{"title": "MEDUSA", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "12,00 €", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/drama", "society/class"], "description": "A theatre evening with two readings at the first MEDUSA Festival in the Rote Salon of the Volksbühne. It features texts by Italian playwright Alessandro Paschitto (SESSO/SEXUS, translated by Carola Köhler) and the award-winning debut „aufstiegskörper. ein fühlversuch“ by Lena Riemer; Tobias Herzberg directs, with Knut Berger, Theresa Berlage, João D’Orey and Via Jikeli reading. The plays deal with social mobility, class and the body, and with gender, identity and societal expectations. Afterwards there is an audience talk with the authors and the translator.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/medusa-113653/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6c18cf595d510af074b76593b0102216b69df00ab2d5ca06183cc603d1428d72-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Lena Riemer / Alessandro Paschitto", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "literature"], "description": "A staged reading evening as part of the MEDUSA Festival Berlin at the Roter Salon, featuring two contemporary plays. Directed by Tobias Herzberg, with readings by Knut Berger, Theresa Berlage, Joao D'Orey and Via Jikeli. The programme includes SEXUS by Italian playwright Alessandro Paschitto, a pointed and ironic play about gender, identity and social expectations, and Lena Riemer's award-winning debut aufstiegskörper. ein fühlversuch about social mobility, burnout and the body as a site of adaptation and resistance. Afterwards there is an audience talk with the author and translator Carola Köhler.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lena-riemer-alessandro-paschitto-279/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/reihen-und-projekte/medusa/lena-riemer-alessandro-paschitto/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fbe17100448823dd8e9106bf09630d368e037bc5eb66b071a29d35e5150c87a9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "MEDUSA", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/contemporary-play"], "description": "On the first evening of the MEDUSA Festival Berlin, the Roter Salon hosts staged readings of two contemporary theatre texts presented in German. The programme brings together „Notte Bianca (Lange Nacht)“ by Tatjana Motta and „ДЕБЕЛАКЪТ (FETTSACK)“ by Silva Marinova. The evening is directed by Marie Bues and performed by an ensemble of twelve actors, with audience talks accompanying the readings. The transnational project, run by partner institutions from Naples, Sofia and Berlin and coordinated in Berlin by Das Kombinat e.V. together with Drama Panorama e.V., is dedicated to contemporary drama and inclusive identities in Europe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/medusa-16820/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/reihen-und-projekte/medusa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d7776b628f10e9979272b3ac041c6bf23e17a2154dd67bd07e9f0c4880ac6480-2000.webp"}, {"title": "From Translation to Circulation: Three European Perspectives", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Internationales Theaterinstitut Deutschland", "address": "Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/translation"], "description": "A public conversation on the visibility and circulation of theatre translations, hosted by the Internationales Theaterinstitut (ITI) together with the Medusa Festival. Curators from Germany, Bulgaria and Italy give impulses on the conditions for translated theatre texts in their countries. Afterwards they discuss with further guests, including authors and translators, and with the audience. The evening also marks the public launch of MEDUSA and ends with an informal get-together.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/from-translation-to-circulation-three-european-perspectives-34125/", "official_url": "https://www.iti-germany.de/de/news/from-translation-to-circulation-three-european-perspectives/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3dc6823806a8ea4c5bce7c508a44a23148d14a802cd718c0d83b45a75e2ea3d4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Silva Marinova / Tatjana Motta", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["literature", "stage"], "description": "A reading programme of the transnational MEDUSA Festival Berlin in the Roter Salon at the Volksbühne. It presents texts by the Bulgarian author Silva Marinova and the Italian Tatjana Motta, read by Eddy Barroso, Barbara Behrendt, Anton Berman and Aylin Esener, directed by Marie Bues. Marinova's science-fiction play ДЕБЕЛАКЪТ (FETTSACK) follows a writer couple travelling to a slimming clinic on the Moon in the year 2125, while Motta's Notte Bianca (Lange Nacht) accompanies a tourist couple in a city in transition, dealing with migration and belonging. Afterwards there is an audience talk with the authors and the translator Henrieke Markert.