{"title": "Life-Performance dabei ist die Bedrängnis ein Horizont der mitwandert, Thema politische Gefangene in der UdSSR. Live-Lesung von Gedichten und Briefen, Rede, Pe…", "start": "2026-10-30T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Unter den Linden 63-65 10117", "address": "Unter den Linden 63-65 10117", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "demos", "tags": ["history/ussr", "society/politics"], "description": "A life-performance on the subject of political prisoners in the USSR, featuring a live reading of poems and letters, with a speech. The theme is oppression as a horizon that wanders along. Who is behind the event is not stated.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/life-performance-dabei-ist-die-bedrangnis-ein-horizont-der-m-30225/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Unter den Linden 63-65 10117", "address": "Unter den Linden 63-65 10117", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "DDRdirekt", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Einblick ins Geheime - Ausstellung zum Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv", "address": "Ruschestraße", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "\"DDRdirekt\" is a reading and performance with music about workers writing in the GDR. It is organised by the Bundesarchiv – Stasi Records Archive Berlin-Lichtenberg, the Lichtenberg district office of Berlin and the Büro für organische Poesie. anna martha and Thomas Hartung searched the archive for writing workers and discovered voices from a vanished society – sometimes fully in line with official ideology, sometimes full of nuance, contradictions and cautious criticism. With sounds of factory halls and housing shortages, of the collective, football and big dreams, they bring these surprising texts to life again, accompanied by music by Christian Beckers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ddrdirekt-28578/", "official_url": "https://www.einblick-ins-geheime.de/termin/ddrdirekt-berlin-09-11-2026/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Brecht-Haus Untergrund Die multiliterarische Keller-Revue", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brecht-Haus", "address": "Chausseestraße 125, 10115 Berlin", "price": "6,- € / ermäßigt: 4,- €", "price_from": "6.80", "price_to": "6.80", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.lfbrecht.de/produkte/4287-tickets-brecht-haus-untergrund-die-multiliterarische-keller-revue-literaturforum-im-brecht-haus-berlin-am-12-11-2026", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "In the cellar of the Brecht-Haus, an evening is devoted to Berlin's literary life and its voices beyond the big markets and fairs. Authors, song poets, performers and musicians present literary texts of the city past and present, entirely without big discussion. The result is a mix of texts, music and performance, now and then spiced with videos or digital dialogues. This time the three guests are the poet Marion Poschmann, the writer Helga Kurzchalia and the indiepop poet Josepha Conrad, hosted by Martin Jankowski.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/brecht-haus-untergrund-die-multiliterarische-keller-revue-75807/", "official_url": "https://lfbrecht.de/event/brecht-haus-untergrund-die-multiliterarische-keller-revue-17/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/90f32d44b0e80078e4a674a0749621116a0d1240404f915e094ed95b1651c0c2-600.webp"}, {"title": "Festival des kritischen Geistes", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Rollberg Kino", "address": "Rollbergstraße 70, 12053 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/poetry"], "description": "A festival evening of music, readings, talks and film about Wolf Biermann, whom the GDR stripped of his citizenship in 1976 after a concert in Cologne. It is staged by the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur on the 50th anniversary of his expatriation, hosted by Salwa Houmsi. The programme features a keynote by Angela Merkel, a conversation with Wolf Biermann and Balbina, a contemporary witness talk with Gabriele Stötzer, Doris Liebermann and Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, and literary-artistic panoramas of Biermann's poems and literature from exile with, among others, Durs Grünbein, Thomas Brussig and Fabian Hinrichs. It closes with the cinema documentary \"BIERMANN\" by Jens Meurer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/festival-des-kritischen-geistes-73117/", "official_url": "https://www.yorck.de/specials/festival-des-kritischen-geistes", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6147a1401a67d19f036447ef09712a08f315482b9a994589debb79b118c251f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Die Grenzen der Sprache", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T17:30:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "\"Die Grenzen der Sprache\" (The Limits of Language) is a reading followed by a conversation about what words can express and what becomes audible through silence. Reading are Ghayath Almadhoun, Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo and Yang Lian, moderated by Maha El Hissy. The three writers come from different languages and poetic traditions, and their poems deal with uprooting, violence, memory, survival and belonging. The event is part of the Plural Citizenships programme.