{"title": "DDRdirekt", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gratis in Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "„DDRdirekt“ is a reading and performance that brings back to life forgotten texts written by workers in the GDR. These poems, stories and prose pieces were created in workplace writing circles, dealing with work, everyday life, hopes, longings and political convictions. Behind the project are anna martha and Thomas Hartung, who searched the archive of writing workers for traces of these voices, with music by Christian Beckers. The event is part of the Berlin Freedom Week programme and admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ddrdirekt-96836/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/vor-ort-entdecken/veranstaltungen/termin/ddrdirekt-berlin-09-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6463eb8bf155284a8f6380c3c28473076a3a3794a76491e725c1c3c7da97952e-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gratis in Berlin", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "DDRdirekt", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stasi-Zentrale. Campus für Demokratie", "address": "Normannenstr. 20, 10365 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "\"DDRdirekt\" is a reading and performance with music about workers writing in the GDR. It is organised by the Bundesarchiv – Stasi Records Archive Berlin-Lichtenberg, the Lichtenberg district office of Berlin and the Büro für organische Poesie. anna martha and Thomas Hartung searched the archive for writing workers and discovered voices from a vanished society – sometimes fully in line with official ideology, sometimes full of nuance, contradictions and cautious criticism. With sounds of factory halls and housing shortages, of the collective, football and big dreams, they bring these surprising texts to life again, accompanied by music by Christian Beckers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ddrdirekt-28578/", "official_url": "https://www.einblick-ins-geheime.de/termin/ddrdirekt-berlin-09-11-2026/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Brecht-Haus Untergrund Die multiliterarische Keller-Revue", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brecht-Haus", "address": "Chausseestraße 125, 10115 Berlin", "price": "6,- € / ermäßigt: 4,- €", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.80", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "In the cellar of the Brecht-Haus, an evening is devoted to Berlin's literary life and its voices beyond the big markets and fairs. Authors, song poets, performers and musicians present literary texts of the city past and present, entirely without big discussion. The result is a mix of texts, music and performance, now and then spiced with videos or digital dialogues. This time the three guests are the poet Marion Poschmann, the writer Helga Kurzchalia and the indiepop poet Josepha Conrad, hosted by Martin Jankowski.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/brecht-haus-untergrund-die-multiliterarische-keller-revue-75807/", "official_url": "https://lfbrecht.de/event/brecht-haus-untergrund-die-multiliterarische-keller-revue-17/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/90f32d44b0e80078e4a674a0749621116a0d1240404f915e094ed95b1651c0c2-600.webp"}, {"title": "Ostfrauen*Salon - Begegnungen, Kunst und Gespräche zur Berlin Freedom Week", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Normannenstraße 21a, 10365 Berlin", "address": "Normannenstraße 21a, 10365 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["history/gdr", "art", "society"], "description": "The Ostfrauen*Salon is a day of encounters, literature, art, podcasts and conversations about East German identity and social change. At its heart is a long table where anyone interested can sit down and talk with one another. It is a joint project of Wirtschaftsförderung Lichtenberg, the Bundesarchiv – Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv and the Ostfrauen*Salon, funded by the Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft, Energie und Betriebe. The programme includes a guided tour of the former Stasi headquarters, a reading by Ruth Herzberg, a parlour game with Jule Henschel, an art talk with Isabel Kittler, Doreen Trittel and Maria Magdalena Köhn, a live podcast with Berit Großwendt and Grit Seymour, and a performance by the collective Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ostfrauensalon-begegnungen-kunst-und-gesprache-zur-berlin-fr-96821/", "official_url": "https://berlin-freedom-week.com/event/ostfrauensalon-berlin-freedom-week", "image": "https://noky.io/images/90bd8363059b7578ed31d542d2ca5b71d5de14496cc902c6119ecf68c50e8ab1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Vortrag zu »Arbeitsgemeinschaften Junger Autoren in der SBZ/DDR« im Rahmen einer öffentlichen Ringvorlesung", "start": "2026-11-03T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-03T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Zweigbibliothek Germanistik", "address": "Dorotheenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "A public lecture at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as part of the lecture series »Literatur im geteilten Deutschland«. Marco Lorenz of the DIPF speaks on the topic »Man kann keinen Schriftsteller ‚erziehen'. Die Arbeitsgemeinschaften Junger Autoren in SBZ und DDR«. The series, organized by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Vedder and Prof. Dr. Stefan Willer, examines the functions of literature during Germany's division, such as its cultural-political significance in the GDR and FRG and the role of authors who moved between the two states. The lecture takes place in lecture hall 1.101 in the university building at Hegelplatz.