{"title": "Brassens: Gebrochene Linie - La ligne brisée", "start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt-Bibliothek", "address": "Karolinenstraße 19, 13507 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei – Spenden erbeten", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/biography", "music/chanson"], "description": "A musical and theatrical evening about the French chansonnier Georges Brassens and his time in Germany. In 1943 Brassens came to Basdorf as a forced labourer from Paris and worked there for about a year in BMW's aircraft engine production; some of his songs were written there. The programme links this story with his songs and invites the audience, on the 45th anniversary of his death, on a journey into the past. The performers are Timothée Dumont (actor and singer), Luca Storz (jazz musician), Volkmar Paschold (jazz, soul and funk musician) and Jens Mehrle (director).", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/brassens-gebrochene-linie-la-ligne-brisee-16540/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=292975&ls=0&c=230&date_start=29.10.2026&date_stop=29.10.2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b57002151c0aaa14297e4b6a2b33b86b4316ceee45a06b8291bd032e70cf4965-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt-Bibliothek", "address": "Karolinenstraße 19, 13507 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Wunder, Wind und Waldemar", "start": "2026-10-31T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Dischinger Brücke", "address": "", "price": "25,– €, ermäßigt 15,– €", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/classical/lieder", "literature"], "description": "An evening of songs, vices and legends around the lyricist Bruno Balz, who wrote lyrics such as »Ich weiß, es wird einmal ein Wunder gescheh‘n«. Enno Kraus sings songs whose lyrics Balz wrote for Zarah Leander and others, with Alba Gentili-Tedeschi at the piano. Judith Kessler reads from her book »Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein? Auf den Spuren des Liedtexters Bruno Balz« and tells what truth there is in the stories about him – how he wrote hundreds of lyrics for UFA films and how the image of a tragic hero arose, said to have been mistreated by the Nazis as a homosexual and forced to write his songs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wunder-wind-und-waldemar-30428/", "official_url": "https://www.goldberg-kulturschiff.de/veranstaltung/wunder-wind-und-waldemarfast-alles-von-und-ueber-zarah-leanders-liedtexter-bruno-balz-4/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bf117102897f562bc7e11f9871e681736344db3ea1a57e2cdc2857bca8d9e09a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Bonsoir la Musique", "start": "2026-11-06T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kleines Theater", "address": "Südwestkorso 64, 12161 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.planetarium.berlin/veranstaltungen/bebe-symphonique#dates", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/chanson"], "description": "\"Bonsoir la Musique\" is a colourful evening of Franco-German entertainment at the Kleines Theater. In his new programme, singer Frank Brunet performs the 20 most popular and best-known chansons of the French and tells stories about the performers and their backgrounds. At the piano he is accompanied by Andreas Peschel.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/bonsoir-la-musique-5474/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf30a143e6ed0093601796e16ef5f53bac4ad2283d29ccb419163f5d4bb854c2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sharon Brauner - Kind dieser Stadt", "start": "2026-11-02T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bar jeder Vernunft", "address": "Schaperstraße 24, 10719 Berlin", "price": "Ab 22,90 € bis 52,90 €, ermäßigt ab 12,50 € bis 18,50 €", "price_from": "22.90", "price_to": "52.90", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.bar-jeder-vernunft.de/webshop/webticket/shop?event=4438&language=de", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/chanson"], "description": "Sharon Brauner: Kind dieser Stadt is a song recital in the chanson genre at Bar jeder Vernunft. Berlin-born Sharon Brauner opens her personal musical treasure chest and presents exclusively her own works, which emerged over decades from longings and lonely moments as well as from movement and encounters. Chanson meets jazz and poetry meets groove, full of Berlin wit, intimacy, melancholy and warmth. She is accompanied by Helmut Bruger (piano), Daniel Zenke (bass) and Stephan Genze (drums); the evening is far from merely a nostalgic retrospective, but rather a powerful statement of the present.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sharon-brauner-kind-dieser-stadt-16736/", "official_url": "https://www.bar-jeder-vernunft.de/de/programm/programmuebersicht/sharon-brauner-kind-dieser-stadt.