{"title": "Ostfrauen*Salon - Begegnungen, Kunst und Gespräche zur Berlin Freedom Week", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Normannenstraße 21a, 10365 Berlin", "address": "Normannenstraße 21a, 10365 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["history/gdr", "art", "society"], "description": "The Ostfrauen*Salon is a day of encounters, literature, art, podcasts and conversations about East German identity and social change. At its heart is a long table where anyone interested can sit down and talk with one another. It is a joint project of Wirtschaftsförderung Lichtenberg, the Bundesarchiv – Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv and the Ostfrauen*Salon, funded by the Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft, Energie und Betriebe. The programme includes a guided tour of the former Stasi headquarters, a reading by Ruth Herzberg, a parlour game with Jule Henschel, an art talk with Isabel Kittler, Doreen Trittel and Maria Magdalena Köhn, a live podcast with Berit Großwendt and Grit Seymour, and a performance by the collective Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ostfrauensalon-begegnungen-kunst-und-gesprache-zur-berlin-fr-96821/", "official_url": "https://berlin-freedom-week.com/event/ostfrauensalon-berlin-freedom-week", "image": "https://noky.io/images/90bd8363059b7578ed31d542d2ca5b71d5de14496cc902c6119ecf68c50e8ab1-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Normannenstraße 21a, 10365 Berlin", "address": "Normannenstraße 21a, 10365 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Ostfrauen*Salon", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stasi-Zentrale. Campus für Demokratie", "address": "Normannenstr. 20, 10365 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei. / Admission is free.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "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"}, {"title": "Queerinnert – Community Building in Ost-Berlin von LGBTQIA+ Zeitzeug*innen erzählt", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+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", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "“Queerinnert – Community Building in Ost-Berlin von LGBTQIA+ Zeitzeug*innen erzählt” is a discussion event in which contemporary witnesses share their experiences of queer spaces and movements. It looks at how queer structures were built in East Berlin before 1990, when LGBTQIA+ people in the GDR had to get by without civil rights, public representation or meeting places, and what can be learned from those experiences. The event is moderated by Barbara Wallbraun, a cultural educator and filmmaker of the documentary “Uferfrauen-Lesbisches L(i)eben in der DDR”. Guests are Samirah Kenawi, founder of the GrauZone archive, Peter Rausch, founder of the Homosexuellen Interessensgemeinschaft Ost-Berlin, and Nadja Schallenberg, a trans* human rights activist.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/queerinnert-community-building-in-ost-berlin-von-lgbtqia-zei-31739/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-friedrichshain-kreuzberg/bibliotheken/bezirkszentralbibliothek-pablo-neruda/veranstaltungen-projekte/queerinnert-community-building-in-ost-berlin-von-lgbtqia-zeitzeug-innen-erzaehlt-1719514.php", "image": "https://noky.io/images/938f9ffd20427c8b7462380fa41e96588e083ea61508e0c4dbac9f0f4e4af363-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Berlin Freedom Week", "start": "2026-11-07T08:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T08:00:00+01:00", "place": "", "address": "Berlin", "price": "Variiert je nach Veranstaltung", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall", "society/democracy"], "description": "Berlin Freedom Week is a citywide initiative for freedom and democracy that marks the anniversary of the fall of the Wall with guided tours, workshops, films, readings, discussions and events for children. It is an initiative of the Axel Springer Freedom Foundation, the Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft, visitBerlin and the World Liberty Congress, held under the patronage of Berlin's Governing Mayor. The programme approaches freedom from different perspectives: current events in several countries, global protest movements, digital freedom and past understandings of freedom. Highlights include the Berlin Freedom Conference, the Ostfrauen*Salon at the Stasi headquarters, contemporary witness talks about escape assistance at the Berlin Wall, and the Stories of Freedom film series.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/berlin-freedom-week-16876/", "official_url": "https://berlin-freedom-week.com/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ae6a571649a3fa91c60a6de77329bb1a03abce980714c1dbed1f7c90d3dd0f3b-600.webp"}, {"title": "Über Grenzen: Ziehen, Einreißen und Verschieben", "start": "2026-08-14T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall"], "description": "A talk in the BERLIN GLOBAL exhibition at the Humboldt Forum. It is the first of four events in the series „Über Grenzen: Ziehen, Einreißen und Verschieben“, held 65 years after the building of the Berlin Wall. Under the title „Grenzen/los?“, Elise Landschek (DIE ZEIT) talks with Ngoc Anh Nguyen, Juliane Meckert and Flor Fischer about the perspectives of the third and fourth generation East.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/uber-grenzen-ziehen-einreien-und-verschieben-79965/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3b60cf5bd71cdbc32b34c118b37f0d770cce0dd340a98c7296c05c1574ae23de-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Salon Graubunt 60+", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kiezanker 36", "address": "Cuvrystraße 13-14, 10997 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["community"], "description": "Salon Graubunt 60+ is a get-together in the café of Kiezanker 36, a family and neighbourhood centre in the Wrangelkiez. Behind the salon is a group that grew out of the Wrangelkiez neighbourhood centre. The group has questions and visions and wants to exchange ideas with visitors. What happens in the salon is decided by those who come.