{"title": "Freiheit braucht Öffentlichkeit - 40 Jahre Umwelt-Bibliothek", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft e. V.", "address": "Klosterstraße 66, 10179 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr/dissent"], "description": "An evening marking 40 years of the Umwelt-Bibliothek Berlin, founded in 1986 in East Berlin, which grew into an important center of GDR opposition. Using selected original documents from the Archive of the GDR Opposition, it shows how independent information was collected there and samizdat publications were produced and distributed to break the state's information monopoly. Organized by the Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft e. V. as part of Berlin Freedom Week, it features contemporary witness Tim Eisenlohr, Belarusian journalist and former political prisoner Ksenija Luzkina, and journalist Sham Jaff, who speak about opposition media work, state censorship, and the role of international media. The evening opens with young people presenting the results of their podcast project “MIC Check: Demokratie!”, moderated by journalist and author Shila Behjat.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/freiheit-braucht-offentlichkeit-40-jahre-umwelt-bibliothek-96858/", "official_url": "https://www.havemann-gesellschaft.de/veranstaltungen/261112-40-jahre-umweltbibliothek/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/120de1e0fde783b618de67775a14fb36ff23a369f25d21d1dacdd2e1e3bcf3cb-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft e. 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The event looks at the four decades from the 1950s to the 1980s and traces the development of homosexuality, homophobia, emancipation and sexual culture chronologically. It takes place at the Stadtteilbibliothek Buch, admission is free and no prior knowledge is needed. Through historical insights and shared conversations, it paints a vivid picture of queer life between social constraints and growing visibility.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/queer-thursday-vortrag-und-gesprach-mit-peter-rausch-31890/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=288674&ls=0&c=409&v_ort=47759&date_start=05.11.2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/573b025978cde125a5cb2b152f59ace4fd981f1a7ab717c99fa3a698b97e570a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Zu warm für die DDR? – Queeres Leben zwischen Anpassung und Emanzipation - Vortrag von Peter Rausch | Queer Monday", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Wolfdietrich-Schnurre-Bibliothek", "address": "Bizetstraße 41, 13088 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "A lecture as part of the 'Queer Monday' series, in which the Wolfdietrich-Schnurre-Bibliothek meets the Sonntagsclub. It is given by Peter Rausch, co-founder of the GDR's first gay-lesbian emancipation group (HIB) and of the Sonntags-Club e. V., who still works as a contemporary witness for queer history. The lecture looks at the GDR's four decades and traces the development of homosexuality, homophobia, emancipation and sexual culture chronologically. Afterwards there is time for questions, discussion and conversation, and everyone interested is welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zu-warm-fur-die-ddr-queeres-leben-zwischen-anpassung-und-ema-2579/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=290828&ls=20&c=409", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bdd61acbf68f63db7b281228cfefea6e3f2f1d896d867e77dd66b5bdf9c049d0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "\"Die Akten lügen nicht und sagen auch nicht die Wahrheit\"", "start": "2026-11-11T16:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stasi-Zentrale. Campus für Demokratie", "address": "Normannenstr. 20, 10365 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["history/gdr/stasi"], "description": "A seminar workshop with an introductory guided tour and a visit to the archive, marking 35 years since the Stasi Records Act was passed. It is organized by the Federal Archives' Stasi Records Archive in Berlin-Lichtenberg in cooperation with the Margarete Steffin Adult Education Centre in Berlin-Lichtenberg and forms part of the Berlin Freedom Week. Using press reports and publications by authorities and the Bundestag, participants retrace the historical steps and arguments behind the act, which is considered a worldwide model for handling the records of a secret police. An introduction to how the files can be accessed and background on the 1991 Bundestag debate, in which a parliament decided for the first time on access to a secret police's records, round off the event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-akten-lugen-nicht-und-sagen-auch-nicht-die-wahrheit-22311/", "official_url": "https://www.einblick-ins-geheime.de/termin/die-akten-luegen-nicht-und-sagen-auch-nicht-die-wahrheit-berlin-11-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e6142a656759b421ffc09e0a3911ec1680e5ea3cf927ff8e63ccf5f80f145c1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "»Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin«", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "DDR-Museum", "address": "Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr/dissent", "literature"], "description": "A book presentation and discussion of »Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin«, the first volume of Wolf Biermann's diaries. The historian Dr. Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, scholarly advisor at the DDR Museum, edits excerpts from the diaries for the first time, presenting an artist who consistently challenged the East German regime. The talk is moderated by Dr. Liza Soutschek. The event is part of the »Berlin Freedom Week« and takes place in the DDR Museum's conference room at Sankt Wolfgang-Str. 2.