{"title": "Eine Berliner Familiengeschichte von über 100 Jahren – Lesung und Gespräch mit der Zeitzeugin Irene Bindel", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+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", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/biography/autobiography", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A reading followed by a conversation at the Bezirkszentralbibliothek Pablo Neruda. Irene Bindel, a contemporary witness born in Berlin in 1938, reads from her book „Wassermilch und Spitzenwein“ and tells of her family history spanning more than a century. As the daughter of a Christian mother and a Jewish father, she recounts her family's fate during the Nazi era and the difficult post-war years – her father was imprisoned by the Nazi regime and never returned, while her young mother had to struggle through a time of hardships alone with her daughter. Drawing on her mother's diaries, she offers very personal insights into this moving era, invites the audience to ask questions in the ensuing conversation, and the event is a cooperation between the Gilberto-Bosques-Volkshochschule Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, the Stadtbibliothek Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and the Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit in Berlin e.V.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/eine-berliner-familiengeschichte-von-uber-100-jahren-lesung-31736/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-friedrichshain-kreuzberg/bibliotheken/bezirkszentralbibliothek-pablo-neruda/veranstaltungen-projekte/eine-berliner-familiengeschichte-von-ueber-100-jahren-lesung-und-gespraech-mit-der-zeitzeugin-irene-bindel-1712806.php", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6db1ad9d16ca379cc65669840255ecd48f4ed05c8af944d03201eff22a31ce15-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bezirkszentralbibliothek Pablo Neruda", "address": "Frankfurter Allee 14a, 10247 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "\"Wassermilch und Spitzenwein\" - Eine Berliner Familiengeschichte", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Flughafen Tempelhof", "address": "Platz der Luftbrücke 5 12101 Berlin", "price": "Kostenlose Tickets!", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.de/e/elshan-ghasimi-reinterpretation-des-radif-dastgah-e-chahargah-tickets-1997393231925", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/memoir"], "description": "A reading with Irene Bindel from her autobiographical book “Wassermilch und Spitzenwein”. The author, born in Berlin in 1938 as the daughter of a Jewish father, tells of her childhood in the National Socialist era, of persecution and her father having to go into hiding, and of the new beginning after 1945, shaped by encounters with the American occupiers. Afterwards she speaks about her personal experiences and answers questions from the audience, with the evening guided by the historian Irmgard Zündorf. The event takes place as part of Berlin Freedom Week.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wassermilch-und-spitzenwein-eine-berliner-familiengeschichte-12669/", "official_url": "https://www.thf-berlin.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung/berlin-freedom-week-wassermilch-und-spitzenwein", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1bd42dba9ff116a9bb9215b6baddb856dfb97bdac374c2e5ad20bf6614941769-1200.webp"}, {"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": "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": "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": "Neukladower Allee 9", "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": "„War mein Opa ein Nazi?“ Wie Nachfahren ihre NS-Familiengeschichte erforschen", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Feurigstraße 68 10827 Berlin", "address": "Feurigstraße 68 10827 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A jour fixe with a book presentation where descendants report on how they researched their own family's Nazi past. Berlin historian Dr. Johannes Spohr, who runs the archival research service »Present Past«, presents his new book together with the historian and publicist Friedrich Burschel: ten stories about ten ways in which descendants researched National Socialism in their own families. The welcome address and moderation are by Ragna Vogel, managing director of KONTAKTE-KOHTAKTbI e.V., followed by a reception for conversation and exchange. Admission is free; donations for the association's humanitarian projects for victims of National Socialism are welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/war-mein-opa-ein-nazi-wie-nachfahren-ihre-ns-familiengeschic-31444/", "official_url": "https://kontakte-kontakty.de/war-mein-opa-ein-nazi-wie-nachfahren-ihre-ns-familiengeschichte-erforschen-jour-fixe-am-30-10-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/86e8847620bdfb705ee187d4b3cb3f6cbe4dbe4a488e0b32795f525784fc98a9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Bär. Ein Zeitzeuge erzählt", "start": "2026-11-09T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Podewil", "address": "Klosterstraße 68 10179 