{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-17T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Bibliothek Schöneberg", "address": "Hauptstraße 40, 10827 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": ["literature/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": "Que(e)r Lesen", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bibliothek Schöneberg", "address": "Hauptstraße 40, 10827 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "society/queer"], "description": "'Que(e)r Lesen in der Bibliothek Schöneberg' is a reading and discussion from the poetry collection 'Parabolis Virtualis 5'. Readers are Hannah Schraven, Pia Laguna de la Vera and Mátyás Dunajcsik, moderated by Kevin Junk, with a greeting from Jim Baker of Querverlag. The event is a cooperation between Querverlag and the Tempelhof-Schöneberg public library. Admission is free and no registration is needed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/queer-lesen-92148/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f72524b6b4d610380b733f172f86a72029a05aa61a65a3aca5eb103d6c272c40-1200.webp"}, {"title": "ALLE PLÄTZE BELEGT", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilbibliothek Heinrich von Kleist", "address": "Havemannstraße 17B, 12689 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/memoir"], "description": "A reading in the series „Live bei Kleist“ with Renate Zimmermann, reading from „Bibliothekarin läuft“. Since January 2026 she has taken up her new „job“ as a street wanderer, walking through all the streets of Berlin. Admission is free, with a donation to the library's friends' association requested on leaving; registration is possible under 93 39 380.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/alle-platze-belegt-79981/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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"}, {"title": "Die Lesereihe „Live bei Kleist“ präsentiert: Renate Zimmermann - „Bibliothekarin läuft“", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heinrich-von-Kleist-Bibliothek", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei, Spende an den Förderverein Stadtbibliothek Marzahn-Hellersdorf e.V. erbeten", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A reading in the series \"Live bei Kleist\" at the Heinrich-von-Kleist-Bibliothek. Renate Zimmermann, a former librarian in Marzahn-Hellersdorf, tells the story of her project \"Bibliothekarin läuft\", in which she has been walking through every street of Berlin since January 2026 as a retiree and documents her experiences with many photos in her blog. Entry is free, a donation to the friends' association is requested, and registration by phone is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-lesereihe-live-bei-kleist-prasentiert-renate-zimmermann-2592/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1f5679a58dae8a01028c06e6c32e3701aee1515da1f60c9dc8b6ee399e09a3e6-600.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", "literature/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": "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": "\"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": "Lesung mit Miriam Stein", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mittelpunktbibliothek Treptow Alte Feuerwache", "address": "Michael-Brückner-Straße 9, 12439 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt: frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/non-fiction", "society/gender"], "description": "A reading from the book “Die unverschämte Frau” as part of the reading series “ZUSAMMEN HALTEN – Frauen verbinden, Resilienz stärken” (“Sticking together – women connect, build resilience”) by the Treptow-Köpenick library and the district office's equal opportunity officer. The author and culture journalist Miriam Stein reads from a book about society's ideas of femininity, growing older, and questions of self-determination. The series deals with topics such as mental load, unpaid care work, and social role models. Afterwards there is a chance to talk with the author; registration is requested, admission is free, and children are welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-miriam-stein-50165/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/ba-treptow-koepenick/politik-und-verwaltung/beauftragte/gleichstellung/-aktuelles/artikel.1695588.php", "image": "https://noky.io/images/66d28e2a75385e565dc7a9beb9db35599601e614e56021ed06029b520d874e79-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Varnhagen-Lecture 2026: „Philosophes sauvages“", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin", "address": "Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/jewish-history", "literature/letters"], "description": "The Varnhagen-Lecture is a talk with readings about the writer and salonnière Rahel Levin Varnhagen. Anke Gilleir, professor of modern German literature and gender studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, speaks about Varnhagen's correspondence with her youthful friends. Corinna Harfouch and Alexander Khuon complement the talk with passages from the letter editions edited by Barbara Hahn, which appear at the end of October 2026 in the Wallstein Verlag. The series is run by the Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung; admission is free and registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/varnhagen-lecture-2026-philosophes-sauvages-109761/", "official_url": "https://stiftung-seehandlung.de/veranstaltungen/varnhagen-lecture-2026-philosophes-sauvages-rahel-levin-varnhagens-briefwechsel-mit-jugendfreunden", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6e661b299480ee64eb45ef2636ba6199d50a979b1044c2d46c939941f83e8a81-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung und Gespräch mit der Autorin Lena Müller", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Pro Kiez Bötzowkiez e.V.", "address": "Esmarchstraße 18, 10407 Berlin", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "Lena Müller reads from her novel »Club der Verschwenderinnen« and then talks about it. In it, on a hot summer in the big city, single mother and translator Eli meets Gunda, who has been standing alone behind the bar of a pub for 20 years. Out of an initial makeshift arrangement a friendship gradually grows that becomes a great story. The event by AG Kultur bei Pro Kiez e.V. and the Kurt-Tucholsky-Bibliothek takes place in the reading room on the ground floor left; registration by e-mail is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-und-gesprach-mit-der-autorin-lena-muller-24490/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=295241&ls=30&c=409", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b20fea682d96371a2ea0645f8655578325f34a4c87d61fd442cd89760aeeecda-600.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"}]}