{"title": "Misha Schoeneberg liest aus „Vielleicht wollte er gar nicht schweigen er fand bloß die Worte nicht” mit musikalischer Begleitung", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Buchhandlung am Schäfersee", "address": "Markstraße 6, 13409 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature", "music"], "description": "Misha Schoeneberg reads from his book „Vielleicht wollte er gar nicht schweigen er fand bloß die Worte nicht“, accompanied by musician Michael Gerlinger, who sings songs by Leonard Cohen in German to the guitar. In this deeply personal book, the author traces the story of his father, a member of a Jewish Berlin family who survived the horrors of Auschwitz. It is about silence and speechlessness in the family, remembrance culture and the upheavals of the present up to the events of October 7. The reading takes place at Buchhandlung am Schäfersee in Berlin; advance registration is possible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/misha-schoeneberg-liest-aus-vielleicht-wollte-er-gar-nicht-s-13471/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b76d528393fa3deeeebccf968b564e266c0db82854844ae3c870ae2192546799-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Buchhandlung am Schäfersee", "address": "Markstraße 6, 13409 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Anna Schapiro liest aus ihrem Debütroman", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Anne Frank Zentrum", "address": "Rosenthaler Straße 39, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel", "society/antisemitism"], "description": "As part of the Education and Action Weeks against Antisemitism, the Anne Frank Zentrum invites to a reading with the artist and author Anna Schapiro. She reads from her debut novel »Fühlen Sie sich wie zu Hause, aber vergessen Sie dabei nicht, dass Sie zu Gast sind«, which tells the life story of her grandmother. Its protagonist Anna searches for her family's untold stories, with farewells, emigration and different kinds of arrival at their heart. A moderated talk with the author follows the reading; admission is free and registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/anna-schapiro-liest-aus-ihrem-debutroman-11134/", "official_url": "https://www.annefrank.de/termine/termin/lesung-anna-schapiro-021126", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b853a85901c877889cb5b73e17f83b011416e4ddd03a708d43b040447e7adf2e-2000.webp"}, {"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": ""}, {"title": "Lesung & Gespräch mit Friedrich Burschel zu PRESENT PAST. Wie Nachfahren ihre NS-Familiengeschichte erforschen (empfohlen ab 16 Jahre)", "start": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Die gute Seite", "address": "Richardplatz 16, 12055 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://dieguteseiteberlin.buchhandlung.de/shop/article/57157258/present_past.html", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A reading and conversation with author Friedrich Burschel, who talks about his own family research into the National Socialist era. At the centre is the volume „Present Past“, in which ten descendants describe how they investigated their family's Nazi past and how they deal with what they found. Burschel, who works on anti-fascism at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, contextualises the stories and then invites an audience discussion on memory politics. The event is part of the autumn series 2026 of the Neukölln bookshops against right-wing populism and racism.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-gesprach-mit-friedrich-burschel-zu-present-past-wie-n-48498/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a49c27e608476b4c56a6c9195696c4be5a36311623fceb5d740b3742f4278648-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Silence", "start": "2026-10-30T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T21:45:00+01:00", "place": "Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz", "address": "Kurfürstendamm 153, 10709 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/contemporary-play"], "description": "\"The Silence\" is a theatre play by Falk Richter, shown as a German-language premiere on the Schaubühne's Globe stage, with Dimitrij Schaad playing the role of Falk Richter. In his autofictional play, the author and theatre director Richter returns to his own family history. In dialogue with his mother, he examines truths left unspoken for decades, repressed secrets and unprocessed traumas, including his father's experiences of war, his mother's flight from West Prussia and the suppression of his gay identity. The confrontation becomes a journey into the abysses of West German bourgeois society from the post-war era to the present, in which autobiography and fiction blend and questions arise about other models of masculinity and relationships.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-silence-9922/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed7c69139d38d602eafe19490e80412314a039fbdd90b0b11c27c5ef21830d21-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Gudrun Bernhagen liest", "start": "2026-11-04T14:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilzentrum PestalozziTreff", "address": "Pestalozzistraße 1A, 12623 Berlin", "price": "6 Euro inklusive Kaffeegedeck", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "", "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": "„Se questo è un uomo“ – „Ist das ein Mensch?“ von Primo Levi - Lesung mit der Deutsch-Italienischen Gesellschaft", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 3, 12165 Berlin", "price": "5€", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/holocaust", "literature"], "description": "A reading from Primo Levi's work „Se questo è un uomo“ – „Ist das ein Mensch?