{"title": "Lettekiez liest! „Osmans Garten“ - Lesung und Gespräch mit Michael Feindler", "start": "2026-11-10T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kultur- und Dialograum \"M5\" (Markstr. 5, 13409 Berlin)", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/childrens-books/picture-book", "history/berlin"], "description": "A reading and conversation with Michael Feindler about his picture book „Osmans Garten“, hosted by the Stadtbibliothek Reinickendorf. It tells the true story of the Anatolian guest worker Osman Kalin, who in the 1980s laid out a vegetable garden on a patch of wasteland in Kreuzberg right by the Berlin Wall, which became known as the „Baumhaus an der Mauer“. The garden became known beyond the region as a symbol of gentle resistance, against the madness of the Cold War on the one hand and bureaucratic pedantry on the other. The book brings a piece of Berlin's past close to children and is at the same time a timeless, friendly plea for more humanity and mutual tolerance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lettekiez-liest-osmans-garten-lesung-und-gesprach-mit-michae-82200/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6be6ab1aa589e3268123c3546afffd3113b904d36e30b7f1a394fc505948f9f9-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-10T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kultur- und Dialograum \"M5\" (Markstr. 5, 13409 Berlin)", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Michael Feindler liest aus „Osmans Garten”", "start": "2026-11-10T11:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-10T12:30:00+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/berlin", "literature/childrens-books"], "description": "An author reading with Michael Feindler presenting his children's book „Osmans Garten”. 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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": "Die Mauer - Innen - Dazwischen - Außen", "start": "2026-11-09T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Wedding", "address": "Wriezener Straße 6, 13359 Berlin", "price": "15 € Vorverkauf - 18 € AK", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.ballhauswedding.de/details-registrierung/die-mauer-innen-dazwischen-aussen", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall", "literature/reading"], "description": "A literary and scenic evening featuring readings from „Fall: Berlin, 1989“. Author Claire Elizabeth Terry and Kathrin Berger connect the story of the fall of the Wall with scenic moments and drawings. In German and English, a shared exchange on walls and freedom follows.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-mauer-innen-dazwischen-auen-21827/", "official_url": "https://www.ballhauswedding.de/details-registrierung/die-mauer-innen-dazwischen-aussen", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68850f2f3633bdd4609c8d53845848fb987864d4cc975df90243ac2bfe17d939-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Erzählsalon Migration Special: Des Märchens Kern", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ephraim-Palais", "address": "Poststraße 16, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Regulär: 5 Euro, Ermäßigt: 3 Euro, Kinder unter 6 Jahren kostenfrei", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.stadtmuseum.de/#/product/event/1056?date=2026-11-04&date_id=14770", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature", "music"], "description": "Erzählsalon Migration Special: Des Märchens Kern is a talk evening hosted by the Berlin Museum at the Ephraim-Palais with music by Sema Moritz. With publisher Ahmet Işık Doğan and literary scholar Nesrin Tanç, the evening explores migrant literature and the story of the Ararat Verlag, which began with Vasıf Öngören's book „Des Märchens Kern“. Also presented is the book artwork „Hommage an Istanbul“, combining drawings by Hanefi Yeter with texts and a CD of songs by the German-Turkish music project „Sema & Taksim“. Sema Moritz performs several songs live with Martin Lillich on double bass, and the evening is moderated by Aurora Rodonò.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/erzahlsalon-migration-special-des-marchens-kern-11820/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.museum/veranstaltungen/erzaehlsalon-migration-special-des-maerchens-kern", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e50d017a10b7c6988283581b7e2039ba8e016d0b6e2458e40d7031b9601f5c59-600.webp"}, {"title": "Das Geheimnis, der Tunnel und Helmut", "start": "2026-11-10T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Astrid Lindgren Bühne im FEZ-Berlin", "address": "Straße zum FEZ 12459 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.fez-berlin.de/Views/Pages/Appointments/EventAppointments.aspx?EventID=3259", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["history/gdr", "stage/puppetry"], "description": "The puppet theatre piece „Das Geheimnis, der Tunnel und Helmut“ is a search for traces between secret and history, recommended from age 9. It comes from the Figurentheater Ute Kahmann and is performed on the studio stage of the Astrid-Lindgren-Bühne at the FEZ. At its centre is Helmut, the new father of a child who senses that something about him is different: only after the opening of the Wall does his hidden secret become visible, that he helped people flee from East to West and was imprisoned for it. The roughly 60-minute piece tells of courage and fear, of constraints and longings, and of the struggle between speaking and keeping silent.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/das-geheimnis-der-tunnel-und-helmut-30501/", "official_url": "https://fez-berlin.de/bildung/lernorte/astrid-lindgren-buehne/detailansicht-lernort-theater-macht-schlau?tx_brcalendar2_calendar%5Baction%5D=show&tx_brcalendar2_calendar%5Bcontroller%5D=Event&tx_brcalendar2_calendar%5Bevent%5D=3594&cHash=8ea6d961655fe1bec1b8974b0d332954", "image": ""}, {"title": "Literatur vor Ort: Autorenlesung mit Turgut Altuğ und Tuncay Gary", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-11T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "REDSdeli", "address": "Kreuzbergstraße 10, 10965 Berlin", "price": "Kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/reading", "society/migration"], "description": "„Literatur vor Ort“ is a joint author reading at the REDSdeli Speisenmeisterei in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Tuncay Gary reads from his book „Mein grünes Niltagebuch“ as well as previously unpublished poems about personal experiences, memories and the search for identity and home. Turgut Altuğ reads from his second book „Von den Baumwollfeldern Anatoliens bis ins Berliner Parlament“, telling of his life between Anatolia and Berlin, of migration, losses and the will to take his own life into his hands. The result is an evening with two authors, personal stories and literary perspectives on origin, paths through life and home.