{"title": "Den Rest hab ich verdrängt", "start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Theater am Frankfurter Tor", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 133, 10243 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.theater-am-frankfurter-tor.de/seiten/kartenkauf.html", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/biography/autobiography", "society/identity"], "description": "„Den Rest hab ich verdrängt“ is a reading with Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss. The actor, director and children's book author, born in East Berlin in 1962, known from Doris Dörrie's „Keiner liebt mich“ and as Commissioner Axel Richter in the ZDF crime series „Der Alte“, grew up in East Berlin as the son of a West African father and a German mother. In his reading, he tells honestly and with a wink about belonging, identity, racism and homophobia as well as private and political struggles, successes and defeats. He is also an activist and part of the #actout campaign for more diversity in art and media.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/den-rest-hab-ich-verdrangt-58055/", "official_url": "https://www.theater-am-frankfurter-tor.de/produktionen/den-rest-hab-ich-verdraengt.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bbf5c61946f962f30a738a6cde7b6a84cc6fd20c8cfdef827049eb559c5fe961-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Theater am Frankfurter Tor", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 133, 10243 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Silence", "start": "2026-11-01T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T21:45:00+01:00", "place": "Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz", "address": "Kurfürstendamm 153, 10709 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://schaubuehne.eventim-inhouse.de/webshop/webticket/shop?event=13871", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/contemporary-play"], "description": "\"The Silence\" is a theatre play by Falk Richter, shown as a German-language premiere on the Schaubühne's Globe stage, with Dimitrij Schaad playing the role of Falk Richter. In his autofictional play, the author and theatre director Richter returns to his own family history. In dialogue with his mother, he examines truths left unspoken for decades, repressed secrets and unprocessed traumas, including his father's experiences of war, his mother's flight from West Prussia and the suppression of his gay identity. The confrontation becomes a journey into the abysses of West German bourgeois society from the post-war era to the present, in which autobiography and fiction blend and questions arise about other models of masculinity and relationships.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-silence-9922/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed7c69139d38d602eafe19490e80412314a039fbdd90b0b11c27c5ef21830d21-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kabarett & KZ - Lesung mit Thomas Schleissing-Niggemann", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 3, 12165 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "stage/cabaret"], "description": "A reading by Thomas Schleissing-Niggemann about cabaret during the National Socialist era and in the concentration camps. It covers cabaret artists who were sent to concentration camps, cabaret in the camps as a showpiece of the SS and against fellow prisoners' depression, and cabaret as a weapon at the BBC. Admission is free; advance registration is requested by phone or email. The reading takes place at the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek at Grunewaldstraße 3 in Berlin-Steglitz-Zehlendorf.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kabarett-kz-lesung-mit-thomas-schleissing-niggemann-32984/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=291634", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3a46a23a538461a0422296d06e18f60face2e5edfba75521128f2b5b4c2ed26a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Günter de Bruyn | Kindheit und Jugend in Britz", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T17:15:00+01:00", "place": "Ochsenstall", "address": "Alt-Britz 81, 12359 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature"], "description": "A reading from the memoirs of Günter de Bruyn, whose family moved into the new Britz housing a hundred years ago, shortly after his birth. The writer, known as an outsider of GDR literature, recalls his childhood and youth in the 1930s: rural idyll and sweeping modernity, family security, and the oppressive constraints of the National Socialist Volksgemeinschaft on the road to catastrophe, which many of the portrayed people did not survive and which left the bombed-out parental home in ruins. Far more than a nostalgic look back, de Bruyn tells of everyday conformity and refusal under totalitarian rule and of learning individual resistance against collectivist constraints. Wolfgang de Bruyn, a literary scholar, preservationist and writer, is the son and trustee of the Günter-de-Bruyn-Stiftung; he reads from his father's memoirs and his own memories, moderated by Henning Holsten.