{"title": "Die Geister Niederschlesiens", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Polnisches Institut Berlin", "address": "Burgstraße 27, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history"], "description": "A conversation about the German traces in Lower Silesia: the philosopher and cultural scholar Leszek Koczanowicz recalls his childhood in Legnica, where people began a new life after war, border shifts and expulsion. In conversation with the writer Karolina Kuszyk, he connects his memories with a look at the history of the region. Questions such as how one grows up in other people's houses and when a foreign place becomes home are at the centre. The focus is hauntology: the question of how an apparently vanished world continues to shape our everyday life and thinking.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-geister-niederschlesiens-134512/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/die-geister-niederschlesiens", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f54d4497c3cca8017763e3bbb0b2a2f32ed88aa760578e2350d8bdd02e5edc6a-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Polnisches Institut Berlin", "address": "Burgstraße 27, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Ghosts of Lower Silesia", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Polish Institute Berlin", "address": "Burgstr. 27, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Free admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-expulsion", "society/migration"], "description": "A conversation about Lower Silesia and the traces of its German past. The philosopher and cultural theorist Leszek Koczanowicz, who grew up in Legnica, talks with the writer Karolina Kuszyk about living in other people's homes and the question of when an unfamiliar place becomes home. It covers the personal memories of the newcomers alongside the region's history, framed by welcomes from the directors of the Polish Institute Berlin and the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation. The discussion explores hauntology, asking how a seemingly bygone world continues to shape everyday life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-ghosts-of-lower-silesia-31357/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/en/veranstaltung/ghosts-lower-silesia", "image": ""}, {"title": "Artist Talk with Annette Hauschild – OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. German-Polish Perspectives", "start": "2026-11-13T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-13T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/german-polish-history"], "description": "An artist talk with a short tour by Annette Hauschild, held in German in the library of the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation. It marks the 35th anniversary of the German-Polish Treaty on Good Neighbourship and the special exhibition “Ostgebiete / Ziemie Zachodnie”, which brings together photographers from both countries in a visual dialogue on memory, identity, and transformation. The works of ten photographers reveal how traces of a process, marked by appropriation and farewell and still visible today, have been inscribed into landscapes, architecture, and family narratives on both sides of the Oder River. Featured artists include Karolina Gembara, Thomas Meyer, Katarzyna Mirczak, Linn Schröder, Ina Schoenenburg, Wojtek Sienkiewicz, and Heinrich Völkel.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/artist-talk-with-annette-hauschild-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodn-11735/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/en/veranstaltung/artist-talk-annette-hauschild-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodnie-german-polish-perspectives", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f62f1186611882fa0005e7f274607ee49e99bf0c123602e837b80abf02f3e4d8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Krakau unter deutscher Besatzung 1939–1945. Geschichte und Erinnerung", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Topographie des Terrors", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "A panel discussion with a lecture on the history of Kraków under German occupation from 1939 to 1945 and how it is remembered today. Isabel Röskau-Rydel gives the introductory lecture; Edyta Gawron, Stephan Lehnstaedt and Isabel Röskau-Rydel take part in the panel, moderated by Uwe Neumärker. The event sheds light on the everyday life of the various population groups under German civil administration, the persecution of the Jewish population, the ghetto in Podgórze and the Płaszów concentration camp, and the annihilation of the Jewish population and the intellectual elite. It also looks at present-day places and forms of remembrance of the Nazi crimes in Poland's second-largest city.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/krakau-unter-deutscher-besatzung-19391945-geschichte-und-eri-12691/", "official_url": "https://www.topographie.de/veranstaltungen/detail/krakau-unter-deutscher-besatzung-1939-1945-geschichte-und-erinnerung", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f8e01a7188752997003a3a48931e9cf80cb11d7ca882459f51e5e9938ce45d45-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Einblicke in die Sonderausstellung „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche“ (EN)", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-17T11:30:00+01:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/german-polish-history"], "description": "This is an English-language guided tour through the special exhibition „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche“ at the Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung in Berlin. It is run by the Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung and opens up central themes, artistic positions and questions of the exhibition. At its core are the stories, memories and historical traces behind the photographic works, along with differing perspectives on remembrance, origin, loss and belonging. It lasts 40 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/einblicke-in-die-sonderausstellung-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodn-15590/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/einblicke-die-sonderausstellung-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodnie-eine-deutsch-polnische-15", "image": "https://noky.io/images/11478a75d7c252eb1ad291b44fda2b13bd88a61ae00e42b8ae24e8aae8c988cb-600.webp"}, {"title": "Ostgebiete / Ziemie Zachodnie. