{"title": "L*Ost DDR Vortrag: „Lesben in der Provinz“ – damals und heute", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Spinnboden Lesbenarchiv & Bibliothek e.V.", "address": "Anklamer Straße 38, 10115", "price": "Spende erwünscht.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "A talk with a contemporary witness conversation about lesbians in the GDR's provinces, then and now. Judith Geffert, who researched the 1989 lesbian conference in Halle, will talk with contemporary witnesses about the events of that time and their significance in the transformation process, and draw connections to the situation of lesbians living outside big cities today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lost-ddr-vortrag-lesben-in-der-provinz-damals-und-heute-42855/", "official_url": "https://spinnboden.de/angebot/lost-ddr-vortrag-lesben-in-der-provinz-damals-und-heute/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0572be631cbe32e9bbcb66085617a842a0ca8e2c2755623b0a59e9a1b98aaa3f-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Spinnboden Lesbenarchiv & Bibliothek e.V.", "address": "Anklamer Straße 38, 10115", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "L*Ost : Lesben in der Provinz“ – damals und heute Vortrag von Judith Geffert und Zeitzeug*innengespräch, Ort: EWA e.V. – Frauenzentrum Prenzlauer Allee 6 10405 Berlin", "start": "2026-10-30T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sonntags-Club", "address": "Greifenhagener Straße 28, 10437 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/queer/lesbian", "history/gdr"], "description": "A talk by Judith Geffert with a conversation featuring contemporary witnesses about the lives of lesbians in the East German provinces. In 1989, Christiane Kloweit and Ina Röder Sissoko interviewed lesbians living in small towns and presented these conversations at the first GDR lesbian conference, „Lesben im Umfeld der Kirche“, in Halle. Geffert has researched this conference and will talk with contemporary witnesses about the events of that time and their significance in the transformation process of 1989. She will also connect them to the situation of lesbians living outside big cities today; the event takes place at the women's centre EWA e.V.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lost-lesben-in-der-provinz-damals-und-heute-vortrag-von-judi-76227/", "official_url": "https://programm.sonntags-club.de/programm/lost-lesben-in-der-provinz-damals-und-heute-vortrag-von-judith-geffert-und-zeitzeuginnengespraech-ort-ewa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0572be631cbe32e9bbcb66085617a842a0ca8e2c2755623b0a59e9a1b98aaa3f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Queer Thursay: Frauke Hippler und Zeitzeug*innegespräch", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilbibliothek Buch", "address": "Wiltbergstraße 21 13125 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=288671&ls=10&c=409", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "As part of the Queer Thursay series, the Stadtteilbibliothek Buch hosts a talk followed by conversations with contemporary witnesses. Frauke Hippler, a cultural scholar who completed her master's degree at the University of Leipzig, tracked down and examined coded contact ads placed by women who loved women in the Wochenpost, one of the most widely read magazines of the GDR. Being lesbian was long taboo in the GDR, and with no official meeting places, women* sought all kinds of ways to find like-minded people – the ads speak their own language. The talk explores this hidden chapter and these routes of making contact.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/queer-thursay-frauke-hippler-und-zeitzeuginnegesprach-16805/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=288671&ls=10&c=409", "image": "https://noky.io/images/573b025978cde125a5cb2b152f59ace4fd981f1a7ab717c99fa3a698b97e570a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Klingel bei…? Begleitprogramm zur Ausstellung – Zeitzeug*innen im Gespräch. Ein Abend mit und über Zeitzeug*innen", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Lichtenberg im Stadthaus", "address": "Türrschmidtstraße 24, 10317 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "An evening of conversation held as accompanying programme for the exhibition „Klingel bei…?“. Contemporary witnesses talk with co-curator Karl-Heinz Steinle about queer lived realities in Lichtenberg, sharing memories, anecdotes and personal perspectives. Rare interview and film clips make the evening a lively encounter with queer history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/klingel-bei-begleitprogramm-zur-ausstellung-zeitzeuginnen-im-12364/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Zu warm für die DDR? – Queeres Leben zwischen Anpassung und Emanzipation - Vortrag von Peter Rausch | Queer Monday", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Wolfdietrich-Schnurre-Bibliothek", "address": "Bizetstraße 41, 13088 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/konzerte/festivals/biennale-2027/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "A lecture as part of the 'Queer Monday' series, in which the Wolfdietrich-Schnurre-Bibliothek meets the Sonntagsclub. It is given by Peter Rausch, co-founder of the GDR's first gay-lesbian emancipation group (HIB) and of the Sonntags-Club e. V., who still works as a contemporary witness for queer history. The lecture looks at the GDR's four decades and traces the development of homosexuality, homophobia, emancipation and sexual culture chronologically. Afterwards there is time for questions, discussion and conversation, and everyone interested is welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zu-warm-fur-die-ddr-queeres-leben-zwischen-anpassung-und-ema-2579/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=290828&ls=20&c=409", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bdd61acbf68f63db7b281228cfefea6e3f2f1d896d867e77dd66b5bdf9c049d0-1200.webp"}, {"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, "tickets_url": "", "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": "Queer und jüdisch im \"Dritten Reich\" und darüber hinaus", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mitte Museum", "address": "Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "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": "Lesebühne: „Lesbische Selbstbehauptung in der DDR“", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Ehemalige Stasi-Zentrale (Haus 22)", "address": "Ruschestraße 103 10365 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/queer/lesbian", "history/gdr"], "description": "A book presentation and discussion with a conversation afterward. Drawing on texts, interviews and archival material, Dr. Teresa Tammer tells the life story of Karin Dauenheimer, who as a theologian, feminist, lesbian and single mother did not conform to the expectations of state and society, wrote for a feminist underground magazine, and organized women's festivals that became a crucial impulse for the emergence of a GDR-wide lesbian movement, placing her under the Stasi's surveillance for years. The author and the contemporary witness appear together on stage. The event is part of the Lesebühne series.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesebuhne-lesbische-selbstbehauptung-in-der-ddr-20460/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/vor-ort-entdecken/veranstaltungen/termin/lesbische-selbstbehauptung-in-der-ddr-berlin-10-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8fe597a19a39d627d5e9ab2974a8b5a765b22cc9d667819f651f6503f61ca7d4-600.webp"}, {"title": "Palästina zwischen Augen: Zwischen Solidarität und Schweigen: Was bleibt? Palästinensische Stimmen in der DDR und heute", "start": "2026-10-31T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK)", "address": "Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11-13, 10178 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/gdr"], "description": "A conversation event within the project „Palästina zwischen Augen“ at the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) in Berlin-Mitte. Mahmoud Dabdoub and Sophie Ataya talk with each other, moderated by Irit Neidhardt; the topic is Palestinian voices in the GDR and today, between solidarity and silence. The conversation is held in English and admission is free. An awareness team will be present at all events, and the nGbK has a complaints procedure.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/palastina-zwischen-augen-zwischen-solidaritat-und-schweigen-10275/", "official_url": "https://ngbk.de/de/programm/termine/palaestina-zwischen-augen-between-solidarity-and-silence-what-remains-palestinian-voices-in-the-gdr-and-now", "image": ""}, {"title": "Jennifer Evans & Guests: Buchpräsentation „Eine queere Art der Geschichte“", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schwules Museum *", "address": "Lützowstraße 73, 10785 Berlin", "price": "7 Euro (ermäßigt 4 Euro)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/queer-history", "society/queer"], "description": "The Schwules Museum hosts a book presentation, in spoken German, of the German translation of Jennifer Evans' award-winning book „Eine queere Art der Geschichte“. Evans is a queer historian at Carleton University in Ottawa, who describes the museum as no passive archive but a living place of queer kinship. Her book traces the conflict-ridden yet productive struggles over sexualities and gender in art, politics and everyday life in East, West and reunified Germany since 1945, asking about gaps in historiography and archives. Together with invited „special guests“, she will also explore how historical research can help shape a radically intersectional future.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/jennifer-evans-guests-buchprasentation-eine-queere-art-der-g-12551/", "official_url": "https://www.schwulesmuseum.de/veranstaltung/jennifer-evans-guests-buchpraesentation-eine-queere-art-der-geschichte/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8d343629d92fbc086f55027651dbee79eb505a6c31c1f6f3479fa6f8a48cae1e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Uferfrauen - Dokumentarfilm über lesbisches L(i)eben in der DDR", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bettina-von-Arnim-Bibliothek", "address": "Schönhauser Allee 75, 10439 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "“Uferfrauen – Lesbisches L(i)eben in der DDR” is an award-winning documentary film. It was made by Barbara Wallbraun and is about lesbian life in the GDR. The screening takes place at the Bettina-von-Arnim-Bibliothek.