{"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\"", "address": "Markstr. 5, 13409 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall", "literature/childrens-books"], "description": "A reading followed by a talk from the series „Lettekiez liest!“ for children and young people at the Kultur- und Dialograum „M5“ in Berlin-Reinickendorf. Author Michael Feindler, a cabaret artist and poetry-slam poet born in Münster who now lives in Leipzig, presents his rhyming picture book „Osmans Garten“. 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 next to the Berlin Wall; the garden became widely known as the „Baumhaus an der Mauer“ and a symbol of gentle resistance against the madness of the Cold War and against bureaucratic pettifoggery. The book brings a piece of Berlin's past closer 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-99915/", "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\"", "address": "Markstr. 5, 13409 Berlin", "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, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin", "literature/childrens-books"], "description": "An author reading with Michael Feindler presenting his children's book „Osmans Garten”. The rhyming picture book tells the true story of Osman Kalin, an Anatolian guest worker who created a vegetable garden in the 1980s on wasteland in Kreuzberg right next to the Berlin Wall. Known as the „Baumhaus an der Mauer”, the garden gained nationwide fame as a symbol of gentle resistance. The book brings a piece of Berlin's past closer to children and is a timeless, friendly plea for more humanity and mutual tolerance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/michael-feindler-liest-aus-osmans-garten-13472/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4bc672291483aa2ebc5fd49bdc76e24daf277d563c3989cbb84999ffe284ea09-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Der erste Schritt über die Mauer", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "4 EUR / ermäßigt 2 EUR", "price_from": "4.00", "price_to": "4.00", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["literature/childrens-books/picture-book"], "description": "A reading with acting for children from age 3, in which two picture books about walls are read aloud. The books are „Der erste Schritt“ by Pija Lindenbaum and „Die Mauer. Eine Parabel“ by Giancarlo Macri and Carolina Zanotti with illustrations by Sacco & Valleriano. In one story, a king wants only Blue ones to live in his realm and builds a wall, until he realises how silly that is. The programme lasts 30 minutes and is aimed at children aged 3 to 6, but also delights older visitors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/der-erste-schritt-uber-die-mauer-79955/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/933170521895f6ed2a69428f495458e51b57df12741f891aca701e8ef1b13249-2000.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", "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": "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": "5 Euro, 3 Euro ermäßigt", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "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": "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", "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": "„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": "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", "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": "Kiezspaziergang „Das Berliner Loch“", "start": "2026-11-10T14:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Nachbarschaftsheim Neukölln - Nachbarschaftshaus im Körnerkiez", "address": "Schierker Straße 53, 12051 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["society/migration/refugees", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "A dialogical and participatory neighbourhood walk about the \"Berliner Loch\", a little-known escape route via East Berlin to West Berlin in the 1980s, through which people seeking protection, including civil war refugees, reached West Berlin. It is offered by Mohammed Ali Chahrour at the Nachbarschaftsheim Neukölln as part of Mitreden in Neukölln. The walk traces the lived reality of those affected, Berlin's shared urban society and the political debate, discussing why this history remains relevant today to questions of borders, belonging and remembrance. It is funded by the Berlin Senate for Culture and Social Cohesion and the Berlin State Agency for Civic Education. The meeting point is the Lohmühlenbrücke; registration is by email to mitreden@nbh-neukoelln.de.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kiezspaziergang-das-berliner-loch-104538/", "official_url": "https://www.nbh-neukoelln.de/angebote/kiezspaziergang-das-berliner-loch/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9db78bf61d29e82fcaf78645b4bcb2a592e348a0620ac8d01ae2e1c47b2735ed-2000.webp"}, {"title": "34. Open Mike", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "PopUp Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek", "address": "Eva-Mamlok-Platz 1, 10961 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "The 34. Open Mike is a reading and talk in which former finalists of the competition read from their debut books. Patrick Holzapfel and Miedya Mahmod read, hosted by Lara Sielmann. Holzapfel presents his prose debut „Hermelin auf Bänken“, in which a seated flâneur moves from bench to bench across Vienna. Mahmod reads from her poetry debut „Aus hingehaltener Zunge“, a multilingual, lament-like text opposing silencing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/34-open-mike-9096/", "official_url": "https://www.hausfuerpoesie.org/de/programm/open-mike-debuetlesungen-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6c902a6770d5b4270d81273c161f8ef90f858f9d6e9cc443d7f992273f0cb92d-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", "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": "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": "Das Geheimnis, der Tunnel und Helmut", "start": "2026-11-10T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Studiobühne", "address": "Luxemburger Straße 20, 13353 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["history/gdr", "stage/puppetry"], "description": "A puppet theatre piece for children aged 9 and up. Behind the piece is Figurentheater Ute Kahmann. It tells of a child whose new father, Helmut, carries a secret: he helped people flee from East to West and was imprisoned for it. Only after the opening of the Wall does his secret come to light; the piece is about courage, fear and the struggle between speaking and silence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/das-geheimnis-der-tunnel-und-helmut-14880/", "official_url": "https://fez-berlin.de/programm/detailansicht/das-geheimnis-der-tunnel-und-helmut?tx_brcalendar2_calendar%5Bctrl%5D=Date&cHash=e81716073cc03375b6d04ec7d973b0b3", "image": ""}, {"title": "Feministisches Bilderbuchkino mit den Omas gegen Rechts", "start": "2026-11-14T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Badstraße 39, 13357 Berlin", "address": "Badstraße 39, 13357 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/childrens-books", "society/feminism"], "description": "A picture-book cinema where stories such as „Mein Körper gehört mir“ and „Wer bestimmt hier eigentlich“ are read aloud between 11 and 12. The event is hosted by the „Omas gegen Rechts“, a group involved in their association's work. Afterwards, interested (grand)parents can learn more about the association. Everyone is warmly welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/feministisches-bilderbuchkino-mit-den-omas-gegen-rechts-96872/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=296849&ls=0&c=327&date_start=14.11.2026", "image": ""}, {"title": "Gudrun Bernhagen liest", "start": "2026-11-04T14:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilzentrum PestalozziTreff", "address": "Pestalozzistraße 1A, 12623 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt inklusive Kaffeegedeck: 6 Euro", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-germany", "literature/reading"], "description": "Gudrun Bernhagen reads excerpts from her novel \"Und ... und ... und ... kann ich gut\", which is about the childhood years of a girl from 1945 to 1952. She is accompanied musically by Adrian Wagner and Rudolf Bernhagen. Admission includes a coffee set, and registration is possible by phone at 56 58 69 20. The reading takes place at the Stadtteilzentrum „Pestalozzi-Treff\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gudrun-bernhagen-liest-72804/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Die Blume und der Baum – Papiertheater mit der Illustratorin Barbara Steinitz (Festwoche 125 Jahre Johannes-Bobrowski-Bibliothek Friedrichshagen)", "start": "2026-11-09T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilbibliothek Alt-Treptow Manfred Bofinger", "address": "Karl-Kunger-Straße 30, 12435 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "stage/puppetry"], "description": "A paper theatre event for guests aged twelve and up at the Alt-Treptow neighbourhood library. The illustrator Barbara Steinitz presents the little story by the poet Gioconda Belli, in which a flower and a tree tell a parable about the right embrace between lovers: too light and it lacks tenderness, too tight and it takes the air to breathe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-blume-und-der-baum-papiertheater-mit-der-illustratorin-b-98240/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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"}]}