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db5f96268398a36533225cbfe5815a79fb7a959508384e5440e906b6445b7c4e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Phonoklub: Aus den Archiven | Musique concrète - Musique acousmatique", "start": "2026-11-05T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Eva-Mamlok-Platz 1, 10961 Berlin", "address": "Eva-Mamlok-Platz 1, 10961 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/electronic/experimental-electronic"], "description": "The Phonoklub presents carefully selected sounds on vinyl from its record archives, this time musique concrète and musique acousmatique from the early days of electronic music. Behind the format is ZLB_Berlin, which regularly presents auditory gems and passionate Berlin indie labels. Featured are, among others, the experiments of the French engineer Pierre Schaeffer, who shortly after the Second World War set out to reinvent listening to music, along with works by François Bayle and many others. You can listen everywhere in the library via wireless headphones, which are available on site.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/phonoklub-aus-den-archiven-musique-concrete-musique-acousmat-2545/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0480ca9e7308f0c11dc1008e9b12dc692048e5af4d5959639e8f798534c63e94-1200.webp"}, {"title": "“Heroes”", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Preis B", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/shop", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/pop", "literature"], "description": "\"Heroes\" is a tribute to David Bowie combining reading and concert. Actor and singer Alexander Scheer performs Bowie songs with his band while tracing literary and musical traces – Bowie always traveled with a mobile library of up to 1,500 books. Comic artist Reinhard Kleist accompanies the evening with live drawings. The Berliner Ensemble is a fitting venue, as Bowie, while living in Berlin from 1976 to 1978, was himself a theatergoer there.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/heroes-3764/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/heroes", "image": "https://noky.io/images/554a7f8b222b01024d11d30bdc6089464bf2e6fe4fad2d0db7c00d5c92deb7ba-600.webp"}, {"title": "Clown du hast deine Stellung verloren! Friedrich Hollaender zum 130. Geburtstag mit \"Chanson-Nette\" Jeannette Urzendowsky und Tal Balshai (Piano/Gesang).", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T22:00:00+01:00", "place": "Ausstellung zum \"Romanischen Café\" im Europa-Center", "address": "Tauentzienstraße 9-12 am Bahnhof Zoo 10789 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://romanisches-cafe.berlin/buch-kaufen/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["comedy", "history", "music"], "description": "A musical and cabaret-style encounter with the chanson poet and composer Friedrich Hollaender on the occasion of his 130th birthday. It takes place in the exhibition about the Romanisches Café in the Europa Center, which was once the composer's favourite hangout. On stage are the chanson singer Jeannette Urzendowsky together with Tal Balshai on piano and vocals. The exhibition recalls the legendary 1920s café at its original site, where artists and intellectuals used to meet.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/clown-du-hast-deine-stellung-verloren-friedrich-hollaender-z-20424/", "official_url": "https://romanisches-cafe.berlin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b3585562bfa71a11f42e7552c87054f42b0b69d2a93af8f7732c5dc161c3cf46-600.webp"}, {"title": "Festival des kritischen Geistes", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kino International", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 33, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/folk/singer-songwriter", "film/documentary", "history/gdr"], "description": "An evening festival with music, readings, conversations and film marking the 50th anniversary of Wolf Biermann's expatriation from the GDR. It is organised by the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, and Salwa Houmsi guides through the programme. After a concert in Cologne in 1976, the GDR stripped Biermann of his citizenship and refused to let him return, yet his voice only grew louder and moved divided Germany alike. Highlights include excerpts from the legendary Cologne concert of 1976, a keynote by Dr. Angela Merkel, a conversation between Wolf Biermann and Balbina, and the cinema documentary \"BIERMANN\" by Jens Meurer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/festival-des-kritischen-geistes-9218/", "official_url": "https://www.yorck.de/specials/festival-des-kritischen-geistes", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6147a1401a67d19f036447ef09712a08f315482b9a994589debb79b118c251f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rendez-vous au Centre Bagatelle mit André Herzberg", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-11T21:30:00+01:00", "place": "Kulturhaus Centre