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/uferfrauen-dokumentarfilm-uber-lesbisches-lieben-in-der-ddr-20419/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=295265&ls=0&c=22&v_ort=37538&stichwort=Uferfrauen&date_start=12.10.2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8fd7cbca01a9b28c8a570da830be61f9683cef6551643f36667a5bec1f296f0d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Frauen und Revolution", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Besuchszentrum Ostkreuz", "address": "Revaler Straße 29, 10245 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/gender", "history"], "description": "“Frauen und Revolution” is a theme evening with a discussion about what role female voices play in revolutions, then and now. From the revolutions of 1848 and 1918 to political upheavals around the world, it looks at women as actors in revolutionary movements and asks how they shape political change. Together the audience discusses female perspectives on revolution, democracy and social change; guests include the author Shila Behjat. The event takes place as part of the changing exhibition “Stimmen – Ein Ausstellungsexperiment zwischen Demokratiegeschichte und Gegenwart” in cooperation with the Berliner Landeszentrale für politische Bildung; admission is free, registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/frauen-und-revolution-16803/", "official_url": "https://forum1848.de/veranstaltungen/stimmen-frauen-revolution/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0d47bc1053ff6769a228f55c1a9b83fcccb97e2e6afa28d7e45c713b068ac6f1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Die Geschichte der Homo- und Transphobie - Vortrag von Nadja Schallenberg | Queer Monday", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Wolfdietrich-Schnurre-Bibliothek", "address": "Bizetstraße 41, 13088 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/queer-history"], "description": "An interactive lecture followed by time for questions and discussion. Nadja Schallenberg, who has long campaigned for the visibility and rights of trans* people and leads two self-help groups at Sonntags-Club e. V., takes participants on a journey through the history of hostility towards homo- and trans people, from its historical origins to current societal challenges. It looks at how prejudices arose, why they persist to this day and what perspectives exist for more acceptance and diversity. The event is part of the Queer Monday series, in which the Wolfdietrich-Schnurre-Bibliothek meets the Sonntagsclub.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-geschichte-der-homo-und-transphobie-vortrag-von-nadja-sc-2530/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=290825&ls=0&c=409", "image": "https://noky.io/images/824313e7cf62af9041f6694232f7e862f132166ff29e59e597cb0436ee2efbbc-1200.webp"}, {"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": "Palästina zwischen Augen: Between Solidarity and Silence: What remains? Palestinian voices in the GDR and now", "start": "2026-10-31T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf", "address": "Auerbacher Ring 41, 12619 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/gdr"], "description": "A conversation titled \"Palästina zwischen Augen: Between Solidarity and Silence: What remains? Palestinian voices in the GDR and now\". Mahmoud Dabdoub and Sophie Ataya talk with each other, moderated by Irit Neidhardt. The subject is Palestinian voices in the GDR and today, between solidarity and silence. The talk takes place as part of the nGbK program \"Palästina zwischen Augen\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/palastina-zwischen-augen-between-solidarity-and-silence-what-12798/", "official_url": "https://ngbk.de/en/programm/termine/palaestina-zwischen-augen-between-solidarity-and-silence-what-remains-palestinian-voices-in-the-gdr-and-now", "image": ""}, {"title": "Aufbruch und Abbruch. Vom Runden Tisch zum Parlamentssaal im Palast der Republik", "start": "2026-11-07T16:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://indiv.themisweb.fr/0426/fChoixSeanceWidget.aspx?idstructure=0426&EventId=1341&request=QcE+w0WHSuAzuy2B4/OGXXM5SHkQriVyPpSnIlSPgwi/SvTcAfT+aEjjNRciovQIRNkHdQdPpEPbes4EX/49Cg==", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr/peaceful-revolution"], "description": "A talk about two significant sites of the Peaceful Revolution: the Central Round Table at Schönhausen Palace in Pankow and the parliamentary chamber in the Palace of the Republic. Behind the event are the Humboldt Forum, the ORTS-Termin and the installation „Sturzlage“, held on the occasion of the Berlin Freedom Week 2026. The speaker is Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper, one of the most prominent voices in Berlin's culture of remembrance, who explores the history and significance of these two places. She asks why their history is told so little today and why the democratic potential of the Round Table and the freely elected Volkskammer remains relevant.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/aufbruch-und-abbruch-vom-runden-tisch-zum-parlamentssaal-im-2562/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e34564113d159a91a5b5353bba257fd8d87edaeb255452c59f585bb9f7f1bf1c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Ostfrauen*Salon", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Einblick ins Geheime - Ausstellung zum Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv", "address": "Ruschestraße", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei. / Admission is free.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://luma.com/c24f4ugb", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr/stasi", "stage/performance-art", "society"], "description": "The Ostfrauen*Salon is an event of encounters, art and conversations as part of the Berlin Freedom Week. It is a joint project of the Economic Development Agency Lichtenberg, the Federal Archives' Stasi Records Archive and the Ostfrauen*Salon. A long table invites everyone to talk openly about East German identity and social change. There are also readings, a live podcast, a performance, art, a podcast listening station and a book table.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ostfrauensalon-32974/", "official_url": "https://www.einblick-ins-geheime.de/termin/ostfrauensalon-berlin-07-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/567ff93455e51fe183cc791e593c51016b9986c0024edc9d5cb84ef2e81d4f6d-1200.webp"}]}