{"title": "Festival des kritischen Geistes", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kino International", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 33, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/folk/singer-songwriter", "film/documentary", "history/gdr"], "description": "An evening festival with music, readings, conversations and film marking the 50th anniversary of Wolf Biermann's expatriation from the GDR. It is organised by the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, and Salwa Houmsi guides through the programme. After a concert in Cologne in 1976, the GDR stripped Biermann of his citizenship and refused to let him return, yet his voice only grew louder and moved divided Germany alike. Highlights include excerpts from the legendary Cologne concert of 1976, a keynote by Dr. Angela Merkel, a conversation between Wolf Biermann and Balbina, and the cinema documentary \"BIERMANN\" by Jens Meurer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/festival-des-kritischen-geistes-9218/", "official_url": "https://www.yorck.de/specials/festival-des-kritischen-geistes", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6147a1401a67d19f036447ef09712a08f315482b9a994589debb79b118c251f-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kino International", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 33, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Festival des kritischen Geistes", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Rollberg Kino", "address": "Rollbergstraße 70, 12053 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/poetry"], "description": "A festival evening of music, readings, talks and film about Wolf Biermann, whom the GDR stripped of his citizenship in 1976 after a concert in Cologne. It is staged by the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur on the 50th anniversary of his expatriation, hosted by Salwa Houmsi. The programme features a keynote by Angela Merkel, a conversation with Wolf Biermann and Balbina, a contemporary witness talk with Gabriele Stötzer, Doris Liebermann and Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, and literary-artistic panoramas of Biermann's poems and literature from exile with, among others, Durs Grünbein, Thomas Brussig and Fabian Hinrichs. 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The historian Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, a friend of the songwriter, is publishing excerpts from Biermann's extensive diaries on the 50th anniversary of his expatriation and his 90th birthday, presenting the book together with co-editor Arno Polzin. It tells of Biermann's life in the GDR and his sudden expatriation on 16 November 1976, which triggered an unexpected wave of protest. 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Jens Meurer, a winner of the European Film Award and the Golden Globe, traces Biermann's biography as an immediate, close-up retrospective, combining personal memories with political contemporary history. At its center are Biermann's origins, his turn to music, his work in the GDR, the Cologne concert of 1976 and its consequences, and his artistic work up to the present. The camera follows the 90-year-old at meetings with young artists, politicians and his family, weaving the footage into a collage of historical documents and previously unpublished archive footage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/biermann-8778/", "official_url": "http://tilsiter-lichtspiele.de/kinoprogramm.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fe826c1f3087bbf126f0e2a89841744035e6f33d5bb393ee8d6e6dfc03c28819-2000.webp"}, {"title": "„Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin“ – Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer", "address": "", "price": "kostenfrei", "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/gdr", "literature/diary"], "description": "A book presentation for „„Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin“ – Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns“, presenting excerpts from the diaries of the singer-songwriter. The historian Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, a friend of Biermann's, is publishing them on the 50th anniversary of Biermann's expatriation and his 90th birthday, and presents the book together with co-editor Arno Polzin. The conversation is moderated by Doris Liebermann. The event takes place in the visitor centre of the Berlin Wall Memorial, is free of charge, and registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ihr-loscht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-die-tagebucher-wolf-biermann-30517/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/ihr-loescht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-die-tagebuecher-wolf?date=2026-11-12T19%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": ""}, {"title": "Wolf Biermann im Blick der Stasi", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-02T17:30:00+01:00", "place": "Ehemalige Stasi-Zentrale (Haus 7)", "address": "Ruschestraße 103 10365 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr/stasi"], "description": "A guided tour through the exhibition „Einblick ins Geheime“ at the former Stasi headquarters. Organised by the Stasi Records Archive of the Federal Archives, it presents surveillance files on Wolf Biermann, a singer-songwriter who shaped East German culture despite a performance ban. It also covers his stripping of citizenship in 1976 and the cultural scene's response. Afterwards, visitors can view the sample file collection, including a faithfully reproduced file volume on Biermann.