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche", "start": "2026-05-29T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/postwar-expulsion"], "description": "This special photography exhibition, \"Ostgebiete / Ziemie Zachodnie\", brings together ten German and Polish photographers, among them Karolina Gembara, Annette Hauschild and Wojtek Sienkiewicz. It is presented by the Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation Foundation (SFVV) in cooperation with the OSTKREUZ photographers' agency, marking the 35th anniversary of the German-Polish Treaty of Good Neighbourship. The works offer German and Polish views of a shared space of memory in Poland, the former eastern territories of the German Reich, which many Germans associate with flight, expulsion and the loss of home. Memory, identity and transformation are the themes, and Karolina Gembara is the artistic curator.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodnie-eine-deutsch-polnische-spurensuc-2668/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/news/ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodnie-eine-deutsch-polnische-spurensuche", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dafd087f1cb7e1690eb5e4904e2811803f0687222edd190bbb0d2afc43336dc1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Zwischen Herkunft und neuem Zuhause - Welche Spuren hinterlässt eine Ausreise?", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "The evening screens the film “Die noch unbekannten Tage”, in which Jola Wieczorek takes us on a cinematic journey of remembrance back to the 1980s. At its centre is the story of her family and their emigration from Poland to Austria. Afterwards, the “Dazwischen-Zimmer” becomes a site of memory-building: a temporary installation with personal objects, letters and stories invites visitors to set memories in motion and talk with one another. A performative reading picks up the stories and objects, and the filmmaker is a guest as well.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause-welche-spuren-hinterlass-30505/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f328ad84d2f36eacc6bc7bfd5292ee68535938c78a28ea910daadc093ddedb9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Einblicke in die Sonderausstellung „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche“ (DE)", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-17T12:10:00+01:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/german-polish-history"], "description": "A guided tour of the special exhibition „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche“ at the Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung. It introduces the exhibition's central themes, artistic positions and questions, after which visitors are invited to explore the photographic works on their own. The tour focuses on the stories, memories and historical traces behind the images and on the different perspectives they bring together. It lasts 40 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/einblicke-in-die-sonderausstellung-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodn-15582/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/einblicke-die-sonderausstellung-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodnie-eine-deutsch-polnische-7", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70a225679448b51b6643788922b1597b62b9c9b83967928ed11d51ae82d36239-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Artist Talk und Kurzführung mit Annette Hauschild", "start": "2026-11-13T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stiftung Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung (Bibliothek, 1. OG)", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10936 Berlin", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/artist-talk-und-kurzfuhrung-mit-annette-hauschild-2841/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/artist-talks-im-oktober-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodnie-eine-deutsch-polnische", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b1d9256bd35b6d1ab053a11aba11980a263fd813b4ef77329096a721f6a6cc5e-1200.webp"}, {"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": "80. Waisenhausgespräch", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "SchuleEins Waisenhaus, Betsaal, Berliner Straße 120-121, 13187 Berlin", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei / free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/memory-culture", "literature/reading"], "description": "The 80th Waisenhausgespräch asks how a culture of remembrance can succeed as a project across generations. Organized by the Cajewitz Stiftung together with the SchuleEins and the Theater OfW, it features pupils presenting their research into the history of the former orphanage, a staged reading by Anja S. Gläser and Florentine Schara (text and staging by Philipp Urrutia, with English surtitles), and a panel discussion with Lena Ditte Nissen and Rosa Jellinek. In this way the historic building's Betsaal becomes a place of living memory where past and present enter into dialogue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/80-waisenhausgesprach-72986/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Zwischen Herkunft und neuem Zuhause", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Dokumentationszentrum)", "address": "Bernauer Straße 111, 13355 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "The film „Die noch unbekannten Tage“ by filmmaker Jola Wieczorek is a cinematic journey of remembrance into the 1980s. At its center is the story of her family and their emigration from Poland to Austria. The filmmaker asks how a key event in her own family might have turned out differently and what it would be like to look at the details of the past today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause-11960/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause?date=2026-11-10T18%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/69f4f1336e055102790bff38eb82a5e89baad1ca2c3b80be395c5541c6149b06-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Wie die Gen Z über den Osten denkt", "start": "2026-11-20T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "KAoX", "address": "Türrschmidtstraße 1, Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics", "history"], "description": "\"Wie die Gen Z über den Osten denkt\" is a discussion event hosted by the Nature Friends youth group in Berlin. The makers of k_einheit ask whether German unity is truly a closed chapter. For them, unity is not a state but a process, with many nuances of commonalities, injustices and open questions. The evening invites visitors to talk about it together.