{"title": "Don Mee Choi: KAUMKRIEG / Freely Frayed", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grüner Salon", "address": "Rückerstraße 9, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/cold-war", "literature"], "description": "A literary evening of conversation and reading marking the book premiere of Don Mee Choi's 'KAUMKRIEG' and 'Freely Frayed'. Choi, author of the KOR-US trilogy, explores memory, origin and history in the shadow of the Korean War, drawing on the materials of her father, who worked as a press photographer. In conversation with Uljana Wolf and Lotta Thießen, the event addresses translation, personal memory and geopolitical memory. It takes place in English and is a cooperation with Spector Books.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/don-mee-choi-kaumkrieg-freely-frayed-268/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/don-mee-choi-kaumkrieg-freely-frayed/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cd598531f624811d71042c6ce1c91f1d42932b2b7109b7a413ff526e02655cd0-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grüner Salon", "address": "Rückerstraße 9, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Finissage – »매난국죽 Mae Nan Guk Juk: Diasporic Memories Formed in Clay« von Frank Jimin Hopp", "start": "2026-11-01T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Galerie Wedding", "address": "Müllerstraße 146/147, 13353 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/media-art/film", "history/migration"], "description": "The finissage of the exhibition »매난국죽 Mae Nan Guk Juk: Diasporic Memories Formed in Clay« focuses on memories of Korean migration to the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s and 1970s. It features a film screening with artist Jinran Ha, whose video work »Symbiogenesis of Different Beings – Becoming Life Together« was produced in collaboration with the Korean Women's Group in Germany e. V. (KFD) and weaves personal narratives of migration and labor struggles with a hand-care ritual. Sun-Ju Choi also gives a film lecture marking the 20th anniversary of the publication »Zuhause – Erzählungen von deutschen Koreanerinnen«, edited by Heike Berner and Sun-Ju Choi. Together with co-authors Cha-Jo An (with Mira Choi) and Soon Im Kim-Morris, selected readings and archival film footage commemorate the stories of the women, followed by a shared discussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/finissage-mae-nan-guk-juk-diasporic-memories-formed-in-clay-40447/", "official_url": "https://galeriewedding.de/finissage-%eb%a7%a4%eb%82%9c%ea%b5%ad%ec%a3%bd-mae-nan-guk-juk-diasporic-memories-formed-in-clay-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0827e1b25fc4e64b14c83bd3d619ad52928b1a7aaf28875b776a29e3eba1fc33-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Teiltransparente Behälter", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus für Poesie", "address": "Knaackstr. 97 (Kulturbrauerei), 10435 Berlin", "price": "8/5 €", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "https://vvk.link/7283sy", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "A reading and conversation at the Haus für Poesie. Poets from Korea and Germany meet in tridems to translate each other and un-poet the boundaries between their languages. Certainty thereby becomes a „deceptive taste“, images become „partly transparent vessels“. On this evening the poet-translators report from their workshop and present passages from the work in progress in bilingual readings; the project is led by Uljana Wolf and Sool Park.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/teiltransparente-behalter-22703/", "official_url": "https://www.hausfuerpoesie.org/de/programm/teiltransparente-behaelter-seoul-berlin", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b943387b32a83e712b3307bc24d117f3b244d92d513e346b1c762a411c1bf24b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "IM KRIEG / AUFBAHRUNG / Ellen Kobe im Gespräch mit dem Regisseur und Autor Andres Veiel", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schloss Biesdorf", "address": "Alt-Biesdorf 55, 12683 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/memory-culture", "art"], "description": "A talk held in connection with the exhibition “Ellen Kobe: True Stories / Narratives of Absence” at Schloss Biesdorf. The artist Ellen Kobe is in conversation with the director and author Andres Veiel. The focus is her project “IM KRIEG / AUFBAHRUNG”. The event is part of the exhibition's programme, which explores historical events and memory between documentation and fiction.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/im-krieg-aufbahrung-ellen-kobe-im-gesprach-mit-dem-regisseur-23945/", "official_url": "https://schlossbiesdorf.de/en/veranstaltungen/details/vernissage", "image": "https://noky.io/images/961e4bcdf9c6f23e0f964e107fadfe5a0aaf2910944e613bf8901c28bb2e99dd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Die Grenzen der Sprache", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T17:30:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "\"Die Grenzen der Sprache\" (The Limits of Language) is a reading followed by a conversation about what words can express and what becomes audible through silence. Reading are Ghayath Almadhoun, Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo and Yang Lian, moderated by Maha El Hissy. The three writers come from different languages and poetic traditions, and their poems deal with uprooting, violence, memory, survival and belonging. The event is part of the Plural Citizenships programme.