“ at the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek, held on the memorial day for the pogroms of 9 November 1938. It is conceived and moderated by the historian Prof. Dr. Susanne Zeller and the actor and author Manfred Eisner. The Italian chemist Primo Levi, deported to Auschwitz in 1944, survived and is among the significant witnesses of the Shoah. Timely registration by e-mail is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/se-questo-e-un-uomo-ist-das-ein-mensch-von-primo-levi-lesung-31023/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Eine Berliner Familiengeschichte von über 100 Jahren – Lesung und Gespräch mit der Zeitzeugin Irene Bindel", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bezirkszentralbibliothek Pablo Neruda", "address": "Frankfurter Allee 14a, 10247 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/biography/autobiography", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A reading followed by a conversation at the Bezirkszentralbibliothek Pablo Neruda. Irene Bindel, a contemporary witness born in Berlin in 1938, reads from her book „Wassermilch und Spitzenwein“ and tells of her family history spanning more than a century. As the daughter of a Christian mother and a Jewish father, she recounts her family's fate during the Nazi era and the difficult post-war years – her father was imprisoned by the Nazi regime and never returned, while her young mother had to struggle through a time of hardships alone with her daughter. Drawing on her mother's diaries, she offers very personal insights into this moving era, invites the audience to ask questions in the ensuing conversation, and the event is a cooperation between the Gilberto-Bosques-Volkshochschule Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, the Stadtbibliothek Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and the Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit in Berlin e.V.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/eine-berliner-familiengeschichte-von-uber-100-jahren-lesung-31736/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-friedrichshain-kreuzberg/bibliotheken/bezirkszentralbibliothek-pablo-neruda/veranstaltungen-projekte/eine-berliner-familiengeschichte-von-ueber-100-jahren-lesung-und-gespraech-mit-der-zeitzeugin-irene-bindel-1712806.php", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6db1ad9d16ca379cc65669840255ecd48f4ed05c8af944d03201eff22a31ce15-600.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": "Auf Wiederlesen #57: Holger Franke liest \"Abendlicht\" von Stefan Hermlin", "start": "2026-10-30T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T22:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie KungerKiez", "address": "Karl-Kunger-Straße 15 12435 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Spenden willkommen!", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "A public reading at a gallery in Berlin's Alt-Treptow: Holger Franke reads from Stefan Hermlin's prose collection \"Abendlicht\". Published in 1979, the book tells, in 22 texts, of a first-person narrator looking back on his life, from childhood in a well-to-do bourgeois family and a critical young man's path into the Communist Party to impressions of the Nazi era and repeated attempts at resistance. The author's concern is a more humane way of dealing with one another in society. Admission is free, donations are welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/auf-wiederlesen-57-holger-franke-liest-abendlicht-von-stefan-67841/", "official_url": "https://kungerkiez.de/austellungs-details/auf-wiederlesen-57-holger-franke-liest-abendlicht-von-stefan-hermlin.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/12d3aa419235d755381d0888c74a6c5501188dd77e6ca9f9f110859194793650-1200.webp"}, {"title": "„War mein Opa ein Nazi?\" Wie Nachfahren ihre NS-Familiengeschichte erforschen", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Feurigstraße 68 10827 Berlin", "address": "Feurigstraße 68 10827 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A jour fixe with a book presentation where descendants report on how they researched their own family's Nazi past. Berlin historian Dr. Johannes Spohr, who runs the archival research service »Present Past«, presents his new book together with the historian and publicist Friedrich Burschel: ten stories about ten ways in which descendants researched National Socialism in their own families. The welcome address and moderation are by Ragna Vogel, managing director of KONTAKTE-KOHTAKTbI e.V., followed by a reception for conversation and exchange. Admission is free; donations for the association's humanitarian projects for victims of National Socialism are welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/war-mein-opa-ein-nazi-wie-nachfahren-ihre-ns-familiengeschic-31444/", "official_url": "https://kontakte-kontakty.de/war-mein-opa-ein-nazi-wie-nachfahren-ihre-ns-familiengeschichte-erforschen-jour-fixe-am-30-10-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/86e8847620bdfb705ee187d4b3cb3f6cbe4dbe4a488e0b32795f525784fc98a9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "»Jüdisches Weißensee« – Jüdische Geschichte(n) in der Gegenwartsliteratur. Lesung & Gespräch mit Marina Frenk, Slata Roschal, Britta Wauer & Alexander Estis", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "€8 – €10 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.de/e/judisches-weiensee-judische-geschichten-in-der-gegenwartsliteratur-tickets-2002713633389", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/jewish-history", "literature"], "description": "A literary evening of readings and conversation about Jewish history and Jewish life in contemporary literature and film, with Weißensee and its large Jewish cemetery as an example of regional places of Jewish life. Reading and discussing are the writers Marina Frenk and Slata Roschal and the author and filmmaker Britta Wauer, with Alexander Estis moderating. The evening asks about regional references in the work of Jewish and non-Jewish authors. It also shows connections with other arts such as film and music.