{"title": "Names not numbers (Theater)", "start": "2026-11-14T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Auenkirche", "address": "Wilhelmsaue 119, 10715 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "\"Names not Numbers\" is a play performed by the theater group of the Auen congregation. Christine Seeberger wrote the text and directs, with Monika Breß leading the production. It tells the historical voyage of the St. Louis, which left Hamburg for Havana in May 1939 carrying more than 900 German refugees, and how the passengers' fate came to depend on the crew's choices of conscience and on indifferent governments, corrupt politicians and cynical businessmen. It opens with a survivor's cry: \"We are not numbers! We have names!\"", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/names-not-numbers-theater-11257/", "official_url": "https://www.auenkirche.de/aue-erleben/konzerte-und-theater", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Auenkirche", "address": "Wilhelmsaue 119, 10715 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-15T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Auenkirche", "address": "Wilhelmsaue 119, 10715 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Gedenken an die Novemberpogrome 1938 I \"Hymne an die Namen\"", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche", "address": "Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["history/nazi-era/pogroms", "music/singing"], "description": "A commemorative concert marking the November pogroms of 1938 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. In the “Hymne an die Namen”, mezzo-soprano Kim Seligsohn sings the names of people who lived in the immediate neighbourhood of the church and whose shops were looted and destroyed. The idea for this commemoration grew out of her personal history – her grandmother Marianne was deported by the Nazis and murdered in Auschwitz – and it puts the individual stories of the victims, together with their names, at its centre. It is an attempt to give sound to the inconceivable, for as long as the names are “alive”, the dead are not forgotten.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gedenken-an-die-novemberpogrome-1938-i-hymne-an-die-namen-31087/", "official_url": "https://www.gedaechtniskirche-berlin.de/programm/veranstaltungsueberblick/veranstaltung/67225821?cHash=52a3d3a1ef039e96bfefead19e55261a", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fd929066d105640e5e983fa1876afb9ab351ce898fd2307fe2816cff503f2484-1200.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", "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": "Ausflug der toten Mädchen", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "jtw Spandau", "address": "Gelsenkircher Straße 20 13583 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "\"Ausflug der toten Mädchen\" is a theatre production based on Anna Seghers's novella, directed by Josephine Witt. The novella was written in 1944 while the author was in exile in Mexico. At the end of the school year around 1900, a class of girls enjoys an outing on the Rhine with a boat trip, cake and first infatuations – yet love and friendship turn to hatred and contempt, friends become betrayers and betrayed, driven into flight or the concentration camp. The production explores the existential abysses between friends in a time of social terror, asking what consequences betrayal holds for one's own life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ausflug-der-toten-madchen-24532/", "official_url": "https://jtw-spandau.de/ausflug-der-toten-maedchen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db7a8d8e3b667845d75e90b04ab93e138b1b2ff315ddeedf43734823d827c318-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Einer von Euch sein. von Susi Claus und Astrid Endruweit", "start": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-10T22:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "Spende (Richtwert 5 €, zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "stage/puppetry"], "description": "“Einer von Euch sein.” is a staged reading in the form of figure theatre about childhood and youth from 1933 to 1945, between participation, refusal and deportation. The production by Susi Claus and Astrid Endruweit, directed by Astrid Endruweit with dramaturgy and performance by both, is for young people aged 13 and up and adults. It tells how children who were friends were suddenly split into “one kind” and “the other”, how “Heil Hitler” replaced “Good morning” at school, and how Jewish children were excluded, persecuted and deported. The reading is based on original documents and anonymised eyewitness accounts, and includes a temporary monument by Stefka Ammon and puppet building by Judith Mähler.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/einer-von-euch-sein-von-susi-claus-und-astrid-endruweit-67587/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/einer-von-euch-sein/2026-11-10/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1e9e5b246de1a8afabefd550f237b67d2def2c59b0941b15ea77501c67ce754b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "…DASS ALLES SEINE ORDNUNG HAT.", "start": "2026-11-06T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Theater unterm Dach", "address": "Schönfließer Straße 7, 10437", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A documentary theatre montage based on biographies, diaries, testimonies, historical documents and personal thoughts. The piece was created by Astrid Endruweit and Susi Claus, who also handle the concept, dramaturgy and performance, for young people aged 13 and up and adults. It shows how a sense of duty, career ambition, peer pressure and numbing kept the machinery of extermination running with eerie normality and bureaucratic order. At its centre is the question of how „completely ordinary“ people became cogs in this