{"title": "Leben am Hermsdorfer Waldsee „Die Frauen tragen die Last“", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilbibliothek Frohnau", "address": "Fuchssteinerweg 17, 13465 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar", "literature/biography"], "description": "Author Dr. Rainer Drews reads from his book at this event about life at the Hermsdorfer Waldsee. It combines a book presentation with a conversation, and Claudia Wasow-Kania gives the welcome. A biographical reportage traces the lives of two women: Maria Koerfgen, left entirely on her own as a widow with her daughter Renate from 1947 after both her son and her son-in-law went missing in the war, coped with the daily challenges of the following years only under the greatest strains. Their life paths and the moving fates in their family are recounted, as part of “Bühnentausch” 2025, a cooperation between the Museum Reinickendorf and the Stadtbibliothek Reinickendorf.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/leben-am-hermsdorfer-waldsee-die-frauen-tragen-die-last-12356/", "official_url": "https://museum-reinickendorf.de/termine/leben-am-hermsdorfer-waldsee-die-frauen-tragen-die-last-lesung-dr-rainer-drews/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c24ac5d27db283cb52ea31f8f3ebea3b733841b36696b114b0dc83744be73ec2-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilbibliothek Frohnau", "address": "Fuchssteinerweg 17, 13465 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "BÜHNENTAUSCH \" Die Frauen tragen die Last\" - Lesung & Gespräch mit Rainer Drews", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilbibliothek Frohnau", "address": "Fuchssteinerweg 17, 13465 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-germany", "literature"], "description": "A reading followed by a conversation under the title „BÜHNENTAUSCH „Die Frauen tragen die Last“ - Lesung & Gespräch mit Rainer Drews“. Behind it is Rainer Drews, an author born in Berlin-Hermsdorf, an educationalist who taught at universities in Berlin and Potsdam, reading from his biographical reportage „Leben am Hermsdorfer Waldsee“. It traces the lives of Maria Koerfgen and her daughter Renate, who from 1947 onwards had to manage alone as a widow and half-orphan after son and son-in-law went missing in the war. Claudia Wasow-Kania of the Museum Reinickendorf gives the welcome; participation is only possible with registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buhnentausch-die-frauen-tragen-die-last-lesung-gesprach-mit-82211/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c63e3e1b8e725a01141475468b78dc7276cdbc54e015ac9f96c9a83e69dde7ce-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Interaktive Lesung: Drei Frauen sprechen über gelebte Wege. Echt, authentisch und Mut gebend.", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Pax Blu Café", "address": "Knobelsdorffstraße 47, 14059 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "An interactive reading followed by a discussion at the Pax Blu Café. Three authors read from their books about lived paths: Mareen Behrendt-Deter from „Geschenke aus dem Nichts“ about more ease in life after a great loss, Marion Antonidis from „Steh auf mein Mädchen“ about a near-death experience, and Ines Rosika Werner from „Liebe ist Alles“ about life after her mother's suicide. Real, authentic and encouraging.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/interaktive-lesung-drei-frauen-sprechen-uber-gelebte-wege-ec-28518/", "official_url": "https://www.paxblu-cafe.com/events/interaktive-lesung-drei-frauen-sprechen-ueber-gelebte-wege-echt-authentisch-und-mut-gebend/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d8ce992a6e916b60f3d3c217fb167834ec95284951415ddc8ed118604c414011-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung mit Miriam Stein", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mittelpunktbibliothek Treptow Alte Feuerwache", "address": "Michael-Brückner-Straße 9, 12439 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt: frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/non-fiction", "society/gender"], "description": "A reading from the book “Die unverschämte Frau” as part of the reading series “ZUSAMMEN HALTEN – Frauen verbinden, Resilienz stärken” (“Sticking together – women connect, build resilience”) by the Treptow-Köpenick library and the district office's equal opportunity officer. The author and culture journalist Miriam Stein reads from a book about society's ideas of femininity, growing older, and questions of self-determination. The series deals with topics such as mental load, unpaid care work, and social role models. Afterwards there is a chance to talk with the author; registration is requested, admission is free, and children are welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-miriam-stein-50165/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/ba-treptow-koepenick/politik-und-verwaltung/beauftragte/gleichstellung/-aktuelles/artikel.1695588.php", "image": "https://noky.io/images/66d28e2a75385e565dc7a9beb9db35599601e614e56021ed06029b520d874e79-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Literarische Erinnerungsbilder", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung", "address": "Straße der Pariser Kommune 8A, 10243 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/germany", "literature"], "description": "\"Literarische Erinnerungsbilder\" is a reading followed by a conversation. The authors Regina Scheer and Annett Gröschner read from their family novels \"Machandel\" and \"Schwebende Lasten\", in which individual fates form a multiperspectival mosaic of