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wie-die-gen-z-uber-den-osten-denkt-127916/", "official_url": "https://naturfreundejugend-berlin.de/termine/wie-die-gen-z-ueber-den-osten-denkt", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca46f185927aef67ccbf1b38fabcfd83dfb3247494cea529e33d26349d9029f4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "THERE IS NO PAST IN BERLIN: Ioana Cristina Casapu in conversation with Alexander Wells", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lettrétage", "address": "Veteranenstr. 21, 10119 Berlin", "price": "on a donation basis (recommended 5-10€)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin", "literature"], "description": "A literary evening of readings, conversation and mutual interviewing at Lettrétage. Romanian author and curator Ioana Cristina Casapu welcomes Australian writer and critic Alexander Wells for the second edition of her series „THERE IS NO PAST IN BERLIN“, which she initiated together with Lars Jongeblod. Starting from Karl Scheffler's verdict that Berlin is „condemned forever to becoming“, they ask how much of the past we carry into a new life, tracing writers who came to Berlin to begin again – from Isherwood's Schöneberg and Joseph Roth's streets to today's perpetually unfinished capital. Casapu draws on her essay collection „Berliner Tagebuch – Die Geschichte meiner inneren Mauer“ (2025), Wells on essays following Joseph Roth, questioning young Australians in Berlin and examining how the Stasi became part of a reassuring Western narrative.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/there-is-no-past-in-berlin-ioana-cristina-casapu-in-conversa-7372/", "official_url": "https://www.lettretage.de/programm/there-is-no-past-in-berlin-ioana-cristina-casapu-in-conversation-with-alexander-wells", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e09be97596bab3997375df8499f6ed2c59095e2ee59382927e1616fdeeb5a42-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Die aktuelle Lage in Mittelosteuropa", "start": "2026-11-17T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Karl-Liebknecht-Haus", "address": "Kleine Alexanderstr. 28, 10178 Berlin", "price": "2 €", "price_from": "2.00", "price_to": "2.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "A talk with discussion on the political situation in Central-Eastern Europe since the Russian attack on Ukraine, covering developments in countries such as Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, including left-wing organisations in the region. The speaker is Fabian Wisotzky, who studied East European history and has worked since 2019 as a referent for East and Central-Eastern Europe at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. The seniors' club gathering is moderated by Siegfried Wein.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-aktuelle-lage-in-mittelosteuropa-31487/", "official_url": "https://www.helle-panke.de/de/topic/3.termine.html?id=4142", "image": ""}, {"title": "Lesung: Psychiatrieerfahrungen im Elsass – Lebensgeschichten zwischen Strasbourg und Hadamar im NS", "start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hörsaalruine, Charité Campus Mitte", "address": "Virchowweg 16, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/non-fiction"], "description": "GeDenkOrt.Charité invites visitors to a reading from the book \"Psychiatrieerfahrungen im Elsass – Lebensgeschichten zwischen Strasbourg und Hadamar im Nationalsozialismus\", followed by a conversation. The author Lea Münch, a physician and historian at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, traces the life stories of five women and men who were or became psychiatric patients in the annexed border region of Alsace. From Strasbourg, their paths sometimes led to the killing institution Hadamar, which became a symbol of the National Socialist \"euthanasia\" crimes. The work takes the perspective of those affected and explores intergenerational effects reaching into the present.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-psychiatrieerfahrungen-im-elsass-lebensgeschichten-zw-96870/", "official_url": "https://gedenkort.charite.de/metas/veranstaltung/veranstaltung/details/lesung_psychiatrieerfahrungen_im_elsass_lebensgeschichten_zwischen_strasbourg_und_hadamar/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5cd136b645c5e55dc87eab1d47a3655a13de83f16d3aed251dfd89488f41e011-1200.webp"}, {"title": "„Nie wieder ist jetzt?“ – Erinnerung und Gedenken an den Holocaust zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft und Schule", "start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "diekleinegalerie", "address": "Goßlerstraße 21, 12161 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/holocaust/commemoration"], "description": "diekleinegalerie invites to a conversation on a current topic: „Nie wieder ist jetzt?“ – Remembrance and commemoration of the Holocaust between historical scholarship and school. The conversation is between Prof. Wolfgang Benz, a historian, and Jakob Ciré, a teacher of history at a Berlin integrated comprehensive school. It addresses how remembrance can be conveyed when there are no more contemporary witnesses, how it can be kept alive in our post-migrant society, and what the claim of „never again“ means in the present. Due to limited seating, registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nie-wieder-ist-jetzt-erinnerung-und-gedenken-an-den-holocaus-22255/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}