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/service/Kartenkauf", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A documentary theatre piece for children aged 9 and up, in which a teddy bear over 100 years old, nicknamed »Bär«, tells of his long life. It is based on the memoirs of Irene Grumach-Shirun, written down by Jill Levenfeld, and tells of the life of a Jewish child under the Nazi dictatorship. The bear remembers beautiful but also very bad moments, for example when the walls shook from the bombs, or when Irene's grandmother was deported. Long closed-off rooms are brought back to life with shadow play and sound; the morning performance is followed by a discussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/bar-ein-zeitzeuge-erzahlt-20436/", "official_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/stuecke/baer/148", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a93638932d4b24517e3356bd4b77c4cafb608896a5eb2570574d797eaeeaf917-600.webp"}, {"title": "ZEIT-Recherchen: War Opa ein Nazi?", "start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "16/9 EURO", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "\"ZEIT-Recherchen: War Opa ein Nazi?\" is a talk as part of a discourse event on the anniversary of the November pogroms of 1938. Caterina Lobenstein speaks with Götz Aly and Christian Staas, in cooperation with DIE ZEIT. Millions of Germans were in the Wehrmacht and the NSDAP, yet many of their descendants knew nothing about it; recently anyone can search the membership files for relatives with just a few clicks. The discussion asks what looking into one's own family reveals about German culture of remembrance, when coming to terms with the past becomes honest confrontation or merely a soothing ritual, and how remembrance changes as more Germans have no personal connection to the Nazi era.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zeit-recherchen-war-opa-ein-nazi-3781/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/zeit-recherchen-war-opa-ein-nazi", "image": "https://noky.io/images/75b21b28fad8ef289a588522ebde26e73b59e215f54fa8e020ae894cc2067f44-600.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung & Gespräch mit Friedrich Burschel zu PRESENT PAST. Wie Nachfahren ihre NS-Familiengeschichte erforschen (empfohlen ab 16 Jahre)", "start": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Die gute Seite", "address": "Richardplatz 16, 12055 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://dieguteseiteberlin.buchhandlung.de/shop/article/57157258/present_past.html", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A reading and conversation with author Friedrich Burschel, who talks about his own family research into the National Socialist era. At the centre is the volume „Present Past“, in which ten descendants describe how they investigated their family's Nazi past and how they deal with what they found. Burschel, who works on anti-fascism at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, contextualises the stories and then invites an audience discussion on memory politics. The event is part of the autumn series 2026 of the Neukölln bookshops against right-wing populism and racism.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-gesprach-mit-friedrich-burschel-zu-present-past-wie-n-48498/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a49c27e608476b4c56a6c9195696c4be5a36311623fceb5d740b3742f4278648-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Judith Hermann – Ich möchte zurückgehen in der Zeit", "start": "2026-11-09T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Buchhandlung Braun & Hassenpflug", "address": "Fischerhüttenstraße 79, 14163 Berlin", "price": "15,- € Eintritt", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "A literary evening with Judith Hermann about her new book »Ich möchte zurückgehen in der Zeit« (S. Fischer Verlage, 2026). In it, she follows the traces of her grandfather, who was stationed in Radom, Poland, for the SS during the Second World War. She links her writing to his long-denied history, travels from Poland to her sister in Naples, and explores the remembering and forgetting of later generations. Admission is 15 euros.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/judith-hermann-ich-mochte-zuruckgehen-in-der-zeit-13450/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/19d1dd811743c90346f47bc12eeee13a4f0c7cd87e1c68cae3836a3aab32f6ee-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Anna Schapiro liest aus ihrem Debütroman", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Anne Frank Zentrum", "address": "Rosenthaler Straße 39, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel", "society/antisemitism"], "description": "As part of the Education and Action Weeks against Antisemitism, the Anne Frank Zentrum invites to a reading with the artist and author Anna Schapiro. She reads from her debut novel »Fühlen Sie sich wie zu Hause, aber vergessen Sie dabei nicht, dass Sie zu Gast sind«, which tells the life story of her grandmother. Its protagonist Anna searches for her family's untold stories, with farewells, emigration and different kinds of arrival at their heart. A moderated talk with the author follows the reading; admission is free and registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/anna-schapiro-liest-aus-ihrem-debutroman-11134/", "official_url": "https://www.annefrank.de/termine/termin/lesung-anna-schapiro-021126", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b853a85901c877889cb5b73e17f83b011416e4ddd03a708d43b040447e7adf2e-2000.