{"title": "Der Belmondo des Ostens – Filmgespräch mit Winfried Glatzeder", "start": "2026-11-14T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Altstadttheater Köpenick", "address": "Jägerstraße 4, 12555 Berlin", "price": "35 €", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": "35.00", "tickets_url": "https://altstadttheater-koepenick.de/tickets/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "film"], "description": "A personal talk evening at the Altstadttheater Köpenick titled \"Der Belmondo des Ostens – Filmgespräch mit Winfried Glatzeder\". Actor Winfried Glatzeder talks with Loretta Müller about the DEFA cult film \"Die Legende von Paul und Paula\", in which he played Paul opposite Angelica Domröse's Paula, one of the most famous screen couples of East German cinema. The conversation looks back at the shoot, the atmosphere on set and the unexpected success of a film that captured the spirit of a whole generation. With scenic surprises, the evening promises personal memories and behind-the-scenes stories.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/der-belmondo-des-ostens-filmgesprach-mit-winfried-glatzeder-16329/", "official_url": "https://altstadttheater-koepenick.de/reihe/belmondo-des-ostens-winfried-glatzeder/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9b8f70e899983fdc958db844e5f6f99ffbc05cdb805272400c1766d6d482b363-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Altstadttheater Köpenick", "address": "Jägerstraße 4, 12555 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Salon im Zentrum am Zoo: 80 Jahre DEFA", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zentrum am Zoo", "address": "Hardenbergplatz 13, 10623 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/history"], "description": "The Salon im Zentrum am Zoo takes a look behind the film scenes of the GDR under the theme \"80 Jahre DEFA\". Together with Stefanie Eckert, chairwoman of the DEFA-Stiftung, the audience takes a closer look at films between ideology and everyday life – housing, leisure, wanderlust and life in the GDR. Short film sequences, surprising insights and above all time for conversation, memories and different perspectives round things off. The event is for everyone who would like to see the DEFA once again through different eyes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/salon-im-zentrum-am-zoo-80-jahre-defa-21912/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-stadtmission.de/informieren/termine/detail/salon-im-zentrum-am-zoo-80-jahre-defa", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1922e94ca1d09c92bce4a21c004c0e4d155a43429bce231f2db379217c7e98b2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Festival des kritischen Geistes", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Rollberg Kino", "address": "Rollbergstraße 70, 12053 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/poetry"], "description": "A festival evening of music, readings, talks and film about Wolf Biermann, whom the GDR stripped of his citizenship in 1976 after a concert in Cologne. It is staged by the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur on the 50th anniversary of his expatriation, hosted by Salwa Houmsi. The programme features a keynote by Angela Merkel, a conversation with Wolf Biermann and Balbina, a contemporary witness talk with Gabriele Stötzer, Doris Liebermann and Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, and literary-artistic panoramas of Biermann's poems and literature from exile with, among others, Durs Grünbein, Thomas Brussig and Fabian Hinrichs. It closes with the cinema documentary \"BIERMANN\" by Jens Meurer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/festival-des-kritischen-geistes-73117/", "official_url": "https://www.yorck.de/specials/festival-des-kritischen-geistes", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6147a1401a67d19f036447ef09712a08f315482b9a994589debb79b118c251f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Transformationszeit: Fantasie gegen Realität …", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ephraim-Palais", "address": "Poststraße 16, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Regulär: 10 Euro, Ermäßigt: 6 Euro", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://stiftungbrandenburgertor.de/veranstaltungen/liebermanns-welt/?source=bde", "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"}, {"title": "Biermann", "start": "2026-10-30T20:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bundesplatz Studio", "address": "Bundesplatz 14, 10715 Berlin", "price": "10,-- €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.kinoheld.de/kino/berlin/toni-berlin/vorstellung/3688995468", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/folk/singer-songwriter", "film/documentary", "history/gdr"], "description": "\"Biermann\" is a documentary about the life and work of the poet and singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann. Jens Meurer, a winner of the European Film Award and the Golden Globe, traces Biermann's biography as an immediate, close-up retrospective, combining personal memories with political contemporary history. At its center are Biermann's origins, his turn to music, his work in the GDR, the Cologne concert of 1976 and its consequences, and his artistic work up to the present. The camera follows the 90-year-old at meetings with young artists, politicians and his family, weaving the footage into a collage of historical documents and previously unpublished archive footage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/biermann-8778/", "official_url": "http://tilsiter-lichtspiele.de/kinoprogramm.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fe826c1f3087bbf126f0e2a89841744035e6f33d5bb393ee8d6e6dfc03c28819-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Palästina zwischen Augen: Between Solidarity and Silence: What remains? Palestinian voices in the GDR and now", "start": "2026-10-31T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf", "address": "Auerbacher Ring 41, 12619 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/gdr"], "description": "A conversation titled \"Palästina zwischen Augen: Between Solidarity and Silence: What remains? Palestinian voices in the GDR and now\". Mahmoud Dabdoub and Sophie Ataya talk with each other, moderated by Irit Neidhardt. The subject is Palestinian voices in the GDR and today, between solidarity and silence. The talk takes place as part of the nGbK program \"Palästina zwischen Augen\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/palastina-zwischen-augen-between-solidarity-and-silence-what-12798/", "official_url": "https://ngbk.de/en/programm/termine/palaestina-zwischen-augen-between-solidarity-and-silence-what-remains-palestinian-voices-in-the-gdr-and-now", "image": ""}, {"title": "Palästina zwischen Augen: Zwischen Solidarität und Schweigen: Was bleibt? Palästinensische Stimmen in der DDR und heute", "start": "2026-10-31T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK)", "address": "Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11-13, 10178 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/gdr"], "description": "A conversation event within the project „Palästina zwischen Augen“ at the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) in Berlin-Mitte. Mahmoud Dabdoub and Sophie Ataya talk with each other, moderated by Irit Neidhardt; the topic is Palestinian voices in the GDR and today, between solidarity and silence. The conversation is held in English and admission is free. An awareness team will be present at all events, and the nGbK has a complaints procedure.