{"title": "Peter Brandt »Sich ändern, um sich treu zu bleiben«", "start": "2026-10-27T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus", "address": "", "price": "6 Euro, ermäßigt 4 Euro", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.lfbrecht.de/produkte/4220-tickets-sich-aendern-um-sich-treu-zu-bleiben-literaturforum-im-brecht-haus-berlin-am-27-10-2026", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/germany", "literature/memoir"], "description": "A conversation about the memoirs the historian Peter Brandt has just published, in discussion with Wolfgang Benz. Brandt, the oldest son of Willy Brandt, went his own way, belonged to the student protest movement of 1968, was a friend of Rudi Dutschke and stood trial over demonstrations. As a democrat and socialist, professor and publicist, he has spoken out publicly in the »Hohenzollernstreit« as well as in peace activities in the Ukraine war. 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Brumlik worked for decades in interreligious dialogue and received the Buber-Rosenzweig-Medaille for this in 2016. Together with friends and companions, his life and work will be remembered.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/rabbiner-brandt-vorlesung-2026-9180/", "official_url": "https://www.katholische-akademie-berlin.de/veranstaltung/rabbiner-brandt-vorlesung-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d897023bfcc9721dce27e281c1a097fbcb0aada946b734ce9094f55f1db0d266-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Günter de Bruyn | Kindheit und Jugend in Britz", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T17:15:00+01:00", "place": "Ochsenstall", "address": "Alt-Britz 81, 12359 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.vhsit.berlin.de/VHSKURSE/BusinessPages/CourseDetail.aspx?id=813833", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature"], "description": "A reading from the memoirs of Günter de Bruyn, whose family moved into the new Britz housing a hundred years ago, shortly after his birth. The writer, known as an outsider of GDR literature, recalls his childhood and youth in the 1930s: rural idyll and sweeping modernity, family security, and the oppressive constraints of the National Socialist Volksgemeinschaft on the road to catastrophe, which many of the portrayed people did not survive and which left the bombed-out parental home in ruins. Far more than a nostalgic look back, de Bruyn tells of everyday conformity and refusal under totalitarian rule and of learning individual resistance against collectivist constraints. Wolfgang de Bruyn, a literary scholar, preservationist and writer, is the son and trustee of the Günter-de-Bruyn-Stiftung; he reads from his father's memoirs and his own memories, moderated by Henning Holsten.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gunter-de-bruyn-kindheit-und-jugend-in-britz-57936/", "official_url": "https://schloss-gutshof-britz.de/schloss-britz/veranstaltungen/kalender/guenter-de-bruyn-kindheit-und-jugend-britz", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ac414498aec15d6b99ca54d60c2a57858b1d6ced28e03f3101339ccb7d5d9f28-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Zu warm für die DDR? – Queeres Leben zwischen Anpassung und Emanzipation - Vortrag von Peter Rausch | Queer Monday", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Wolfdietrich-Schnurre-Bibliothek", "address": "Bizetstraße 41, 13088 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/konzerte/festivals/biennale-2027/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "A lecture as part of the 'Queer Monday' series, in which the Wolfdietrich-Schnurre-Bibliothek meets the Sonntagsclub. It is given by Peter Rausch, co-founder of the GDR's first gay-lesbian emancipation group (HIB) and of the Sonntags-Club e. V., who still works as a contemporary witness for queer history. The lecture looks at the GDR's four decades and traces the development of homosexuality, homophobia, emancipation and sexual culture chronologically. Afterwards there is time for questions, discussion and conversation, and everyone interested is welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zu-warm-fur-die-ddr-queeres-leben-zwischen-anpassung-und-ema-2579/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=290828&ls=20&c=409", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bdd61acbf68f63db7b281228cfefea6e3f2f1d896d867e77dd66b5bdf9c049d0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Führung zum 100. Geburtstag von Peter van Pels", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Anne Frank Zentrum", "address": "Rosenthaler Straße 39, 10178 Berlin", "price": "8 Euro, ermäßigt: 4 Euro. Die Führung ist kostenlos.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/berlin-bike-berliner-mauertour-mit-dem-fahrrad#/experience/BTM00020101074869526", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/holocaust"], "description": "To mark the 100th birthday of Peter van Pels, the Anne Frank Zentrum invites visitors to a public tour devoted to his biography. Peter van Pels was born in Osnabrück in 1926 and emigrated with his parents to Amsterdam in 1937 because the family, being Jewish, was no longer safe in Germany. From July 1942 until the arrest in August 1944 he hid with Anne Frank's family in the annex at Prinsengracht 263, playing a special role in Anne's life. After being deported to Auschwitz and taken on one of the »death marches« to the Mauthausen concentration camp, he died a few days after liberation in May 1945, aged 18.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/fuhrung-zum-100-geburtstag-von-peter-van-pels-31197/", "official_url": "https://www.annefrank.de/termine/termin/fuehrung-zum-100-geburtstag-von-peter-van-pels", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9e9e900360156d2e95ad7d3fac5008bb90fb88dcdc61895f623a5b51970b40b8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Freiheit, Solidarität und der Wunsch nach Erneuerung -", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Katholische Akademie in Berlin", "address": "Hannoversche Straße 5b, 10115 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["occasion/anniversary"], "description": "A discussion event marking the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian popular uprising. The Catholic Academy in Berlin, together with Renovabis, invites guests to talk about the meaning of \"1956\" in Hungarian memory culture and politics, as well as Hungary's present and future. Speakers include Zsuzsa Breier, Kornélia Kiss, Konrád Dejcsics and Gergely Romsics, moderated by Kai-Olaf Lang. The Research Prize Eastern Europe 2026 will be awarded directly afterwards.