{"title": "Friedrich Burschel liest & diskutiert: PRESENT PAST. Wie Nachfahren ihre NS-Familiengeschichte erforschen", "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", "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/friedrich-burschel-liest-diskutiert-present-past-wie-nachfah-48498/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a49c27e608476b4c56a6c9195696c4be5a36311623fceb5d740b3742f4278648-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Die gute Seite", "address": "Richardplatz 16, 12055 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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", "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": "Geschichte statt Mythen. Rechtsextremen Geschichtsumdeutungen begegnen", "start": "2026-11-17T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Topographie des Terrors", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/extremism", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A lecture evening on historical revisionism: how right-wing extremists systematically reinterpret, relativise and trivialise the National Socialist past. Behind the project „Geschichte statt Mythen“ are Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, funded by the foundation Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft. Berit Kö and Jakob Schergaut report on their project work and use concrete examples to present common strategies and narrative patterns of the far right – and what can be done to counter them. The evening is introduced by Jens-Christian Wagner, who leads the project; the moderation is by Andrea Riedle, director of the Topography of Terror Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/geschichte-statt-mythen-rechtsextremen-geschichtsumdeutungen-31760/", "official_url": "https://www.topographie.de/veranstaltungen/detail/geschichte-statt-mythen-rechtsextremen-geschichtsumdeutungen-begegnen", "image": ""}, {"title": "Literarische Erinnerungsbilder", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung", "address": "Straße der Pariser Kommune 8A, 10243 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/germany", "literature"], "description": "\"Literarische Erinnerungsbilder\" is a reading followed by a conversation. The authors Regina Scheer and Annett Gröschner read from their family novels \"Machandel\" and \"Schwebende Lasten\", in which individual fates form a multiperspectival mosaic of twentieth-century German history; the conversation is moderated by literary scholar Therese Hörnigk. The event takes place in the Eva-Mamlok-Bibliothek of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and is accessible, registration is requested. Literary images of memory are meant to broaden the range of society's perceptions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/literarische-erinnerungsbilder-97085/", "official_url": "https://www.rosalux.de/veranstaltung/es_detail/YWZCR/literarische-erinnerungsbilder?cHash=784309a7c779e052580b64ff3c5d54eb", "image": "https://noky.io/images/575c4c578c748ea7fdb4b59a6de9414192fc00aa1475a32faab15ae71ceac786-1200.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,- €", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "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": "Voneinander lernen und gemeinsam agieren: Provenienzforschung und Vermittlung zu NS und Kolonialismus zusammendenken.", "start": "2026-11-16T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus Bastian – Zentrum für kulturelle Bildung", "address": "Am Kupfergraben 10, 10117 Berlin", "price": "0 €", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/provenance-research"], "description": "An evening talk and discussion in the lecture series „Provenienz und Vermittlung im Gespräch“, part of the project „Kunst, Raub und Rückgabe – Vergessene Lebensgeschichten“. Dr. Sven Haase, provenance researcher at the Central Archive of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, and Dr. Patrick Helber, curator for education and outreach at the Ethnologisches Museum, report on their projects on the intersections of the Nazi era and colonialism. Moderated by Dr. Lilja-Ruben Çaharnas Vowe, they discuss similarities and differences between the two disciplines from a transhistorical perspective and what public debate can learn from discussions on colonial looted art. The project is a cooperation between the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden with the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste; admission and participation are free, registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/voneinander-lernen-und-gemeinsam-agieren-provenienzforschung-10956/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/voneinander-lernen-und-gemeinsam-agieren-provenienzforschung-und-vermittlung-zu-ns-und-kolonialismus-zusammendenken-2026-11-16-180000-160852/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/97a02728430dd9e7149162dc18524e394401c06a15d53d6b2957f6956f8ece5a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "80. Waisenhausgespräch", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "SchuleEins