{"title": "Judith Hermann – Ich möchte zurückgehen in der Zeit", "start": "2026-11-09T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Buchhandlung Braun & Hassenpflug", "address": "Fischerhüttenstraße 79, 14163 Berlin", "price": "15,- € Eintritt", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "A literary evening with Judith Hermann about her new book »Ich möchte zurückgehen in der Zeit« (S. Fischer Verlage, 2026). In it, she follows the traces of her grandfather, who was stationed in Radom, Poland, for the SS during the Second World War. She links her writing to his long-denied history, travels from Poland to her sister in Naples, and explores the remembering and forgetting of later generations. Admission is 15 euros.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/judith-hermann-ich-mochte-zuruckgehen-in-der-zeit-13450/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/19d1dd811743c90346f47bc12eeee13a4f0c7cd87e1c68cae3836a3aab32f6ee-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-09T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Buchhandlung Braun & Hassenpflug", "address": "Fischerhüttenstraße 79, 14163 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "ZEIT-Recherchen: War Opa ein Nazi?", "start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "16/9 EURO", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "\"ZEIT-Recherchen: War Opa ein Nazi?\" is a talk as part of a discourse event on the anniversary of the November pogroms of 1938. 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Wie Nachfahren ihre NS-Familiengeschichte erforschen (empfohlen ab 16 Jahre)", "start": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Die gute Seite", "address": "Richardplatz 16, 12055 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://dieguteseiteberlin.buchhandlung.de/shop/article/57157258/present_past.html", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A reading and conversation with author Friedrich Burschel, who talks about his own family research into the National Socialist era. At the centre is the volume „Present Past“, in which ten descendants describe how they investigated their family's Nazi past and how they deal with what they found. Burschel, who works on anti-fascism at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, contextualises the stories and then invites an audience discussion on memory politics. The event is part of the autumn series 2026 of the Neukölln bookshops against right-wing populism and racism.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-gesprach-mit-friedrich-burschel-zu-present-past-wie-n-48498/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a49c27e608476b4c56a6c9195696c4be5a36311623fceb5d740b3742f4278648-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Misha Schoeneberg liest aus „Vielleicht wollte er gar nicht schweigen er fand bloß die Worte nicht” mit musikalischer Begleitung", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Buchhandlung am Schäfersee", "address": "Markstraße 6, 13409 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature", "music"], "description": "Misha Schoeneberg reads from his book „Vielleicht wollte er gar nicht schweigen er fand bloß die Worte nicht“, accompanied by musician Michael Gerlinger, who sings songs by Leonard Cohen in German to the guitar. In this deeply personal book, the author traces the story of his father, a member of a Jewish Berlin family who survived the horrors of Auschwitz. It is about silence and speechlessness in the family, remembrance culture and the upheavals of the present up to the events of October 7. The reading takes place at Buchhandlung am Schäfersee in Berlin; advance registration is possible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/misha-schoeneberg-liest-aus-vielleicht-wollte-er-gar-nicht-s-13471/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b76d528393fa3deeeebccf968b564e266c0db82854844ae3c870ae2192546799-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Gudrun Bernhagen liest", "start": "2026-11-04T14:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilzentrum PestalozziTreff", "address": "Pestalozzistraße 1A, 12623 Berlin", "price": "6 Euro inklusive Kaffeegedeck", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "", "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": "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": "„War mein Opa ein Nazi?\" Wie Nachfahren ihre NS-Familiengeschichte erforschen", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Feurigstraße 68 10827 Berlin", "address": "Feurigstraße 68 10827 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A jour fixe with a book presentation where descendants report on how they researched their own family's Nazi past. Berlin historian Dr. Johannes Spohr, who runs the archival research service »Present Past«, presents his new book together with the historian and publicist Friedrich Burschel: ten stories about ten ways in which descendants researched National Socialism in their own families. The welcome address and moderation are by Ragna Vogel, managing director of KONTAKTE-KOHTAKTbI e.V., followed by a reception for conversation and exchange. Admission is free; donations for the association's humanitarian projects for victims of National Socialism are welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/war-mein-opa-ein-nazi-wie-nachfahren-ihre-ns-familiengeschic-31444/", "official_url": "https://kontakte-kontakty.de/war-mein-opa-ein-nazi-wie-nachfahren-ihre-ns-familiengeschichte-erforschen-jour-fixe-am-30-10-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/86e8847620bdfb705ee187d4b3cb3f6cbe4dbe4a488e0b32795f525784fc98a9-2000.webp"}, {"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", "tickets_url": "", "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": "Heimweh nach gestern. Eine Geschichte der Nostalgie in Deutschland", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge", "address": "Leipziger Straße 54, 10117 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://museumderdinge.org/events/heimweh-nach-gestern-book-presentation/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/germany", "literature"], "description": "A book presentation and conversation at Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge. The historian and curator Tobias Becker presents his book „Heimweh nach gestern. Eine Geschichte der Nostalgie in Deutschland“ and discusses it with the journalist and author Jens Bisky. In his book, Becker examines how divided and reunified Germany dealt with its past, from the rediscovery of the „Golden Twenties“ to Ostalgie. The event is free of charge and no registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/heimweh-nach-gestern-eine-geschichte-der-nostalgie-in-deutsc-12716/", "official_url": "https://museumderdinge.de/veranstaltungen/heimweh-nach-gestern-buchpraesentation/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5182d497ad4f198eb93e1448964222e9ef1167d650e86ec63aa8a6aaeb781fa1-600.webp"}, {"title": "Auf Wiederlesen #57: Holger Franke liest \"Abendlicht\" von Stefan Hermlin", "start": "2026-10-30T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T22:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie KungerKiez", "address": "Karl-Kunger-Straße 15 12435 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Spenden willkommen!", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "A public reading at a gallery in Berlin's Alt-Treptow: Holger Franke reads from Stefan Hermlin's prose collection \"Abendlicht\". Published in 1979, the book tells, in 22 texts, of a first-person narrator looking back on his life, from childhood in a well-to-do bourgeois family and a critical young man's path into the Communist Party to impressions of the Nazi era and repeated attempts at resistance. The author's concern is a more humane way of dealing with one another in society. Admission is free, donations are welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/auf-wiederlesen-57-holger-franke-liest-abendlicht-von-stefan-67841/", "official_url": "https://kungerkiez.de/austellungs-details/auf-wiederlesen-57-holger-franke-liest-abendlicht-von-stefan-hermlin.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/12d3aa419235d755381d0888c74a6c5501188dd77e6ca9f9f110859194793650-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Anna Schapiro liest aus ihrem Debütroman", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Anne Frank Zentrum", "address": "Rosenthaler Straße 39, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel", "society/antisemitism"], "description": "As part of the Education and Action Weeks against Antisemitism, the Anne Frank Zentrum invites to a reading with the artist and author Anna Schapiro. She reads from her debut novel »Fühlen Sie sich wie zu Hause, aber vergessen Sie dabei nicht, dass Sie zu Gast sind«, which tells the life story of her grandmother. Its protagonist Anna searches for her family's untold stories, with farewells, emigration and different kinds of arrival at their heart. A moderated talk with the author follows the reading; admission is free and registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/anna-schapiro-liest-aus-ihrem-debutroman-11134/", "official_url": "https://www.annefrank.de/termine/termin/lesung-anna-schapiro-021126", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b853a85901c877889cb5b73e17f83b011416e4ddd03a708d43b040447e7adf2e-2000.webp"}, {"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": "\"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", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.de/e/elshan-ghasimi-reinterpretation-des-radif-dastgah-e-chahargah-tickets-1997393231925", "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": "In Erinnerung an Klaus Hesse (13. April 1955 – 31. März 2026)", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Topographie des Terrors", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A memorial event for Klaus Hesse (1955–2026), who from 1986 helped prepare the documentation “Topographie des Terrors” and shaped the Documentation Centre's permanent exhibition. After a welcome by director Dr. Andrea Riedle, Prof. Dr. Andreas Nachama speaks on Hesse as exhibition curator and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Paul on the state and perspectives of visual history. Hesse was a respected expert in visual history and remained connected to the institution even after retirement. Admission is free; registration by 27 October is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/in-erinnerung-an-klaus-hesse-13-april-1955-31-marz-2026-12690/", "official_url": "https://www.topographie.de/veranstaltungen/detail/in-erinnerung-an-klaus-hesse-13-april-1955-31-maerz-2026", "image": ""}, {"title": "THERE IS NO PAST IN BERLIN: Ioana Cristina Casapu in conversation with Alexander Wells", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lettrétage", "address": "Veteranenstr. 21, 10119 Berlin", "price": "on a donation basis (recommended 5-10€)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin", "literature"], "description": "A literary evening of readings, conversation and mutual interviewing at Lettrétage. Romanian author and curator Ioana Cristina Casapu welcomes Australian writer and critic Alexander Wells for the second edition of her series „THERE IS NO PAST IN BERLIN“, which she initiated together with Lars Jongeblod. Starting from Karl Scheffler's verdict that Berlin is „condemned forever to becoming“, they ask how much of the past we carry into a new life, tracing writers who came to Berlin to begin again – from Isherwood's Schöneberg and Joseph Roth's streets to today's perpetually unfinished capital. Casapu draws on her essay collection „Berliner Tagebuch – Die Geschichte meiner inneren Mauer“ (2025), Wells on essays following Joseph Roth, questioning young Australians in Berlin and examining how the Stasi became part of a reassuring Western narrative.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/there-is-no-past-in-berlin-ioana-cristina-casapu-in-conversa-7372/", "official_url": "https://www.lettretage.de/programm/there-is-no-past-in-berlin-ioana-cristina-casapu-in-conversation-with-alexander-wells", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e09be97596bab3997375df8499f6ed2c59095e2ee59382927e1616fdeeb5a42-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Spazieren in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00+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": "https://www.dorotheenstaedtische.de/event/spazieren-in-berlin", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "The bookshop hosts a reading from Franz Hessel's book „Spazieren in Berlin“, a textbook on the art of strolling through Berlin first published in 1929. The actor Hans-Jürgen Schatz reads from it, and the evening is moderated by the publisher André Förster. Hessel (1880–1941) was a writer, editor and translator who lived in Berlin in the 1920s and emigrated to Paris in 1938. Walter Benjamin called the book a memorising while strolling, for which remembering was not the source but the muse.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/spazieren-in-berlin-22283/", "official_url": "https://www.dorotheenstaedtische.de/event/spazieren-in-berlin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/faf9fe110b11b1f17ff173b8dee0dd9c07708277df0d93e23d4cc0f60c697d68-600.webp"}]}