{"title": "Elfriede Brüning, »… damit du weiterlebst« (1949)", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brecht-Haus", "address": "Chausseestraße 125, 10115 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei!", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/german-literature"], "description": "A lecture on the writer Elfriede Brüning (1910–2014) and her post-war novel »… damit du weiterlebst« (1949), given by Mimmi Woisnitza, who researches proletarian-revolutionary aesthetics in the GDR. The novel sets the survival story of Lotte Burkhardt, a single Jewish mother, alongside the story of Hanns and Hilde Coppi, whose executions were stylised in the GDR into a heroic narrative of resistance. In this way Brüning undermines the GDR's state-prescribed antifascism by recording what it left out: women's experiences beyond the heroic tale. Admission is free, and the event is a project of the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus with the Arbeitskreis Politische Ästhetiken.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/elfriede-bruning-damit-du-weiterlebst-1949-75809/", "official_url": "https://lfbrecht.de/event/elfriede-bruening-damit-du-weiterlebst-1949/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/21644a8cc6b401e64ac614bb73de2a9d84bbff091a99ee041a297a591f4da45b-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brecht-Haus", "address": "Chausseestraße 125, 10115 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "BÜHNENTAUSCH \" Die Frauen tragen die Last\" - Lesung & Gespräch mit Rainer Drews", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilbibliothek Frohnau", "address": "Fuchssteinerweg 17, 13465 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-germany", "literature"], "description": "A reading followed by a conversation under the title „BÜHNENTAUSCH „Die Frauen tragen die Last“ - Lesung & Gespräch mit Rainer Drews“. Behind it is Rainer Drews, an author born in Berlin-Hermsdorf, an educationalist who taught at universities in Berlin and Potsdam, reading from his biographical reportage „Leben am Hermsdorfer Waldsee“. It traces the lives of Maria Koerfgen and her daughter Renate, who from 1947 onwards had to manage alone as a widow and half-orphan after son and son-in-law went missing in the war. Claudia Wasow-Kania of the Museum Reinickendorf gives the welcome; participation is only possible with registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buhnentausch-die-frauen-tragen-die-last-lesung-gesprach-mit-82211/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c63e3e1b8e725a01141475468b78dc7276cdbc54e015ac9f96c9a83e69dde7ce-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Leben am Hermsdorfer Waldsee „Die Frauen tragen die Last“", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilbibliothek Frohnau", "address": "Fuchssteinerweg 17, 13465 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar", "literature/biography"], "description": "Author Dr. Rainer Drews reads from his book at this event about life at the Hermsdorfer Waldsee. It combines a book presentation with a conversation, and Claudia Wasow-Kania gives the welcome. A biographical reportage traces the lives of two women: Maria Koerfgen, left entirely on her own as a widow with her daughter Renate from 1947 after both her son and her son-in-law went missing in the war, coped with the daily challenges of the following years only under the greatest strains. Their life paths and the moving fates in their family are recounted, as part of “Bühnentausch” 2025, a cooperation between the Museum Reinickendorf and the Stadtbibliothek Reinickendorf.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/leben-am-hermsdorfer-waldsee-die-frauen-tragen-die-last-12356/", "official_url": "https://museum-reinickendorf.de/termine/leben-am-hermsdorfer-waldsee-die-frauen-tragen-die-last-lesung-dr-rainer-drews/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c24ac5d27db283cb52ea31f8f3ebea3b733841b36696b114b0dc83744be73ec2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lesereihe: „Auf den Spuren vergessener Schriftstellerinnen“", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Brunnenstr. 181, 10119 Berlin", "address": "Brunnenstr. 181, 10119 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction", "society/women"], "description": "A reading from the series „Auf den Spuren vergessener Schriftstellerinnen“ dedicated to the Berlin writer Annemarie Weber. Publisher Britta Jürgs introduces the author, born in 1918 and died in 1991, and Simone Hausdorf reads. Weber's novel portrays with wit the contrasting worlds of the wild sixties in West Berlin, between marriage and pills, left-wing demos and stylish receptions. The event is free and requires no registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesereihe-auf-den-spuren-vergessener-schriftstellerinnen-96850/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f4ef89a2cb1e5b4323ec5040459bde9ecf4e63745cf7fd28a08eec0913b7626d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Aber jetzt bin ich Dir unsere Schuld schuldig: Die Berliner Briefe von Susanne Kerckhoff", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mitte Museum", "address": "Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-germany", "literature"], "description": "A reading and conversation at Mitte Museum about the writer Susanne Kerckhoff. In 1948, in her Berlin letters, she spoke out against the great silence after National Socialism, writing about guilt, atonement and the search for a new beginning in a destroyed society. Lena Bührichen talks with publisher Peter Graf about who this woman was, why she fell into obscurity after her death in 1950, and why she is worth reading again today. The music comes from Jens-Karsten Stoll, with moderation by Jörg Braunsdorf.