{"title": "Hans Coppi jr.: „Annäherung an meine Eltern Hans und Hilde Coppi“", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkort Berliner Frauengefängnis Barnimstraße", "address": "Weinstraße 2, 10249 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era/resistance"], "description": "A book presentation with readings about Hans and Hilde Coppi, who were arrested in 1942 as members of a resistance network the Gestapo labelled the „Rote Kapelle“ and sentenced to death by the Reichskriegsgericht. Hilde Coppi gave birth to her son Hans at the Berlin women's prison Barnimstraße – the venue, where she was imprisoned – before both parents were executed in 1942/43. The son, Hans Coppi jr., never met his parents and has researched their work since the late 1980s; as he can no longer write biographies for health reasons, Dr. Geertje Andresen has edited a publication from his papers in agreement with him, which she presents on this evening. Historian Claudia von Gélieu speaks about Hilde Coppi on the prison's mother-and-child ward, and actress Ruth Reinecke reads from letters written from the death cells in 1942/43.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/hans-coppi-jr-annaherung-an-meine-eltern-hans-und-hilde-copp-97110/", "official_url": "https://www.rosalux.de/veranstaltung/es_detail/J6HQX/hans-coppi-jr-annaeherung-an-meine-eltern-hans-und-hilde-coppi?cHash=5bc25a5037310e394c1a5d5dbf825c81", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2de3546332336f99ec2afb2d2abcba68f691ef912c949330ef7b2892df2850e2-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkort Berliner Frauengefängnis Barnimstraße", "address": "Weinstraße 2, 10249 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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"}, {"title": "Öffentliche Führungen durch die Gedenkstätte Köpenicker Blutwoche", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Köpenicker Blutwoche", "address": "Puchanstraße 12, 12555 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei. / Admission is free.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "Public guided tours of the Gedenkstätte Köpenicker Blutwoche memorial in the former Köpenick district court prison. Organised by Museen Treptow-Köpenick, the memorial commemorates the wave of arrests and violence carried out by the SA and SS from 21 to 26 June 1933 against several hundred political dissidents and Jews, in which at least 23 people died. The \"Köpenicker Blutwoche\" stands as an example of the phase of the Nazi seizure of power, in which the National Socialists acted publicly with intimidation, torture and murder. Admission is free and no registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/offentliche-fuhrungen-durch-die-gedenkstatte-kopenicker-blut-28453/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "\"Wassermilch und Spitzenwein\" - Eine Berliner Familiengeschichte", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Flughafen Tempelhof", "address": "Platz der Luftbrücke 5 12101 Berlin", "price": "Kostenlose Tickets!", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/memoir"], "description": "A reading with Irene Bindel from her autobiographical book “Wassermilch und Spitzenwein”. The author, born in Berlin in 1938 as the daughter of a Jewish father, tells of her childhood in the National Socialist era, of persecution and her father having to go into hiding, and of the new beginning after 1945, shaped by encounters with the American occupiers. Afterwards she speaks about her personal experiences and answers questions from the audience, with the evening guided by the historian Irmgard Zündorf. The event takes place as part of Berlin Freedom Week.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wassermilch-und-spitzenwein-eine-berliner-familiengeschichte-12669/", "official_url": "https://www.thf-berlin.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung/berlin-freedom-week-wassermilch-und-spitzenwein", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1bd42dba9ff116a9bb9215b6baddb856dfb97bdac374c2e5ad20bf6614941769-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Ditha Brickwell liest aus ihren neuesten Werken", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Haus Kladower Forum", "address": "Kladower Damm 387, 14089 Berlin – Kladow", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "Ditha Brickwell reads from two of her most important novels, which also have a little to do with Kladow, at Kladower Forum, capping the evening with a »Zuckerl« from her hometown Vienna. »Der Kinderdieb« tells of Otto, a young man coming of age in the dark Vienna of the 1950s, who falls