{"title": "»Berlins schönste Seiten« Der Literaturpodcast #76 Aw, Shibli, Tulathimutte", "start": "2026-11-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "This is episode 76 of the literature podcast »Berlins schönste Seiten«, hosted at the Literaturhaus Berlin. Janika Gelinek, Sonja Longolius and Felix Müller, head of the culture desk at the Berliner Morgenpost, discuss three books: Tash Aw's »Der Süden«, Adania Shibli's »Täuschung« and Tony Tulathimutte's »Fiasko«. The recording is made in cooperation with the Berliner Morgenpost. All episodes are also available as videos on literaturkanal.tv and on the Literaturhaus's YouTube channel.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/berlins-schonste-seiten-der-literaturpodcast-76-aw-shibli-tu-132572/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/berlins-schoenste-seiten-der-literaturpodcast-76-aw-shibli-tulathimutte/", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Tash Aw »Der Süden«", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "A book presentation of the novel »Der Süden« by Tash Aw, held in English in the Großer Saal. The author talks to Milena Adam, with Luis Huayna reading the German text. The novel tells of Jay, who travels with his family to a decaying estate in the south after his grandfather's death, where he feels drawn to Chuan. It is the first part of a novel cycle portraying a family living through a time of great change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/tash-aw-der-suden-208/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/tash-aw-der-sueden/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Reading List Berlin: Folge 1 mit Katie Kitamura", "start": "2026-11-18T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "Reading List Berlin: Episode 1 with Katie Kitamura is a talk held at the Roter Salon. The author Katie Kitamura is the guest, while the hosts are the writers Theresia Enzensberger and Patrik Gräb, whose series sets out to discuss literature and current debates through their sources. In each episode a guest brings a short reading list, and engaging with these sources of inspiration provides the structure for a surprising conversation about writing and reading. To open the series, Kitamura will talk about what was on her reading list while working on her fifth book, Audition; the talk is in English and takes place in cooperation with the American Academy in Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/reading-list-berlin-folge-1-mit-katie-kitamura-299/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/reading-list-berlin/20261118-1900/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Literaturstadt Berlin #8: Die neuen Leute", "start": "2026-11-13T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "PopUp Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek", "address": "Eva-Mamlok-Platz 1, 10961 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A panel discussion on the prospects of the emerging generation of writers, readers and curators in Berlin. It is organised by the Berliner Literaturkonferenz, an alliance of Berlin literature institutions and the independent literature scene, in cooperation with radio3, and picks up a presentation the literaturWERKstatt berlin first staged in 2002 under the same title. The panel brings together editor Katharina Holzmann, politician Louis Krüger, author I. V. Nuss and Eli Makuth from the youth reading group Die LesArtigen, moderated by Anne-Dore Krohn and Katja Weber. The talk also opens the Open Mike weekend and will be recorded and broadcast on radio3.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/literaturstadt-berlin-8-die-neuen-leute-211/", "official_url": "https://www.hausfuerpoesie.org/de/programm/literaturstadt-berlin-8-die-neuen-leute", "image": ""}, {"title": "Buchklub für alle | Fikri Anıl Altıntaş", "start": "2026-11-19T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Eva-Mamlok-Platz 1, 10961 Berlin", "address": "Eva-Mamlok-Platz 1, 10961 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "The Buchklub für alle (book club for everyone) invites you to a reading and conversation, free of charge and without registration. The author and journalist Fikri Anıl Altıntaş, winner of the 2026 Robert Gernhardt Prize, reads from his novel \"Zwischen uns liegt August\" (August Lies Between Us). It tells of an adult son losing his mother, of the everyday routines before her death, and of what the son, at home in Germany, knows of his mother's youth in Turkey. The conversation is moderated by Mareice Kaiser; the audience is invited to listen, ask questions and join the discussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buchklub-fur-alle-fikri-anl-altntas-2626/", "official_url": "https://www.zlb.de/veranstaltungsuebersicht/buchklub-fuer-alle-fikri-anil-altintas/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d85bc0df24bbd004f5411c7380ce0b1bb159342a2029e44586fcf8a045053c5d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "»Berlin Babel. Stories of the city by Berliners old and new«", "start": "2026-11-06T20:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A book presentation of the new anthology »Berlin Babel«, which brings together 14 stories by writers from 11 countries. Among them are Leon Craig from the UK and Katy Derbyshire, who edited the anthology for V&Q. The evening asks how writers tackle that seemingly eternal subject, Berlin, what makes a good Berlin story, and whose perspective counts. It also includes a reading and talk with Sheila Armstrong and Gesa Stedman as well as music from DJ Natalie Stardust.