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/aber-jetzt-bin-ich-dir-unsere-schuld-schuldig-die-berliner-b-72945/", "official_url": "https://www.mittemuseum.de/de/veranstaltung/2026/aber-jetzt-bin-ich-dir-unsere-schuld-schuldig-die-berliner-briefe-von-susanne-kerckhoff", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6019ca1155cf17362ddd11b47b3bdefa5bc887d91d81932d75abe53256c16e80-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Wir sind anders! Wie die DDR Frauen bis heute prägt", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Forum Willy Brandt Berlin", "address": "Behrenstraße 15, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "A reading and conversation about the book „Wir sind anders!\" by Annette Schuhmann. The historian from the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam portrays 13 East German women – artists as well as workers, scientists as well as activists – and shows how memories, ruptures and origins continue to have an effect 35 years after reunification. Elke Sasse and Petra Steffan moderate, and the bookshop „Buchfink\" joins in with a book table. A joint event by the Willy-Brandt-Haus Lübeck with the women's office of the city of Lübeck and the equal opportunities office of the city of Wismar; registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wir-sind-anders-wie-die-ddr-frauen-bis-heute-pragt-29696/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c043b0c81e463db7c6232d9d1fa42cd5d53dfe0fa7bf9cda497949bc2c8d2088-2000.webp"}, {"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", "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": "Lesung und Vortrag: Günter de Bruyn", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Schloss Biesdorf", "address": "Alt-Biesdorf 55, 12683 Berlin", "price": "6,00 € (vor Ort in bar zu entrichten)", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/german-literature"], "description": "The event \"Lesung und Vortrag: Günter de Bruyn\" is a reading with talk and conversation in the BIESDORFER BEGEGNUNG series. It is dedicated to the writer Günter de Bruyn, who wrote in the GDR and in reunified Germany and would have turned 100 on 1 November. The guests are Wolfgang de Bruyn, son of the honoree and trustee of the Günter-de-Bruyn-Stiftung, and the author Carola Wiemers, editor of the book \"Einmal im Leben möchte ich in Küstrin gewesen sein. Günter de Bruyns Märkische Fahrten\"; Axel Matthies, deputy chairman of the association Freunde Schloss Biesdorf e. V., moderates. First, passages from Günter de Bruyn's early work in the GDR are read aloud, then Carola Wiemers reads from her recently published book, and finally Wolfgang de Bruyn shares memories of his father; the book can be purchased on site.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-und-vortrag-gunter-de-bruyn-131895/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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": "Schloss Britz", "address": "Alt-Britz 73, 12359 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "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": "Manja Präkels »Radiorauschen im Sternenpark«", "start": "2026-11-19T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T21:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brecht-Haus", "address": "Chausseestraße 125, 10115 Berlin", "price": "6,- € / ermäßigt: 4,- €", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/reading"], "description": "An evening of readings and conversation with a book premiere at the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus. Author Manja Präkels presents new stories, moderated by Sophie Sumburane. At the center is Mimi Schulz, the protagonist from Präkels’ bestselling novel »Als ich mit Hitler Schnapskirschen aß«, who accompanies her author as an astonished spirit on reading tours. Präkels tells of people who became characters and characters you cannot shake off – of the vanished, the returned, and Ingo, who wants his face back.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/manja-prakels-radiorauschen-im-sternenpark-75810/", "official_url": "https://lfbrecht.de/event/manja-praekels-radiorauschen-im-sternenpark/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/66603c3f8535cd3500663f5a75aba647cf4eb14be167a64f5c4fc3f153527985-600.webp"}, {"title": "Hans Coppi jr.: „Annäherung an meine Eltern Hans und Hilde Coppi“", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkort Berliner Frauengefängnis Barnimstraße", "address": "Weinstraße 2, 10249 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era/resistance"], "description": "A book presentation with readings about Hans and Hilde Coppi, who were arrested in 1942 as members of a resistance network the Gestapo labelled the „Rote Kapelle“ and sentenced to death by the Reichskriegsgericht. Hilde Coppi gave birth to her son Hans at the Berlin women's prison Barnimstraße – the venue, where she was imprisoned – before both parents were executed in 1942/43. The son, Hans Coppi jr., never met his parents and has researched their work since the late 1980s; as he can no longer write biographies for health reasons, Dr. Geertje Andresen has edited a publication from his papers in agreement with him, which she presents on this evening. Historian Claudia von Gélieu speaks about Hilde Coppi on the prison's mother-and-child ward, and actress Ruth Reinecke reads from letters written from the death cells in 1942/43.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/hans-coppi-jr-annaherung-an-meine-eltern-hans-und-hilde-copp-97110/", "official_url": "https://www.rosalux.de/veranstaltung/es_detail/J6HQX/hans-coppi-jr-annaeherung-an-meine-eltern-hans-und-hilde-coppi?cHash=5bc25a5037310e394c1a5d5dbf825c81", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2de3546332336f99ec2afb2d2abcba68f691ef912c949330ef7b2892df2850e2-1200.webp"}]}