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gunter-de-bruyn-kindheit-und-jugend-in-britz-57936/", "official_url": "https://schloss-gutshof-britz.de/schloss-britz/veranstaltungen/kalender/guenter-de-bruyn-kindheit-und-jugend-britz", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ac414498aec15d6b99ca54d60c2a57858b1d6ced28e03f3101339ccb7d5d9f28-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Ditha Brickwell liest aus ihren neuesten Werken", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Kladow Forum", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "Ditha Brickwell reads from two of her most important novels, which also have a little to do with Kladow, at Kladower Forum, capping the evening with a »Zuckerl« from her hometown Vienna. »Der Kinderdieb« tells of Otto, a young man coming of age in the dark Vienna of the 1950s, who falls in love with a refugee girl from Hungary and does something unheard of to find comfort. »Die andere Seite der Nacht. Eine Erzählung vom Standhalten und Überleben« recounts the fate of Jewish families in Berlin and their Christian helpers during the National Socialist era. The author, committed to justice and democratic values, engages lively with her audience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ditha-brickwell-liest-aus-ihren-neuesten-werken-26240/", "official_url": "https://kladower-forum.de/veranstaltung/ditha-brickwell-liest-aus-ihren-neuesten-werken/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0334517afc520c0930cd118d8e6673f313b3f61d3f5030c7facb4c5c027c3d44-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ditha Brickwell liest aus ihren neuesten Werken", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Haus Kladower Forum", "address": "Kladower Damm 387, 14089 Berlin – Kladow", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "Ditha Brickwell reads from her latest works at the Kladower Forum. The author, born in Vienna and living in Vienna and Berlin, previously an architect and educational economist, presents two of her most important novels, which also have something to do with Kladow. Der Kinderdieb tells of Otto, an adolescent in the dark Vienna of the 1950s, who falls in love with a refugee girl from Hungary, loses this love and does something unheard-of. Die andere Seite der Nacht tells of the fate of Jewish families in Berlin and their Christian helpers during the National Socialist era, with the courage and empathy of strong women in the leading role.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ditha-brickwell-liest-aus-ihren-neuesten-werken-57885/", "official_url": "https://kladower-forum.de/veranstaltung/ditha-brickwell-liest-aus-ihren-neuesten-werken/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/74ab934cf35add2dbd6f0ef68f4fed1e9a064023ec6522e4e6637a3258fb1c54-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Private Man", "start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-29T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Katholische Akademie in Berlin", "address": "Hannoversche Straße 5b, 10115 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "„A Private Man“ is a reading and conversation held in English without translation at the Katholische Akademie in Berlin. Stephanie Sy-Quia presents her debut novel, which tells the life story of her grandparents: how a Catholic priest and a woman, meeting in 1960s England, saw love grow out of their intellectual companionship. The evening takes place to mark the publication of the German translation „Den Himmel bewegen“, which comes out on 27 October with Suhrkamp. The author from London is hosted by the academy in Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/a-private-man-9175/", "official_url": "https://www.katholische-akademie-berlin.de/veranstaltung/a-private-man/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/39f45ac9fc7315cfcc9842e565c531dfa61b8d82045c36998932e9b879f087d2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "JP Bouzac liest aus dem Roman „Der Mann, der Löcher gräbt", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stz Ribbeck Haus", "address": "", "price": "freier Eintritt", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "JP Bouzac reads from the novel „Der Mann, der Löcher gräbt“ – a literary evening in the neighbourhood. The reading is hosted by Stz Ribbeck Haus. The story takes listeners into the fascinating present of the Algerian desert. Admission is free and the event is accessible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/jp-bouzac-liest-aus-dem-roman-der-mann-der-locher-grabt-22602/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Sophie Calle »Erinnerungen an Ostberlin«", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://literatur-berlin.tickettoaster.de/produkte/4255-tickets-sophie-calle-erinnerungen-an-ostberlin-literaturhaus-berlin-berlin-am-11-11-2026", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "A book launch at Literaturhaus Berlin where Sophie Calle presents her new book »Erinnerungen an Ostberlin«. In it, the French artist documents places in Berlin from which the visible symbols of East German history were removed after reunification, asking passers-by and residents to describe what had once filled these now-empty spaces. In conversation with the author and filmmaker Felix von Boehm, she talks about remembering, her art and writing. The event is held in French with simultaneous German interpretation by Kerstin Elsner; Carolin Haupt reads.