{"title": "City of Masks: A Novel of Shanghai von Mike Blumenthal", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-17T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "W. M. Blumenthal Akademie, Klaus Mangold Auditorium", "address": "Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin", "price": "6 €, erm. 3 €", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/thriller"], "description": "A book premiere in English: W. Michael Blumenthal, founding director of the Jewish Museum Berlin and former U.S. Treasury Secretary, presents his second novel, \"City of Masks\". The fast-paced thriller is set in Shanghai during the Second World War and is about con men, gangsters and spies. At its centre is Paul Obermann, a fugitive from an insurance-fraud charge who is recruited as a spy by the OSS and must rescue a failed mission together with Steffi, a Holocaust survivor. Blumenthal himself lived in Shanghai for eight years as a refugee from the Nazi dictatorship.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/city-of-masks-a-novel-of-shanghai-von-mike-blumenthal-76016/", "official_url": "https://www.jmberlin.de/lesung-mike-blumenthal-city-of-masks", "image": "https://noky.io/images/37ca56eb11d9801d2082358e96e15619ba4ab645278d15479d64bff8432ab6ea-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-17T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "W. M. Blumenthal Akademie, Klaus Mangold Auditorium", "address": "Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Hannes Stein/Marko Martin: Was wäre, wenn es Israel schon seit 300 Jahren gäbe?", "start": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bajszel", "address": "Emser Straße 8-9, 12051 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/thriller/spy-fiction"], "description": "A book presentation at Bajszel devoted to the spy novel „Das Messias-Komplott“. Behind the event are Hannes Stein and Marko Martin; the book is published by Edition Faust and the evening is co-organized by Masiyot e.V. It asks the question: what if Israel had existed for 300 years already? A collection will be held to benefit Ukraine relief.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/hannes-steinmarko-martin-was-ware-wenn-es-israel-schon-seit-122407/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Charles Lewinsky: Eine andere Geschichte | 39. Jüdische Kulturtage Berlin", "start": "2026-11-16T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Neue Synagoge", "address": "Oranienburger Straße 28-30, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/jewish-history", "literature/fiction"], "description": "Charles Lewinsky gives a reading and conversation as part of the Jewish Culture Days Berlin. In Eine andere Geschichte he tells of Curt Melnitz' extraordinary life. The story moves between Leipzig, Hollywood and Europe, and between historical reality and literary fiction.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/charles-lewinsky-eine-andere-geschichte-39-judische-kulturta-24706/", "official_url": "https://www.eventim.de/noapp/event/21911121/?affiliate=VB1&utm_source=VB1&utm_medium=dp&utm_campaign=berlintourismus", "image": ""}, {"title": "Yotam Ben Horin: Haifa City Hardcore", "start": "2026-11-17T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bajszel", "address": "Emser Straße 8-9, 12051 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/rock/punk", "literature"], "description": "A book reading with music at Bajszel: Yotam Ben Horin presents his book \"Haifa City Hardcore\", about growing up punk in Israel and beyond. Phil Holstein joins as special guest. The reading is accompanied by music.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/yotam-ben-horin-haifa-city-hardcore-122408/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Fake Jews", "start": "2026-11-16T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-16T21:50:00+01:00", "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["history/memory-culture", "stage/solo-show"], "description": "Fake Jews is an autofiction, a solo show with Moritz Kienemann on the Deutsches Theater's Box stage. Written and directed by Noam Brusilovsky, the monologue project looks at people who invent Jewish victim biographies for themselves. It takes its starting point from the fabricated memoirs of Binjamin Wilkomirski, presented as a Latvian Holocaust survivor, and the so-called Wilkomirski syndrome. The evening probes the blind spots of German remembrance culture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/fake-jews-4373/", "official_url": "https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/fake-jews", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8c90dafe83028f347f8e136b041a54eed96ba2a110138bedc4a67bfbdeac5905-600.webp"}, {"title": "Buchvorstellung „Israel, Palästina, Deutschland\"", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Buchhandlung Hennwack", "address": "Feuerbachstraße 26, 12163 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/israel-palestine", "society/politics"], "description": "A presentation of the book „Israel, Palästina, Deutschland“ with its author Dr. Avner Ofrath (Universität Marburg). Also discussing on the panel are Prof. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (ZfA, TU Berlin) and Lea Frehse (Die Zeit). The event takes place at the Buchhandlung Hennwack bookshop in Berlin-Friedenau.