Bagatelle", "address": "Zeltinger Str. 6 13465 Berlin-Frohnau", "price": "20 €, ermäßigt 15 €, Schüler*innen 10 €, Abendkasse zzgl. 2 €", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.centre-bagatelle.de/ticketshop/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "music/rock"], "description": "„Rendez-vous au Centre Bagatelle“ is a regular series of talks and encounters at the Kulturhaus Centre Bagatelle featuring prominent figures from culture, politics, literature and television. This time the guest is André Herzberg, singer, author and the defining voice of the legendary East German rock band Pankow. In conversation with journalist and presenter Ulli Zelle, the evening covers musical new beginnings, resistance and conformity, biographical ruptures and the question of how much the GDR still resonates today, as well as his Jewish roots and the power of the stage. Herzberg will also sing live, direct and up close.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/rendez-vous-au-centre-bagatelle-mit-andre-herzberg-20492/", "official_url": "https://www.centre-bagatelle.de/events/rendez-vous-au-centre-bagatelle-mit-andre-herzberg/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c52f4583c687438a7b452847e6876fa3395125acb91d5f4e3c295f5a20dc70c0-600.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung mit Konzert: Sypmphonie der Großstadt", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Fabrik Osloer Straße 12", "address": "Osloer Straße 12, 13355 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/classical", "literature"], "description": "A reading with concert where 25 authors present their own texts on the theme of memory, published as a small booklet that evening. The texts are read aloud by the authors themselves. The evening is musically accompanied by German-Lithuanian guitarist Lukas Isaak with classical guitar music. Having travelled from Lithuania, the musician performs classical works ranging from European to South American composers as well as modern contemporary music.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-konzert-sypmphonie-der-grostadt-50463/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0d509b442cd66d4d1605ca95be15e5de829db611ca69f07bcfad96b8357e2bc3-600.webp"}, {"title": "Feng Shui vom Vortag mit Emil Bach (Gesang, Klavier) zum Festmonat in der Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 3, 12165 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["comedy/kabarett", "music/chanson"], "description": "„Feng Shui vom Vortag“ is a musical-literary evening with Emil Bach for the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek's anniversary month. The PhD-holding linguist and non-PhD-holding pianist sings and plays piano, making the most absurd connections. He works with the element of surprise, a fine feel for language, idiosyncratic piano accompaniments and convoluted humour. His songs come with unpredictable punchlines that leave a lasting aftertaste. Admission is free, and advance registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/feng-shui-vom-vortag-mit-emil-bach-gesang-klavier-zum-festmo-57698/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=292405&ls=0&c=11&date_start=28.10.2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/43c40841f288277bb58ad1c4cadb7e019161dea22c386e8b69ac5071c8131bba-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Let’s Swing – das Roger Cicero Special", "start": "2026-11-08T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Altstadttheater Köpenick", "address": "Jägerstraße 4, 12555 Berlin", "price": "28 €", "price_from": "28.00", "price_to": "28.00", "tickets_url": "https://altstadttheater-koepenick.de/tickets/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/swing"], "description": "An evening of swing, easy listening and jazz standards in memory of the singer Roger Cicero. The singer Frank Brunet, already known at this theatre from other programmes, performs his hits in English and German and tells the stories behind the songs. He is accompanied on piano by Andreas Peschel. The homage is dedicated to the Berlin musician, who died in 2016, made swing with German lyrics popular and represented Germany at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lets-swing-das-roger-cicero-special-16967/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a39eda7f8ce5d6705841ae7d1a69866a8cab96e9381b3c4925e896c239d54865-600.webp"}, {"title": "Nun müssen Worte wie Blumen entstehen: Eine Wort-Musik-Collage zu Friedrich Hölderlin und Ludwig van Beethoven", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ticket.deutschestheater.