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/palastina-zwischen-augen-zwischen-solidaritat-und-schweigen-10275/", "official_url": "https://ngbk.de/de/programm/termine/palaestina-zwischen-augen-between-solidarity-and-silence-what-remains-palestinian-voices-in-the-gdr-and-now", "image": ""}, {"title": "Verglühende Landschaften - Von Ost nach Jetzt", "start": "2026-11-03T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Prinzenallee", "address": "Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["history/gdr", "stage"], "description": "\"Verglühende Landschaften - Von Ost nach Jetzt\" is a memory performance about Anja, born and raised in the GDR, who lost her familiar world when reunification came in 1989, when she was fifteen. She became a punk, fell in love with her first girlfriend and experienced the so-called baseball bat years of the 1990s first hand. The production by bandentheater, conceived and directed by Anika Lachnitt with performer Anja Gessenhardt, tells of new beginnings and loss, of flag ceremonies and neo-Nazi violence. It is spoken theatre with acrobatics on the Chinese pole, live music and video installation about identity, forgetting and the question of who you are when where you come from suddenly becomes history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vergluhende-landschaften-von-ost-nach-jetzt-3734/", "official_url": "https://www.ballhausprinzenallee.de/spielplan-ballhaus/vergluhende-landschaften---von-ost-nach-jetzt", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bb62bec789328d6dba1b4fe279085ad3a94eca32a2a589efa32ff0cc88d48783-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Festival des kritischen Geistes", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kino International", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 33, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/folk/singer-songwriter", "film/documentary", "history/gdr"], "description": "An evening festival with music, readings, conversations and film marking the 50th anniversary of Wolf Biermann's expatriation from the GDR. It is organised by the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, and Salwa Houmsi guides through the programme. After a concert in Cologne in 1976, the GDR stripped Biermann of his citizenship and refused to let him return, yet his voice only grew louder and moved divided Germany alike. Highlights include excerpts from the legendary Cologne concert of 1976, a keynote by Dr. Angela Merkel, a conversation between Wolf Biermann and Balbina, and the cinema documentary \"BIERMANN\" by Jens Meurer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/festival-des-kritischen-geistes-9218/", "official_url": "https://www.yorck.de/specials/festival-des-kritischen-geistes", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6147a1401a67d19f036447ef09712a08f315482b9a994589debb79b118c251f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Former East / Former West", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/naza/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/reunification"], "description": "A documentary based on hundreds of street interviews conducted in Berlin two years after reunification, showing what it meant to be German at that particular point in history. The New York artist Shelly Silver questions the notion of a shared language by focusing on shifting definitions of political and economic terms such as democracy, freedom, capitalism and socialism, and of words describing nations and identities such as nationality, Germany, history, foreigner and home. She explores the tension between the public and the private, the narrative and the documentary, and the relationship between subject and object of contemplation. Her works have been exhibited worldwide, including at MoMA in New York, the Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/former-east-former-west-9413/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/former-east-former-west/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4028d731bd9108dfb1c3260ecf594c4de98ab8cd86c08b949f38e6fe66a16f0e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Passierschein für die Kunst: 40 Jahre deutsch-deutsches Kulturabkommen", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-09T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Kohl-Stiftung", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "art"], "description": "A panel discussion marking 40 years of the German-German cultural agreement concluded in 1986. It is hosted by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation together with the Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl Foundation. Contemporary witnesses and actors of the time discuss what the agreement achieved, how art and audiences in East and West met, and what characterised GDR culture. The panel features Ingeborg Ruthe, Petra Winter, Thomas Flierl, Felix Brusberg and Ulrich Leidholdt, moderated by Christhard Läpple.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/passierschein-fur-die-kunst-40-jahre-deutsch-deutsches-kultu-75825/", "official_url": "https://pretix.eu/preussischer-kulturbesitz/kulturabkommen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68a35965f4e252dc078578fde29c5ceace7bdcab7e04ee5d06a4a3bcda96f470-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Ostberlin Poetry Slam Herbst", "start": "2026-11-05T20:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kino Union", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "12.90", "price_to": "14.90", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word"], "description": "Ostberlin Poetry Slam is an evening of poetry, comedy and storytelling in the old hall of the cinema. It is presented by the Kiezpoeten Berlin. Poets, comedians and narrators from near and far take the stage. The slam sweetens the winter days, warming the heart with warm words and cozy rhymes to carry you through autumn.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ostberlin-poetry-slam-herbst-32580/", "official_url": "https://www.kino-union.de/event/127848", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2a19c87faafbe4197111203fce89f9fc04ab4c8588b9b020e272bf38f4e6240d-600.webp"}]}