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-grenzen-der-sprache-8340/", "official_url": "https://www.hkw.de/programme/plural-citizenships/limits-of-language", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0449ecba6df4d876c9e95dbc512fb09bf9fe23affa538f548bd4a2364b1cdcbd-600.webp"}, {"title": "Meral Kureyshi: Im Meer waren wir nie", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grüner Salon", "address": "Rückerstraße 9, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.thf-berlin.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung/frau-leben-freiheit-widerstand-der-frauen-im-iran#/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A reading and conversation with Swiss writer Meral Kureyshi, moderated by Teresa Bücker, at Grüner Salon. She talks about her book Im Meer waren wir nie, which centres on female friendship that becomes family, alongside questions of responsibility and belonging. It is about confinement and departure, dreams and fairy tales, and decisions that shape more than one life. The event is held in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/meral-kureyshi-im-meer-waren-wir-nie-288/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/meral-kureyshi-im-meer-waren-wir-nie/20261111-1800/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2c461c0acd2a2c13814871e80d3c6d7203614c770b53235ed424b6006db7a514-600.webp"}, {"title": "Stechschritt des Friedens. Texte zur Kriegsertüchtigung", "start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/war", "literature"], "description": "A reading and discussion titled „Stechschritt des Friedens. Texte zur Kriegsertüchtigung“ at Literaturhaus Berlin, in Kamins Zimmer. Luis Löwenstein and Sean Pfeiffer take a literary stroll through more than a hundred years of German war propaganda. It shows how democratic civic duty resembles loyalty to the Kaiser, and how culture casts off its artistic mantle to throw itself into the battle for minds in times of conflict. Critical voices from the past are also drawn upon, to hold up to today's criticism its lack of sharpness, political foresight and artistic skill.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/stechschritt-des-friedens-texte-zur-kriegsertuchtigung-203/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/stechschritt-des-friedens-texte-zur-kriegsertuechtigung/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Landschaften des Wortes", "start": "2026-11-08T14:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek (AGB)", "address": "Eva-Mamlok-Platz 1, 10961 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "A literary-musical journey between Germany and Ukraine full of rhythm, border-crossings and profound poetry. The German lyricist Ulrike Almut Sandig and the Ukrainian poet and musician Grigory Semenchuk are linked by a long-standing, intensive collaboration. At the centre are Sandig's novel Im Orkan, published in 2026, and Semenchuk's poems translated into German. In their texts and songs, inner and outer landscapes merge into powerful poetic images telling of loss, resistance and hope.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/landschaften-des-wortes-2576/", "official_url": "https://www.zlb.de/veranstaltungsuebersicht/landschaften-des-wortes/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/668f778851bd53c4bb2c4481c5bbcba4eb62bb12a65cb92d0c151f918542819b-600.webp"}, {"title": "Lesekreis: Warum Krieg?", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-24T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Bildungswerk Berlin der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung", "address": "Olivaer Platz 16, 10707 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "A reading circle where a group reads texts circulated in advance and discusses them together. The Bildungswerk Berlin der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung invites participants to explore the causes, interests, justifications and consequences of wars – from questions of who profits, through social defence, to whether war could fundamentally be made obsolete. Four weekly sessions take place, and continuous attendance across all dates is requested upon registration. The seminar is led by Micky Haque, a political scientist from the Bildungswerk's working group on international politics and political theory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesekreis-warum-krieg-13291/", "official_url": "https://calendar.boell.de/de/event/lesekreis-warum-krieg", "image": "https://noky.io/images/14deff9628f5a1d06fd726c6b0b20cba3680fc9e0036421baffa2ddb2e3dcc43-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Performance-Lesung: „Working Class Daughters. Über Klasse sprechen“", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "StbMitte", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/reading", "society/class"], "description": "A performative reading based on the book „Working Class Daughters. Über Klasse sprechen“. Karolina Dreit and Kristina Dreit have worked together under this title since 2018, examining class relations at the intersection of care, structure and experience. Their 2024 book draws on interviews arranged as „conversations at the kitchen table“, many of the interviewees work or worked in the arts and culture sector. In the reading, the two create a space where different voices speak for themselves and at once invite self-questioning.