{"title": "Geheimtransporte über die Ostsee", "start": "2026-10-28T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "DDR-Museum", "address": "Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "A talk with discussion about secretly kept transport routes across the Baltic Sea to the Soviet Union. It covers the Mukran ferry port, inaugurated in 1986 as the largest transport project of the GDR, which connected the GDR in a 48-hour cycle directly with the Soviet Union. Wolfgang Klietz has researched the history of the link between Mukran and Klaipėda and presents it with new photos. The event is a cooperation with the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, moderated by Sören Marotz of the DDR Museum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/geheimtransporte-uber-die-ostsee-11721/", "official_url": "https://www.ddr-museum.de/de/veranstaltungen/geheimtransporte-ueber-die-ostsee", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9a95848aa76b90335cf0d41963bc10557cfedab4b85d5a7dc7545a6c87bd2dc7-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-28T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "DDR-Museum", "address": "Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 1, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Ein Land im Container", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "DDR-Museum", "address": "Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "„Ein Land im Container\" is an event at the DDR Museum in Berlin about the disposal of GDR state symbols. The museum is behind it, and it deals with the removal of signs of SED rule from public space after the GDR came to an end. Much of this ended up in bulky-waste containers as the public space visibly changed in the weeks and months before 3 October 1990.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ein-land-im-container-3479/", "official_url": "https://www.ddr-museum.de", "image": "https://noky.io/images/337070af1e99a203206c58fb9f09f5f91f0bb5751c8ca0a72b78f9a4e72c3767-2000.webp"}, {"title": "»Zeitzeugen im Gespräch« – Fluchthelfer Klaus-M. von Keussler", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Unterwelten e.V. Bildungsseminare", "address": "Brunnenstraße 142, 10115 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/barrierefreiheitserklaerung/barrierefreiheitserklaerung-online-shop.html", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "»Zeitzeugen im Gespräch« is a talk with escape helper Klaus-M. von Keussler, hosted by Berliner Unterwelten e.V. at their Bildungsseminare. At its center is his »Tunnel-Tagebuch« (tunnel diary), into which he wrote with passion on 8 January 1964: »Freiheit kennt keine Mauern« (freedom knows no walls). It is about the fourth tunnel (the »Kohlenplatz-Tunnel«), in which he took part and which was brought to an end by East German border guards and/or members of the East German state security. The then 24-year-old gives a firsthand account of this escape assistance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zeitzeugen-im-gesprach-fluchthelfer-klaus-m-von-keussler-24451/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/neuigkeiten/zeitzeugen-im-gespraech-fluchthelfer-berichten.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d99249268b72e2d26d77febcf0499ea23798b1d566d071880580824136b7b09d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Flucht damals und heute", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde", "address": "Marienfelder Allee 66/80, 12277 Berlin", "price": "5 €, ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/berlin-bike-berliner-mauertour-mit-dem-fahrrad#/experience/BTM00020101074869526", "category": "tours", "tags": ["society/migration/refugees", "history/gdr"], "description": "The tandem guided tour \"Flucht damals und heute\" takes place at the Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde, a museum about flight and emigration from the GDR that also serves as a transitional home for around 700 refugees. Between 1949 and 1990, around four million people left the GDR, many of them through the reception camp in West Berlin, known as the \"gate to freedom\". The tour brings two perspectives into dialogue: the historical view of the camp and a current view of the residential home's daily operations, represented by a social worker who came to Berlin in 2011 at the age of 17 and spent her first years living here herself. It also grants access to the camp's historic grounds, which are otherwise closed during regular museum operations, and takes place as part of the Berlin Freedom Week 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/flucht-damals-und-heute-31366/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/notaufnahmelager-marienfelde/besuch/programm/flucht-damals-und-heute?date=2026-11-08T14%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a2a06b8499e4401ab5a463d6f1f097ccd45382728a6b61b390bb1b7a2f946e2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Öffentliche Führung durch das Museum", "start": "2026-11-01T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Berlin-Karlshorst", "address": "", "price": "8 € / ermäßigt 2 € pro Person / unter 18 Jahren kostenfrei", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "The Museum Berlin-Karlshorst offers a public guided tour on the first Sunday of every month. It gives an overview of the historic site of the capitulation on 8 May 1945 and the events of the end of the war in 1945. The tour goes through the permanent exhibition \"Deutschland und die Sowjetunion im Zweiten Weltkrieg\", which looks at the war from the perspective of German and Soviet politics, the military and society. Historical photos, everyday objects and written documents are shown alongside individuals and their personal stories; registration by email or telephone is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/offentliche-fuhrung-durch-das-museum-12339/", "official_url": "https://www.museum-karlshorst.de/veranstaltungen/oeffentliche-fuehrung-durch-das-museum-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6e9a51750868197592649dc15e1d043ea6958ba5aca66bbacc8d2f37ece7a5a2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Deutschland und die Sowjetunion im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1941-1945", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-08-22T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Museum