{"title": "Russland - Eine deutsche Erfindung", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-10T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Janusz-Korczak-Bibliothek", "address": "Berliner Straße 120/121, 13187 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/russia"], "description": "A book presentation and conversation with political scientist Gwendolyn Sasse about her book \"Russland - Eine deutsche Erfindung\" at the Janusz-Korczak-Bibliothek in Pankow. The event is part of the cooperation project \"Wissen zwischen Büchern\" and is organised by the Centre for East European and International Studies. Sasse asks why many Germans still view Russia positively despite its war of aggression against Ukraine, and why so many are susceptible to Russian propaganda. Drawing on surveys, interviews and discussion rounds, she traces present-day German images of Russia, showing that when Germans talk about Russia, they are above all talking about themselves.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/russland-eine-deutsche-erfindung-105630/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a87d5cf5882a2903fa02936607dd5610ecad75be48c7d878a1aac7010f9ec023-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-10T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Janusz-Korczak-Bibliothek", "address": "Berliner Straße 120/121, 13187 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Durchhalten bis zum Sieg und darüber hinaus. Der „Große Vaterländische Krieg“", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Berlin-Karlshorst", "address": "Zwieseler Straße 4, 10318 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei / Admission is free.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "A panel discussion in the series „Geschichte im Konflikt. Sowjetische Mythen“ on the „Great Patriotic War“ as a central reference point for remembrance of the Second World War in the post-Soviet space. The speakers are Prof. Dr. Violeta Davoliūtė (University of Vilnius) and Prof. Dr. Jan C. Behrends (Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder), moderated by Christoph Meißner of the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst. Topics include the role of the Soviet war myth today in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania, and how it is used politically, reinterpreted or questioned. The event takes place in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Germany with simultaneous German-English translation, and registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/durchhalten-bis-zum-sieg-und-daruber-hinaus-der-groe-vaterla-12340/", "official_url": "https://www.museum-karlshorst.de/veranstaltungen/durchhalten-bis-zum-sieg-und-darueber-hinaus-der-grosse-vaterlaendische-krieg/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b38268eab5c452684b1655a0cfb881096fd26f8ce6af82198916cd42beabe007-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Deutschland – Russland – USA", "start": "2026-11-12T09:00:00+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", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/geopolitics", "history/modern-history"], "description": "A symposium at the German Historical Museum looks at the relationship between Germany, Russia and the USA, which is undergoing a fundamental upheaval in which existing alliances and relationships have been called into question. It is staged by the German Historical Museum together with Karl Schlögel as the eighth event in the series „Historische Urteilskraft“ (Historical Judgement). It examines the three countries' historical relationships – not as an encyclopedic overview or final balance, but as a historical exploration along characteristic situations in which the whole complexity of this triangle, built up over generations, becomes visible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/deutschland-russland-usa-24460/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/veranstaltung/deutschland-russland-usa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fb70525b643f39cc48673bc3c1b8e2a869fdd218e8f957e26203dcdaf40c73fd-600.webp"}, {"title": "Die aktuelle Lage in Mittelosteuropa", "start": "2026-11-17T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Karl-Liebknecht-Haus", "address": "Kleine Alexanderstr. 28, 10178 Berlin", "price": "2 €", "price_from": "2.00", "price_to": "2.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "A talk with discussion on the political situation in Central-Eastern Europe since the Russian attack on Ukraine, covering developments in countries such as Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, including left-wing organisations in the region. The speaker is Fabian Wisotzky, who studied East European history and has worked since 2019 as a referent for East and Central-Eastern Europe at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. The seniors' club gathering is moderated by Siegfried Wein.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-aktuelle-lage-in-mittelosteuropa-31487/", "official_url": "https://www.helle-panke.de/de/topic/3.termine.html?id=4142", "image": ""}, {"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", "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": "Buchvorstellung: Utopie und Terror: Sibirien", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Museum Berlin-Karlshorst", "address": "Zwieseler Straße 4, 10318 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/contemporary-fiction", "history/ussr"], "description": "A book presentation evening at Museum Berlin-Karlshorst is devoted to Viktor Remizov's novel \"Permafrost\". The novel's translator Franziska Zwerg and political scientist Félix Krawatzek explore how literature addresses the world of forced labour camps under the Stalinist terror in the Soviet Union of the 1930s and 1940s centred on the building of the \"Great Stalin Railway\", moderated by Nina Frieß of ZOiS. Admission is free, and registration by e-mail is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buchvorstellung-utopie-und-terror-sibirien-98195/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Lesung mit der Dramatikerin und Autorin Ishbel Szatrawska aus dem Roman „Die Tiefe”", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-18T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin", "address": "Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/war", "literature/fiction"], "description": "A reading from the novel „Die Tiefe” as part of the series „Polish Affairs. Polnische Kultur zu Gast in der Stabi”. The dramatist and author Ishbel Szatrawska takes the family home in the Masurian province of the former East Prussia as the starting point for a moving tale of four generations of a family, of the region's multiculturalism and the painful experiences of war, flight, loss of homeland and a new beginning. The event takes place in the Theodor-Fontane-Saal of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, in cooperation with the Zentrum für Historische Forschung Berlin of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the editor and translator Benjamin Voelkel. Registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-der-dramatikerin-und-autorin-ishbel-szatrawska-au-109760/", "official_url": "https://blog.sbb.berlin/termin/lesung-mit-der-dramatikerin-und-autorin-ishbel-szatrawska-aus-dem-roman-die-tiefe/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ef5d0cc37c18f59cb79010c0aa0ccfa7d7fe6bfb52183bf2f98c24fb7dbd6ee2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Buchvorstellung „Israel, Palästina, Deutschland\"", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Buchhandlung Hennwack", "address": "Feuerbachstraße 26, 12163 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/israel-palestine", "society/politics"], "description": "A presentation of the book „Israel, Palästina, Deutschland“ with its author Dr. Avner Ofrath (Universität Marburg). Also discussing on the panel are Prof. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (ZfA, TU Berlin) and Lea Frehse (Die Zeit). The event takes place at the Buchhandlung Hennwack bookshop in Berlin-Friedenau.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buchvorstellung-israel-palastina-deutschland-94422/", "official_url": "https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/judaistik/Termine/Buchvorstellung-Ofrath.html", "image": ""}, {"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"}]}