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buchvorstellung-israel-palastina-deutschland-94422/", "official_url": "https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/judaistik/Termine/Buchvorstellung-Ofrath.html", "image": ""}, {"title": "Eine Berliner Familiengeschichte von über 100 Jahren – Lesung und Gespräch mit der Zeitzeugin Irene Bindel", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+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/biography/autobiography", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A reading followed by a conversation at the Bezirkszentralbibliothek Pablo Neruda. Irene Bindel, a contemporary witness born in Berlin in 1938, reads from her book „Wassermilch und Spitzenwein“ and tells of her family history spanning more than a century. As the daughter of a Christian mother and a Jewish father, she recounts her family's fate during the Nazi era and the difficult post-war years – her father was imprisoned by the Nazi regime and never returned, while her young mother had to struggle through a time of hardships alone with her daughter. Drawing on her mother's diaries, she offers very personal insights into this moving era, invites the audience to ask questions in the ensuing conversation, and the event is a cooperation between the Gilberto-Bosques-Volkshochschule Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, the Stadtbibliothek Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and the Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit in Berlin e.V.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/eine-berliner-familiengeschichte-von-uber-100-jahren-lesung-31736/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-friedrichshain-kreuzberg/bibliotheken/bezirkszentralbibliothek-pablo-neruda/veranstaltungen-projekte/eine-berliner-familiengeschichte-von-ueber-100-jahren-lesung-und-gespraech-mit-der-zeitzeugin-irene-bindel-1712806.php", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6db1ad9d16ca379cc65669840255ecd48f4ed05c8af944d03201eff22a31ce15-600.webp"}, {"title": "CrossKultur 2026 | \"Schattenleben\" - Comiclesung und Gespräch in der Bibliothek Schöneberg", "start": "2026-11-17T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-17T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Bibliothek Schöneberg", "address": "Hauptstraße 40, 10827 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/comics", "society/migration"], "description": "The Bibliothek Schöneberg hosts a comic reading and conversation about \"Schattenleben\", with comic artist Lisa Frühbeis, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kron and Brienne, one of the book's protagonists. \"Schattenleben\" is a comic reportage about people without papers, in which four people from very different backgrounds tell of their lives without documents in Germany. One of them is Brienne from Thailand, who fought her way out of forced prostitution in Germany and got her boss sent to prison. The book is the result of five years of intensive research, dozens of conversations and a joint collaboration between the four protagonists, journalist Jonas Seufert and Lisa Frühbeis; the event is part of CrossKultur 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/crosskultur-2026-schattenleben-comiclesung-und-gesprach-in-d-108292/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/32497b66a62180f67b66a1ac9f66c8451f4ea786ec687590f9ab032a2ddc047e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lettekiez liest! „Osmans Garten“ - Lesung und Gespräch mit Michael Feindler", "start": "2026-11-10T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kultur- und Dialograum \"M5\"", "address": "Markstr. 5, 13409 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall", "literature/childrens-books"], "description": "A reading followed by a talk from the series „Lettekiez liest!“ for children and young people at the Kultur- und Dialograum „M5“ in Berlin-Reinickendorf. Author Michael Feindler, a cabaret artist and poetry-slam poet born in Münster who now lives in Leipzig, presents his rhyming picture book „Osmans Garten“. It tells the true story of the Anatolian guest worker Osman Kalin, who in the 1980s laid out a vegetable garden on a patch of wasteland in Kreuzberg right next to the Berlin Wall; the garden became widely known as the „Baumhaus an der Mauer“ and a symbol of gentle resistance against the madness of the Cold War and against bureaucratic pettifoggery. The book brings a piece of Berlin's past closer to children and is at the same time a timeless, friendly plea for more humanity and mutual tolerance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lettekiez-liest-osmans-garten-lesung-und-gesprach-mit-michae-99915/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6be6ab1aa589e3268123c3546afffd3113b904d36e30b7f1a394fc505948f9f9-1200.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": "Club de lectura de noviembre: Malina, de Ingeborg Bachmann", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bartleby & Co.", "address": "Boppstraße 2", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel"], "description": "In November, the Bartleby reading circle meets at the Bartleby & Co. bookshop on Boppstraße 2. The Spanish-language bookshop invites its readers to read a book together and then discuss it in person. The chosen title is Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann, an astonishing portrait of a writer trying to tell her own story in a world dominated by men. The novel follows a woman in postwar Vienna between her inaccessible lover Ivan and her reserved flatmate Malina, a feminist psychological masterpiece of European literature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/club-de-lectura-de-noviembre-malina-de-ingeborg-bachmann-12904/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b5f679be336ded5a712898b70574c79015fbfe42ff1b6224a7eae4b1e54d0b62-2000.webp"}]}