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ihr-loscht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-11722/", "official_url": "https://www.ddr-museum.de/de/veranstaltungen/buchvorstellung-ihr-loescht-das-feuer-mit-benzin", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f94e15d6cf0ac1be9d0f2ae1f2a8fa3d4b9e4434b30f0da4250abce7db38369-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Queerinnert – Community Building in Ost-Berlin von LGBTQIA+ Zeitzeug*innen erzählt", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+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", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "“Queerinnert – Community Building in Ost-Berlin von LGBTQIA+ Zeitzeug*innen erzählt” is a discussion event in which contemporary witnesses share their experiences of queer spaces and movements. It looks at how queer structures were built in East Berlin before 1990, when LGBTQIA+ people in the GDR had to get by without civil rights, public representation or meeting places, and what can be learned from those experiences. The event is moderated by Barbara Wallbraun, a cultural educator and filmmaker of the documentary “Uferfrauen-Lesbisches L(i)eben in der DDR”. Guests are Samirah Kenawi, founder of the GrauZone archive, Peter Rausch, founder of the Homosexuellen Interessensgemeinschaft Ost-Berlin, and Nadja Schallenberg, a trans* human rights activist.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/queerinnert-community-building-in-ost-berlin-von-lgbtqia-zei-31739/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-friedrichshain-kreuzberg/bibliotheken/bezirkszentralbibliothek-pablo-neruda/veranstaltungen-projekte/queerinnert-community-building-in-ost-berlin-von-lgbtqia-zeitzeug-innen-erzaehlt-1719514.php", "image": "https://noky.io/images/938f9ffd20427c8b7462380fa41e96588e083ea61508e0c4dbac9f0f4e4af363-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ostfrauen*Salon - Begegnungen, Kunst und Gespräche zur Berlin Freedom Week", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Normannenstraße 21a, 10365 Berlin", "address": "Normannenstraße 21a, 10365 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["history/gdr", "art", "society"], "description": "The Ostfrauen*Salon is a day of encounters, literature, art, podcasts and conversations about East German identity and social change. At its heart is a long table where anyone interested can sit down and talk with one another. It is a joint project of Wirtschaftsförderung Lichtenberg, the Bundesarchiv – Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv and the Ostfrauen*Salon, funded by the Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft, Energie und Betriebe. The programme includes a guided tour of the former Stasi headquarters, a reading by Ruth Herzberg, a parlour game with Jule Henschel, an art talk with Isabel Kittler, Doreen Trittel and Maria Magdalena Köhn, a live podcast with Berit Großwendt and Grit Seymour, and a performance by the collective Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ostfrauensalon-begegnungen-kunst-und-gesprache-zur-berlin-fr-96821/", "official_url": "https://berlin-freedom-week.com/event/ostfrauensalon-berlin-freedom-week", "image": "https://noky.io/images/90bd8363059b7578ed31d542d2ca5b71d5de14496cc902c6119ecf68c50e8ab1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Ostfrauen*Salon", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stasi-Zentrale. Campus für Demokratie", "address": "Normannenstr. 20, 10365 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei. / Admission is free.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr/stasi", "stage/performance-art", "society"], "description": "The Ostfrauen*Salon is an event of encounters, art and conversations as part of the Berlin Freedom Week. It is a joint project of the Economic Development Agency Lichtenberg, the Federal Archives' Stasi Records Archive and the Ostfrauen*Salon. A long table invites everyone to talk openly about East German identity and social change. There are also readings, a live podcast, a performance, art, a podcast listening station and a book table.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ostfrauensalon-32974/", "official_url": "https://www.einblick-ins-geheime.de/termin/ostfrauensalon-berlin-07-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/567ff93455e51fe183cc791e593c51016b9986c0024edc9d5cb84ef2e81d4f6d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Auf der Schotterpiste der Geschichte 3: Die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/politics", "society/democracy"], "description": "„Auf der Schotterpiste der Geschichte 3: Die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden“ is a discussion event in the DT Kontext series, held in the Rangfoyer of the Deutsches Theater. The panel features political and social scientist Naika Foroutan, head of the German Institute for Migration and Integration Research, and historian Uwe Sonnenberg of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, moderated by André Mumot. At its centre is Rosa Luxemburg's famous line „Freiheit ist immer auch die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden“ and her legacy at a time when democratic values are under pressure worldwide. The discussion asks what her courage, her critique of the system and her idea of political participation can teach us for the challenges of the 21st century. Admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/auf-der-schotterpiste-der-geschichte-3-die-freiheit-der-ande-16847/", "official_url": "https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/auf-der-schotterpiste-der-geschichte-3-die-freiheit-der-andersdenkenden", "image": ""}, {"title": "GRENZGESCHICHTEN. Filmzeugnisse zur Berliner Mauer (1961–1989)", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Leibniz-Saal", "address": "Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "Film records from the holdings of the Landesarchiv Berlin show the history of the Berlin Wall from 1961 to its fall in 1989 in rarely seen images, many of which are part of the UNESCO Memory of the World. The historian and deputy Berlin commissioner for reappraisal Jens Schöne, the director of the Landesarchiv Berlin Sven Kriese and the BAB education officer Anna Kokenge comment on the footage and explain its historical background. A subsequent panel discussion explores the significance of these film records