-67598/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/scherbenland-3/2026-11-18/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992", "start": "2026-11-16T20:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/racism"], "description": "Lichtblick-Kino screens the documentary “Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992” (OmeU) by Dagmar Schultz, followed by the short film “Witness History – Ika Hügel-Marshall”. The film documents a little-known chapter in the life of the Black lesbian writer Audre Lorde: her influence on Berlin’s political and cultural scene from 1984 to 1992. It explores how she encouraged Afro-Germans to make themselves visible in a culture that had left them isolated and voiceless, and how the Afro-German and anti-racist movements emerged before and after reunification. For the first time, Schultz’s archival video and audio recordings are being made available to a wide public.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/audre-lorde-the-berlin-years-1984-to-1992-9403/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/special/audre-lorde-the-berlin-years-1984-1992-witness-history/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ff1f458857a030c49c3c07b98042774ab999fe421d3cba73d722d08c9c241f55-2000.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"}, {"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", "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": "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": "Ruin and Rush: Berlin 1910–1930", "start": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-03T23:59:00+01:00", "place": "Neue Nationalgalerie", "address": "Potsdamer Straße 50, 10785 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/modernism", "history/weimar-republic"], "description": "The exhibition “Ruin and Rush: Berlin 1910–1930” presents around 35 works from the Neue Nationalgalerie's collection of Classical Modernism that address the Berlin of the 1910s and 1920s, shown on the museum's collection floor. It is curated by Uta Caspary and Irina Hiebert Grun, research assistants at the Neue Nationalgalerie, with curatorial assistance from Noor van Rooijen. In three sections, it explores the dynamism of the growing metropolis in architecture, traffic and nightlife, the social misery that shaped everyday life, and different facets of urban women with their desire for freedom, self-determination and queer life. Artists featured include Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Dix, Hannah Höch, George Grosz and Lotte Laserstein.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ruin-and-rush-berlin-19101930-22065/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/065f909cc561b4dfe599a5b213f7c6350013e0d910080be2a3fbe596b595ecab-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Im Rhythmus der Großstadt – 100 Jahre Fotografie und Presse in Berlin", "start": "2026-06-12T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Stabi Kulturwerk", "address": "Unter den Linden 8, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/berlin"], "description": "\"Im Rhythmus der Großstadt – 100 Jahre Fotografie und Presse in Berlin\" is a photography exhibition at the Stabi Kulturwerk. Curated by Miriam Zlobinski with Christina Stehr, it combines historic pictures from the bpk photo archive, newspapers from the collections of the Berlin State Library and work by photographers of the OSTKREUZ agency. From the 1920s to today it traces how photography reshaped the Berlin press, from the historic newspaper district with up to 147 daily papers and the beginnings of illustrated journalism to censorship, propaganda and the separate press landscapes of East and West Berlin. Themes such as politics, sport, city life and crime reflect the social values and conflicts of their times.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/im-rhythmus-der-grostadt-100-jahre-fotografie-und-presse-in-12620/", "official_url": "https://stabi.berlin", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4425cf28406b498403ba7edece7a7db13dca89e8e76ec4160370d8927eef4d25-1200.webp"}, {"title": "LEBEN GROPIUSSTADT GEBRAUCHSANWEISUNG", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heimathafen Neukölln", "address": "Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 Berlin", "price": "Regulär 20,00 €, ermäßigt 14,50 €, Zugabe-Ticket (Support) 25,00 €", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "history/berlin"], "description": "A documentary theatre work about Gropiusstadt, a large housing estate in Berlin whose residents connect many very different stories. Behind the piece is Arthur Romanowski, a director and performer from Gropiusstadt, whose team conducted interviews with people living in the neighbourhood. Inspired by Georges Perec's novel »Das Leben Gebrauchsanweisung« (Life: A User's Manual), the production weaves these biographies into a mosaic together with the director's own biography. In this way a lively, many-voiced portrait of the district emerges, forming an image of Berlin in the 20th and 21st centuries.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/leben-gropiusstadt-gebrauchsanweisung-15662/", "official_url": "https://heimathafen-neukoelln.de/events/leben-gropiusstadt-gebrauchsanweisung/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67affd991680410a16c6d984d5f38cf3f552b24f53631ead806eb4e56ea76554-600.webp"}]}