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/literatur-vor-ort-autorenlesung-mit-turgut-altug-und-tuncay-72187/", "official_url": "https://roter-baum.berlin/event/literatur-vor-ort-autorenlesung-mit-turgut-altug-und-tuncay-gary/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/417b4dffe9e2417ca04bb08c541ff85baad12c2c7246e1ca5c1f3100dc346758-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mitten im Kiez – Eine Reise durch 75 Jahre Kiezoase Schöneberg", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Nachbarschafts- und Familienzentrum Kiezoase", "address": "Barbarossastraße 65, 10781 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://widgets.yolawo.de/w/0/bookables/6ac390bfe504993ae32b85b9", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "„Mitten im Kiez – Eine Reise durch 75 Jahre Kiezoase Schöneberg“ is a free event with registration at Café Kiezoase that looks back on the eventful history from the former neighborhood home in the Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus to today's Kiezoase. Gerd Schmitt, who among other things long led the Kiezoase, is the travel guide. Pictures, texts, stories and music bring the history to life at its place of origin. Everyone interested is warmly invited to join the journey.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/mitten-im-kiez-eine-reise-durch-75-jahre-kiezoase-schoneberg-78083/", "official_url": "https://kiezoase.de/event/mitten-im-kiez/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/24a86b7bce6683cc2b582d94f8bf8a7e0e94e0dd1f9ef1bd18fdd256f3af8d01-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ernst-Thälmann-Park und das DDR Paradies mitten in der Stadt", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-04-20T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Ernst-Thälmann-Park", "address": "Lilli-Henoch-Straße 10405 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["society/urbanism/urban-development", "history/gdr"], "description": "This is a guided walk through Ernst-Thälmann-Park, a spacious and surprisingly quiet green space in Prenzlauer Berg with plenty of history to it. It is run by Positive Vibes Berlin, the team of a born-and-bred Berliner who leads local tours away from the usual tourist routes. The walk looks at the park and its story as an East German building project in the middle of the city.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ernst-thalmann-park-und-das-ddr-paradies-mitten-in-der-stadt-15329/", "official_url": "https://www.positivevibesberlin.com/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d800318e7821fd394be6329dd3e2d0a4b3b7b24aa53e3027bff0e8b2458221ad-600.webp"}, {"title": "Transformationszeit: Fantasie gegen Realität …", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ephraim-Palais", "address": "Poststraße 16, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Regulär: 10 Euro, Ermäßigt: 6 Euro", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.stadtmuseum.de/#/product/event/1057?date=2026-11-11&date_id=14771", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "A conversation about life and writing in East and West Berlin, the final installment of the series „Transformationszeit“. Katja Oskamp, a writer born in East Berlin and author of „Marzahn, mon amour“ and „Die vorletzte Frau“, and West Berlin author Björn Kuhligk, known for „Überall Nachbarn“ and „Berlin-Beschimpfung“, join moderator Marion Brasch to discuss inventing reality. They explore how everyday life and social conditions shape writing, what artistic freedoms existed on either side of the Wall, and what changed after 1989. The talk takes place in the salon on the ground floor and lasts one hour and thirty minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/transformationszeit-fantasie-gegen-realitat-11821/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.museum/veranstaltungen/transformationszeit-fantasie-gegen-realitaet", "image": "https://noky.io/images/09af503cac5f68817fe03a2a5975b32abb478c6644eab9d240ec33d10e0388f3-600.webp"}, {"title": "Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land - Bilder vom ehemaligen Mauerstreifen in Berlin, 2017–2024", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-31T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Dokumentationszentrum)", "address": "Bernauer Straße 111, 13355 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "This special exhibition at the Berlin Wall Memorial shows photographs under the title “Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land - Bilder vom ehemaligen Mauerstreifen in Berlin, 2017–2024”. It is the work of Thomas Meyer, a photographer living in Berlin and a member of the OSTKREUZ agency, who from 2017 to 2024 looked for traces of the city's division and photographed along the former strip of the Wall in different seasons. His medium-format digital colour images show places that once made history as well as the Wall's disappearance, with layers of past and present overlapping. Through this he also documents Berlin's urban development.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/thomas-meyer-mauer-land-bilder-vom-ehemaligen-mauerstreifen-15279/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/ausstellungen/thomas-meyer-mauer-land", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0b48f708930153ab5e76104f114e6a30ed90086dda2014d7c53119b0bf34048-600.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", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.ddr-museum.de/#/tickets?lang=de", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "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": "Über Grenzen: Ziehen, Einreißen und Verschieben", "start": "2026-08-14T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall"], "description": "A talk in the BERLIN GLOBAL exhibition at the Humboldt Forum. It is the first of four events in the series „Über Grenzen: Ziehen, Einreißen und Verschieben“, held 65 years after the building of the Berlin Wall. Under the title „Grenzen/los?“, Elise Landschek (DIE ZEIT) talks with Ngoc Anh Nguyen, Juliane Meckert and Flor Fischer about the perspectives of the third and fourth generation East.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/uber-grenzen-ziehen-einreien-und-verschieben-79965/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3b60cf5bd71cdbc32b34c118b37f0d770cce0dd340a98c7296c05c1574ae23de-1200.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", "tickets_url": "", "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": "Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer", "address": "", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "“Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land” is an exhibition of color photographs of the former Berlin Wall strip, taken between 2017 and 2024. The photographer Thomas Meyer, a member of the agency OSTKREUZ, spent eight years, across different seasons, tracing where the division of the city is still visible and perceptible today. His pictures, made in digital medium format, show places that once made history, the disappearance of the Wall, and the overlapping layers of history and present. In doing so, the exhibition also documents Berlin's urban development.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/thomas-meyer-mauer-land-34536/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}