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/freiheit-solidaritat-und-der-wunsch-nach-erneuerung-9177/", "official_url": "https://www.katholische-akademie-berlin.de/veranstaltung/freiheit-solidaritaet/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/946a2019808db63b1e647b63b54d108542fd54e332ca08ea9e3ac9400b788086-1200.webp"}, {"title": "PEN Berlin: Geht's noch?", "start": "2026-11-01T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Preis 16/9 EURO", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://berliner-ensemble.eventim-inhouse.de/webshop/webticket/shop?event=15937", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "A public discussion event with conversations about home and democracy after the elections in East Germany and Berlin. The writers' association PEN Berlin invites guests from politics and culture as well as the audience, which is welcome to ask questions, join in and disagree. It asks questions such as: can people with different political opinions still talk to each other? What divides East and West, what connects them, and what has changed in recent years? The series is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for East Germany and has previously travelled through East Germany and Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/pen-berlin-gehts-noch-3773/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/pen-berlin-gehts-noch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/33b1cbab610ffda3d8005e5c5ef3739321581f59829c18d13e9a6b19846bbd58-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Auf der Schotterpiste der Geschichte 3: Die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/politics", "society/democracy"], "description": "„Auf der Schotterpiste der Geschichte 3: Die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden“ is a discussion event in the DT Kontext series, held in the Rangfoyer of the Deutsches Theater. The panel features political and social scientist Naika Foroutan, head of the German Institute for Migration and Integration Research, and historian Uwe Sonnenberg of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, moderated by André Mumot. At its centre is Rosa Luxemburg's famous line „Freiheit ist immer auch die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden“ and her legacy at a time when democratic values are under pressure worldwide. The discussion asks what her courage, her critique of the system and her idea of political participation can teach us for the challenges of the 21st century. Admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/auf-der-schotterpiste-der-geschichte-3-die-freiheit-der-ande-16847/", "official_url": "https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/auf-der-schotterpiste-der-geschichte-3-die-freiheit-der-andersdenkenden", "image": ""}, {"title": "Festival des kritischen Geistes", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Rollberg Kino", "address": "Rollbergstraße 70, 12053 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/poetry"], "description": "A festival evening of music, readings, talks and film about Wolf Biermann, whom the GDR stripped of his citizenship in 1976 after a concert in Cologne. It is staged by the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur on the 50th anniversary of his expatriation, hosted by Salwa Houmsi. The programme features a keynote by Angela Merkel, a conversation with Wolf Biermann and Balbina, a contemporary witness talk with Gabriele Stötzer, Doris Liebermann and Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, and literary-artistic panoramas of Biermann's poems and literature from exile with, among others, Durs Grünbein, Thomas Brussig and Fabian Hinrichs. It closes with the cinema documentary \"BIERMANN\" by Jens Meurer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/festival-des-kritischen-geistes-73117/", "official_url": "https://www.yorck.de/specials/festival-des-kritischen-geistes", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6147a1401a67d19f036447ef09712a08f315482b9a994589debb79b118c251f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "„Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin“ – Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Dokumentationszentrum)", "address": "Bernauer Straße 111, 13355 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/biography"], "description": "A book presentation of „Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin“ – Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns at the Berlin Wall Memorial. The historian Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, a friend of the songwriter, is publishing excerpts from Biermann's extensive diaries on the 50th anniversary of his expatriation and his 90th birthday, presenting the book together with co-editor Arno Polzin. It tells of Biermann's life in the GDR and his sudden expatriation on 16 November 1976, which triggered an unexpected wave of protest. The talk is moderated by Doris Liebermann.