{"title": "Lesung und Vortrag: Günter de Bruyn", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Schloss Biesdorf", "address": "Alt-Biesdorf 55, 12683 Berlin", "price": "6,00 € (vor Ort in bar zu entrichten)", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/german-literature"], "description": "The event \"Lesung und Vortrag: Günter de Bruyn\" is a reading with talk and conversation in the BIESDORFER BEGEGNUNG series. It is dedicated to the writer Günter de Bruyn, who wrote in the GDR and in reunified Germany and would have turned 100 on 1 November. The guests are Wolfgang de Bruyn, son of the honoree and trustee of the Günter-de-Bruyn-Stiftung, and the author Carola Wiemers, editor of the book \"Einmal im Leben möchte ich in Küstrin gewesen sein. Günter de Bruyns Märkische Fahrten\"; Axel Matthies, deputy chairman of the association Freunde Schloss Biesdorf e. V., moderates. First, passages from Günter de Bruyn's early work in the GDR are read aloud, then Carola Wiemers reads from her recently published book, and finally Wolfgang de Bruyn shares memories of his father; the book can be purchased on site.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-und-vortrag-gunter-de-bruyn-131895/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Schloss Biesdorf", "address": "Alt-Biesdorf 55, 12683 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Biesdorfer Begegnung", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schloss Biesdorf", "address": "Alt-Biesdorf 55, 12683 Berlin", "price": "6,00 €", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/20th-century", "literature"], "description": "BIESDORFER BEGEGNUNG is an event at Schloss Biesdorf dedicated to the writer Günter de Bruyn, who would have turned 100 on 1 November. Behind the format stands the association Freunde Schloss Biesdorf, which fosters exchange between citizens and representatives from politics, society and science. The conversation partners are Wolfgang de Bruyn, the writer's son, and Carola Wiemers, author of „..... Günter de Bruyns Märkische Fahrten“.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/biesdorfer-begegnung-72834/", "official_url": "https://freunde-schloss-biesdorf.de/?p=6865", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e8e709364cf919f56ceddc91c9df280f42a48d5ff1a0adfd9021ba77fb5bb221-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Günter de Bruyn | Kindheit und Jugend in Britz", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T17:15:00+01:00", "place": "Schloss Britz", "address": "Alt-Britz 73, 12359 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature"], "description": "A reading from the memoirs of Günter de Bruyn, whose family moved into the new Britz housing a hundred years ago, shortly after his birth. The writer, known as an outsider of GDR literature, recalls his childhood and youth in the 1930s: rural idyll and sweeping modernity, family security, and the oppressive constraints of the National Socialist Volksgemeinschaft on the road to catastrophe, which many of the portrayed people did not survive and which left the bombed-out parental home in ruins. Far more than a nostalgic look back, de Bruyn tells of everyday conformity and refusal under totalitarian rule and of learning individual resistance against collectivist constraints. Wolfgang de Bruyn, a literary scholar, preservationist and writer, is the son and trustee of the Günter-de-Bruyn-Stiftung; he reads from his father's memoirs and his own memories, moderated by Henning Holsten.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gunter-de-bruyn-kindheit-und-jugend-in-britz-57936/", "official_url": "https://schloss-gutshof-britz.de/schloss-britz/veranstaltungen/kalender/guenter-de-bruyn-kindheit-und-jugend-britz", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ac414498aec15d6b99ca54d60c2a57858b1d6ced28e03f3101339ccb7d5d9f28-1200.webp"}, {"title": "„Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin“ – Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer", "address": "", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/diary"], "description": "A book presentation for „„Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin“ – Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns“, presenting excerpts from the diaries of the singer-songwriter. The historian Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, a friend of Biermann's, is publishing them on the 50th anniversary of Biermann's expatriation and his 90th birthday, and presents the book together with co-editor Arno Polzin. The conversation is moderated by Doris Liebermann. The event takes place in the visitor centre of the Berlin Wall Memorial, is free of charge, and registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ihr-loscht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-die-tagebucher-wolf-biermann-30517/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/ihr-loescht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-die-tagebuecher-wolf?date=2026-11-12T19%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fd51ab9ebb625aac48d5c9324abb9cadaaed9006a4752eaf0a8c6ffb77a95141-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Susanne Rüster", "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", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "An evening with Susanne Rüster at the Buchladen totsicher bookshop in Berlin-Lichtenberg. The author reads from her work and then talks with the audience. Admission costs five euros. Who the author is is not stated.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/susanne-ruster-93660/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ddecf39232656025078454e1223eaf277608798faf57d8db5e556a1236abf8e4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "»Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin«", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "DDR-Museum", "address": "Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr/dissent", "literature"], "description": "A book presentation and discussion of »Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin«, the first volume of Wolf Biermann's diaries. The historian Dr. Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, scholarly advisor at the DDR Museum, edits excerpts from the diaries for the first time, presenting an artist who consistently challenged the East German regime. The talk is moderated by Dr. Liza Soutschek. The event is part of the »Berlin Freedom Week« and takes place in the DDR Museum's conference room at Sankt Wolfgang-Str. 2.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ihr-loscht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-11722/", "official_url": "https://www.ddr-museum.de/de/veranstaltungen/buchvorstellung-ihr-loescht-das-feuer-mit-benzin", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f94e15d6cf0ac1be9d0f2ae1f2a8fa3d4b9e4434b30f0da4250abce7db38369-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung mit Musik „Wer nicht hören will muss fühlen“", "start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kapernaum Kirche", "address": "Seestraße 34/35", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["occasion/peace-decade", "literature"], "description": "A reading with music within the Friedensdekade (Decade of Peace) of the Kapernaum congregation. Thomas Suckow reads texts about resistance to learning and experience by Claudius, Brecht, Borchert, Mühsam, Tucholsky and Kästner, among others, with Martina Schulz on piano. The Kapernaum congregation invites you together with the ecumenical working group Wedding.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-musik-wer-nicht-horen-will-muss-fuhlen-28211/", "official_url": "https://kapernaum-berlin.de/2026/09/04/friedensdekade-08-18-11-2026/", "image": ""}, {"title": "24 Stunden Lesung zu Ehren des polnisch-jüdischen Schriftstellers und Malers Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) aus Drohobytsch (Ukraine)", "start": "2026-11-19T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bajszel", "address": "Emser Straße 8-9, 12051 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "At Bajszel, a twenty-four-hour reading honors the Polish-Jewish writer and painter Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), who came from Drohobytsch in Ukraine. The texts will be read in more than 20 languages, each day starting at 4 pm. The event is organized by Masiyot e.V. Donations are collected for aid for Ukraine.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/24-stunden-lesung-zu-ehren-des-polnisch-judischen-schriftste-122409/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Literaturcafé", "start": "2026-11-19T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T16:30:00+01:00", "place": "Stadtteilbibliothek Karow", "address": "Achillesstraße 77 13125 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/literaturcafe-15913/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=293314&ls=0&c=409&v_ort=46367&stichwort=Literaturcaf%C3%A9&date_start=01.10.2026", "image": ""}]}