{"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": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "The talk »Geheimtransporte über die Ostsee« looks back on 40 years of the Mukran ferry port. It covers the secret rail ferry link between East Germany and the Soviet Union, which ran on a 48-hour schedule bypassing Poland and was praised in GDR propaganda as a »bridge of friendship to the land of Lenin«. The history of this connection between Mukran and Klaipėda was researched by publicist Wolfgang Klietz, who will present it that evening with many 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-16501/", "official_url": "https://www.ddr-museum.de", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bb309a5e41e945bd19fb018ccaa03bc269eb4896ad0de0ef1f2248198099634a-600.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": "Einblicke in die Sonderausstellung „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. 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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": "»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": "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": "Einblicke in die Sonderausstellung „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche“ (DE)", "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": "A guided tour of the special exhibition „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche“ at the Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung. It introduces the exhibition's central themes, artistic positions and questions, after which visitors are invited to explore the photographic works on their own. The tour focuses on the stories, memories and historical traces behind the images and on the different perspectives they bring together. It lasts 40 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/einblicke-in-die-sonderausstellung-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodn-15582/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/einblicke-die-sonderausstellung-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodnie-eine-deutsch-polnische-7", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70a225679448b51b6643788922b1597b62b9c9b83967928ed11d51ae82d36239-1200.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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "", "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": "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": "Sonntagslesung", "start": "2026-11-08T10:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T10:30:00+01:00", "place": "Dünenpavillon (Raum 0.11), Ribnitzer Str. 1b, Berlin, 13051", "address": "", "price": "4,00 Euro", "price_from": "4.00", "price_to": "4.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii", "literature/reading"], "description": "The Sonntagslesung is a public reading at which Wolfram Adolphi reads from his family-history novel „Hartenstein oder Die unerhörte Arbeit des Erinnerns“ and from the manuscript of his new book „Familiensache Russland. Ein baltendeutsches Panoptikum“. Behind the event is the Verein für aktive Vielfalt e.V., which invites people to reflect together. The occasion is the attack of fascist Germany on the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, 85 years ago.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sonntagslesung-73384/", "official_url": "https://vav-lichtenberg.de/aktuelles/sonntagslesung-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9122dc6c4ed0db6219695259ca65c4716d0ea2466404d57f6e753582232b67b2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Flucht im geteilten Deutschland", "start": "2026-10-24T11:30:00+02:00", "end": "2027-10-23T17:00:00+02:00", "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.wollenschlaeger-berlin.de/festzelt-der-hauptstadt/?source=bde", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "A public tour of the permanent exhibition \"Flucht im geteilten Deutschland\". It is offered by the Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde and spans the arc from the decision to leave the GDR to the refugees' integration into the Federal Republic. Political developments are thereby linked with the personal experiences of those who fled or left. The tour lasts 75 minutes and is in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/flucht-im-geteilten-deutschland-11826/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/notaufnahmelager-marienfelde/besuch/programm/flucht-im-geteilten-deutschland", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d9d7413332d86f636a6595e2305a214ceaa0eb7a59a0acac446aa924f06cf59-1200.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": "\"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": "Entlang der Berliner Mauer", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Berlin on Bike - Radtouren & Verleih", "address": "Knaackstraße 97 10435 Berlin", "price": "Erwachsene €35, Schüler/Studenten €27, Kinder bis 8 Jahre €9 (inkl. Leihrad); E-Bike-Aufpreis €20", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": "35.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/cold-war"], "description": "Entlang der Berliner Mauer is a guided bicycle tour following the former Berlin Wall border strip and the Berlin Wall Cycle Route. Berlin on Bike runs it in small groups through Prenzlauer Berg and onwards to places such as the Bornholmer Straße crossing, Bernauer Straße, the Berlin Wall Memorial, Mauerpark, a surviving watchtower at Kieler Eck and the government district. Riders hear about Germany's division and Cold War Berlin, about daily life in the GDR, escape stories and the opening of the Wall on 9 November 1989, with stops at original sites. The ride takes 3.5 hours and covers 12 to 15 kilometres, with bicycles and helmets provided, starting and finishing at the Kulturbrauerei.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/entlang-der-berliner-mauer-20380/", "official_url": "https://berlinonbike.de/alle-touren/berliner-mauer-radtour/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fa9cb99ddfa777fb0f32177637c14e07f5299c86d36ba20646c037d6e73572da-600.webp"}]}