machinery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/dass-alles-seine-ordnung-hat-8123/", "official_url": "https://theateruntermdach-berlin.de/produktion/dass-alles-seine-ordnung-hat/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e21a9a7bc4bede45b9ad748427112625497d5c3c704fb08fa0b93e9a999dee52-2000.webp"}, {"title": "#diewelle", "start": "2026-11-07T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grips Theater im Podewil", "address": "Klosterstraße 68 10179 Berlin", "price": "25 €, ermäßigt 16 €", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "history/nazi-era", "society/democracy"], "description": "#diewelle is a theatre production by GRIPS Theater at Hansaplatz, based on motifs from the novel “Die Welle” by Morton Rhue (Todd Strasser) in a version and translation by Jochen Strauch. A history teacher starts an experiment to show her students why the German majority watched the Nazis' crimes in silence and inaction. Exercises in discipline and hierarchical behaviour first create a sense of community, but the seductive power of fascist ideas gains the upper hand ever more radically until the experiment spins out of control. Against the backdrop of populism and autocracies in Europe, the play raises questions about peer pressure, exclusion and the endangerment of democracy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/diewelle-4634/", "official_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/spielplan/diewelle/3250", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7561d44dc58afbe3c6f10d83cf7782d9c4a5568f1ecd9b8819cd7389137c973f-600.webp"}, {"title": "Frauen in Moabit – Verfolgung und Widerstand im Nationalsozialismus", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mitte Museum", "address": "Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/nazi-era/resistance", "occasion"], "description": "A walking tour through Moabit, held one day before the anniversary of the November pogroms. The historian Trille Schünke-Bettinger leads visitors to six places where women lived, worked or were active during the Nazi era, showing their forms of resistance and the traces of persecution. The tour ends at Levetzowstraße at the memorial to the former synagogue that served as a collection point for the deportation of Berlin's Jewish women and men. The meeting point is the square in front of the Rathaus Tiergarten; free registration by email is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/frauen-in-moabit-verfolgung-und-widerstand-im-nationalsozial-72944/", "official_url": "https://www.mittemuseum.de/de/veranstaltung/2026/frauen-in-moabit", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ad2ceeb8c89d4b29d70a7a183f056d7e98a4e27009679bd8d79afaaa4bd4bb16-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Amigues Adios", "start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Naunynstraße", "address": "Naunynstraße 27, 10997 Berlin", "price": "14€ / 8€", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "14.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/queer", "stage/performance-art", "dance"], "description": "\"Amigues Adios\" is a theatre piece by Bishop Black at Ballhaus Naunynstraße. In it, five performers go in search of Berlin's promise and of the freedom of being together beyond the conservative boundaries of sexual identity and racial identity. They remember the Black queer Berliners who once had the courage to make the city a promise, and seek ways to keep community and freedom alive. In a surreal and burlesque dance through the times they come together to find the strength to carry on, celebrating to taste fearlessness and self-determination again.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/amigues-adios-3704/", "official_url": "https://ballhausnaunynstrasse.de/play/amigues-adios/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/60711e418406fe50f3bbd0bf22a720b81e843997a4982f11c8a77e011731c81d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nameless", "start": "2026-11-14T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Prinzenallee", "address": "Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "NAMELESS is an audio walk through urban space, starting and ending in Studio L. Over headphones, the audience witnesses an existence that consists entirely of quotations. The work is an experimental arrangement on imitation as the basic figure of the subject: people do not find out who they are, but copy what they take for a life. It moves the question of where the human begins and the image ends onto the street, where the audience members themselves become part of the picture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nameless-3738/", "official_url": "https://www.ballhausprinzenallee.de/spielplan-ballhaus/nameless", "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": "Transport: Connecting Flights", "start": "2026-11-02T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schaubude Berlin", "address": "Greifswalder Straße 81-84, 10405 Berlin", "price": "solidarisch 25,00 € | regulär 18,00 € | ermäßigt 12,00 €", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration"], "description": "\"Transport: Connecting Flights\" is hyperrealistic puppet theatre in miniature format, following a refugee family through an airport terminal – a place of hope and hopelessness where prejudice and institutional barriers become painfully tangible. Behind the production is the Białystok Puppet Theatre from Poland, which demands responsibility against the backdrop of European migration policy. The piece is part of the Europe-wide celebrated six-part theatre series \"Transport\", which explores the effects of mobility in a globalised world. The productions use realistically designed scenographies populated by 3D-printed figures, and with a play style inspired by animated film and a 3D soundscape they create an immersive experience; the piece runs 45 minutes and is performed without spoken language, with a short introduction in English.