{"title": "Julia Franck: Ich ertrinke in den Wassern meiner eigenen Liebe. Rilkes letzte Geliebte", "start": "2026-11-15T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Neue Synagoge", "address": "Oranienburger Straße 28-30, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/biography"], "description": "The author Julia Franck presents her new book, in which she follows the traces of an extraordinary relationship. It is about Baladine Klossowska and Rainer Maria Rilke, who knew each other from Paris in the years before the war. 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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": "»Jüdisches Weißensee« – Jüdische Geschichte(n) in der Gegenwartsliteratur. Lesung & Gespräch mit Marina Frenk, Slata Roschal, Britta Wauer & Alexander Estis", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "€8 – €10 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/jewish-history", "literature"], "description": "A literary evening of readings and conversation about Jewish history and Jewish life in contemporary literature and film, with Weißensee and its large Jewish cemetery as an example of regional places of Jewish life. Reading and discussing are the writers Marina Frenk and Slata Roschal and the author and filmmaker Britta Wauer, with Alexander Estis moderating. The evening asks about regional references in the work of Jewish and non-Jewish authors. It also shows connections with other arts such as film and music.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/judisches-weiensee-judische-geschichten-in-der-gegenwartslit-24489/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/juedisches-weissensee-juedische-geschichten-in-der-gegenwartsliteratur-lesung-gespraech-mit-marina-frenk-slata-roschal-britta-wauer-alexander-estis/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7aa03cefa9225588537a71a1b4cc898cc495990abe24dca58d954ddb23868d72-1200.webp"}, {"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, "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": "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": "Lustre & Ruin: The Launch of Intimate Infinity / Intimität der Unendlichkeit", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Chapters", "address": "Wilsnacker Straße 60, 10559", "price": "", "price_from": "6.51", "price_to": "6.51", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening of reading and conversation marking the launch of \"Intimate Infinity / Intimität der Unendlichkeit\", a book of photographs and asemic drawings alongside essays in German and English. It is an echo of the blog Berlin Reified, a companion to Sylee Gore's first poetry collection Maximum Summer (2025), and an evocation of light and summer in Berlin. Behind it are Berlin-based literary translator Sylee Gore, poet Donna Stonecipher and novelist Dilek Güngör, and all three will be present. The evening turns on lustre, ruin and the urban pastoral – a love letter to the city.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lustre-ruin-the-launch-of-intimate-infinity-intimitat-der-un-40414/", "official_url": "https://www.chaptersberlin.com/events/lustre-ruin-of-intimate-infinity", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e40740a05e5adf31f2807172b5e7a639dad25fb90c4da3f36fa0a453fe5d830-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung: Der letzte Himmel", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Pierre Boulez Saal", "address": "Französische Straße 33d, 10117 Berlin", "price": "0€", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "literature"], "description": "A reading and discussion in the foyer of the Pierre Boulez Saal. German-Palestinian journalist Alena Jabarine presents her book „Der letzte Himmel“, in which she recalls the summers of her childhood and tells how she moved to Ramallah in 2020 to understand what “Palestine” means. The book contains stories of humanity, joy of life and resistance that help make sense of the reality in Israel and Palestine. The event is held in German and English, with a musical contribution from students of the Barenboim-Said Akademie.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-der-letzte-himmel-16724/", "official_url": "https://www.boulezsaal.de/de/event/akademie-forum-alena-jabarine-806386", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9baabc0cd2c0021a6f4b53b16a3ea2d2989fc5dbc396fa65a475fafc3ef151fe-600.webp"}, {"title": "Özge İnan: \"Die Dichterin\"", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+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/fiction"], "description": "The author Özge İnan reads from her novel „Die Dichterin“ at the Bezirkszentralbibliothek Pablo Neruda. 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. Admission is free, with advance registration available.