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wolf-biermann-im-blick-der-stasi-16718/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/vor-ort-entdecken/veranstaltungen/termin/wolf-biermann-im-blick-der-stasi-berlin-02-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ba0b0fc81a890735148ce4d437282060e9c648dff4a4959a725ef4663225ed68-600.webp"}, {"title": "Wolf Biermann im Blick der Stasi", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv im Bundesarchiv", "address": "Normannenstraße 21a, 10365 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr/stasi"], "description": "A guided tour through the exhibition “Einblick ins Geheime” about the singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann and his surveillance by the Stasi. It shows documents, the Stasi's handling of his expatriation in November 1976 and the reactions of the GDR cultural scene. It is organised by the Bundesarchiv – Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv Berlin-Lichtenberg. Admission is free; participation is limited to 15 people, and registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wolf-biermann-im-blick-der-stasi-58032/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/vor-ort-entdecken/veranstaltungen/termin/wolf-biermann-im-blick-der-stasi-berlin-02-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fa9560ac94a3bc5a5f55e190bbe5220a40388639ea14181e282806ecdb50aab3-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Wolf Biermann im Blick der Stasi", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Einblick ins Geheime - Ausstellung zum Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv", "address": "Ruschestraße", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr/stasi"], "description": "The guided tour \"Wolf Biermann im Blick der Stasi\" takes visitors through the exhibition \"Einblick ins Geheime\" about the Stasi Records Archive. Organised by the Federal Archives' Stasi Records Archive Berlin-Lichtenberg, it shows surveillance documents on the singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, how the Stasi handled his expatriation in November 1976, and the reactions of the GDR cultural scene. Biermann, a convinced socialist, moved from Hamburg to the GDR in the early 1950s and, despite a performance ban, was increasingly intensively surveilled by the secret police. Afterwards, visitors can view the sample files collection and submit a request to inspect their files on site; participation is limited to 15 people.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wolf-biermann-im-blick-der-stasi-7129/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/vor-ort-entdecken/veranstaltungen/termin/wolf-biermann-im-blick-der-stasi-berlin-02-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e29fc30800ad127b448a9dcaa6a2e7c43b80bb873f1734bd84de1ce72987856-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Freiheit, Solidarität und der Wunsch nach Erneuerung -", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Katholische Akademie in Berlin", "address": "Hannoversche Straße 5b, 10115 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["occasion/anniversary"], "description": "A discussion event marking the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian popular uprising. The Catholic Academy in Berlin, together with Renovabis, invites guests to talk about the meaning of \"1956\" in Hungarian memory culture and politics, as well as Hungary's present and future. Speakers include Zsuzsa Breier, Kornélia Kiss, Konrád Dejcsics and Gergely Romsics, moderated by Kai-Olaf Lang. The Research Prize Eastern Europe 2026 will be awarded directly afterwards.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/freiheit-solidaritat-und-der-wunsch-nach-erneuerung-9177/", "official_url": "https://www.katholische-akademie-berlin.de/veranstaltung/freiheit-solidaritaet/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b8b7f4c3d497311adbae1ad734494ff9dc6a8bd6e1d2b0784010b620067f31ab-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Berlin Freedom Week", "start": "2026-11-07T08:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T08:00:00+01:00", "place": "", "address": "Berlin", "price": "Variiert je nach Veranstaltung", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/events-ticket-tipps-berlin", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall", "society/democracy"], "description": "Berlin Freedom Week is a citywide initiative for freedom and democracy that marks the anniversary of the fall of the Wall with guided tours, workshops, films, readings, discussions and events for children. It is an initiative of the Axel Springer Freedom Foundation, the Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft, visitBerlin and the World Liberty Congress, held under the patronage of Berlin's Governing Mayor. The programme approaches freedom from different perspectives: current events in several countries, global protest movements, digital freedom and past understandings of freedom. Highlights include the Berlin Freedom Conference, the Ostfrauen*Salon at the Stasi headquarters, contemporary witness talks about escape assistance at the Berlin Wall, and the Stories of Freedom film series.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/berlin-freedom-week-16876/", "official_url": "https://berlin-freedom-week.com/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ae6a571649a3fa91c60a6de77329bb1a03abce980714c1dbed1f7c90d3dd0f3b-600.webp"}, {"title": "Palästina zwischen Augen: Zwischen Solidarität und Schweigen: Was bleibt? Palästinensische Stimmen in der DDR und heute", "start": "2026-10-31T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK)", "address": "Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11-13, 10178 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/gdr"], "description": "A conversation event within the project „Palästina zwischen Augen“ at the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) in Berlin-Mitte. Mahmoud Dabdoub and Sophie Ataya talk with each other, moderated by Irit Neidhardt; the topic is Palestinian voices in the GDR and today, between solidarity and silence. The conversation is held in English and admission is free. An awareness team will be present at all events, and the nGbK has a complaints procedure.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/palastina-zwischen-augen-zwischen-solidaritat-und-schweigen-10275/", "official_url": "https://ngbk.de/de/programm/termine/palaestina-zwischen-augen-between-solidarity-and-silence-what-remains-palestinian-voices-in-the-gdr-and-now", "image": ""}, {"title": "„Niewiedervereinigung: 100 Zwischenrufe zur deutschen Einheit“", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "5 EUR / ermäßigt 3 EUR", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/reunification", "literature"], "description": "This event is a reading from the book „Niewiedervereinigung: 100 Zwischenrufe zur deutschen Einheit“ at the Humboldt Forum. It is part of the series „Über Grenzen: Ziehen, Einreißen, Verschieben“ at BERLIN GLOBAL. Author Paula Fürstenberg looks at German reunification from the perspective of a post-reunification generation, asking about the gaps in the narrative of unity, accompanied by unemployment, emigration and racist violence in the East. The reading is moderated by journalist and author Nhi Le.