Waisenhaus, Betsaal, Berliner Straße 120-121, 13187 Berlin", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei / free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/memory-culture", "literature/reading"], "description": "The 80th Waisenhausgespräch asks how a culture of remembrance can succeed as a project across generations. Organized by the Cajewitz Stiftung together with the SchuleEins and the Theater OfW, it features pupils presenting their research into the history of the former orphanage, a staged reading by Anja S. Gläser and Florentine Schara (text and staging by Philipp Urrutia, with English surtitles), and a panel discussion with Lena Ditte Nissen and Rosa Jellinek. In this way the historic building's Betsaal becomes a place of living memory where past and present enter into dialogue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/80-waisenhausgesprach-72986/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Lesung: Psychiatrieerfahrungen im Elsass – Lebensgeschichten zwischen Strasbourg und Hadamar im NS", "start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hörsaalruine, Charité Campus Mitte", "address": "Virchowweg 16, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/non-fiction"], "description": "GeDenkOrt.Charité invites visitors to a reading from the book \"Psychiatrieerfahrungen im Elsass – Lebensgeschichten zwischen Strasbourg und Hadamar im Nationalsozialismus\", followed by a conversation. The author Lea Münch, a physician and historian at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, traces the life stories of five women and men who were or became psychiatric patients in the annexed border region of Alsace. From Strasbourg, their paths sometimes led to the killing institution Hadamar, which became a symbol of the National Socialist \"euthanasia\" crimes. The work takes the perspective of those affected and explores intergenerational effects reaching into the present.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-psychiatrieerfahrungen-im-elsass-lebensgeschichten-zw-96870/", "official_url": "https://gedenkort.charite.de/metas/veranstaltung/veranstaltung/details/lesung_psychiatrieerfahrungen_im_elsass_lebensgeschichten_zwischen_strasbourg_und_hadamar/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5cd136b645c5e55dc87eab1d47a3655a13de83f16d3aed251dfd89488f41e011-1200.webp"}, {"title": "„Nie wieder ist jetzt?“ – Erinnerung und Gedenken an den Holocaust zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft und Schule", "start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "diekleinegalerie", "address": "Goßlerstraße 21, 12161 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/holocaust/commemoration"], "description": "diekleinegalerie invites to a conversation on a current topic: „Nie wieder ist jetzt?“ – Remembrance and commemoration of the Holocaust between historical scholarship and school. The conversation is between Prof. Wolfgang Benz, a historian, and Jakob Ciré, a teacher of history at a Berlin integrated comprehensive school. It addresses how remembrance can be conveyed when there are no more contemporary witnesses, how it can be kept alive in our post-migrant society, and what the claim of „never again“ means in the present. Due to limited seating, registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nie-wieder-ist-jetzt-erinnerung-und-gedenken-an-den-holocaus-22255/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Lesung mit der Dramatikerin und Autorin Ishbel Szatrawska aus dem Roman „Die Tiefe”", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-18T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin", "address": "Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/war", "literature/fiction"], "description": "A reading from the novel „Die Tiefe” as part of the series „Polish Affairs. Polnische Kultur zu Gast in der Stabi”. The dramatist and author Ishbel Szatrawska takes the family home in the Masurian province of the former East Prussia as the starting point for a moving tale of four generations of a family, of the region's multiculturalism and the painful experiences of war, flight, loss of homeland and a new beginning. The event takes place in the Theodor-Fontane-Saal of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, in cooperation with the Zentrum für Historische Forschung Berlin of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the editor and translator Benjamin Voelkel. Registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-der-dramatikerin-und-autorin-ishbel-szatrawska-au-109760/", "official_url": "https://blog.sbb.berlin/termin/lesung-mit-der-dramatikerin-und-autorin-ishbel-szatrawska-aus-dem-roman-die-tiefe/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ef5d0cc37c18f59cb79010c0aa0ccfa7d7fe6bfb52183bf2f98c24fb7dbd6ee2-1200.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", "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"}]}