Berlin-Karlshorst", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "Deutschland und die Sowjetunion im Zweiten Weltkrieg is the permanent exhibition of Museum Berlin-Karlshorst. The museum presents the war through the eyes of both German and Soviet actors, using texts, historical photographs, everyday objects and written documents to introduce individuals and their personal stories. It also deals with the consequences of the war up to the present day, a conflict the German Reich waged against the Soviet Union from 22 June 1941 and which ended in Europe on 8 May 1945. Its themed rooms cover the war chronicle of 1941–1945, Soviet prisoners of war, German occupation rule, and war aftermath and remembrance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/deutschland-und-die-sowjetunion-im-zweiten-weltkrieg-1941-19-20369/", "official_url": "https://www.museum-karlshorst.de/das-museum-dauerausstellung-sonderausstellung/dauerausstellung", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c5a32a55bc483ae37777e500fb4d584c29f3c1865b748a86a06c3ac7d2f3bcf6-600.webp"}, {"title": "Samstag im Archiv", "start": "2026-11-07T14:30:00+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": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr/stasi"], "description": "„Samstag im Archiv“ is a monthly event offering talks and tours about the files of the East German secret police. It is hosted by the Bundesarchiv's Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv Schwerin; this time Dr. Ronny Heidenreich gives the talk „Echos aus Ungarn. Der Aufstand 1956 und sein Widerhall im Norden der DDR“ on the crushing of the Hungarian uprising and the reactions of the East German state security. Afterwards he leads a tour through the archive, which stores about 2,370 running metres of files of the state security of the Schwerin district. Visitors may also apply for personal access to their Stasi files, for which a valid identity document is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/samstag-im-archiv-73256/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/vor-ort-entdecken/veranstaltungen/termin/samstag-im-archiv-mecklenburg-vorpommern-07-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7aa2101ebdb1e7c9d848ab2a6feca4ad93419b9b3033a82504bb3b1632dc84a0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Öffentliche Führung Museum Berlin-Karlshorst. Ort der Kapitulation von Mai 1945", "start": "2026-11-01T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Berlin-Karlshorst", "address": "", "price": "8 € / ermäßigt 2 €, unter 18 Jahren kostenfrei", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "A public guided tour of the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, the historic site of the capitulation of 8 May 1945. The tour offers an overview of the site and covers the events of the end of the war in 1945. It leads through the permanent exhibition \"Deutschland und die Sowjetunion im Zweiten Weltkrieg\" (Germany and the Soviet Union in the Second World War), which looks at the war from the perspective of German and Soviet politics, the military and society. Historical photos, everyday objects, written documents and personal stories of individuals are presented. The organiser is the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/offentliche-fuhrung-museum-berlin-karlshorst-ort-der-kapitul-16691/", "official_url": "https://www.museum-karlshorst.de/besuch/oeffentliche-fuehrungen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c5745d62a6677ad6087c709de9eaeb6738e461a32a70245d8847223a95fa2ea7-600.webp"}, {"title": "1941. Juni-Briefe. Ungelesene Feldpost aus Kamjanez-Podilskyj", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-10T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Museum Berlin-Karlshorst", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "A special exhibition at Museum Berlin-Karlshorst. The museum is showing it together with the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War in Kyiv, which helped develop it in 2016, on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. At its heart are the letters last collected from the post office in Kamianets-Podilskyi, which were never delivered because of the outbreak of war, were seized by the German occupation administration and reached Kyiv by way of a postal museum in Vienna. Selected letters convey the emotional worlds of Red Army soldiers and of the city's inhabitants in the first days of the invasion, and the new presentation has been expanded with the State Historical Museum Kamianets-Podilskyi to include new findings on the city's history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/1941-juni-briefe-ungelesene-feldpost-aus-kamjanez-podilskyj-15243/", "official_url": "https://www.museum-karlshorst.de/ausstellungen/1941-juni-briefe-ungelesene-feldpost-aus-kamjanez-podilskyj/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/41bd5e4963c8fa492d9f68a7e8e5bc701820128ed5a89c1a32f2b711d4fdbaca-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Grenzen, Gewalt, Geschichte", "start": "2026-11-09T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Historisches Museum Pei-Bau", "address": "Hinter dem Gießhaus 3 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://stiftungbrandenburgertor.de/veranstaltungen/liebermanns-welt/?source=bde", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "„Grenzen, Gewalt, Geschichte“ is a free themed tour through selected exhibition rooms of the museum presenting rare objects from its collection that illustrate German division, flight and violence. The tour spans from a family's flight into Reformed exile during the confessional split of the Holy Roman Empire to a border stone of a city divided after 1914 on the German-Dutch border. Its highlight is the original diary of the student Peter Rutzen from 1963, which traces the dangerous attempt to dig an escape tunnel under Bernauer Straße. The tunnel was betrayed to the Stasi before anyone could flee, leading to numerous arrests in East Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/grenzen-gewalt-geschichte-24447/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/veranstaltung/grenzen-gewalt-geschichte-1/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8cb7898919d22729568409b8beaf050bbd4ca5664a4e33046a02a34e062b01c5-600.