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": "Nie wieder!", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grips Theater im Podewil", "address": "Klosterstraße 68 10179 Berlin", "price": "10 €, ermäßigt 5 €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/service/Kartenkauf", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "\"Nie wieder!\" is a musical reading in remembrance of the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. Three performers (Eva Blum, Michaela Hanser, Falk Berghofer) read from Inge Deutschkron's \"Ich trug den gelben Stern\", accompanied by Volker Ludwig's \"Zeitlosen Lieder\" from \"Ab heute heißt Du Sara\", newly arranged for choir. The vocal.ensemble.tempelhof as well as Matthias Witting with arrangements and piano take part. The evening is meant to be stirring and encouraging at once, dealing with humanity, solidarity and civil courage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nie-wieder-4635/", "official_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/spielplan/nie-wieder/3387", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3fd757bef5c56dfb4c19553e9e54875a2635e25dfc835b43fcbe730f9f6eb07a-600.webp"}, {"title": "BÄR. Ein Zeitzeuge erzählt", "start": "2026-11-09T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "GRIPS Theater", "address": "Altonaer Straße 22, 10557 Berlin", "price": "15 €, ermäßigt 10 €", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/service/Kartenkauf", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "history/holocaust"], "description": "A documentary theatre piece for children aged 9 and up, telling the story of a more than 100-year-old teddy bear nicknamed »Bär«. It is based on the memoirs of Irene Grumach-Shirun, written down by Jill Levenfeld, and depicts the life of a Jewish child under the Nazi dictatorship from the teddy bear's point of view. Using shadow play and sound, long-locked rooms come alive where Bär encounters beautiful and terrible moments, such as when the walls shook from bombs or when Irene's grandmother was deported. The piece was conceived by Josephine Hock, who also performs it, together with Luise Ehrenwerth, with Hannes Kapsch directing; the morning performance is followed by a discussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/bar-ein-zeitzeuge-erzahlt-75927/", "official_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/spielplan/bar-ein-zeitzeuge-erzahlt/3251", "image": "https://noky.io/images/907289e50faa60afd42c0607f327dce1ba1d228d83f611c0cbb0a044daca98d2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Queer und jüdisch im \"Dritten Reich\" und darüber hinaus", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mitte Museum", "address": "Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "religion/jewish", "society/queer"], "description": "Mitte Museum hosts an evening of talks about people who were both queer and Jewish. Four speakers shed light on Jewish-queer life stories between 1933 and 1945 and beyond, from Gertrude Sandmann to gay and lesbian Jews in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Paige Harouse, Hani Esther Indictor Portner, Jake Schneider and Rafael Nasemann present their topics, including the remembrance project \"Queere Held*innen\". A shared exchange follows; the event takes place in spoken German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/queer-und-judisch-im-dritten-reich-und-daruber-hinaus-12330/", "official_url": "https://www.mittemuseum.de/de/veranstaltung/2026/queer-und-juedisch-im-dritten-reich-und-darueber-hinaus", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e87ba75a48aad48550b6a7857f4cba5182c7ffc54c5048e82c91b74627345947-1200.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": "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": "Tobias Lehmkuhl »Keine von uns: Das Leben der Irmgard Keun«", "start": "2026-11-03T16:00:00+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/4248-tickets-tobias-lehmkuhl-keine-von-uns-das-leben-der-irmgard-keun-literaturhaus-berlin-berlin-am-03-11-2026", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/biography"], "description": "A talk about the life of writer Irmgard Keun, presented through Tobias Lehmkuhl's book »Keine von uns: Das Leben der Irmgard Keun«. Author and literary critic Lehmkuhl recounts Keun's rapid rise with »Gilgi – eine von uns« and »Das kunstseidene Mädchen«, her banishment under the Nazis, her exile in Amsterdam, her stormy relationship with Joseph Roth and her friendships with Heinrich Mann and Stefan Zweig. He talks with Janika Gelinek, co-director of the Literaturhaus Berlin. Afterwards, attendees are invited on a short walk to Keun's birthplace at Meinekestraße 6.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/tobias-lehmkuhl-keine-von-uns-das-leben-der-irmgard-keun-200/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/tobias-lehmkuhl-keine-von-uns-das-leben-der-irmgard-keun/", "image": ""}]}