{"title": "Cross­Kultur 2026 | \"Schattenleben\" - Comiclesung und Gespräch", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Bibliothek Tempelhof", "address": "Götzstraße 8/10/12, 12099 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/comics", "society/migration"], "description": "The evening is a comic reading centered on \"Schattenleben\", a comic reportage about four people without papers telling of their lives without documents in Germany. Appearing are journalist Jonas Seufert, comic artist Lisa Frühbeis and Brienne, one of the book's protagonists. Brienne comes from Thailand and fought her way out of forced prostitution in Germany, putting her boss in prison. The book is the result of five years of intensive research, dozens of conversations, and the four protagonists' joint work with Seufert and Frühbeis on their stories.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/crosskultur-2026-schattenleben-comiclesung-und-gesprach-132709/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/32497b66a62180f67b66a1ac9f66c8451f4ea786ec687590f9ab032a2ddc047e-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Bibliothek Tempelhof", "address": "Götzstraße 8/10/12, 12099 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "CrossKultur 2026 | \"Schattenleben\" - Comiclesung und Gespräch in der Bibliothek Lichtenrade", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-18T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Bibliothek Lichtenrade", "address": "Steinstraße 41, 12307 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/comics", "society/migration"], "description": "\"Schattenleben\" at Bibliothek Lichtenrade is a comic reading followed by a conversation. The journalist Jonas Seufert and the comic artist Lisa Frühbeis spent five years researching with four people without papers about their lives without documents in Germany, which resulted in the comic reportage. One of the protagonists, Brienne from Thailand, who fought her way out of forced prostitution and got her boss sent to prison, will be present at the event. The reading is part of the festival CrossKultur 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/crosskultur-2026-schattenleben-comiclesung-und-gesprach-in-d-116210/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/32497b66a62180f67b66a1ac9f66c8451f4ea786ec687590f9ab032a2ddc047e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Eröffnung CrossKultur 2026", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Rathaus Schöneberg", "address": "John-F.-Kennedy-Platz 1, 10825 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["community/neighbourhood", "dance/folk-dance", "literature"], "description": "The opening of the festival CrossKultur is an evening of readings, dance and creative exchange in the Willy-Brandt-Saal at the Schöneberg town hall. Martin Hyun, who works at Deutschlandfunk Kultur and is a political scientist, author and former professional ice hockey player, reads from the book »Gebrauchsanweisung für Nachbarn«, which he wrote with Wladimir Kaminer about living together in all kinds of neighbourhoods. Visitors can try techniques of the traditional fan dance with the Verein Koreanischer Krankenschwestern und -pfleger sowie Pflegehelfer_innen e.V., collect »recipes for good neighbourliness« with the team of »BENN – Berlin Entwickelt Neue Nachbarschaften« from Mariendorf-Tempelhof, and join an ink-painting workshop with the artist Himwa presented by the project »Stadtteilarbeit Lebendige Nachbarschaft« of Nachbarschaftsheim Schöneberg e.V. Paula Essam moderates the evening and CandomBerlin opens it with music.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/eroffnung-crosskultur-2026-33038/", "official_url": "https://www.cross-kultur.de/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f707ea3eaa302ab7d5f39052ddef5c997041a31190980019e410ee60fa46dcf0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "So ist das Leben mit Erwachsenen", "start": "2026-11-15T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grips Theater im Podewil", "address": "Klosterstraße 68 10179 Berlin", "price": "6 €, ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["community/youth", "literature/books"], "description": "The event presents the book „So ist das Leben mit Erwachsenen“, in which young people report on adultism and adults learn from it. 24 people – some very young, others already a bit older – painted and wrote it together. It contains comics, poems, collages, stories and more, about how young children and teenagers perceive life with adults. It was edited by Simbi, Manu and Sookee*Sukini.