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vortrag-zu-arbeitsgemeinschaften-junger-autoren-in-der-sbzdd-72113/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ec8e4603688b161fee4abeb38f28a13050e2b128afa7bd043da3cf1ebe97ef8b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "161. TEXTBAR", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturring in Berlin e.V.", "address": "Ernststraße 14-16, 12437 Berlin", "price": "vielleicht eine eigene Geschichte?", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "The Lesebühne Marzahn-NordWest reading stage is on the theme of „U. a. erotisch“ (among other things, erotic). The event is organised by Kulturring in Berlin. Admission: perhaps a story of your own? Listeners who only want to listen are warmly welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/161-textbar-72826/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Autor*innenlesung", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "UNI.T", "address": "Fasanenstraße 1b, 10623 Berlin", "price": "frei (ohne Reservierung)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/drama"], "description": "Writers who write for the stage read from their unpublished texts on the UNI.T stage. Behind it is the 18th cohort of Scenic Writing at the Berlin University of the Arts. It is not a battle, but a broad spectrum of coexisting styles of writing and voices. Admission is free, without reservation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/autorinnenlesung-20173/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/autorinnenlesung-2026/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Was uns bleibt ...", "start": "2026-11-14T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturring in Berlin e.V.", "address": "Ernststraße 14-16, 12437 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A reading titled \"Was uns bleibt – Mehr als nur Sachen\" (What remains to us – more than just things). Behind it are Aron Boks and the Schreibwerkstatt-Marzahn, a writing workshop presenting their texts. Registration is required by email or phone. Admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/was-uns-bleibt-78125/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "»Schweinebaumeln« – Lesung und Gespräch mit Marta Dzido, Antje Ritter-Miller & Sarah Käsmayr", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T22:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "€7 – €9 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/short-story", "society"], "description": "A reading and conversation at BrotfabrikKino centered on the story collection »Schweinebaumeln«. Polish writer Marta Dzido presents her nine stories about love, eroticism and sensuality, whose characters struggle with desire and the social norms of 1990s Poland. Antje Ritter-Miller, who translated the German passages, reports on the translation work and reads from it. The evening is moderated by Sarah Käsmayr, with Agnieszka Grzybkowska interpreting.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/schweinebaumeln-lesung-und-gesprach-mit-marta-dzido-antje-ri-16791/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/schweinebaumeln-lesung-und-gespraech-mit-marta-dzido-antje-ritter-miller-sarah-kaesmayr/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70b32ac4497bc931bb2cf4d6e725d474fb20e9c57a0dc2edc33f5389817c04be-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Stimmen – Spuren und Séancen", "start": "2026-11-03T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kunstsammlung der Akademie der Künste", "address": "Luisenstraße 60, 10117 Berlin", "price": "15 EUR (Ermäßigt: 9 EUR)", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art", "literature"], "description": "An evening of readings, music and performance devoted to the voice as literary expression, acoustic phenomenon and carrier of memory. Participants include Kerstin Hensel, Friedrich Dieckmann, Ulrich Peltzer and Kathrin Röggla, as well as Andy Ammer and the duo driftmachine. After an opening voice performance, a tour through three venues lets the voice be experienced anew as spoken language, historical recording, sound and bodily presence, with a „Séance Méchanique“ conjuring up voices of the past. The evening closes with an audioperformative live interpretation of sampled recordings of a Heiner Müller reading of Edgar Allan Poe, reassembled musically.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/stimmen-spuren-und-seancen-79986/", "official_url": "https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/2026/11/stimmen-spuren-und-seancen/596632", "image": ""}, {"title": "»Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin«", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "DDR-Museum", "address": "Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "A book presentation and discussion of »Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin«, the first volume of Wolf Biermann's diaries. The historian Dr. Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, scholarly advisor at the DDR Museum, edits excerpts from the diaries for the first time, presenting an artist who consistently challenged the East German regime. The talk is moderated by Dr. Liza Soutschek. The event is part of the »Berlin Freedom Week« and takes place in the DDR Museum's conference room at Sankt Wolfgang-Str. 2.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ihr-loscht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-11722/", "official_url": "https://www.ddr-museum.de/de/veranstaltungen/buchvorstellung-ihr-loescht-das-feuer-mit-benzin", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f94e15d6cf0ac1be9d0f2ae1f2a8fa3d4b9e4434b30f0da4250abce7db38369-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Stimmen – Spuren und Séancen", "start": "2026-11-03T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Akademie der Künste", "address": "Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin", "price": "15 EUR (Ermäßigt: 9 EUR)", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/electronic", "occasion/all-souls-day", "literature"], "description": "“Stimmen – Spuren und Séancen” is an evening of readings, music and performance at the Akademie der Künste. Participants include Andy Ammer, Kerstin Hensel, Kathrin Röggla, Ulrich Peltzer, Steffi Weismann and the duo Driftmachine, among others. Following All Souls' Day, the evening is devoted to the sometimes ghostly voices of the past and invites the audience to a literary language performance and musical séance that culminates in an encounter between living authors and voices from the radio. It closes with a sampled, rhythmicized reading by Heiner Müller, accompanied by DJ sounds at the bar.