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ihr-loscht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-die-tagebucher-wolf-biermann-11961/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/ihr-loescht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-die-tagebuecher-wolf?date=2026-11-12T19%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fd51ab9ebb625aac48d5c9324abb9cadaaed9006a4752eaf0a8c6ffb77a95141-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Festival des kritischen Geistes", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kino International", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 33, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/folk/singer-songwriter", "film/documentary", "history/gdr"], "description": "An evening festival with music, readings, conversations and film marking the 50th anniversary of Wolf Biermann's expatriation from the GDR. It is organised by the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, and Salwa Houmsi guides through the programme. After a concert in Cologne in 1976, the GDR stripped Biermann of his citizenship and refused to let him return, yet his voice only grew louder and moved divided Germany alike. Highlights include excerpts from the legendary Cologne concert of 1976, a keynote by Dr. Angela Merkel, a conversation between Wolf Biermann and Balbina, and the cinema documentary \"BIERMANN\" by Jens Meurer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/festival-des-kritischen-geistes-9218/", "official_url": "https://www.yorck.de/specials/festival-des-kritischen-geistes", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6147a1401a67d19f036447ef09712a08f315482b9a994589debb79b118c251f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Grenzen, Gewalt, Geschichte", "start": "2026-11-09T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Historisches Museum Pei-Bau", "address": "Hinter dem Gießhaus 3 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://stiftungbrandenburgertor.de/veranstaltungen/liebermanns-welt/?source=bde", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "„Grenzen, Gewalt, Geschichte“ is a free themed tour through selected exhibition rooms of the museum presenting rare objects from its collection that illustrate German division, flight and violence. The tour spans from a family's flight into Reformed exile during the confessional split of the Holy Roman Empire to a border stone of a city divided after 1914 on the German-Dutch border. Its highlight is the original diary of the student Peter Rutzen from 1963, which traces the dangerous attempt to dig an escape tunnel under Bernauer Straße. The tunnel was betrayed to the Stasi before anyone could flee, leading to numerous arrests in East Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/grenzen-gewalt-geschichte-24447/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/veranstaltung/grenzen-gewalt-geschichte-1/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8cb7898919d22729568409b8beaf050bbd4ca5664a4e33046a02a34e062b01c5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Democracy Under Pressure: Building Resilient Societies", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/democracy"], "description": "„Democracy Under Pressure: Building Resilient Societies“ is an English-language discussion held as a round table on the „03 Franklin Stage“ at Falling Walls Science House. It is organised by Falling Walls with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich involved, and takes place as a hybrid format. The panel brings together physics Nobel laureate Brian P. Schmidt, former Portuguese minister Manuel Heitor, LMU vice president Armin Nassehi, former European Research Council president Helga Nowotny and Yoshua Bengio of LawZero. They ask why even stable democracies can erode from within and look at the social, economic, cultural and technological foundations of open societies in times of rapid change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/democracy-under-pressure-building-resilient-societies-72414/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/democracy-under-pressure-building-resilient-societies", "image": ""}, {"title": "„Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin“ – Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer", "address": "", "price": "kostenfrei", "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/gdr", "literature/diary"], "description": "A book presentation for „„Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin“ – Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns“, presenting excerpts from the diaries of the singer-songwriter. The historian Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, a friend of Biermann's, is publishing them on the 50th anniversary of Biermann's expatriation and his 90th birthday, and presents the book together with co-editor Arno Polzin. The conversation is moderated by Doris Liebermann. The event takes place in the visitor centre of the Berlin Wall Memorial, is free of charge, and registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ihr-loscht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-die-tagebucher-wolf-biermann-30517/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/ihr-loescht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-die-tagebuecher-wolf?date=2026-11-12T19%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fd51ab9ebb625aac48d5c9324abb9cadaaed9006a4752eaf0a8c6ffb77a95141-1200.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, "tickets_url": "", "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"}, {"title": "Morten Paul »Was war Faschismustheorie?«", "start": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-10T21:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brecht-Haus", "address": "Chausseestraße 125, 10115 Berlin", "price": "6,- € / ermäßigt: 4,- €", "price_from": "6.80", "price_to": "9.95", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.lfbrecht.de/produkte/4285-tickets-zeitanalyse-morten-paul-was-war-faschismustheorie-mit-sebastian-friedrich-literaturforum-im-brecht-haus-berlin-am-10-11-2026", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/fascism", "literature"], "description": "A book presentation and discussion at Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus. Scholar Morten Paul presents his work on the long history of fascism theory and discusses it with Sebastian Friedrich. His thesis: the theories of the past, their controversies and their struggle over the relationship between understanding and preventing are especially productive today. The question is what the term fascism explains – and whether it can be saved at all.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/morten-paul-was-war-faschismustheorie-75805/", "official_url": "https://lfbrecht.de/event/morten-paul-was-war-faschismustheorie/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b1bfd4546ac43fc08e6ec7abf69d603564d534b28fee089afa1f290b2ba95ea3-600.webp"}]}