{"title": "In translation: Lucy Lee Jones in conversation with Ambika Thompson", "start": "2026-10-27T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-27T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Chapters", "address": "Wilsnacker Straße 60, 10559", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/translation"], "description": "This is a book launch with a conversation at the venue Chapters. Translator Lucy Lee Jones speaks with writer Ambika Thompson about Charlotte Gneuß’s newly translated novel Red Skies, a literary thriller set in the former GDR, and what it means to translate complexity and clarity. The protagonist Karin Köhler, 16 years old, comes under suspicion and becomes entangled in a confusing web of misleading information after Paul disappears. Although the story is rooted in East Germany, its heart is universal: a young girl caught in a terrible situation, not knowing how to ask for help.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/in-translation-lucy-lee-jones-in-conversation-with-ambika-th-13918/", "official_url": "https://www.chaptersberlin.com/events/gw1lpnn44wzm11sgribao9oxp56vbu", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5c059b202d0558cc630934fba528e97c96d1851db430a05af1b52a21557ad050-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-27T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-27T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Chapters", "address": "Wilsnacker Straße 60, 10559", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Sheila Armstrong and Gesa Stedman", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://literatur-berlin.tickettoaster.de/produkte/4251-tickets-across-the-page-sheila-armstrong-gesa-stedman-berlin-babel-dj-natalie-stardust-literaturhaus-berlin-berlin-am-06-11-2026", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "A reading-and-talk evening at the Großer Saal of Literaturhaus Berlin. 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The audience brings its own questions with it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/desire-thresholds-erotic-review-issue-6-launch-40413/", "official_url": "https://www.chaptersberlin.com/events/femi-fadugba-in-conversation-with-gertrude-agbozo-74nse-8akab-xsr6h", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e1b3145a5c9785d69adf63e2cc5bd1d7b4e08b943f8ddae61c76fbb2f4c046c1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung und Gespräch mit der Autorin Lena Müller", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Pro Kiez Bötzowkiez e.V.", "address": "Esmarchstraße 18, 10407 Berlin", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "Lena Müller reads from her novel »Club der Verschwenderinnen« and then talks about it. In it, on a hot summer in the big city, single mother and translator Eli meets Gunda, who has been standing alone behind the bar of a pub for 20 years. Out of an initial makeshift arrangement a friendship gradually grows that becomes a great story. 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Eine Erzählung vom Standhalten und Überleben« recounts the fate of Jewish families in Berlin and their Christian helpers during the National Socialist era. 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The novel follows the celebrated young poet Emma Rodenstock, whose story begins to unravel when a second lyricist claims to have written her texts – a tale of authenticity, classism and the power of scandal. The evening is moderated by TV journalist and book reviewer Georgina Fakunmoju. 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The author talks to Kathleen Reinhardt, director of the Georg Kolbe Museum, about Venice as a place of longing and her novel about two men who meet in Venice and plunge into the dream world of Cinecittà, until their excessive lives grow threatening amid Italy's 'Years of Lead'. The German passages will be read by the actress Veronika Bachfischer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buchpremiere-olivia-laing-buch-der-traume-11976/", "official_url": "https://georg-kolbe-museum.de/programm/veranstaltungen/buchpremiere-olivia-laing-buch-der-traeume/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Club de lectura de noviembre: Malina, de Ingeborg Bachmann", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bartleby & Co.", "address": "Boppstraße 2", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel"], "description": "In November, the Bartleby reading circle meets at the Bartleby & Co. bookshop on Boppstraße 2. The Spanish-language bookshop invites its readers to read a book together and then discuss it in person. The chosen title is Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann, an astonishing portrait of a writer trying to tell her own story in a world dominated by men. The novel follows a woman in postwar Vienna between her inaccessible lover Ivan and her reserved flatmate Malina, a feminist psychological masterpiece of European literature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/club-de-lectura-de-noviembre-malina-de-ingeborg-bachmann-12904/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b5f679be336ded5a712898b70574c79015fbfe42ff1b6224a7eae4b1e54d0b62-2000.webp"}, {"title": "\"Manipuliert\" - Lesung mit Martta Kaukonen", "start": "2026-11-03T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Janusz-Korczak-Bibliothek", "address": "Berliner Straße 120/121, 13187 Berlin", "price": "Freier Eintritt", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/thriller"], "description": "A reading from the psycho-thriller \"Manipuliert\" at the Janusz-Korczak-Bibliothek. The Finnish author Martta Kaukonen, who lives and works in Helsinki, reads from her new book. Her psychological thrillers are known for multi-layered characters, hidden truths and unexpected twists. The reading takes place in Finnish and German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/manipuliert-lesung-mit-martta-kaukonen-48516/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/65a1a0b41351df26da9a82c6ac0740ebc4e490296fa277c48f79d7a0306bd693-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Autorenlesung Tödliche Abrechnung", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Buchladen totsicher", "address": "Margaretenstraße 2, 10317 Berlin", "price": "5,00 €", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/crime"], "description": "An author reading titled „Tödliche Abrechnung“ at the bookshop Buchladen totsicher. Behind the reading is the author Susanne Rüster. The bookshop describes itself as a place where everything serves literature – even theft and murder. There you can get advice or browse at leisure in its rooms.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/autorenlesung-todliche-abrechnung-34373/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ddecf39232656025078454e1223eaf277608798faf57d8db5e556a1236abf8e4-2000.webp"}]}