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", "tickets_url": "https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/barrierefreiheitserklaerung/barrierefreiheitserklaerung-online-shop.html", "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/833de53a8f60af0badb2cb5683c229c1a086d19e2ecb1e826ad142b198fee975-600.webp"}, {"title": "Auf Signal… in den Tod", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00+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": ["history/holocaust"], "description": "A talk on the deportation of Jews from the Moabit freight station during the Nazi era. Andreas Szagun, a former railway worker who has studied the topic since 1996, discusses the military background of the deportation tracks and the Reichsbahn's thoroughly organised involvement in the Shoah. The creation of the memorial site is also addressed. The event accompanies the exhibition by the association Sie waren Nachbarn e.V. in the display case in front of the Tiergarten town hall.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/auf-signal-in-den-tod-22285/", "official_url": "https://www.dorotheenstaedtische.de/event/auf-signal-in-den-tod/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ce400ebd39f450db110e2fd764c943bdbfa89f5b6db1c8270813e2766ba40fef-600.webp"}, {"title": "Einblicke in die Sonderausstellung „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche“ (EN)", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-17T11:30:00+01:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/photography", "history"], "description": "This is an English-language guided tour through the special exhibition „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche“ at the Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung in Berlin. It is run by the Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung and opens up central themes, artistic positions and questions of the exhibition. At its core are the stories, memories and historical traces behind the photographic works, along with differing perspectives on remembrance, origin, loss and belonging. It lasts 40 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/einblicke-in-die-sonderausstellung-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodn-15590/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/einblicke-die-sonderausstellung-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodnie-eine-deutsch-polnische-15", "image": "https://noky.io/images/11478a75d7c252eb1ad291b44fda2b13bd88a61ae00e42b8ae24e8aae8c988cb-600.webp"}, {"title": "Zwischen Werkbank und Wohnzimmer. Alltag in der DDR", "start": "2026-11-01T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T16:00:00+01:00", "place": "Museum Lichtenberg im Stadthaus", "address": "Türrschmidtstraße 24, 10317 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/printmaking", "history/gdr"], "description": "A workshop for adults with a guided tour through Museum Lichtenberg's permanent exhibition on everyday life in the GDR, from prefab housing and the punk movement to contract labour and emigration applications, using Berlin-Lichtenberg as an example. Afterwards, a hands-on art session lets participants try out different printing techniques and take their own works home. The afternoon is accompanied by art historian Susanne Sabouri and artist Anastasia Mikhaylova. The workshop is free of charge and requires no registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zwischen-werkbank-und-wohnzimmer-alltag-in-der-ddr-23613/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Kritische Führungen über das Sowjetische Ehrenmal in Treptow", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Sowjetisches Ehrenmal im Treptower Park", "address": "Puschkinallee 50 12435 Berlin", "price": "Free, donations welcome", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "Critical tours of the Soviet War Memorial in Treptow are public walks around a Soviet war graves and memorial site in Berlin-Treptow. They are given by MEMORIAL Deutschland e.V., a member of the International Association MEMORIAL, at no charge, with the guides working as volunteers and donations welcome. The tours look for the graves of the 7,200 people buried here and take a critical look at the site's propaganda architecture, its Stalin quotations, the war dates inscribed there, and the use of the place for propaganda. The interactive tour runs in all weathers, no registration is needed, most of the grounds are barrier-free, and a QR code scanner on a smartphone is recommended.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kritische-fuhrungen-uber-das-sowjetische-ehrenmal-in-treptow-15227/", "official_url": "https://www.memorial.de/sowjetisches-ehrenmal-berlin-treptow/kritische-fuehrungen", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7dd2cedc1a644bab8270ae3695a5548f2a95f37bf3bbb90564b8c98972fb0fa1-600.webp"}, {"title": "OST WEST OST", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-10-23T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "U-Bahnhof Schillingstraße", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 32 10178 Berlin", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/events-ticket-tipps-berlin", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "OST WEST OST is an exhibition on postwar modernism in Berlin. It brings the rebuilding of the city after 1945 to life along the architectural ensembles of Karl-Marx-Allee, with comparative views of the Hansaviertel and of postwar modernism elsewhere. Across three levels of the Schillingstraße and Weberwiese underground stations a history walk leads to 24 selected anchor buildings with information on their history, design and use, the middle level covers the planning and construction of the street and life on it, contemporary photographers present the architecture in new ways, and local clubs show their cultural engagement on site.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ost-west-ost-15230/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/daab93139212a9210134291d5408ab10c10888c9c1e1e692ea8a7362c96fb23d-600.webp"}, {"title": "DDRdirekt", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+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": "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": ""}]}