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/stimmen-spuren-und-seancen-21466/", "official_url": "https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/2026/11/stimmen-spuren-und-seancen/596632", "image": ""}, {"title": "„Fäden, Stoffe, Schnitte“ – Weiter Schreiben Magazin #8", "start": "2026-11-03T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lettrétage", "address": "Veteranenstr. 21, 10119 Berlin", "price": "Frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "This is a reading celebrating the launch of the eighth issue of the Weiter Schreiben magazine, titled „Fäden, Stoffe, Schnitte“. The programme is run by the non-profit organisation WIR MACHEN DAS. The texts deal with cloths, carpets or trousers: resistance expressed through clothing, centuries-old cultural techniques and great longings. Readers are Lily Farhadpour, Mubeen Kishany, Karima Shabrang, Meral Şimşek and Fariba Vafi, with music by Amir Naghavia and German translations read by Jasmin Shakeri.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/faden-stoffe-schnitte-weiter-schreiben-magazin-8-7366/", "official_url": "https://www.lettretage.de/programm/faden-stoffe-schnitte---weiter-schreiben-magazin-8", "image": "https://noky.io/images/14d944dc2ed82f65ff597d6bb1a5603aaddb212e61bf657639fbdbca1a4ddfd0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Geschichten aus der Klimazukunft – Teilnehmende der Kreativen Schreibwerkstatt lesen ihre Texte in der Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 3, 12165 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/science-fiction", "nature/climate/climate-change"], "description": "Participants of the Creative Writing Workshop run by the Steglitz-Zehlendorf adult education centre read their own texts under the title „Geschichten aus der Klimazukunft“ at the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek. Together with the author and editor Katrin Imma Deibert and science journalist Antonia Rötger, they explored in writing what our future might feel like. In lively texts they tell of adapting and rebelling, of longing and desire, of leaving and arriving. Admission is free and no registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/geschichten-aus-der-klimazukunft-teilnehmende-der-kreativen-57693/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7b66f2695c14bc7ed2ba482f0c2f9b66c1ad207e71f1e807077b401243d63ecb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Die Mauer - Innen - Dazwischen - Außen", "start": "2026-11-09T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Wedding", "address": "Wriezener Straße 6, 13359 Berlin", "price": "15 € Vorverkauf - 18 € AK", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall", "literature/reading"], "description": "A literary and scenic evening featuring readings from „Fall: Berlin, 1989“. Author Claire Elizabeth Terry and Kathrin Berger connect the story of the fall of the Wall with scenic moments and drawings. In German and English, a shared exchange on walls and freedom follows.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-mauer-innen-dazwischen-auen-21827/", "official_url": "https://www.ballhauswedding.de/details-registrierung/die-mauer-innen-dazwischen-aussen", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68850f2f3633bdd4609c8d53845848fb987864d4cc975df90243ac2bfe17d939-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Queerinnert – Community Building in Ost-Berlin von LGBTQIA+ Zeitzeug*innen erzählt", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+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": ["history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "“Queerinnert – Community Building in Ost-Berlin von LGBTQIA+ Zeitzeug*innen erzählt” is a discussion event in which contemporary witnesses share their experiences of queer spaces and movements. It looks at how queer structures were built in East Berlin before 1990, when LGBTQIA+ people in the GDR had to get by without civil rights, public representation or meeting places, and what can be learned from those experiences. The event is moderated by Barbara Wallbraun, a cultural educator and filmmaker of the documentary “Uferfrauen-Lesbisches L(i)eben in der DDR”. Guests are Samirah Kenawi, founder of the GrauZone archive, Peter Rausch, founder of the Homosexuellen Interessensgemeinschaft Ost-Berlin, and Nadja Schallenberg, a trans* human rights activist.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/queerinnert-community-building-in-ost-berlin-von-lgbtqia-zei-31739/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-friedrichshain-kreuzberg/bibliotheken/bezirkszentralbibliothek-pablo-neruda/veranstaltungen-projekte/queerinnert-community-building-in-ost-berlin-von-lgbtqia-zeitzeug-innen-erzaehlt-1719514.php", "image": "https://noky.io/images/938f9ffd20427c8b7462380fa41e96588e083ea61508e0c4dbac9f0f4e4af363-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ostfrauen*Salon", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stasi-Zentrale. Campus für Demokratie", "address": "Normannenstr. 20, 10365 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei. / Admission is free.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr/stasi", "stage/performance-art", "society"], "description": "The Ostfrauen*Salon is an event of encounters, art and conversations as part of the Berlin Freedom Week. It is a joint project of the Economic Development Agency Lichtenberg, the Federal Archives' Stasi Records Archive and the Ostfrauen*Salon. A long table invites everyone to talk openly about East German identity and social change. There are also readings, a live podcast, a performance, art, a podcast listening station and a book table.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ostfrauensalon-32974/", "official_url": "https://www.einblick-ins-geheime.de/termin/ostfrauensalon-berlin-07-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/567ff93455e51fe183cc791e593c51016b9986c0024edc9d5cb84ef2e81d4f6d-1200.webp"}]}