in love with a refugee girl from Hungary and does something unheard of to find comfort. »Die andere Seite der Nacht. Eine Erzählung vom Standhalten und Überleben« recounts the fate of Jewish families in Berlin and their Christian helpers during the National Socialist era. The author, committed to justice and democratic values, engages lively with her audience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ditha-brickwell-liest-aus-ihren-neuesten-werken-26240/", "official_url": "https://kladower-forum.de/veranstaltung/ditha-brickwell-liest-aus-ihren-neuesten-werken/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0334517afc520c0930cd118d8e6673f313b3f61d3f5030c7facb4c5c027c3d44-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Führung zum 100. Geburtstag von Peter van Pels", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Anne Frank Zentrum", "address": "Rosenthaler Straße 39, 10178 Berlin", "price": "8 Euro, ermäßigt: 4 Euro. Die Führung ist kostenlos.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/holocaust"], "description": "To mark the 100th birthday of Peter van Pels, the Anne Frank Zentrum invites visitors to a public tour devoted to his biography. Peter van Pels was born in Osnabrück in 1926 and emigrated with his parents to Amsterdam in 1937 because the family, being Jewish, was no longer safe in Germany. From July 1942 until the arrest in August 1944 he hid with Anne Frank's family in the annex at Prinsengracht 263, playing a special role in Anne's life. After being deported to Auschwitz and taken on one of the »death marches« to the Mauthausen concentration camp, he died a few days after liberation in May 1945, aged 18.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/fuhrung-zum-100-geburtstag-von-peter-van-pels-31197/", "official_url": "https://www.annefrank.de/termine/termin/fuehrung-zum-100-geburtstag-von-peter-van-pels", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9e9e900360156d2e95ad7d3fac5008bb90fb88dcdc61895f623a5b51970b40b8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Wurde das einst „rote Berlin“ 1933 vom Faschismus zerschlagen?", "start": "2026-11-03T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Karl-Liebknecht-Haus", "address": "Kleine Alexanderstr. 28, 10178 Berlin", "price": "2 €", "price_from": "2.00", "price_to": "2.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era/resistance"], "description": "A talk with discussion as part of the seniors' club on resistance in Berlin after 1933. The speaker is Dr. Hans-Rainer Sandvoß of the Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, editor of the series \"Widerstand in Berlin 1933-45\". Using historical sources and witness accounts, he reports on an \"other capital\" that expressed itself in many signs of opposition and went far beyond the roughly 10,000 persecuted resistance members. Helle Coppi moderates.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wurde-das-einst-rote-berlin-1933-vom-faschismus-zerschlagen-22788/", "official_url": "https://www.helle-panke.de/de/topic/3.termine.html?id=4143", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c8c4a7414728558ab139d3f77f789aa2b76ec37dd4da65071924ff5d57dd2d85-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Nie wieder!", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grips Theater im Podewil", "address": "Klosterstraße 68 10179 Berlin", "price": "10 €, ermäßigt 5 €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "\"Nie wieder!\" is a musical reading in remembrance of the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. Three performers (Eva Blum, Michaela Hanser, Falk Berghofer) read from Inge Deutschkron's \"Ich trug den gelben Stern\", accompanied by Volker Ludwig's \"Zeitlosen Lieder\" from \"Ab heute heißt Du Sara\", newly arranged for choir. The vocal.ensemble.tempelhof as well as Matthias Witting with arrangements and piano take part. The evening is meant to be stirring and encouraging at once, dealing with humanity, solidarity and civil courage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nie-wieder-4635/", "official_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/spielplan/nie-wieder/3387", "image": ""}, {"title": "Gudrun Bernhagen liest", "start": "2026-11-04T14:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilzentrum PestalozziTreff", "address": "Pestalozzistraße 1A, 12623 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt inklusive Kaffeegedeck: 6 Euro", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-germany", "literature/reading"], "description": "Gudrun Bernhagen reads excerpts from her novel \"Und ... und ... und ... kann ich gut\", which is about