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ozge-inan-die-dichterin-24126/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-friedrichshain-kreuzberg/bibliotheken/bezirkszentralbibliothek-pablo-neruda/veranstaltungen-projekte/oezge-inan-die-dichterin-1720666.php", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6deb390e939cb4fc80877f8b78d45d9f64d5f83812f181d9b65315df5068c6a6-600.webp"}, {"title": "Olivia Laing »Buch der Träume«", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A book premiere in the Großer Saal of the Literaturhaus Berlin: author Olivia Laing presents her new novel »Buch der Träume«, in English, with the German passages read by actress Veronika Bachfischer. In conversation with Kathleen Reinhardt, director of the Georg Kolbe Museum and curator of the German Pavilion at the 61. Biennale di Venezia 2026, she speaks about Venice as a place of longing, le belli arti and the novel. The novel tells of a penniless young English artist's encounter with the visionary costume and production designer Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema. The two travel to Rome and surrender themselves to the intoxicating dream world of Cinecittà in Italy's politically tense »Years of Lead« – a hypnotic, captivatingly told novel about power and illusion, loneliness and uncompromising desire.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/olivia-laing-buch-der-traume-201/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/olivia-laing-buch-der-traeume/", "image": ""}, {"title": "AZOLIA – CD Release Konzert: Begegnung mit Rilke (Unit Records)", "start": "2026-11-08T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kunstfabrik Schlot", "address": "Invalidenstraße 117, 10115 Berlin", "price": "15/10 €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/vocal-jazz", "literature/poetry"], "description": "AZOLIA – CD Release Konzert: Begegnung mit Rilke (Unit Records) is a vocal chamber jazz concert at Kunstfabrik Schlot. The international quartet consists of Belgian singer and composer Sophie Tassignon, German-American alto saxophonist, clarinettist, singer and composer Susanne Folk, German bass clarinettist and soprano saxophonist Lothar Ohlmeier, and Swiss double bassist Andreas Waelti, who have been setting poetry to music for years. After a programme on the British poet Wilfred Owen, the band now turns to Rainer Maria Rilke, presenting a new programme for the 100th anniversary of his death in 2026 that weaves selected Rilke poems into chamber-musical, airy and deeply felt compositions. Voice, wind instruments and bass interweave with ample space for sensitive interplay, making Rilke's language newly audible – fragile, radiant and full of resonance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/azolia-cd-release-konzert-begegnung-mit-rilke-unit-records-23492/", "official_url": "https://kunstfabrik-schlot.de/event/azolia-cd-release-konzert-begegnung-mit-rilke-unit-records/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ecd1cdbde60bbff655e30456a2ae7fb65ca58a08eb752e54dfc403ebdb540edd-2000.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", "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": "Vorgemerkt. | Franziska Gänsler", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Eva-Mamlok-Platz 1, 10961 Berlin", "address": "Eva-Mamlok-Platz 1, 10961 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "„Vorgemerkt.“ is a series in which writers present a personal selection of media from the ZLB collection – ranging from novels and poetry to comics, films, music CDs and games. The author Franziska Gänsler, whose debut novel „Ewig Sommer“ was published in 2022 and won several awards, presents her favourite media. In a conversation with the author and translator Luca Mael Milsch, the selected works become the starting point for the evening. Gänsler lives in Augsburg and Berlin; after „Wie Inseln im Licht“ (2024), her third novel „Orca“ is forthcoming.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vorgemerkt-franziska-gansler-2588/", "official_url": "https://www.zlb.de/veranstaltungsuebersicht/vorgemerkt-11/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9d33dc15cb2ddd63b7109e872210fbbba3654020be63043467eb7b5bde3aebb1-1200.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", "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. The event by AG Kultur bei Pro Kiez e.V. and the Kurt-Tucholsky-Bibliothek takes place in the reading room on the ground floor left; registration by e-mail is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-und-gesprach-mit-der-autorin-lena-muller-24490/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=295241&ls=30&c=409", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b20fea682d96371a2ea0645f8655578325f34a4c87d61fd442cd89760aeeecda-600.webp"}]}