{"title": "Lesung: Psychiatrieerfahrungen im Elsass – Lebensgeschichten zwischen Strasbourg und Hadamar im NS", "start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hörsaalruine, Charité Campus Mitte", "address": "Virchowweg 16, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/non-fiction"], "description": "GeDenkOrt.Charité invites visitors to a reading from the book \"Psychiatrieerfahrungen im Elsass – Lebensgeschichten zwischen Strasbourg und Hadamar im Nationalsozialismus\", followed by a conversation. The author Lea Münch, a physician and historian at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, traces the life stories of five women and men who were or became psychiatric patients in the annexed border region of Alsace. From Strasbourg, their paths sometimes led to the killing institution Hadamar, which became a symbol of the National Socialist \"euthanasia\" crimes. The work takes the perspective of those affected and explores intergenerational effects reaching into the present.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-psychiatrieerfahrungen-im-elsass-lebensgeschichten-zw-96870/", "official_url": "https://gedenkort.charite.de/metas/veranstaltung/veranstaltung/details/lesung_psychiatrieerfahrungen_im_elsass_lebensgeschichten_zwischen_strasbourg_und_hadamar/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5cd136b645c5e55dc87eab1d47a3655a13de83f16d3aed251dfd89488f41e011-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hörsaalruine, Charité Campus Mitte", "address": "Virchowweg 16, 10117 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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, "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": "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": "Queer und jüdisch im \"Dritten Reich\" und darüber hinaus", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mitte Museum", "address": "Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "religion/jewish", "society/queer"], "description": "Mitte Museum hosts an evening of talks about people who were both queer and Jewish. Four speakers shed light on Jewish-queer life stories between 1933 and 1945 and beyond, from Gertrude Sandmann to gay and lesbian Jews in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Paige Harouse, Hani Esther Indictor Portner, Jake Schneider and Rafael Nasemann present their topics, including the remembrance project \"Queere Held*innen\". A shared exchange follows; the event takes place in spoken German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/queer-und-judisch-im-dritten-reich-und-daruber-hinaus-12330/", "official_url": "https://www.mittemuseum.de/de/veranstaltung/2026/queer-und-juedisch-im-dritten-reich-und-darueber-hinaus", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e87ba75a48aad48550b6a7857f4cba5182c7ffc54c5048e82c91b74627345947-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung & Gespräch mit Friedrich Burschel zu „Present Past. Wie Nachfahren ihre NS-Familiengeschichte erforschen“ (empfohlen ab 16 Jahre)", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-10T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Die gute Seite", "address": "Richardplatz 16, 12055 Berlin", "price": "Kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "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": "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", "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": "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": "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": "\"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": "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": "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": "The Ghosts of Lower Silesia", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Polish Institute Berlin", "address": "Burgstr. 27, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Free admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-expulsion", "society/migration"], "description": "A conversation about Lower Silesia and the traces of its German past. The philosopher and cultural theorist Leszek Koczanowicz, who grew up in Legnica, talks with the writer Karolina Kuszyk about living in other people's homes and the question of when an unfamiliar place becomes home. It covers the personal memories of the newcomers alongside the region's history, framed by welcomes from the directors of the Polish Institute Berlin and the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation. The discussion explores hauntology, asking how a seemingly bygone world continues to shape everyday life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-ghosts-of-lower-silesia-31357/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/en/veranstaltung/ghosts-lower-silesia", "image": "https://noky.io/images/656889c41b642d3c64fa6be0bc5d4e286f0b16317bacb0e1ce350cd43c897b04-1200.webp"}, {"title": "„Nie wieder ist jetzt?“ – Erinnerung und Gedenken an den Holocaust zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft und Schule", "start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "diekleinegalerie", "address": "Goßlerstraße 21, 12161 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/holocaust/commemoration"], "description": "diekleinegalerie invites to a conversation on a current topic: „Nie wieder ist jetzt?“ – Remembrance and commemoration of the Holocaust between historical scholarship and school. The conversation is between Prof. Wolfgang Benz, a historian, and Jakob Ciré, a teacher of history at a Berlin integrated comprehensive school. It addresses how remembrance can be conveyed when there are no more contemporary witnesses, how it can be kept alive in our post-migrant society, and what the claim of „never again“ means in the present. Due to limited seating, registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nie-wieder-ist-jetzt-erinnerung-und-gedenken-an-den-holocaus-22255/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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": "Exiltexte: Kunst, Macht, Erinnerung – Lesung mit Tania Arcimovich, Karima Shabrang und Fariba Vafi", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schloss Schönhausen", "address": "Tschaikowskistraße 1, 13156 Berlin", "price": "15 €, ermäßigt 12 €", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/poetry"], "description": "A reading titled \"Exiltexte: Kunst, Macht, Erinnerung\" at Schloss Schönhausen. The writers in exile Tania Arcimovich (Belarus), Karima Shabrang (Afghanistan) and Fariba Vafi (Iran) read texts born from a literary engagement with the palace and its history during the Nazi era, drawing on their own experiences of exile and political pressure, in their original languages. Actress Melika Foroutan presents the German translations, and cellist Basilius Alawad accompanies the evening with music. The event is inspired by the Weiter Schreiben interventions and ends with a reception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/exiltexte-kunst-macht-erinnerung-lesung-mit-tania-arcimovich-12534/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bac59a00fc6e07b1c6b537c7dae5d24dad5e3004a3463316b846a6b01b1aecb4-600.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": "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": ""}]}