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/transport-connecting-flights-16722/", "official_url": "https://schaubude.berlin/de/spielplan/transport-connecting-flights/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/06778eff1d01c2b101e742366cb68a443efeee736cbe5dcc846a67468a10eda8-600.webp"}, {"title": "Ditha Brickwell liest aus ihren neuesten Werken", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Haus Kladower Forum", "address": "Kladower Damm 387, 14089 Berlin – Kladow", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "Ditha Brickwell reads from two of her most important novels, which also have a little to do with Kladow, at Kladower Forum, capping the evening with a »Zuckerl« from her hometown Vienna. »Der Kinderdieb« tells of Otto, a young man coming of age in the dark Vienna of the 1950s, who falls in love with a refugee girl from Hungary and does something unheard of to find comfort. »Die andere Seite der Nacht. Eine Erzählung vom Standhalten und Überleben« recounts the fate of Jewish families in Berlin and their Christian helpers during the National Socialist era. The author, committed to justice and democratic values, engages lively with her audience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ditha-brickwell-liest-aus-ihren-neuesten-werken-26240/", "official_url": "https://kladower-forum.de/veranstaltung/ditha-brickwell-liest-aus-ihren-neuesten-werken/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0334517afc520c0930cd118d8e6673f313b3f61d3f5030c7facb4c5c027c3d44-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Wider das Vergessen – Gedenken an die Reichspogromnacht", "start": "2026-11-09T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Evangelisches Gemeindezentrum Hellersdorf", "address": "Glauchauer Straße 7, 12627 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "occasion/memorial"], "description": "\"Wider das Vergessen - Gedenken an die Reichspogromnacht\" is a joint walk to Stolpersteine, where a rose is laid down in remembrance. The invitation comes from the Protestant congregation, which sets a sign against antisemitism with this walk. The small memorial plaques set into the pavement recall the fate of people who were persecuted, displaced or murdered during the Nazi era. This year the walk turns to the Stolpersteine in Biesdorf to learn more about the history of the people and families they commemorate; the walking distance is about 3 km, and public transport is used.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wider-das-vergessen-gedenken-an-die-reichspogromnacht-72362/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8ef0707e0562289007c8912d8be506ecac48a4e8f479d5d15ff23f7e5609d059-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Fabian. Der Gang vor die Hunde", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Vagantenbühne", "address": "Kantstraße 12a, 10623 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel", "stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "\"Fabian. Der Gang vor die Hunde\" is a stage play based on Erich Kästner's novel, performed at the Vagantenbühne theatre in Berlin. It is directed by Lily Kuhlmann, who transforms the venue into a bar and takes the audience straight to late-1920s Berlin. It follows Fabian as he drifts through the city's excessive nightlife, distracting himself from unemployment, while the rising Nazi movement tightens its noose around the city. Kästner's characters mirror social division and the search for one's place in a failing world – a feeling close to our own time.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/fabian-der-gang-vor-die-hunde-8137/", "official_url": "https://www.vaganten.de/repertoire/fabian-der-gang-vor-die-hunde", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4609338efc2b7ffabc5f80c55e4db96e03f7551634d261543a629d6dd1184310-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Stolpersteine putzen", "start": "2026-11-09T08:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "", "address": "Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["history/nazi-era/commemoration"], "description": "„Stolpersteine putzen“ is an action in which the Stolpersteine embedded in Berlin's streets are cleaned. The Stolpersteine are a project by the artist Gunter Demnig commemorating people persecuted by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. Each concrete cube with a brass plate is set into the pavement in front of the last freely chosen home of a persecuted person and shows that person's name and fate. Every single stone thus symbolizes the void created when a person was violently torn from their life by the Nazis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/stolpersteine-putzen-20434/", "official_url": "https://www.stolpersteine-berlin.de/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/10602e3d751a4eaa2faa5a5fd47d4f3ee3be7dd42c6802163faf618e02e72e5d-600.webp"}, {"title": "BÄR. Ein Zeitzeuge erzählt", "start": "2026-11-09T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grips Theater im Podewil", "address": "Klosterstraße 68 10179 Berlin", "price": "15 €, ermäßigt 10 €", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A documentary theatre piece for ages 9 and up, recommended for grades 4 to 6. It is based on the memoirs of Irene Grumach-Shirun, written down by Jill Levenfeld, performed by Josephine Hock and directed by Hannes Kapsch. The story is told from the perspective of a teddy bear named 'Bär' who is over a hundred years old and witnessed the life of a Jewish child under the Nazi dictatorship. Long-sealed rooms come back to life through shadow play and sound; the morning show is followed by a discussion, and the piece won the IKARUS Fachjury 2025 prize in the children's theatre category.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/bar-ein-zeitzeuge-erzahlt-4636/", "official_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/spielplan/bar-ein-zeitzeuge-erzahlt/3251", "image": "https://noky.io/images/907289e50faa60afd42c0607f327dce1ba1d228d83f611c0cbb0a044daca98d2-2000.webp"}]}