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/silva-marinova-tatjana-motta-278/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/reihen-und-projekte/medusa/silva-marinova-tatjana-motta/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/592f76b7ba0be887b6a671252526d94bf80ca41c0948dfe91f1b9d121d005782-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Teodora Georgieva / Natalie Baudy", "start": "2026-11-07T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/drama"], "description": "A theatre evening as part of the MEDUSA Festival Berlin featuring texts by Teodora Georgieva and Natalie Baudy, which closes the festival. It is directed by Salome Dastmalchi, with readings of Georgieva's „СИЛНИ. СМЕЛИ. СТРАХОВИТИ.“ in Alexander Sitzmann's translation and Baudy's „under the influence oder: die rückkehr der bakchen“, read by Banafshe Hourmazdi, Nadim Jarrar, Patrick Khatami and Niklas Wetzel. Georgieva's play follows three ten-year-old boys who found an army, in which a childhood game develops into a system of power, violence and peer pressure. Baudy's play shows three women of three generations in an apartment block under mysterious plagues, speaking about intoxication, dependencies and solidarity, followed by an audience talk and a closing party with DJAZ & DJ SAESH.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/teodora-georgieva-natalie-baudy-281/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/reihen-und-projekte/medusa/teodora-georgieva-natalie-baudy/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e30992999fa5e7ed1267e697b7a111c94f35f9d77a24ee37d074fa48fb2f19c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Autor*innenlesung", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "UNI.T", "address": "Fasanenstraße 1b, 10623 Berlin", "price": "frei (ohne Reservierung)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/drama"], "description": "Writers who write for the stage read from their unpublished texts on the UNI.T stage. Behind it is the 18th cohort of Scenic Writing at the Berlin University of the Arts. It is not a battle, but a broad spectrum of coexisting styles of writing and voices. Admission is free, without reservation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/autorinnenlesung-20173/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/autorinnenlesung-2026/", "image": ""}, {"title": "DIE MITTELMEER-MONOLOGE", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heimathafen Neukölln", "address": "Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 Berlin", "price": "14.50 EUR - 20.00 EUR", "price_from": "14.50", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "society/migration"], "description": "DIE MITTELMEER-MONOLOGE are an evening of documentary theatre created by author and director Michael Ruf from interviews that are only condensed, never altered. The piece tells of people who risk the crossing of the Mediterranean hoping to find safety in Europe, and of authorities who try to prevent this. Activists appear as well, who push coastguards to rescue people in distress or learn how to keep them from drowning. The performances are followed by audience discussions with activists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-mittelmeer-monologe-33790/", "official_url": "https://heimathafen-neukoelln.de/events/die-mittelmeer-monologe", "image": "https://noky.io/images/07bb06ed8315ebf840de4d5433e4aa3525f86ddfcc2aecc75ea1e383b4933bf9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "unSex Me Here Festival", "start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heizhaus - Uferstudios", "address": "Uferstraße 23 13357 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/queer", "stage/performance-art", "dance"], "description": "The mini-festival unSex Me Here offers three days of performance, discussion, a drag show and a workshop at the Heizhaus of the Uferstudios. Olympia Bukakkis and Maria F. Scaroni present it following the premiere of Unsex Me Here at the Sophiensaelen in April. The festival explores paths of queer living that refuse reproduction as the goal of propagation. The first evening brings the duet After Symmetry_Swallow the Sun by Maria F. Scaroni and Stephanie Maher plus a discussion with Olympia Bukkakis and Juliana Gleeson on drag and trans communities and kinship from a materialist perspective.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/unsex-me-here-festival-24430/", "official_url": "https://www.uferstudios.com/en/dance/events/b09ba224-5ede-4d3a-8684-329f3cbf50ce", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a8978bd16a708b635eb652815dd8a8581b05f0f8e3dab671d9b943735cb7fa82-600.webp"}, {"title": "VOCI IN TRANSITO (it)", "start": "2026-11-07T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Buchhandlung a Livraria", "address": "Torstraße 159, 10115 Berlin", "price": "Freies Angebot / free donation", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/italian-literature"], "description": "A literary reading with Italian authors in Berlin. Lucia Camilloni, Fedra Mincio, Linda Nocera and Daniela Porto read short stories, excerpts from novels, poems and reflections. They tell of being in transit between Berlin, Italy and the world, of changes and challenges, and of the wish