twentieth-century German history; the conversation is moderated by literary scholar Therese Hörnigk. The event takes place in the Eva-Mamlok-Bibliothek of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and is accessible, registration is requested. Literary images of memory are meant to broaden the range of society's perceptions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/literarische-erinnerungsbilder-97085/", "official_url": "https://www.rosalux.de/veranstaltung/es_detail/YWZCR/literarische-erinnerungsbilder?cHash=784309a7c779e052580b64ff3c5d54eb", "image": "https://noky.io/images/575c4c578c748ea7fdb4b59a6de9414192fc00aa1475a32faab15ae71ceac786-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Elfriede Brüning, »… damit du weiterlebst« (1949)", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brecht-Haus", "address": "Chausseestraße 125, 10115 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei!", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/german-literature"], "description": "A lecture on the writer Elfriede Brüning (1910–2014) and her post-war novel »… damit du weiterlebst« (1949), given by Mimmi Woisnitza, who researches proletarian-revolutionary aesthetics in the GDR. The novel sets the survival story of Lotte Burkhardt, a single Jewish mother, alongside the story of Hanns and Hilde Coppi, whose executions were stylised in the GDR into a heroic narrative of resistance. In this way Brüning undermines the GDR's state-prescribed antifascism by recording what it left out: women's experiences beyond the heroic tale. Admission is free, and the event is a project of the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus with the Arbeitskreis Politische Ästhetiken.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/elfriede-bruning-damit-du-weiterlebst-1949-75809/", "official_url": "https://lfbrecht.de/event/elfriede-bruening-damit-du-weiterlebst-1949/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/21644a8cc6b401e64ac614bb73de2a9d84bbff091a99ee041a297a591f4da45b-600.webp"}, {"title": "Wir sind anders! Wie die DDR Frauen bis heute prägt", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Forum Willy Brandt Berlin", "address": "Behrenstraße 15, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "A reading and conversation about the book „Wir sind anders!\" by Annette Schuhmann. The historian from the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam portrays 13 East German women – artists as well as workers, scientists as well as activists – and shows how memories, ruptures and origins continue to have an effect 35 years after reunification. Elke Sasse and Petra Steffan moderate, and the bookshop „Buchfink\" joins in with a book table. A joint event by the Willy-Brandt-Haus Lübeck with the women's office of the city of Lübeck and the equal opportunities office of the city of Wismar; registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wir-sind-anders-wie-die-ddr-frauen-bis-heute-pragt-29696/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c043b0c81e463db7c6232d9d1fa42cd5d53dfe0fa7bf9cda497949bc2c8d2088-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lesereihe: „Auf den Spuren vergessener Schriftstellerinnen“", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Brunnenstr. 181, 10119 Berlin", "address": "Brunnenstr. 181, 10119 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction", "society/women"], "description": "A reading from the series „Auf den Spuren vergessener Schriftstellerinnen“ dedicated to the Berlin writer Annemarie Weber. Publisher Britta Jürgs introduces the author, born in 1918 and died in 1991, and Simone Hausdorf reads. Weber's novel portrays with wit the contrasting worlds of the wild sixties in West Berlin, between marriage and pills, left-wing demos and stylish receptions. The event is free and requires no registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesereihe-auf-den-spuren-vergessener-schriftstellerinnen-96850/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f4ef89a2cb1e5b4323ec5040459bde9ecf4e63745cf7fd28a08eec0913b7626d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung mit Miriam Stein", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mittelpunktbibliothek Köpenick Alter Markt", "address": "Alter Markt 2, 12555 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/feminism"], "description": "Author and cultural journalist Miriam Stein reads from her book „Die unverschämte Frau“. The book deals with societal ideas of femininity, growing older, and questions of self-determination. The reading is part of the series „ZUSAMMEN HALTEN – Frauen verbinden, Resilienz stärken“ by the Treptow-Köpenick city library and the district office's equal opportunity officer. Afterwards, guests can talk with the author.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-miriam-stein-50160/", "official_url": "http://www.berlin.de/ba-treptow-koepenick/politik-und-verwaltung/beauftragte/gleichstellung/-aktuelles/artikel.1695588.php", "image": "https://noky.io/images/66d28e2a75385e565dc7a9beb9db35599601e614e56021ed06029b520d874e79-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung: Kerstin Hensel: Abendgruß", "start": "2026-11-17T18:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heinrich-Schulz- Bibliothek", "address": "Otto-Suhr-Allee 98, 10585 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/contemporary"], "description": "The Heinrich-Schulz-Bibliothek hosts an author reading in which Kerstin Hensel presents her new book of stories, Abendgruß. The book brings together two artfully contrasting narratives: the story of siblings Karin and Wolf Kohlmann