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sophie-calle-erinnerungen-an-ostberlin-209/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/sophie-calle-erinnerungen-an-ostberlin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e20140b55ee61a2126a4dfc8e2442d8f7634bff07f134dcf65a5c83566709d88-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Gudrun Bernhagen liest", "start": "2026-11-04T14:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilzentrum PestalozziTreff", "address": "Pestalozzistraße 1A, 12623 Berlin", "price": "6 Euro inklusive Kaffeegedeck", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-germany", "literature/reading"], "description": "Gudrun Bernhagen reads excerpts from her novel \"Und ... und ... und ... kann ich gut\", which is about the childhood years of a girl from 1945 to 1952. She is accompanied musically by Adrian Wagner and Rudolf Bernhagen. Admission includes a coffee set, and registration is possible by phone at 56 58 69 20. The reading takes place at the Stadtteilzentrum „Pestalozzi-Treff\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gudrun-bernhagen-liest-72804/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Misha Schoeneberg liest aus „Vielleicht wollte er gar nicht schweigen er fand bloß die Worte nicht” mit musikalischer Begleitung", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Buchhandlung am Schäfersee", "address": "Markstraße 6, 13409 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature", "music"], "description": "Misha Schoeneberg reads from his book „Vielleicht wollte er gar nicht schweigen er fand bloß die Worte nicht“, accompanied by musician Michael Gerlinger, who sings songs by Leonard Cohen in German to the guitar. In this deeply personal book, the author traces the story of his father, a member of a Jewish Berlin family who survived the horrors of Auschwitz. It is about silence and speechlessness in the family, remembrance culture and the upheavals of the present up to the events of October 7. The reading takes place at Buchhandlung am Schäfersee in Berlin; advance registration is possible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/misha-schoeneberg-liest-aus-vielleicht-wollte-er-gar-nicht-s-13471/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b76d528393fa3deeeebccf968b564e266c0db82854844ae3c870ae2192546799-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Amigues Adios", "start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Naunynstraße", "address": "Naunynstraße 27, 10997 Berlin", "price": "14€ / 8€", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://ballhausnaunynstrasse.de/tickets", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/queer", "stage/performance-art", "dance"], "description": "\"Amigues Adios\" is a theatre piece by Bishop Black at Ballhaus Naunynstraße. In it, five performers go in search of Berlin's promise and of the freedom of being together beyond the conservative boundaries of sexual identity and racial identity. They remember the Black queer Berliners who once had the courage to make the city a promise, and seek ways to keep community and freedom alive. In a surreal and burlesque dance through the times they come together to find the strength to carry on, celebrating to taste fearlessness and self-determination again.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/amigues-adios-3704/", "official_url": "https://ballhausnaunynstrasse.de/play/amigues-adios/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/60711e418406fe50f3bbd0bf22a720b81e843997a4982f11c8a77e011731c81d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "NEIL YOUNG – COMES A SONG - Konzertlesung mit Ludwig Blochberger nach Navid Kermani", "start": "2026-11-08T11:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Renaissance-Theater Berlin", "address": "Knesebeckstraße 100, 10623 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.rodrigue.de/0426/fListeManifs.aspx?idstructure=0426", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/folk/folk-rock", "literature"], "description": "\"NEIL YOUNG – COMES A SONG\" is a concert reading in which literature and live music intertwine. Ludwig Blochberger reads from Navid Kermani's story about a young family whose newborn daughter can only fall asleep to Neil Young's music, playing and singing Young's songs live on guitar. The songs pick up motifs from the text and together explore memory, lost illusions, moments of happiness and the big questions of life. The result is not a song recital with reading passages, but a dense interplay of literature and concert.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/neil-young-comes-a-song-konzertlesung-mit-ludwig-blochberger-20157/", "official_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/das-buch-der-von-neil-young-getoeteten/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9f4a9a8603e834205ade221b17ad83fb5f65cb01493c1ce5954cefb907db7c82-600.webp"}]}