to give voice to their own voice and uniqueness. Afterwards there will be an open discussion between the authors and the audience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/voci-in-transito-it-13461/", "official_url": "https://www.mondolibro.de/p/sa-07-11-2026i-17-uhr-i-voci-in-transito-it", "image": "https://noky.io/images/34dbca9a64865198ba619a56aa6b939de87297a02ef8747a3b3b1414146a5dee-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Rosa L.", "start": "2026-11-06T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Ausverkauft", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "history"], "description": "A theatre world premiere on the Kammer stage of the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Director Anica Tomić, who lives in Croatia, has adapted Margarethe von Trotta's film about Rosa Luxemburg for the stage together with author Jelena Kovačić and continues the story into the present day. The piece traces how Luxemburg became an icon of the European left and asks how her thinking can be read in a time of militarisation, rising nationalism and war becoming conceivable again. Based on the film by Margarethe von Trotta and the graphic novel by Kate Evans, in a translation by Ivna Žic.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/rosa-l-4407/", "official_url": "https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/rosa-l", "image": ""}, {"title": "MAMI", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus der Berliner Festspiele", "address": "Schaperstraße 24, 10719 Berlin", "price": "15–39, ermäßigt 12", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "39.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": [], "description": "MAMI is a theatre work in a wordless, ritual theatre of images. In it, director and performer Mario Banushi condenses personal memories into an intense experience between birth, desire and loss. The piece tells of mothers, of closeness and detachment, and of what is passed on. It is a homage to the women who raised us and to the ambivalences of this legacy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/mami-24491/", "official_url": "https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/performing-arts-season/programm/2026/spielplan/mami", "image": "https://noky.io/images/811e9d6c3d46b30763fe43c40a23a8d604d4a7affc1e3d5907c5bf95cc329ec0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Perfection", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/contemporary-play", "literature/adaptation"], "description": "Perfection is a theatre production by the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, performed in German and English at the Prater. It is directed by Anta Recke, who adapted it from Vincenzo Latronico's novel Die Perfektionen in her own version. It follows Anna and Tom, who move from southern Europe to Berlin and come apart over digitally promised lifestyles. Together with Marta Dyachenko, Recke designed an arena where theatre acts as a place of assembly standing against curated Instagram realities.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/perfection-2383/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/perfection/20261012-1800/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ee23924c47b8d8d7b8bfac82a3b948ce58193153c9b8e6e30135bad30df8d16-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fug & Unfug", "start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-09T21:30:00+01:00", "place": "Terzo Mondo", "address": "Grolmanstraße 28, 10623 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/reading"], "description": "\"Fug & Unfug\" is a reading evening, part of the venue's literary program at Fournos by TerzoMondo. This installment presents \"Sodom und Gomorra\", performed by Hermann Treusch, Till Schwabenbauer and Manfred Giesler. The evening is organized by Marc Alexey @Terzo Mondo.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/fug-unfug-72484/", "official_url": "https://www.terzomondo.de/event/fug-unfug-7/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1d6ab81ba4db00058a3d3c34b347bdc09047779eb09266d3003a2ece2045a9d9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Noise als Strategie — Workshop", "start": "2026-11-04T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T18:30:00+01:00", "place": "Maxim-Gorki-Theater", "address": "Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["music/experimental/noise", "art/installation"], "description": "An open workshop about Marco Fusinato's installation IN THE CORPSE OF THE PRESENT at the Maxim Gorki Theater. Participants explore the installation together as a group, in which Kleist's „Prinz Friedrich von Homburg“ meets records played at slow speed, masks, flickering light and a thundering electric guitar. In the following exchange, the focus is on volume and silence, darkness, rules, authority and obedience – and on what we ourselves become loud for. The workshop is open to everyone aged 18 and up, no prior knowledge needed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/noise-als-strategie-workshop-57930/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}