{"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": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23814", "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/44bb26fd28e9585539e598b66f4293362b376a3f7ac78efc734a1667d82f90ac-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/eventlist", "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": "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", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23815", "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": "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", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23816", "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": "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, "tickets_url": "", "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": "LESERAUM x Primeurs", "start": "2026-11-04T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Internationales Theaterinstitut Deutschland", "address": "Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/translation"], "description": "LESERAUM is a participatory online format by the Internationales Theaterinstitut Deutschland for theatre translators, theatre makers, authors and other interested people. In this edition it cooperates with the Festival Primeurs, a festival for contemporary francophone drama at the Saarländisches Staatstheater, presenting German-language translations from French. Guests are Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau with her translation IN LUFT AUFGELÖST by Rébecca Déraspe, as well as the translators Pauline Fois and Sula Textor with the translation Ix:variationen by Marcos Caramés-Blanco. The session is moderated by Corinna Popp.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/leseraum-x-primeurs-34124/", "official_url": "https://www.iti-germany.de/de/news/leseraum-x-primeurs/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eb735be3d537169ac26342eb14b2112b35a72f4cc8db671440673bcfd596c476-600.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", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "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. 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The 2026/27 edition takes its cue from myths and rituals as the origins of the performing arts and asks whether these can connect people and inspire reverence for the dignity of life. It opens with the German premiere of the stage version of Balkan Erotic Epic, a new work by performance artist Marina Abramović.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/performing-arts-season-2414/", "official_url": "https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/performing-arts-season", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6f308c91c8f5e8d7f2c9824df59de1a6f432eb8d2428eb717210f8d73f989ba1-2000.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", "tickets_url": "https://pretix.eu/bukkakisscaroni/unsexfestival/", "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": "„28 Days“: eine szenische Lesung von Olga Shiliaevas", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "PANDA Platforma", "address": "", "price": "Online 20 Euro, Abendkasse 25 Euro", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "literature"], "description": "“28” is a staged reading in English about a woman trying to hear her own thoughts and feelings through a chorus of voices with plenty to say about her body. The play is by Olga Shiliaeva and is staged by Anja Demidova, translated by Katherine Soloviev. The performance grows out of a week-long theatre laboratory in which seven actors work with the text, movement and masks that become their costumes on stage. Shiliaeva's play was shortlisted for the Lubimovka Festival in 2018 and nominated for a Golden Mask theatre award in 2020.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/28-days-eine-szenische-lesung-von-olga-shiliaevas-33813/", "official_url": "https://panda-platforma.berlin/events/28-staged-reading/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f00277fd586c2f5d1f16f78b03787c0bac0f5730e1d75cea5906d06bf10cc0f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kamins Zimmer", "start": "2026-10-29T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "No Prose is a collaborative reading series for poetry and hybrid texts in which the works interlock and are performed in a flow, rather than read in blocks sorted by author. It is organised by Aran Kleebaur, Daria Pantyukhova and Lena Stewens. After two events in Frankfurt, the series is now a guest at Kamins Zimmer in Berlin. Readers include Hendrik Arns, Hannah Siecksmeier, Zelal Yeşilyurt, Bianca Ferrari, Berfin Şilen, Lara Finkenstädt, Daria Pantyukhova and Lena Stewens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kamins-zimmer-33031/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/no-prose/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Berliner Literaturwerkstatt QUEER Vol. 3", "start": "2026-10-31T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "Kostenlos (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/creative-writing", "society/queer"], "description": "The Berliner Literaturwerkstatt QUEER is a moderated event at which two literary texts in progress are read out and discussed together. For Vol. 3, the writers Ade Ajayi, Crispin Scholz, Danou Chazarenc, Anja Kümmel and Sonja M. Schultz take part, with moderation by Donat Blum. Up to five queer writers from Berlin and the audience offer appreciative feedback, and the workshop also serves as a networking event for queer writers. The cooperation between »Glitter – Die Gala der Literaturzeitschriften«, the Buchladen Eisenherz and BrotfabrikLiteratur takes place in the Roter Salon.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/berliner-literaturwerkstatt-queer-vol-3-48487/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/berliner-literaturwerkstatt-queer-vol-3/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/07b4ca817f76a476eab7720ad4a7ca0eab3b3688bd0d7fb2c2bc2e49527fe19a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Nacht der unerschossenen Gedichte", "start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literarisches Colloquium Berlin e.V.", "address": "Am Sandwerder 5, 14109 Berlin", "price": "ab 9,00 €", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.urbanite.net/berlin/locations/kategorie/shopping/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "history"], "description": "A literary evening devoted to extinguished Belarusian literature and the writers shot in 1937. It is organized by the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin e.V. together with the Initiative der Freund·innen der belarusischen Literatur in Berlin and the Belarusian community RAZAM e.V., and takes place in Belarusian, Yiddish and German. With and by Alena Aharelysheva, Yaraslava Ananka, Alhierd Bakharevich and many others, this year's edition turns to the literary circles in which the scene of the 1920s and 1930s organized itself, including official and secret, serious and also absurd ones.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nacht-der-unerschossenen-gedichte-73361/", "official_url": "https://www.reservix.de/tickets-nacht-der-unerschossenen-gedichte-2026-in-berlin-literarisches-colloquium-berlin-ev-am-29-10-2026/e2615743", "image": "https://noky.io/images/08b1f57090ced4196028f9d7dedfce8c2a8ab04462c3afce0969c7fa8795b3ff-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Performing Arts Season", "start": "2026-10-13T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-22T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gropius-Bau", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/performing-arts-season/besuch/tickets", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "Performing Arts Season is a series of theatre, dance and performance works. Its fourth edition is presented by the Berliner Festspiele. It focuses on myths and rituals, with works by international artists such as Marina Abramović, Marie Chouinard and Dumb Type.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/performing-arts-season-59/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/755d38d79c3c8ffa8ea0a4a2eae235a1937bedd5a7c983468f92b3829814e5fc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lesershow Revival – Eine Lesebühne kehrt zurück!", "start": "2026-11-07T20:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mastul", "address": "Liebenwalder Straße 33, 13347 Berlin", "price": "Frei / Spende", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/reading"], "description": "A reading stage with texts and songs is returning to the Mastul. Thilo Bock, Martin Goldenbaum, Robert Rescue and Frank Sorge come back with new texts and songs, combining the glamour of earlier days with today's sparkle. Expect lively announcements, plugs for books and records, and good old analog cheer to sway along to. A traditional donation of at least €10 (20 marks) is suggested to keep the gentlemen in good shape.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesershow-revival-eine-lesebuhne-kehrt-zuruck-23563/", "official_url": "https://mastul.de/mastulevent/lesershow-revival-eine-lesebuehne-kehrt-zurueck-2026-11-07/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e07cc3b055f31474c3ae1bcf9791f795e418bad0be0dacef69433f0fbb22910-2000.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", "tickets_url": "", "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"}]}