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/salon-graubunt-60-76043/", "official_url": "https://familienzentrum-wrangelkiez.de/veranstaltung/salon-graubunt-60/2026-11-12/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Aufbruch und Abbruch", "start": "2026-11-07T16:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "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-2562/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e34564113d159a91a5b5353bba257fd8d87edaeb255452c59f585bb9f7f1bf1c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Salon: ÜberMorgenLand", "start": "2026-11-15T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "TAK - Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg", "address": "Prinzenstr. 85 F im Aufbau Haus am Moritzplatz 10969 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/iran", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "The „Salon: ÜberMorgenLand“ transforms the theatre space into a haven of possibilities with artistic performances, discussion topics and encounters. It is an initiative by the suite42 collective in cooperation with the tak Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg, building on a first series that ran at Radialsystem V until 2017. This time the focus is on the perspectives of artists in Iran and Iranian artists in the diaspora. The overarching theme is the productive transformation of our ways of life towards a future built on solidarity; the evening is hosted by Lydia Ziemke.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/salon-ubermorgenland-24680/", "official_url": "https://www.tak-berlin.org/programm/salon-%C3%BCbermorgenland", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30c89d5317a02a0d9258df0a8b8be76ccca935054d884bf57f2ecdce77bc85af-600.webp"}, {"title": "Ausstellung „Frauenarbeit – Frauenalltag – Frauenrechte“, ein Ausstellungsprojekt mit Zeitzeuginnen aus Brandenburg in der Bibliothek Schöneberg", "start": "2026-11-02T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-02T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Bibliothek Schöneberg", "address": "Hauptstraße 40, 10827 Berlin", "price": "Kostenfrei & ohne Anmeldung", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/gdr", "society/women"], "description": "The exhibition \"Frauenarbeit – Frauenalltag – Frauenrechte\" is a travelling exhibition shown in the large non-fiction room on the ground floor of the Schöneberg library. Behind it are the German Trade Union Confederation (Women in the DGB), presented in cooperation with the Partnership for Democracy Tempelhof-Schöneberg and the DGB Berlin-Brandenburg. It deals with the situation and experiences of working women in the GDR, after reunification and today, shown through women from different industries. Eight women from Brandenburg, active or former works council members, give the exhibition its face with their experiences from 60 years of life and work, complemented by historical material and everyday images.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ausstellung-frauenarbeit-frauenalltag-frauenrechte-ein-ausst-13245/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/563c984acb6d4d0f2bec037587dd1e89a2cd85e7c6919934dad390b145d4213d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "DDRdirekt", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gratis in Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "„DDRdirekt“ is a reading and performance that brings back to life forgotten texts written by workers in the GDR. These poems, stories and prose pieces were created in workplace writing circles, dealing with work, everyday life, hopes, longings and political convictions. Behind the project are anna martha and Thomas Hartung, who searched the archive of writing workers for traces of these voices, with music by Christian Beckers. The event is part of the Berlin Freedom Week programme and admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ddrdirekt-96836/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/vor-ort-entdecken/veranstaltungen/termin/ddrdirekt-berlin-09-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6463eb8bf155284a8f6380c3c28473076a3a3794a76491e725c1c3c7da97952e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "»HUJ:C #3 – SALON: PERSONAL NARRATIVES« – Kreativer Austausch", "start": "2026-11-14T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Interkulturanstalten", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/biography/autobiography", "art"], "description": "»HUJ:C #3 – SALON: PERSONAL NARRATIVES« – Kreativer Austausch is the third of four SALONs by the Berlin artists' initiative HUJ:C – HIER & JETZT: Connections, a participatory format of non-hierarchical dialogue. It is devoted to life stories, memoirs, autobiographies, life experiences, anecdotes and memories. Prompted by a keyword, participants are invited to bring impulses from literature, art, music, film and beyond, presenting images, texts, audio recordings, objects or other materials digitally or analogously as starting points for the exchange of knowledge, questions and discussion. The SALON takes place in German and English, and registration by email to hujc_ev@proton.me is requested by 13 November 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/hujc-3-salon-personal-narratives-kreativer-austausch-94483/", "official_url": "https://interkulturanstalten.de/events/hujc-3-salon-personal-narratives-kreativer-austausch-2026-11-14/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82b05fc796343792604d98f38579090b4ffd533d3d8fe82676319510d55fac83-1200.webp"}, {"title": "OST