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-grenzen-der-sprache-8340/", "official_url": "https://www.hkw.de/programme/plural-citizenships/limits-of-language", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0449ecba6df4d876c9e95dbc512fb09bf9fe23affa538f548bd4a2364b1cdcbd-600.webp"}, {"title": "BEYOND LINES Tanzperformance zur Berlin Freedom Week", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tränenpalast", "address": "Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei / Free admission; registration required / Anmeldung erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://app.cituro.com/booking/3221113?presetService=11f1bb401d37e788bf1b918037f4ae89", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/dance/performance", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "BEYOND LINES is a site-specific dance performance staged for Berlin Freedom Week. Behind the project are choreographer Kosmas Kosmopoulos and the initiative LUNA PARK e.V., which has combined professional dance production with socio-cultural practice since 2003, together with the Haus der Geschichte Foundation at the Tränenpalast. The performance deals with crossing borders: departure, waiting, fear and hope, as well as leaving behind home, language and the familiar. In the Tränenpalast, a place of farewell, control and transition, choreographic images of resistance, loss and change emerge, asking which borders people had and still have to overcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/beyond-lines-tanzperformance-zur-berlin-freedom-week-7137/", "official_url": "https://www.hdg.de/traenenpalast/veranstaltungen/beyond-lines-tanzperformance", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01d7f31a0635db0e4343515ffb94a51dc3b5f4334e7f7a9b0eeddd5c51ec88dd-600.webp"}, {"title": "PEN Berlin: Geht's noch?", "start": "2026-11-01T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Preis 16/9 EURO", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/shop", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "A public discussion event with conversations about home and democracy after the elections in East Germany and Berlin. The writers' association PEN Berlin invites guests from politics and culture as well as the audience, which is welcome to ask questions, join in and disagree. It asks questions such as: can people with different political opinions still talk to each other? What divides East and West, what connects them, and what has changed in recent years? The series is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for East Germany and has previously travelled through East Germany and Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/pen-berlin-gehts-noch-3773/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/pen-berlin-gehts-noch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d785fec1318952c8c1715dd7b1d801d8ba0ffcb95b2bef2d6a3dbfbabc6e7650-600.webp"}, {"title": "BEYOND LINES", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tränenpalast", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei / Free admission; registration required / Anmeldung erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://stiftungbrandenburgertor.de/veranstaltungen/liebermanns-welt/?source=bde", "category": "dance", "tags": ["history/cold-war", "stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "BEYOND LINES is a site-specific dance performance at the Tränenpalast, a significant Berlin memorial site and former border crossing. Behind the project are choreographer Kosmas Kosmopoulos and the initiative LUNA PARK e.V., which since 2003 has combined professional dance production with sociocultural practice; it is realised jointly with the Haus der Geschichte Foundation as part of Berlin Freedom Week. The performance explores crossing borders: departure, waiting, fear and hope, leaving behind homeland and the familiar, and the courage to step into the unknown. At this place of farewell and transition, choreographic images of resistance, loss and change emerge, inviting the audience to experience the Tränenpalast as a place of remembrance and of new encounters.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/beyond-lines-30497/", "official_url": "https://www.hdg.de/traenenpalast/veranstaltungen/beyond-lines-tanzperformance", "image": ""}, {"title": "161. TEXTBAR", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturring in Berlin e.V.", "address": "Ernststraße 14-16, 12437 Berlin", "price": "vielleicht eine eigene Geschichte?", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "The Lesebühne Marzahn-NordWest reading stage is on the theme of „U. a. erotisch“ (among other things, erotic). The event is organised by Kulturring in Berlin. Admission: perhaps a story of your own? Listeners who only want to listen are warmly welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/161-textbar-72826/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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", "tickets_url": "https://www.spsg.de/ticket-app/entity/eventTime/13833?cHash=c6704a2bef694b5e4f5d72735428c352", "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": "„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", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.de/e/elshan-ghasimi-reinterpretation-des-radif-dastgah-e-chahargah-tickets-1997393231925", "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": ""}, {"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", "tickets_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/service/Kartenkauf", "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": "https://noky.io/images/3fd757bef5c56dfb4c19553e9e54875a2635e25dfc835b43fcbe730f9f6eb07a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Durchhalten bis zum Sieg und darüber hinaus. Der „Große Vaterländische Krieg“", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Berlin-Karlshorst", "address": "", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei / Admission is free.