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/niewiedervereinigung-100-zwischenrufe-zur-deutschen-einheit-16573/", "official_url": "https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/termin/gespraech/niewiedervereinigung-100-zwischenrufe-zur-deutschen-einheit-169340/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e98cae2e745a3746936932cc1a28342234c61e7d88d397c2de9508a06e5f613b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Life-Performance dabei ist die Bedrängnis ein Horizont der mitwandert, Thema politische Gefangene in der UdSSR. Live-Lesung von Gedichten und Briefen, Rede, Pe…", "start": "2026-10-30T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Unter den Linden 63-65 10117", "address": "Unter den Linden 63-65 10117", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "demos", "tags": ["history/ussr", "society/politics"], "description": "A life-performance on the subject of political prisoners in the USSR, featuring a live reading of poems and letters, with a speech. The theme is oppression as a horizon that wanders along. Who is behind the event is not stated.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/life-performance-dabei-ist-die-bedrangnis-ein-horizont-der-m-30225/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Passierschein für die Kunst: 40 Jahre deutsch-deutsches Kulturabkommen", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Kohl-Stiftung", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "art"], "description": "A panel discussion marking 40 years of the German-German cultural agreement concluded in 1986. It is hosted by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation together with the Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl Foundation. Contemporary witnesses and actors of the time discuss what the agreement achieved, how art and audiences in East and West met, and what characterised GDR culture. The panel features Ingeborg Ruthe, Petra Winter, Thomas Flierl, Felix Brusberg and Ulrich Leidholdt, moderated by Christhard Läpple.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/passierschein-fur-die-kunst-40-jahre-deutsch-deutsches-kultu-75825/", "official_url": "https://pretix.eu/preussischer-kulturbesitz/kulturabkommen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68a35965f4e252dc078578fde29c5ceace7bdcab7e04ee5d06a4a3bcda96f470-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Exiltexte: Kunst, Macht, Erinnerung – Lesung mit Tania Arcimovich, Karima Shabrang und Fariba Vafi", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schloss Schönhausen", "address": "Tschaikowskistraße 1, 13156 Berlin", "price": "15 €, ermäßigt 12 €", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.spsg.de/ticket-app/entity/eventTime/13833?cHash=c6704a2bef694b5e4f5d72735428c352", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/poetry"], "description": "A reading titled \"Exiltexte: Kunst, Macht, Erinnerung\" at Schloss Schönhausen. The writers in exile Tania Arcimovich (Belarus), Karima Shabrang (Afghanistan) and Fariba Vafi (Iran) read texts born from a literary engagement with the palace and its history during the Nazi era, drawing on their own experiences of exile and political pressure, in their original languages. Actress Melika Foroutan presents the German translations, and cellist Basilius Alawad accompanies the evening with music. The event is inspired by the Weiter Schreiben interventions and ends with a reception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/exiltexte-kunst-macht-erinnerung-lesung-mit-tania-arcimovich-12534/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bac59a00fc6e07b1c6b537c7dae5d24dad5e3004a3463316b846a6b01b1aecb4-600.webp"}, {"title": "PEN Berlin: Geht's noch?", "start": "2026-11-01T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Preis 16/9 EURO", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/shop", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "A public discussion event with conversations about home and democracy after the elections in East Germany and Berlin. The writers' association PEN Berlin invites guests from politics and culture as well as the audience, which is welcome to ask questions, join in and disagree. It asks questions such as: can people with different political opinions still talk to each other? What divides East and West, what connects them, and what has changed in recent years? The series is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for East Germany and has previously travelled through East Germany and Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/pen-berlin-gehts-noch-3773/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/pen-berlin-gehts-noch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d785fec1318952c8c1715dd7b1d801d8ba0ffcb95b2bef2d6a3dbfbabc6e7650-600.webp"}, {"title": "Themenführung zur Berlin Freedom Week", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Forum Willy Brandt Berlin", "address": "Behrenstraße 15, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall"], "description": "During Berlin Freedom Week, the Forum Willy Brandt Berlin invites visitors to a themed guided tour. It centres on Willy Brandt and the years 1989/90, asking what made those events so special for him, how his policies for the East and for Germany helped overcome the country's division, and why he could imagine German unity only in a European context. Taking part costs nothing, and no registration is needed. The tour is offered in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/themenfuhrung-zur-berlin-freedom-week-22412/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e182cdafb96386c70f5bf16aa1b28e856e819d13d256a323f8b1fcd9c93134f8-600.webp"}]}