{"title": "Daniel Kehlmann: Afrika", "start": "2026-11-15T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Preis C", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "literature"], "description": "A book premiere at the Berliner Ensemble: Daniel Kehlmann reads from his new novel \"Afrika\" and talks with Sandra Kegel about it. The dark novel comedy is set in Berlin in the winter of 1884/85, where representatives of European states, the USA and the Ottoman Empire negotiate trade, territorial claims and expansion. As a colonial order takes shape, the Austrian negotiator Strinetzky tries to cover up a private fraud. The conversation also explores how literature transforms historical reality and makes colonial entanglements visible up to the present.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/daniel-kehlmann-afrika-3786/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/daniel-kehlmann-afrika", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1ef87f258972eb47089d6af4b7dacfe4386961fd7b00dcab20241ca18c428c7b-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-15T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort", "start": "2026-11-13T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "„Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort“ is an evening devoted to the question of how a central learning and memorial site on the history of colonialism could be designed in Berlin. The event brings together perspectives from academia, art, architecture, activism and memorial policy practice, sharing with a broad audience the conceptual and spatial foundations of the future site as well as the structures and networks that could sustain it. Artistically, the evening is framed by the dance company Fii ak Fee with the work DEM DEM and by Nathalie Vairac, who reads for the first time from Felwine Sarr's „Traces – A Speech to African Nations“. The event takes place in cooperation with „Kolonialismus erinnern“ and further partners, with simultaneous translation into English and French.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kolonialismus-erinnern-vom-konzept-zum-ort-293/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/kolonialismus-erinnern/20261113-1900/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Koloniale Gewaltgeschichte erinnern - Gespräch mit Abenaa Adomako und Dr. Ibou Diop", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schöneberg Museum", "address": "Hauptstraße 40, 10827 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/racism"], "description": "A conversation on remembering German colonial history of violence takes place at Schöneberg Museum. Abenaa Adomako and Dr. Ibou Diop discuss civic engagement within Berlin's decentralized culture of remembrance, coming to terms with German colonial history and researching Black German history. Adomako has been campaigning against racism and for making Black history visible for over 40 years. Diop curates discourse programmes and art exhibitions in Senegal and Germany and, since 2022, has been shaping concepts and places of remembrance for Berlin's colonial history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/koloniale-gewaltgeschichte-erinnern-gesprach-mit-abenaa-adom-12563/", "official_url": "https://museen-tempelhof-schoeneberg.de/events/koloniale-gewaltgeschichte-erinnern-gespraech-mit-abenaa-adomako-und-dr-ibou-diop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c149d30805acc9a39ff7783253385b478b15a133ac14bb4278dd607fc8dc1706-600.webp"}, {"title": "Erinnerungsort Kolonialismus. Call & Response mit Alice Hasters und Khuê Phạm.", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "A keynote dialogue on the question of how a central place of learning and remembrance for the history of colonialism and its continuities can be shaped. Following an introduction by literary scholar and curator Ibou Diop, Alice Hasters and Khuê Phạm take up questions about forms, practices and politics of remembering and bring them into conversation with each other, after which the exchange continues with the audience. The event reflects on the Erinnerungskonzept Kolonialismus (2025), initiated by actors of Berlin's civil society, which combines activist, scholarly and artistic positions and presents guidelines for engaging with and remembering Berlin's long-suppressed colonial history. In cooperation with Kolonialismus erinnern, the dialogue opens the event „Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort.“ on 13 November.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/erinnerungsort-kolonialismus-call-response-mit-alice-hasters-283/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/kolonialismus-erinnern/20261109-1700/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Franz Kafka: Amerika (1927)", "start": "2026-11-16T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-16T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Helle Panke e.V.", "address": "Kopenhagener Straße 9, 10437 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/classics", "society/poverty"], "description": "The book club at Helle Panke e.V. – Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Berlin meets to discuss Franz Kafka's novel \"Amerika\". This is the second session in a series of nine meetings on poverty and fears of social decline. Registration is possible through the association's page.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/franz-kafka-amerika-1927-22792/", "official_url": "https://www.helle-panke.de/de/topic/3.termine.html?id=4131", "image": "https://noky.io/images/abf1573e8f61c5cb321894fd7e62620dad24a2a58fda43e9ab0c047a8c9153ba-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Matthias Brandt liest Ian McEwan", "start": "2026-11-13T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Preis C", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A literary reading evening at the Berliner Ensemble, where Matthias Brandt reads from Ian McEwan's new novel „Was wir wissen können“. The staging was created by Gerhard Ahrens for the Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg. In the novel, Europe is largely flooded in the year 2119 after a nuclear catastrophe, and while searching for a lost love poem a literary scholar uncovers traces of a crime. The novel is described as both a moving love story and a philosophical crime story.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/matthias-brandt-liest-ian-mcewan-3784/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/matthias-brandt-liest-ian-mcewan", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f41bcf3bd1be886f7622bee0aebfcd7a06595e8cb4dbb1837f0be17f7d3ae3d0-600.webp"}, {"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": "Kolonialismus Erinnern", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "", "address": "Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "\"Kolonialismus Erinnern\" is an event by the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz at the Prater. It is \"Erinnerungsort Kolonialismus. Call & Response mit Alice Hasters und Khuê Phạm\". The event takes place in cooperation with Kolonialismus erinnern. It is part of a programme of two events by the Volksbühne on the theme of Kolonialismus Erinnern.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kolonialismus-erinnern-20444/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/kolonialismus-erinnern/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Transformationszeit: Fantasie gegen Realität …", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ephraim-Palais", "address": "Poststraße 16, 10178 Berlin", "price": "10 Euro", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "A conversation about life and writing in East and West Berlin, the final installment of the series „Transformationszeit“. Katja Oskamp, a writer born in East Berlin and author of „Marzahn, mon amour“ and „Die vorletzte Frau“, and West Berlin author Björn Kuhligk, known for „Überall Nachbarn“ and „Berlin-Beschimpfung“, join moderator Marion Brasch to discuss inventing reality. They explore how everyday life and social conditions shape writing, what artistic freedoms existed on either side of the Wall, and what changed after 1989. The talk takes place in the salon on the ground floor and lasts one hour and thirty minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/transformationszeit-fantasie-gegen-realitat-11821/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.museum/veranstaltungen/transformationszeit-fantasie-gegen-realitaet", "image": "https://noky.io/images/09af503cac5f68817fe03a2a5975b32abb478c6644eab9d240ec33d10e0388f3-600.webp"}]}