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.hkw.de/programme/diskurs-pop-liebe/conversation-with-jan-kuhlbrodt-and-martina-hefter", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "A panel discussion in the series „Geschichte im Konflikt. Sowjetische Mythen“ on the „Great Patriotic War“ as a central reference point for remembrance of the Second World War in the post-Soviet space. The speakers are Prof. Dr. Violeta Davoliūtė (University of Vilnius) and Prof. Dr. Jan C. Behrends (Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder), moderated by Christoph Meißner of the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst. Topics include the role of the Soviet war myth today in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania, and how it is used politically, reinterpreted or questioned. The event takes place in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Germany with simultaneous German-English translation, and registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/durchhalten-bis-zum-sieg-und-daruber-hinaus-der-groe-vaterla-12340/", "official_url": "https://www.museum-karlshorst.de/veranstaltungen/durchhalten-bis-zum-sieg-und-darueber-hinaus-der-grosse-vaterlaendische-krieg/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b38268eab5c452684b1655a0cfb881096fd26f8ce6af82198916cd42beabe007-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Freiheit, Solidarität und der Wunsch nach Erneuerung -", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Katholische Akademie in Berlin", "address": "Hannoversche Straße 5b, 10115 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["occasion/anniversary"], "description": "A discussion event marking the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian popular uprising. The Catholic Academy in Berlin, together with Renovabis, invites guests to talk about the meaning of \"1956\" in Hungarian memory culture and politics, as well as Hungary's present and future. Speakers include Zsuzsa Breier, Kornélia Kiss, Konrád Dejcsics and Gergely Romsics, moderated by Kai-Olaf Lang. The Research Prize Eastern Europe 2026 will be awarded directly afterwards.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/freiheit-solidaritat-und-der-wunsch-nach-erneuerung-9177/", "official_url": "https://www.katholische-akademie-berlin.de/veranstaltung/freiheit-solidaritaet/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b8b7f4c3d497311adbae1ad734494ff9dc6a8bd6e1d2b0784010b620067f31ab-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sonntagslesung", "start": "2026-11-08T10:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T10:30:00+01:00", "place": "Dünenpavillon (Raum 0.11), Ribnitzer Str. 1b, Berlin, 13051", "address": "", "price": "4,00 Euro", "price_from": "4.00", "price_to": "4.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii", "literature/reading"], "description": "The Sonntagslesung is a public reading at which Wolfram Adolphi reads from his family-history novel „Hartenstein oder Die unerhörte Arbeit des Erinnerns“ and from the manuscript of his new book „Familiensache Russland. Ein baltendeutsches Panoptikum“. Behind the event is the Verein für aktive Vielfalt e.V., which invites people to reflect together. The occasion is the attack of fascist Germany on the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, 85 years ago.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sonntagslesung-73384/", "official_url": "https://vav-lichtenberg.de/aktuelles/sonntagslesung-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9122dc6c4ed0db6219695259ca65c4716d0ea2466404d57f6e753582232b67b2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung mit Musik", "start": "2026-10-30T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Janusz-Korczak-Bibliothek", "address": "Berliner Straße 120/121, 13187 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "music/classical"], "description": "A reading with piano music at the Janusz-Korczak-Bibliothek. Helga Burchardt and Gerhard Kütbach read texts by Hanns Cibulka, Uwe Greßmann, Christoph Hein, Sarah Kirsch and Christa Müller, with Julius Tangerding playing piano in between. The event is organized by Projekt Chance60Plus. Admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-musik-16565/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=293989&ls=230&c=409", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2dba311b4f94030e80894ef1407e3045cc82bebb333c7f5f022a695454725fc2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Poethical Readings mit Valentina Desideri und Denise Ferreira da Silva", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/eventlist", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "Poethical Readings is an event within the School of Self-Defense at the Volksbühne, taking the form of a dialogue and reading in English in the Prater-Foyer. Valentina Desideri and Denise Ferreira da Silva develop experimental forms of reading from their artistic practices, using reading tools such as tarot, Political Therapy, palmistry, Fake Therapy, Reiki, astrology and philosophy. The readings work with images and seek to make complexity visible rather than deliver answers or fix single meanings. Conceived as a form of self-defense, they aim to expand perception and open up new possibilities for action beyond settled certainties.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/poethical-readings-mit-valentina-desideri-und-denise-ferreir-269/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/the-school-of-self-defense/20261031-1300/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ef9d601300569dc8a4c7133f098ddb93d98c30a10dbb58d52af604a4c41466d7-2000.webp"}]}