{"title": "Geheimtransporte über die Ostsee", "start": "2026-10-28T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Berlin-Karlshorst", "address": "", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "\"Geheimtransporte über die Ostsee\" is a talk with discussion marking forty years since the ferry port Mukran opened. It is put on by the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst together with the DDR-Museum. Journalist Wolfgang Klietz recounts how, in strict secrecy, East Germany and Moscow created a direct rail ferry link to Klaipėda in the Soviet Union, and presents many new photos about it. Also involved are Christoph Meißner of the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst and moderator Sören Marotz of the DDR-Museum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/geheimtransporte-uber-die-ostsee-12338/", "official_url": "https://www.museum-karlshorst.de/veranstaltungen/geheimtransporte-ueber-die-ostsee", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fef1fd0ded565a00e8b371704118b7229a0de7c134e3e96e42329298ee37ccc8-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-28T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Berlin-Karlshorst", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "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": "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": "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": "https://www.museum-karlshorst.de/besuch/oeffentliche-fuehrungen", "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": "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/german-polish-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": "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": "Versteckt & Verschwunden Zwei Gefängnisse im ehemaligen Ost-Berlin – eine Erkundung", "start": "2026-11-08T13:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lernort Keibelstraße", "address": "Bernhard-Weiß-Straße 6, 10178 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/berlin-bike-berliner-mauertour-mit-dem-fahrrad#/experience/BTM00020101074869526", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "\"Versteckt & Verschwunden\" (Hidden & Gone) is a roughly two-hour tour that for the first time connects two prisons in East Berlin where people were detained for different reasons during the GDR era. The offering comes from the Lernort Keibelstraße, and the tours are to form the basis for a permanent joint offering of the two sites from 2027. The tour starts at the former remand prison on Keibelstraße, whose cells, corridors and doors are preserved, and leads to the former women's prison on Barnimstraße, which no longer stands and whose history is now made accessible through an artistic audio walk by the artist Christoph Viscorsum. The focus is on detention, control and political persecution in the GDR, especially the experiences of politically persecuted women and the questions of what is worth remembering and what disappears; participation is free, and registration by email is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/versteckt-verschwunden-zwei-gefangnisse-im-ehemaligen-ost-be-2570/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Multimediashow von und mit Thomas W. Mücke: Baltikum", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturhaus Karlshorst", "address": "Treskowallee 112, 10318 Berlin", "price": "7 € / Ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/landscape", "history"], "description": "A slide-and-sound show that takes its audience on an impressive journey through the Baltic region. It is created and presented by Thomas W. Mücke. Fascinating landscapes, customs and history of the region are at the heart of the multimedia show.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/multimediashow-von-und-mit-thomas-w-mucke-baltikum-9359/", "official_url": "https://karlshorst.de/event/multimediashow-baltikum-thomas-w-muecke/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3b7234969d8ad2e38935c3667c6a692f0307568d6414bf7a3d8a0f3b0c9d039f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Ostfrauen*Salon", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Einblick ins Geheime - Ausstellung zum Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv", "address": "Ruschestraße", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei. / Admission is free.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://luma.com/c24f4ugb", "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": "\"Die Akten lügen nicht und sagen auch nicht die Wahrheit\"", "start": "2026-11-11T16:30:00+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": "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": "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": ""}, {"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": ""}, {"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": "Reise in die 50er Jahre", "start": "2026-11-05T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hertha-Müller-Haus", "address": "Argentinische Allee 89, 14163 Berlin", "price": "5,00 €", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/20th-century"], "description": "\"Reise in die 50er Jahre\" is an afternoon of puzzles, singing and shared reminiscences about the good times of the 1950s at the Hertha-Müller-Haus in Steglitz-Zehlendorf. Behind the event is the Verein zur Förderung der Seniorenarbeit im Hertha-Müller-Haus e. V., an association promoting senior work at the house. There will be one or two surprises, and further drinks are available for a charge. Tickets go on sale from 12 October 2026 at the association's office.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/reise-in-die-50er-jahre-57700/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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": "Klingel bei…? Begleitprogramm zur Ausstellung – Zeitzeug*innen im Gespräch. Ein Abend mit und über Zeitzeug*innen", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Lichtenberg im Stadthaus", "address": "Türrschmidtstraße 24, 10317 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "An evening of conversation held as accompanying programme for the exhibition „Klingel bei…?“. Contemporary witnesses talk with co-curator Karl-Heinz Steinle about queer lived realities in Lichtenberg, sharing memories, anecdotes and personal perspectives. Rare interview and film clips make the evening a lively encounter with queer history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/klingel-bei-begleitprogramm-zur-ausstellung-zeitzeuginnen-im-12364/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}