{"title": "Else Ury (1871 – 1943) und Berlin", "start": "2026-11-14T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Dorotheenstädtische Buchhandlung", "address": "Turmstraße 5, 10559 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin", "literature/biography"], "description": "A talk about the writer Else Ury, the “Nesthäkchen author” who set most of her works in Berlin. In it, Hannelore Kempin traces the little-known novel “Wie einst im Mai” from 1930. She conveys urban history, biographical information and Jewish family history, and describes a changing image of women. In this way Ury’s children’s and young adult books also become a portrait of middle-class life in Berlin during the imperial era and the Weimar Republic.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/else-ury-1871-1943-und-berlin-22286/", "official_url": "https://www.dorotheenstaedtische.de/event/else-ury-1871-1943-und-berlin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d2cdf997196927516d95cca6dc1212a3515d6659e7aa5698c455b74b58952732-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Dorotheenstädtische Buchhandlung", "address": "Turmstraße 5, 10559 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Spazieren in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Dorotheenstädtische Buchhandlung", "address": "Turmstraße 5, 10559 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.dorotheenstaedtische.de/event/spazieren-in-berlin", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "The bookshop hosts a reading from Franz Hessel's book „Spazieren in Berlin“, a textbook on the art of strolling through Berlin first published in 1929. The actor Hans-Jürgen Schatz reads from it, and the evening is moderated by the publisher André Förster. Hessel (1880–1941) was a writer, editor and translator who lived in Berlin in the 1920s and emigrated to Paris in 1938. Walter Benjamin called the book a memorising while strolling, for which remembering was not the source but the muse.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/spazieren-in-berlin-22283/", "official_url": "https://www.dorotheenstaedtische.de/event/spazieren-in-berlin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/faf9fe110b11b1f17ff173b8dee0dd9c07708277df0d93e23d4cc0f60c697d68-600.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", "tickets_url": "", "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": "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": "https://pretix.eu/bibxhain/bindel/", "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"}, {"title": "Effi Briest. Roman, Realität und Bezüge zu Steglitz-Zehlendorf. Lesung und Vortrag von Claudia von Gélieu/Frauentouren", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gottfried-Benn-Bibliothek", "address": "Nentershäuser Platz 1, 14163 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/women", "literature"], "description": "A reading and talk on Fontane's novel \"Effi Briest\" and its real-life model Elisabeth von Ardenne. Women's history expert Claudia von Gélieu/Frauentouren shows how the fictional heroine dies young over her adultery, while her model began a new life in Zehlendorf in 1889, learned to ski at sixty and to cycle at eighty. She asks which of the two women's lives better matched the social situation of women at the time. Advance registration is requested by phone (030) 90 299 5458 or email.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/effi-briest-roman-realitat-und-bezuge-zu-steglitz-zehlendorf-57707/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Musikalische Lesung R. Tennenbaum -„Bin nur ein armer Großstadtspatz“", "start": "2026-11-11T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt-Haus", "address": "Warnitzer Straße 13A, 13057 Berlin", "price": "6 €", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/weimar-republic", "literature/poetry", "stage/cabaret"], "description": "A musical reading held in memory of the German-Jewish poet Mascha Kaléko, fifty years after her death. Rosa Tennenbaum tells the life story of the poet, who was born in Austria-Hungary, and whose poem „Kein Neutöner“ described everyday life in Berlin of the late 1920s and early 1930s with humour and modesty. With wit, charm and a touch of melancholy, the audience is taken into the lyrical Berlin of the 1920s.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/musikalische-lesung-r-tennenbaum-bin-nur-ein-armer-grostadts-31507/", "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": "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": ["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": "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": "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": ""}, {"title": "»Berlin Babel. Stories of the city by Berliners old and new«", "start": "2026-11-06T20:30:00+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/4251-tickets-across-the-page-sheila-armstrong-gesa-stedman-berlin-babel-dj-natalie-stardust-literaturhaus-berlin-berlin-am-06-11-2026", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A book presentation of the new anthology »Berlin Babel«, which brings together 14 stories by writers from 11 countries. Among them are Leon Craig from the UK and Katy Derbyshire, who edited the anthology for V&Q. The evening asks how writers tackle that seemingly eternal subject, Berlin, what makes a good Berlin story, and whose perspective counts. It also includes a reading and talk with Sheila Armstrong and Gesa Stedman as well as music from DJ Natalie Stardust.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/berlin-babel-stories-of-the-city-by-berliners-old-and-new-206/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/berlin-babel-stories-of-the-city-by-berliners-old-and-new/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Musikalische Lesung", "start": "2026-11-04T14:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilzentrum PestalozziTreff", "address": "Pestalozzistraße 1A, 12623 Berlin", "price": "6 € (Eintritt inklusive Kaffeegedeck)", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature", "music"], "description": "A musical reading at the Stadtteilzentrum PestalozziTreff community centre. Gudrun Bernhagen presents excerpts from her novel \"Und ... und ... und ... kann ich gut\", which tells of a girl's childhood years from 1945 to 1952. She is accompanied musically by Adrian Wagner and Rudolf Bernhagen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/musikalische-lesung-80115/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Lesung und Gespräch mit der Autorin Lena Müller", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Pro Kiez Bötzowkiez e.V.", "address": "Esmarchstraße 18, 10407 Berlin", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "Lena Müller reads from her novel »Club der Verschwenderinnen« and then talks about it. In it, on a hot summer in the big city, single mother and translator Eli meets Gunda, who has been standing alone behind the bar of a pub for 20 years. Out of an initial makeshift arrangement a friendship gradually grows that becomes a great story. The event by AG Kultur bei Pro Kiez e.V. and the Kurt-Tucholsky-Bibliothek takes place in the reading room on the ground floor left; registration by e-mail is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-und-gesprach-mit-der-autorin-lena-muller-24490/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=295241&ls=30&c=409", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b20fea682d96371a2ea0645f8655578325f34a4c87d61fd442cd89760aeeecda-600.webp"}, {"title": "Sagen und Geschichten aus Berlin", "start": "2026-11-06T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Dorotheenstädtische Buchhandlung", "address": "Turmstraße 5, 10559 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": [], "description": "A reading with slide projection and music about legends and stories from Berlin, featuring devils, poor fishermen, goblins, giants and the “Weiße Frau”. Thomas Siener is behind the event and also performs on the harp. It is about the fantastic and the spooky, sometimes with a “kernel of truth”, at locations such as the Pfaueninsel, the Berliner Schloss and Köpenick. Registration is by telephone with the bookshop.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sagen-und-geschichten-aus-berlin-22284/", "official_url": "https://www.dorotheenstaedtische.de/event/sagen-und-geschichten-aus-berlin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b612cba6f3a1603d50c7ccee1f188f14908f88be4f735dfae9a26813429cc395-600.webp"}]}