for remembering Germany's division. Carmen Schwietzer, deputy director of the Landesarchiv Berlin, hosts the evening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/grenzgeschichten-filmzeugnisse-zur-berliner-mauer-19611989-82521/", "official_url": "https://www.aufarbeitung-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/detail/grenzgeschichten-filmzeugnisse-zur-berliner-mauer", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30796f4e44771c7979beec97c854047b683a3c5506907a8aff4be63708deaca9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Queer Monday „Zu warm für die DDR? – Queeres Leben zwischen Anpassung und Emanzipation“ Vortrag von Peter Rausch, Wolfdietrich-Schnurre-Bibliothek", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sonntags-Club", "address": "Greifenhagener Straße 28, 10437 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "The talk \"Zu warm für die DDR? – Queeres Leben zwischen Anpassung und Emanzipation\" traces the development of homosexuality, homophobia, emancipation and sexual culture across the four decades of the GDR. Peter Rausch from the Wolfdietrich-Schnurre-Bibliothek explores the everyday lives of lesbian, gay and queer people with their challenges, freedoms and forms of resistance. Historical insights and shared conversations open up varied perspectives on queer life between social constraints and growing visibility. No prior knowledge is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/queer-monday-zu-warm-fur-die-ddr-queeres-leben-zwischen-anpa-131913/", "official_url": "https://programm.sonntags-club.de/programm/queer-monday-zu-warm-fuer-die-ddr-queeres-leben-zwischen-anpassung-und-emanzipation-vortrag-von-peter-rausch/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Aufbruch und Abbruch", "start": "2026-11-07T16:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr/peaceful-revolution"], "description": "A talk about two significant sites of the Peaceful Revolution: the Central Round Table at Schönhausen Palace in Pankow and the parliamentary chamber in the Palace of the Republic. Behind the event are the Humboldt Forum, the ORTS-Termin and the installation „Sturzlage“, held on the occasion of the Berlin Freedom Week 2026. The speaker is Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper, one of the most prominent voices in Berlin's culture of remembrance, who explores the history and significance of these two places. She asks why their history is told so little today and why the democratic potential of the Round Table and the freely elected Volkskammer remains relevant.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/aufbruch-und-abbruch-2562/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e34564113d159a91a5b5353bba257fd8d87edaeb255452c59f585bb9f7f1bf1c-600.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", "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": "https://noky.io/images/fd51ab9ebb625aac48d5c9324abb9cadaaed9006a4752eaf0a8c6ffb77a95141-1200.webp"}, {"title": "DDRdirekt", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stasi-Zentrale. Campus für Demokratie", "address": "Normannenstr. 20, 10365 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "\"DDRdirekt\" is a reading and performance with music about workers writing in the GDR. It is organised by the Bundesarchiv – Stasi Records Archive Berlin-Lichtenberg, the Lichtenberg district office of Berlin and the Büro für organische Poesie. anna martha and Thomas Hartung searched the archive for writing workers and discovered voices from a vanished society – sometimes fully in line with official ideology, sometimes full of nuance, contradictions and cautious criticism. With sounds of factory halls and housing shortages, of the collective, football and big dreams, they bring these surprising texts to life again, accompanied by music by Christian Beckers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ddrdirekt-28578/", "official_url": "https://www.einblick-ins-geheime.de/termin/ddrdirekt-berlin-09-11-2026/", "image": ""}, {"title": "DDRdirekt", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gratis in Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "„DDRdirekt“ is a reading and performance that brings back to life forgotten texts written by workers in the GDR. These poems, stories and prose pieces were created in workplace writing circles, dealing with work, everyday life, hopes, longings and political convictions. Behind the project are anna martha and Thomas Hartung, who searched the archive of writing workers for traces of these voices, with music by Christian Beckers. The event is part of the Berlin Freedom Week programme and admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ddrdirekt-96836/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/vor-ort-entdecken/veranstaltungen/termin/ddrdirekt-berlin-09-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6463eb8bf155284a8f6380c3c28473076a3a3794a76491e725c1c3c7da97952e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Unterirdisch in die Freiheit mit Zeitzeugin Eveline Rudolph", "start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Unterwelten e.V", "address": "Brunnenstraße 143, 10115 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "26.00", "price_to": "26.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall"], "description": "The special tour »Unterirdisch in die Freiheit mit Zeitzeugin E. Rudolph« is a tour by the association Berliner Unterwelten e.V. Together with a contemporary witness, it deals with the subject of the Berlin Wall: with its construction in August 1961, the population of East Berlin was suddenly and unpreparedly separated overnight from their families, partners, friends and their workplaces or places of study and school in West Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/unterirdisch-in-die-freiheit-mit-zeitzeugin-eveline-rudolph-16879/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/fuehrungen/sonderfuehrungen/unterirdisch-in-die-freiheit-eveline-rudolph.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cdc1be63c9d25e5ca20ea0514e38c1180f807a1600369ecdc5afa0662faa5898-2000.webp"}]}