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/berlin-babel-stories-of-the-city-by-berliners-old-and-new-206/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/berlin-babel-stories-of-the-city-by-berliners-old-and-new/", "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": "Lustre & Ruin: The Launch of Intimate Infinity / Intimität der Unendlichkeit", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Chapters", "address": "Wilsnacker Straße 60, 10559", "price": "", "price_from": "6.51", "price_to": "6.51", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening of reading and conversation marking the launch of \"Intimate Infinity / Intimität der Unendlichkeit\", a book of photographs and asemic drawings alongside essays in German and English. It is an echo of the blog Berlin Reified, a companion to Sylee Gore's first poetry collection Maximum Summer (2025), and an evocation of light and summer in Berlin. Behind it are Berlin-based literary translator Sylee Gore, poet Donna Stonecipher and novelist Dilek Güngör, and all three will be present. The evening turns on lustre, ruin and the urban pastoral – a love letter to the city.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lustre-ruin-the-launch-of-intimate-infinity-intimitat-der-un-40414/", "official_url": "https://www.chaptersberlin.com/events/lustre-ruin-of-intimate-infinity", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e40740a05e5adf31f2807172b5e7a639dad25fb90c4da3f36fa0a453fe5d830-2000.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": "A Friend in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grüner Salon", "address": "Rückerstraße 9, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/media-art/film", "history/colonialism"], "description": "“A Friend in Berlin” is an evening event with a screening and a conversation in English at Grüner Salon. The series focuses on the fellows of the DAAD's Berliner Künstlerprogramm and their connections to the city, and this edition brings together the artists Wang Tuo and Sim Chi Yin, who has lived in Berlin since 2024. The evening begins with a screening of Wang Tuo's most recent work “Ratchet Drill” (2026), followed by a conversation based on a selection of both artists' works, exploring the connections between their practices and how they engage with challenging histories and historical experiences and find ways to speak about them with people outside of those experiences. Wang Tuo weaves historical facts, cultural archives, fiction and mythology into speculative narratives, while Sim Chi Yin uses artistic and archival interventions to question and complicate historiographies and colonial narratives and to explore transgenerational memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/a-friend-in-berlin-277/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/a-friend-in-berlin/20261105-1800/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Literaturcafé", "start": "2026-11-19T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T16:30:00+01:00", "place": "Stadtteilbibliothek Karow", "address": "Achillesstraße 77 13125 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/literaturcafe-15913/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=293314&ls=0&c=409&v_ort=46367&stichwort=Literaturcaf%C3%A9&date_start=01.10.2026", "image": ""}, {"title": "Sheila Armstrong and Gesa Stedman", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "A reading-and-talk evening at the Großer Saal of Literaturhaus Berlin. Sheila Armstrong, an Irish writer living in Berlin-Neukölln, reads from her novel 'The Red Mouth', published in 2026, and discusses with Gesa Stedman (HU Berlin) how to write about one's homeland of Ireland from afar. This is followed by a presentation of the book 'Berlin Babel' with Leon Craig and Katy Derbyshire, after which DJ Natalie Stardust plays. The event is a cooperation with the Center for British Studies and the British Council.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sheila-armstrong-and-gesa-stedman-205/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/reading-talk/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Desire & Thresholds: Erotic Review Issue 6 Launch", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Chapters", "address": "Wilsnacker Straße 60, 10559", "price": "€5", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A launch evening for the sixth issue of the Erotic Review, titled „Thresholds“. Founder and publisher Lucy Roeber, deputy editor Saskia Vogel and writer Vijay Khurana read and talk about desire, sex writing and literature. Khurana reads from a new story about a Brooklyn and Berlin love affair. The audience brings its own questions with it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/desire-thresholds-erotic-review-issue-6-launch-40413/", "official_url": "https://www.chaptersberlin.com/events/femi-fadugba-in-conversation-with-gertrude-agbozo-74nse-8akab-xsr6h", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e1b3145a5c9785d69adf63e2cc5bd1d7b4e08b943f8ddae61c76fbb2f4c046c1-2000.webp"}]}