growing up in the GDR in the late 1960s, alongside glimpses into a life today. Hensel, born in Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1961 and a writer of poetry, novels and stories, portrays false morality, petty bourgeois attitudes and shattered dreams, at times poetic, at times wryly ironic. A reading promising to be both profound and entertaining for anyone interested in contemporary German literature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-kerstin-hensel-abendgru-125534/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=297464&ls=0&c=4&v_ort=13119&date_start=05.11.2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c0a45fad643ee3dd8b95101996efae7c0c2e14b834b5754580448ddcea97d2e5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Was uns bleibt ...", "start": "2026-11-14T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bezirkszentralbibliothek Mark Twain", "address": "Marzahner Promenade 54, 12679 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A reading titled „Was uns bleibt - Mehr als nur Sachen“ at the Bezirkszentralbibliothek „Mark Twain“. Behind it are Aron Boks and the Schreibwerkstatt-Marzahn, who present their texts together. Admission is free, but registration by email or phone is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/was-uns-bleibt-114971/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Lesung mit der Dramatikerin und Autorin Ishbel Szatrawska aus dem Roman „Die Tiefe”", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-18T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin", "address": "Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/war", "literature/fiction"], "description": "A reading from the novel „Die Tiefe” as part of the series „Polish Affairs. Polnische Kultur zu Gast in der Stabi”. The dramatist and author Ishbel Szatrawska takes the family home in the Masurian province of the former East Prussia as the starting point for a moving tale of four generations of a family, of the region's multiculturalism and the painful experiences of war, flight, loss of homeland and a new beginning. The event takes place in the Theodor-Fontane-Saal of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, in cooperation with the Zentrum für Historische Forschung Berlin of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the editor and translator Benjamin Voelkel. Registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-der-dramatikerin-und-autorin-ishbel-szatrawska-au-109760/", "official_url": "https://blog.sbb.berlin/termin/lesung-mit-der-dramatikerin-und-autorin-ishbel-szatrawska-aus-dem-roman-die-tiefe/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ef5d0cc37c18f59cb79010c0aa0ccfa7d7fe6bfb52183bf2f98c24fb7dbd6ee2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "ALLE PLÄTZE BELEGT", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilbibliothek Heinrich von Kleist", "address": "Havemannstraße 17B, 12689 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/memoir"], "description": "A reading in the series „Live bei Kleist“ with Renate Zimmermann, reading from „Bibliothekarin läuft“. Since January 2026 she has taken up her new „job“ as a street wanderer, walking through all the streets of Berlin. Admission is free, with a donation to the library's friends' association requested on leaving; registration is possible under 93 39 380.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/alle-platze-belegt-79981/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Diti Ronen & Tal Ronen, Anne Birkenhauer: Kleines Drossel", "start": "2026-11-17T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Neue Synagoge", "address": "Oranienburger Straße 28-30, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii", "literature"], "description": "An event with Diti Ronen & Tal Ronen and Anne Birkenhauer at the Neue Synagoge in Berlin. At its center is 'Kleines Drossel': a labor camp near Elbing a few weeks before the end of the Second World War. A shot is fired, and a small thrush falls from the sky. For five hungry women the bird becomes a last meal – and a fleeting moment.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/diti-ronen-tal-ronen-anne-birkenhauer-kleines-drossel-28756/", "official_url": "https://papagena-shop.comfortticket.de/de/veranstaltung/30cfe244-bfa6-4516-a159-2f4362c14792/3009", "image": "https://noky.io/images/037537aca177ccaaf430c10ee76f54ce0b7d32ed8c2ee305529579a7b0685c12-600.webp"}, {"title": "Aber jetzt bin ich Dir unsere Schuld schuldig: Die Berliner Briefe von Susanne Kerckhoff", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mitte Museum", "address": "Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-germany", "literature"], "description": "A reading and conversation at Mitte Museum about the writer Susanne Kerckhoff. In 1948, in her Berlin letters, she spoke out against the great silence after National Socialism, writing about guilt, atonement and the search for a new beginning in a destroyed society. Lena Bührichen talks with publisher Peter Graf about who this woman was, why she fell into obscurity after her death in 1950, and why she is worth reading again today. The music comes from Jens-Karsten Stoll, with moderation by Jörg Braunsdorf.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/aber-jetzt-bin-ich-dir-unsere-schuld-schuldig-die-berliner-b-72945/", "official_url": "https://www.mittemuseum.de/de/veranstaltung/2026/aber-jetzt-bin-ich-dir-unsere-schuld-schuldig-die-berliner-briefe-von-susanne-kerckhoff", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6019ca1155cf17362ddd11b47b3bdefa5bc887d91d81932d75abe53256c16e80-1200.webp"}]}