WEST OST", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-10-23T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "U-Bahnhof Schillingstraße", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 32 10178 Berlin", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "OST WEST OST is an exhibition on postwar modernism in Berlin. It brings the rebuilding of the city after 1945 to life along the architectural ensembles of Karl-Marx-Allee, with comparative views of the Hansaviertel and of postwar modernism elsewhere. Across three levels of the Schillingstraße and Weberwiese underground stations a history walk leads to 24 selected anchor buildings with information on their history, design and use, the middle level covers the planning and construction of the street and life on it, contemporary photographers present the architecture in new ways, and local clubs show their cultural engagement on site.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ost-west-ost-15230/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/daab93139212a9210134291d5408ab10c10888c9c1e1e692ea8a7362c96fb23d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Rendez-vous au Centre Bagatelle mit André Herzberg", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturhaus Centre Bagatelle e.V.", "address": "Zeltinger Straße 6, 13465 Berlin-Frohnau", "price": "20,00 €", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "music/rock"], "description": "„Rendez-vous au Centre Bagatelle“ is a regular series of talks and encounters at the Kulturhaus Centre Bagatelle featuring prominent figures from culture, politics, literature and television. This time the guest is André Herzberg, singer, author and the defining voice of the legendary East German rock band Pankow. In conversation with journalist and presenter Ulli Zelle, the evening covers musical new beginnings, resistance and conformity, biographical ruptures and the question of how much the GDR still resonates today, as well as his Jewish roots and the power of the stage. Herzberg will also sing live, direct and up close.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/rendez-vous-au-centre-bagatelle-mit-andre-herzberg-20492/", "official_url": "https://www.centre-bagatelle.de/events/rendez-vous-au-centre-bagatelle-mit-andre-herzberg/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c52f4583c687438a7b452847e6876fa3395125acb91d5f4e3c295f5a20dc70c0-600.webp"}, {"title": "Ostberlin Poetry Slam Herbst", "start": "2026-11-05T20:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kino Union", "address": "Bölschestr. 69, 12587 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "12.90", "price_to": "14.90", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word"], "description": "Ostberlin Poetry Slam is an evening of poetry, comedy and storytelling in the old hall of the cinema. It is presented by the Kiezpoeten Berlin. Poets, comedians and narrators from near and far take the stage. The slam sweetens the winter days, warming the heart with warm words and cozy rhymes to carry you through autumn.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ostberlin-poetry-slam-herbst-32580/", "official_url": "https://www.kino-union.de/event/127848", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2a19c87faafbe4197111203fce89f9fc04ab4c8588b9b020e272bf38f4e6240d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Salon im Zentrum am Zoo: 80 Jahre DEFA", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zentrum am Zoo", "address": "Hardenbergplatz 13, 10623 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/history"], "description": "The Salon im Zentrum am Zoo takes a look behind the film scenes of the GDR under the theme \"80 Jahre DEFA\". Together with Stefanie Eckert, chairwoman of the DEFA-Stiftung, the audience takes a closer look at films between ideology and everyday life – housing, leisure, wanderlust and life in the GDR. Short film sequences, surprising insights and above all time for conversation, memories and different perspectives round things off. The event is for everyone who would like to see the DEFA once again through different eyes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/salon-im-zentrum-am-zoo-80-jahre-defa-21912/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-stadtmission.de/informieren/termine/detail/salon-im-zentrum-am-zoo-80-jahre-defa", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1922e94ca1d09c92bce4a21c004c0e4d155a43429bce231f2db379217c7e98b2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Einblicke in die Sonderausstellung „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche“ (EN)", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/german-polish-history"], "description": "This is an English-language guided tour through the special exhibition „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche“ at the Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung in Berlin. It is run by the Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung and opens up central themes, artistic positions and questions of the exhibition. At its core are the stories, memories and historical traces behind the photographic works, along with differing perspectives on remembrance, origin, loss and belonging. It lasts 40 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/einblicke-in-die-sonderausstellung-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodn-15590/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/einblicke-die-sonderausstellung-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodnie-eine-deutsch-polnische-15", "image": "https://noky.io/images/11478a75d7c252eb1ad291b44fda2b13bd88a61ae00e42b8ae24e8aae8c988cb-600.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, "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"}]}