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=22120", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "music/classical"], "description": "\"Nun müssen Worte wie Blumen entstehen\" is a word-music collage devoted to Friedrich Hölderlin and Ludwig van Beethoven. Corinna Harfouch (recitation) and Hideyo Harada (piano) explore the artistic parallels between the two artists who were born in the same year. Hölderlin's poems, hymns and elegies, excerpts from his novel Hyperion and philosophical reflections on Greek antiquity meet musical works by the Viennese classicist. The performance takes place in the Kammer of the Deutsches Theater and lasts 1 hour 30 minutes without an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nun-mussen-worte-wie-blumen-entstehen-eine-wort-musik-collag-4410/", "official_url": "https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/nun-muessen-worte-wie-blumen-entstehen", "image": ""}, {"title": "Feng Shui vom Vortag mit Emil Bach (Gesang, Klavier) zum Festmonat in der Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gottfried-Benn-Bibliothek", "address": "Nentershäuser Platz 1, 14163 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["comedy/kabarett", "music/chanson"], "description": "“Feng Shui vom Vortag” is a song and cabaret programme for the anniversary month of the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek. Emil Bach, singing and piano, is behind the programme: a Linguist with a doctorate and a pianist without one. He makes the most absurd connections, working with the element of surprise, a fine feeling for language, idiosyncratic piano accompaniments and songs whose unpredictable punchlines leave a real aftertaste. Admission is free, and advance registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/feng-shui-vom-vortag-mit-emil-bach-gesang-klavier-zum-festmo-57831/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/43c40841f288277bb58ad1c4cadb7e019161dea22c386e8b69ac5071c8131bba-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Spazieren in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Dorotheenstädtische Buchhandlung", "address": "Turmstraße 5, 10559 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "The bookshop hosts a reading from Franz Hessel's book „Spazieren in Berlin“, a textbook on the art of strolling through Berlin first published in 1929. The actor Hans-Jürgen Schatz reads from it, and the evening is moderated by the publisher André Förster. Hessel (1880–1941) was a writer, editor and translator who lived in Berlin in the 1920s and emigrated to Paris in 1938. Walter Benjamin called the book a memorising while strolling, for which remembering was not the source but the muse.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/spazieren-in-berlin-22283/", "official_url": "https://www.dorotheenstaedtische.de/event/spazieren-in-berlin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/faf9fe110b11b1f17ff173b8dee0dd9c07708277df0d93e23d4cc0f60c697d68-600.webp"}, {"title": "Kabarett & KZ - Lesung mit Thomas Schleissing-Niggemann", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 3, 12165 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "stage/cabaret"], "description": "A reading by Thomas Schleissing-Niggemann about cabaret during the National Socialist era and in the concentration camps. It covers cabaret artists who were sent to concentration camps, cabaret in the camps as a showpiece of the SS and against fellow prisoners' depression, and cabaret as a weapon at the BBC. Admission is free; advance registration is requested by phone or email. The reading takes place at the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek at Grunewaldstraße 3 in Berlin-Steglitz-Zehlendorf.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kabarett-kz-lesung-mit-thomas-schleissing-niggemann-32984/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=291634", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3a46a23a538461a0422296d06e18f60face2e5edfba75521128f2b5b4c2ed26a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Festival des kritischen Geistes", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Rollberg Kino", "address": "Rollbergstraße 70, 12053 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/poetry"], "description": "A festival evening of music, readings, talks and film about Wolf Biermann, whom the GDR stripped of his citizenship in 1976 after a concert in Cologne. It is staged by the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur on the 50th anniversary of his expatriation, hosted by Salwa Houmsi. The programme features a keynote by Angela Merkel, a conversation with Wolf Biermann and Balbina, a contemporary witness talk with Gabriele Stötzer, Doris Liebermann and Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, and literary-artistic panoramas of Biermann's poems and literature from exile with, among others, Durs Grünbein, Thomas Brussig and Fabian Hinrichs. It closes with the cinema documentary \"BIERMANN\" by Jens Meurer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/festival-des-kritischen-geistes-73117/", "official_url": "https://www.yorck.de/specials/festival-des-kritischen-geistes", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6147a1401a67d19f036447ef09712a08f315482b9a994589debb79b118c251f-2000.webp"}]}