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/judisches-weiensee-judische-geschichten-in-der-gegenwartslit-24489/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/juedisches-weissensee-juedische-geschichten-in-der-gegenwartsliteratur-lesung-gespraech-mit-marina-frenk-slata-roschal-britta-wauer-alexander-estis/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7aa03cefa9225588537a71a1b4cc898cc495990abe24dca58d954ddb23868d72-1200.webp"}, {"title": "ZEIT-Recherchen: War Opa ein Nazi?", "start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "16/9 EURO", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "\"ZEIT-Recherchen: War Opa ein Nazi?\" is a talk as part of a discourse event on the anniversary of the November pogroms of 1938. Caterina Lobenstein speaks with Götz Aly and Christian Staas, in cooperation with DIE ZEIT. Millions of Germans were in the Wehrmacht and the NSDAP, yet many of their descendants knew nothing about it; recently anyone can search the membership files for relatives with just a few clicks. The discussion asks what looking into one's own family reveals about German culture of remembrance, when coming to terms with the past becomes honest confrontation or merely a soothing ritual, and how remembrance changes as more Germans have no personal connection to the Nazi era.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zeit-recherchen-war-opa-ein-nazi-3781/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/zeit-recherchen-war-opa-ein-nazi", "image": "https://noky.io/images/75b21b28fad8ef289a588522ebde26e73b59e215f54fa8e020ae894cc2067f44-600.webp"}, {"title": "\"Wassermilch und Spitzenwein\" - Eine Berliner Familiengeschichte", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Flughafen Tempelhof", "address": "Platz der Luftbrücke 5 12101 Berlin", "price": "Kostenlose Tickets!", "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/nazi-era", "literature/memoir"], "description": "A reading with Irene Bindel from her autobiographical book “Wassermilch und Spitzenwein”. The author, born in Berlin in 1938 as the daughter of a Jewish father, tells of her childhood in the National Socialist era, of persecution and her father having to go into hiding, and of the new beginning after 1945, shaped by encounters with the American occupiers. Afterwards she speaks about her personal experiences and answers questions from the audience, with the evening guided by the historian Irmgard Zündorf. The event takes place as part of Berlin Freedom Week.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wassermilch-und-spitzenwein-eine-berliner-familiengeschichte-12669/", "official_url": "https://www.thf-berlin.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung/berlin-freedom-week-wassermilch-und-spitzenwein", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1bd42dba9ff116a9bb9215b6baddb856dfb97bdac374c2e5ad20bf6614941769-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Judith Hermann – Ich möchte zurückgehen in der Zeit", "start": "2026-11-09T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Buchhandlung Braun & Hassenpflug", "address": "Fischerhüttenstraße 79, 14163 Berlin", "price": "15,- € Eintritt", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "A literary evening with Judith Hermann about her new book »Ich möchte zurückgehen in der Zeit« (S. Fischer Verlage, 2026). In it, she follows the traces of her grandfather, who was stationed in Radom, Poland, for the SS during the Second World War. She links her writing to his long-denied history, travels from Poland to her sister in Naples, and explores the remembering and forgetting of later generations. Admission is 15 euros.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/judith-hermann-ich-mochte-zuruckgehen-in-der-zeit-13450/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/19d1dd811743c90346f47bc12eeee13a4f0c7cd87e1c68cae3836a3aab32f6ee-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung „Stunden wie Tage“", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Liebermann-Villa", "address": "Colomierstraße 3, 14109 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://shop.liebermann-villa.de/de/tickets/2668", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A reading and conversation at the Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee. The author Shelly Kupferberg presents her book „Stunden wie Tage“, published by Diogenes Verlag. It is about the book and a talk with the author. The event's image shows Shelly Kupferberg, photographed by Heike Steinweg.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-stunden-wie-tage-12214/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/abb0b3d9608d4a624d7f8c9a8f83ceea2cc5965075f985748dd18fc5a567eac6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kabarett & KZ - Lesung mit Thomas Schleissing-Niggemann", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 3, 12165 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "stage/cabaret"], "description": "A reading by Thomas Schleissing-Niggemann about cabaret during the National Socialist era and in the concentration camps. It covers cabaret artists who were sent to concentration camps, cabaret in the camps as a showpiece of the SS and against fellow prisoners' depression, and cabaret as a weapon at the BBC. Admission is free; advance registration is requested by phone or email. The reading takes place at the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek at Grunewaldstraße 3 in Berlin-Steglitz-Zehlendorf.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kabarett-kz-lesung-mit-thomas-schleissing-niggemann-32984/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=291634", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3a46a23a538461a0422296d06e18f60face2e5edfba75521128f2b5b4c2ed26a-600.webp"}]}