the childhood years of a girl from 1945 to 1952. She is accompanied musically by Adrian Wagner and Rudolf Bernhagen. Admission includes a coffee set, and registration is possible by phone at 56 58 69 20. The reading takes place at the Stadtteilzentrum „Pestalozzi-Treff\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gudrun-bernhagen-liest-72804/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Das Geheimnis, der Tunnel und Helmut", "start": "2026-11-10T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Astrid Lindgren Bühne im FEZ-Berlin", "address": "Straße zum FEZ 12459 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["history/gdr", "stage/puppetry"], "description": "The puppet theatre piece „Das Geheimnis, der Tunnel und Helmut“ is a search for traces between secret and history, recommended from age 9. It comes from the Figurentheater Ute Kahmann and is performed on the studio stage of the Astrid-Lindgren-Bühne at the FEZ. At its centre is Helmut, the new father of a child who senses that something about him is different: only after the opening of the Wall does his hidden secret become visible, that he helped people flee from East to West and was imprisoned for it. The roughly 60-minute piece tells of courage and fear, of constraints and longings, and of the struggle between speaking and keeping silent.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/das-geheimnis-der-tunnel-und-helmut-30501/", "official_url": "https://fez-berlin.de/bildung/lernorte/astrid-lindgren-buehne/detailansicht-lernort-theater-macht-schlau?tx_brcalendar2_calendar%5Baction%5D=show&tx_brcalendar2_calendar%5Bcontroller%5D=Event&tx_brcalendar2_calendar%5Bevent%5D=3594&cHash=8ea6d961655fe1bec1b8974b0d332954", "image": ""}, {"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", "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": "Eva Mamlok Fanzine-Workshop", "start": "2026-11-15T13:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum", "address": "Adalbertstraße 95a, 10999 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["history/nazi-era/resistance", "literature"], "description": "A fanzine workshop for children and young people aged 8 to 12: using a simple folding technique, a single sheet becomes an 8-page magazine that, when unfolded completely, even turns into a large A3 poster. Alexandra Weltz-Rombach and the artist Ursula Böckler lead the workshop, in which participants use drawings, texts and ideas to tell the story of Eva Mamlok – a young Jewish resistance fighter against the Nazis who, together with other women, distributed leaflets, wrote slogans on house walls and organized a secret library. The workshop is part of the initiative „Utopisches Erinnern – Partizipative Jugendprojekte am Eva-Mamlok-Platz“ by WeTeK Berlin, which takes the renaming of Blücherplatz to Eva-Mamlok-Platz in October 2026 as a starting point for participatory remembrance. The meeting point is the museum entrance, registration is by email to erinnern@wetek.de, and admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/eva-mamlok-fanzine-workshop-28583/", "official_url": "https://www.fhxb-museum.de/news-detail/eva-mamlok-fanzine-workshop", "image": "https://noky.io/images/16fed6ce81b79b1b18f7aab9bfdb76514758777c8c5d1cb80b6c4a00dac83973-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Gedenkfeier am Gedenkort Eichborndamm 238", "start": "2026-11-13T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gedenkort Eichborndamm 238", "address": "Eichborndamm 238, 13437 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist entgeltfrei.", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A public memorial ceremony at the memorial site with history lab at Eichborndamm 238, which recalls the so-called \"Kinderfachabteilung Wiesengrund\" set up in 1941, where children classified as \"unworthy of life\" under the National Socialist doctrine of heredity and race were admitted and died following medical experiments and a lack of medical help. The sponsorship project \"Mein liebes Kind\" was initiated there in 2018 by the artist Karen Scheper in cooperation with the Museum Reinickendorf, in which Berlin young people and schools take on a sponsorship for one of the murdered children. At the ceremony the participants present their projects, including pupils of the Carl-Bosch-Schule and the Georg-Herwegh-Gymnasium. District mayor Emine Demirbüken-Wegner and Dr. Sabine Ziegenrücker speak, Bozsó Fehér provides guitar music, and there is a laying of flowers at the memorial plaque and a tour of the memorial site with Imke Küster.