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/so-ist-das-leben-mit-erwachsenen-22611/", "official_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/spielplan/so-ist-das-leben-mit-erwachsenen/3382", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e13bb706f56281eccac193a98612f363e3e3d4daf5f9728eeb7e77c92eed88fa-600.webp"}, {"title": "„Vita Obscura – Out Of Sight“ Lesung mit dem Autor und Illustrator Simon Schwartz", "start": "2026-11-18T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Badstraße 39, 13357 Berlin", "address": "Badstraße 39, 13357 Berlin", "price": "5€", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/comics"], "description": "This reading features comic artist Simon Schwartz presenting his work and reading from his comics. The Hamburg-based artist devotes his series VITA OBSCURA to unknown, eccentric but always true life stories, with the graphic design adapting anew to each protagonist. This autumn, the third collected volume, VITA OBSCURA: OUT OF SIGHT, was published by avant-verlag. Registration is requested by email to service@avant-verlag.de.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vita-obscura-out-of-sight-lesung-mit-dem-autor-und-illustrat-96887/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2c4ba5f002ec112d36d3125c94260a971c53290e4793d6394ff24c5c7982415a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "\"Ausländergöre\": Literatur LIVE mit Alexandra Stanić", "start": "2026-11-13T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heimathafen Neukölln", "address": "Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 Berlin", "price": "20 €", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/memoir", "society/migration"], "description": "Alexandra Stanić presents her debut \"Ausländergöre\" at Literatur LIVE at Heimathafen Neukölln. The journalist, one of the most important critical voices in German-language social media, weaves her own migration story between Frittatensuppe and Ćevapčići together with her queer self-discovery. She uses labels such as Ausländergöre or Švabica as narrative starting points to examine class issues, misogyny and right-wing populism. The event is accompanied by the BuchBox! Kiezbuchhandlung bookshop.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/auslandergore-literatur-live-mit-alexandra-stanic-13446/", "official_url": "https://heimathafen-neukoelln.de/events/alexandra-stanic/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/661f175500fe5b45575cb5d275edfc65cf1ac5097b0a173aeb9a7d9eebde849e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Schweigen - eine dokumentarische Graphic Novel", "start": "2026-11-19T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in der Villa Oppenheim", "address": "Schloßstraße 55, 14059 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/comics/graphic-novels", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A reading and conversation with Birgit Weyhe about her documentary graphic novel „Schweigen“. In it, she recalls two women of different generations: Ellen Marx, the only member of her Jewish family to survive Nazi persecution after emigrating from Berlin to Buenos Aires at seventeen, and Elisabeth Käsemann, who set out for Argentina against the backdrop of the student movement. The graphic novel repeatedly touches on local history and opens a narrative about the entanglements between Germany and Argentina, the Argentine military dictatorship, and the political failure connected with it. Based on in-depth research, it confronts the experiences of violence and the defiant remembrance in Argentine society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/schweigen-eine-dokumentarische-graphic-novel-72959/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/572bb2868b2cd7d852c6810eceaf38a550041157dec34c8c44f570dccdbebeb5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Vulnerable ❘ An Ethnographic Comic on (In-)Security and Conflict on Campus after October 7th 2023", "start": "2026-11-13T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Diffrakt", "address": "Crellestraße 22, 10827 Berlin", "price": "Free admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/comics", "society/antidiscrimination"], "description": "A presentation and conversation about the comic “Vulnerable: In/security, Anti/discrimination and Conflict in Everyday University Life after 7 October 2023”, which translates the key findings of a research project into a graphic narrative. The project examined how students’ and staff members’ sense of security has changed since October 7th 2023, which situations gave rise to feelings of insecurity, and how these related to experiences of discrimination. In the conversation, Teresa Koloma Beck, Leslie Gauditz, Aurélia Kalisky and Anna Paßlick discuss the research and explore comics as a medium for conveying social realities charged with affect, stereotypes, discrimination and solidarity. The event is in English and admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vulnerable-an-ethnographic-comic-on-in-security-and-conflict-14498/", "official_url": "https://diffrakt.space/events/vulnerable-an-ethnographic-comic-on-in-security-anti-discrimination-and-conflict-in-everyday-university-life-after-october-7-2023/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a400c25315663b71f737e8d00f8de21da9da5b930f9621fa861ba25971e3678a-600.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"}]}