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/performance-lesung-working-class-daughters-uber-klasse-sprec-3029/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ebb522237a34ac0f747c80b44d5195c2a2839db057de52eb67e34b590c440a01-600.webp"}, {"title": "Buchpremiere Olivia Laing „Buch der Träume“", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Georg-Kolbe-Museum", "address": "Sensburger Allee 25, 14055 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/books"], "description": "A book launch for Olivia Laing's novel „Buch der Träume“ with a conversation. The author talks to Kathleen Reinhardt, director of the Georg Kolbe Museum, about Venice as a place of longing and her novel about two men who meet in Venice and plunge into the dream world of Cinecittà, until their excessive lives grow threatening amid Italy's 'Years of Lead'. The German passages will be read by the actress Veronika Bachfischer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buchpremiere-olivia-laing-buch-der-traume-11976/", "official_url": "https://georg-kolbe-museum.de/programm/veranstaltungen/buchpremiere-olivia-laing-buch-der-traeume/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/963dfc3ce2312221f7c1557dd52600717f2b139338417b53806f2bc00df01532-2000.webp"}, {"title": "In den Ritzen der Geschichte", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus für Poesie", "address": "Knaackstr. 97 (Kulturbrauerei), 10435 Berlin", "price": "8/5 €", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "https://vvk.link/725yn6", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "“In den Ritzen der Geschichte” is an evening of readings and conversation with the Chinese poet Xi Chuan, regarded as one of China's great contemporary poets. He reads from his poems and talks with Lea Schneider, who translates his texts into German together with Dong Li and moderates the evening. It centers on his poetic path: from the mythopoetic early work of the 1980s, through the rupture after June 4, 1989, to the prose poems of the 1990s, marked by contradictions, absurd humor and deep skepticism toward clear-cut truths. The reading is in Chinese with German and English translations, the conversation in English, in cooperation with Beletrina Academic Press, organizer of the Festival of Poetry 2026 in Slovenia.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/in-den-ritzen-der-geschichte-22702/", "official_url": "https://www.hausfuerpoesie.org/de/programm/in-den-ritzen-der-geschichte-ein-abend-mit-xi-chuan", "image": "https://noky.io/images/396fd64e9deb7c7762e68368d9dae0b75b75b08cc763bbe8c9acb9b180d6d2ed-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Friend in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grüner Salon", "address": "Rückerstraße 9, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://indiv.themisweb.fr/0426/fChoixSeanceWidget.aspx?idstructure=0426&EventId=1341&request=QcE+w0WHSuAzuy2B4/OGXXM5SHkQriVyPpSnIlSPgwi/SvTcAfT+aEjjNRciovQIRNkHdQdPpEPbes4EX/49Cg==", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/media-art/film", "history/colonialism"], "description": "“A Friend in Berlin” is an evening event with a screening and a conversation in English at Grüner Salon. The series focuses on the fellows of the DAAD's Berliner Künstlerprogramm and their connections to the city, and this edition brings together the artists Wang Tuo and Sim Chi Yin, who has lived in Berlin since 2024. The evening begins with a screening of Wang Tuo's most recent work “Ratchet Drill” (2026), followed by a conversation based on a selection of both artists' works, exploring the connections between their practices and how they engage with challenging histories and historical experiences and find ways to speak about them with people outside of those experiences. Wang Tuo weaves historical facts, cultural archives, fiction and mythology into speculative narratives, while Sim Chi Yin uses artistic and archival interventions to question and complicate historiographies and colonial narratives and to explore transgenerational memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/a-friend-in-berlin-277/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/a-friend-in-berlin/20261105-1800/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6c68a80a8a08c14808c9c9a55e4a4feac6f4f3ed54d4d6daa58cdfe35d9349ae-600.webp"}, {"title": "»매난국죽 Mae Nan Guk Juk: Diasporic Memories Formed in Clay«", "start": "2026-08-21T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie Wedding", "address": "Müllerstraße 146/147, 13353 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/migration/diaspora", "art/ceramics", "history/migration"], "description": "This exhibition at Galerie Wedding brings together video works and a multitude of ceramic objects. It is a project by the Korean-German artist Frank Jimin Hopp, curated by Eylem Sengezer with curatorial assistance from Philipp Hennch and Kaya Peters. The show explores the memories of the first generation of South Korean miners and nurses who came to Germany in the 1960s and 1970s, presenting diasporic memory as a living archive built through interviews, encounters and a collaborative artistic process.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/mae-nan-guk-juk-diasporic-memories-formed-in-clay-9039/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/31ffe65bc9bd40d0b3749a280f65fce35fb8e4d5286ddaa79df54398b52cb4f1-2000.webp"}]}