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gedenkfeier-am-gedenkort-eichborndamm-238-12355/", "official_url": "https://museum-reinickendorf.de/termine/gedenkfeier-am-gedenkort-eichborndamm-238-3/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68779e46f793ad73fd00ace484215c8c64755f3b58b99ae95f138d6ef54ff01d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Effi Briest. Roman, Realität und Bezüge zu Steglitz-Zehlendorf. Lesung und Vortrag von Claudia von Gélieu/Frauentouren", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 3, 12165 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/women", "literature/classics"], "description": "A reading and talk on Fontane's novel \"Effi Briest\" and its real-life model Elisabeth von Ardenne, who after her affair began a new life in Zehlendorf. Women's history expert Claudia von Gélieu of Frauentouren asks which of the two women's life stories better matched the social situation of women at the time. According to her famous grandson Manfred von Ardenne, she learned to ski at sixty and cycle at eighty, dying at ninety-eight in 1952. The event takes place in a district library in Berlin's south-west.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/effi-briest-roman-realitat-und-bezuge-zu-steglitz-zehlendorf-96680/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Lesung mit Musik", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturhaus Karlshorst", "address": "Treskowallee 112, 10318 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/weimar-republic", "literature/reading"], "description": "A reading with music about the end of the Weimar Republic from 1929 to 1933. Roman Knižka and the ensemble OPUS 45 combine literature and music and devote a chapter of their own to the locality of Karlshorst. The programme was awarded the Hans-Frankenthal Prize of the Stiftung Auschwitz-Komitee.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-musik-24538/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/336d68c4f70c0f2d14bb2cee19d5829f1397189515d312f028d1ba5a5db725c6-600.webp"}, {"title": "Öffentliche Führung „Inhaftiert am Alexanderplatz“", "start": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lernort Keibelstraße", "address": "Bernhard-Weiß-Straße 6, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "Öffentliche Führung „Inhaftiert am Alexanderplatz“ is a guided tour through a former remand prison at Alexanderplatz in Berlin. It is organised by Lernort Keibelstraße and covers the history of the site, the fates of the people imprisoned there and the conditions in which they were held in Keibelstraße. Between 1951 and 1990 the remand prison Berlin-Mitte, also called UHA II, stood in Keibelstraße; it was subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior and located inside the East Berlin headquarters of the People's Police. Another focus is on the structural changes, because from 1990 film and music producers used the lower floors of the former prison as a set and remade parts of the cell block; the tour takes about 45 minutes, after which there is time to explore the site on your own.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/offentliche-fuhrung-inhaftiert-am-alexanderplatz-2876/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c6416e6715b16ba3355900c759c84e1e5c31ea558d4b3c9c8b6e2f55a7c16d81-600.webp"}, {"title": "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick – Vom Sträfling zur Legende", "start": "2026-10-24T09:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-10-24T20:00:00+02:00", "place": "Rathaus Köpenick", "address": "Alt-Köpenick 21, 12555 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/berlin"], "description": "The permanent exhibition “Der Hauptmann von Köpenick – Vom Sträfling zur Legende” is presented by the Museen Treptow-Köpenick in the district office's department of culture and can be seen in Köpenick's town hall. On 16 October 1906 the unemployed shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt took over the town hall wearing a captain's uniform bought from a junk dealer, detained the mayor and had the municipal cash box handed over to him. The exhibition traces the course of this “Köpenickiade” and shows what military norms and values meant in Wilhelmine Berlin. It also addresses the legends that began to form right after the raid and the tragicomic personality of Wilhelm Voigt.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/der-hauptmann-von-kopenick-vom-strafling-zur-legende-3477/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/museum-treptow-koepenick/museen/hauptmannausstellung/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/857fab5e6e4bbe8cba864b3868e6782bef353b0732985d6a6d0b37788d2c620b-2000.webp"}]}