{"title": "SCHERBEN", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Werkstatt Exilmuseum", "address": "Fasanenstraße 24, 10719 Berlin", "price": "10 Euro", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "SCHERBEN is a performance by Christopher-Felix Hahn at the Exilmuseum on Fasanenstraße, performed in German and lasting about one hour. At its center is a vase that Hahn's grandmother leaves him when she moves into a nursing home – supposedly a find from the forest, lost by refugees in 1945. Questions reveal a different story: the vase comes from the house of the Jewish neighbor Curt Courant, one of the best-known cinematographers of the Weimar Republic, who had to flee into exile from the Nazis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/scherben-12731/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7585a67c13a1fc3c5d8ea84b7b07656be1914cedf86b9fd4e46dcc6bfcd62c67-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Werkstatt Exilmuseum", "address": "Fasanenstraße 24, 10719 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Gespräche am Schrank", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Werkstatt Exilmuseum", "address": "Fasanenstraße 24, 10719 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "art"], "description": "A tour of the exhibition \"Von hier aus\" in which curator Bettina Klein leads talks at a cabinet. The cabinet, which she discovered in a Berlin flea market hall, turned out to be looted art: the wood reliefs carved by sculptor Otto Hitzberger show episodes from the family history of the Jewish textile manufacturer Leo Kestel. The talk series is devoted to different aspects of the research into this piece of furniture. Attendance is limited to 12, museum admission is included, and the language is German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gesprache-am-schrank-49876/", "official_url": "https://exilmuseum.berlin/gespraeche-am-schrank2", "image": ""}, {"title": "Heimsuchung", "start": "2026-11-13T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-13T22:20:00+01:00", "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/play", "history/germany"], "description": "„Heimsuchung“ is a theatre production staged on the stage of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. It is based on the 2007 novel by Berlin author Jenny Erpenbeck and has been adapted by Alexander Eisenach, who also directs; it premiered on 23 January 2026. At its centre is a plot of land on the Scharmützelsee lake in Brandenburg with a summer house in which the history of the 20th century is reflected: in eleven chapters, three generations of inhabitants are told about, including an architect successful under the Nazi era, a deported Jewish cloth manufacturer, a company of the Red Army and the heirs after the end of the GDR, while a timeless gardener tends the property. The piece, which in a way is a history book that makes the complexity of history palpable, lasts 2 hours 45 minutes with one intermission and is performed by the theatre's ensemble with live music.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/heimsuchung-4416/", "official_url": "https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/heimsuchung", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ac33b35920a2d16c8023d4470a61bc501f814af1daf2c8185efcea44ef452979-600.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": "Splitter", "start": "2026-10-24T11:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-03-05T11:00:00+01:00", "place": "Theater Strahl, Ostkreuz", "address": "Marktstr. 11, 10317 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/biographical", "history/gdr"], "description": "\"Splitter\" is a biographical theatre piece at Theater Strahl, suitable from age 14 and 90 minutes long. It collects fragments of memory such as smells, objects, letters and photo albums and reassembles them. The search for traces leads back to a country that no longer exists: the GDR. The piece was developed from the performers' own family stories shaped by escape, emigration and staying (or being left behind), and asks what the GDR still has to do with us.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/splitter-16796/", "official_url": "https://www.theater-strahl.de/programm/splitter/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cc314b4c12579072a64c25c0788acbe64f30e6e1c0ce5f7e42009ae73d1da1ff-600.webp"}, {"title": "Splitter", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "OST", "address": "Alt-Stralau 1-2, 10245 Berlin", "price": "Karten zum halben Preis für junge Menschen bis 18 Jahre und ihre Begleitung (nur über den Besucher*i", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/biographical", "history/gdr"], "description": "\"Splitter\" is a biographical theatre piece that collects memories of the GDR – flavoured by plum cake, old paper, crackling telephones or a particular shade of green – and reassembles them collage-like. Through stories, letters, lyrics, music and interactive moments, it traces a past that today often survives only in fragments. The piece was developed from the performers' own family histories, shaped by experiences of fleeing, leaving and staying behind, and asks what the GDR still has to do with us. Directed by Anna Vera Kelle, it is performed by Jana Heilmann, Yasmina Hempel and Marcus Thomas, lasts 90 minutes and is suitable from age 14.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/splitter-58070/", "official_url": "https://www.theater-strahl.de/programm/splitter/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/caace0a6916f12c7b3382d95dfb8d010446288f526804eda98172f942492959c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Scherbenland", "start": "2026-11-18T20:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-18T22:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "€7 – €9 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary/music-documentary", "music/rock"], "description": "\"Scherbenland\" is a documentary about the band Ton Steine Scherben, whose first album began with the question \"Warum geht es mir so dreckig?\" (\"Why do I feel so lousy?\"). In the early 1970s, Kreuzberg became a testing ground for a counterculture, and with songs like \"Macht kaputt, was euch kaputt macht\" the band gave a generation a voice. In their film, Lutz Pehnert and Ferdinand Hübner trace what became of this awakening, meeting musicians in today's Berlin such as the rap trio RAPK and songwriter Maike Rosa Vogel. It is a film about music and poetry as resistance, then and now, and about whether they still have the power to change a city.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/scherbenland-67598/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/scherbenland-3/2026-11-18/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Die große Schlingensief-Beschimpfung", "start": "2026-11-17T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["art", "stage"], "description": "Die große Schlingensief-Beschimpfung is an evening on the Vorbühne of the Volksbühne in which six people lovingly insult Christoph Schlingensief – radically subjective, with contributions from Heinrich Horwitz, Elfriede Jelinek (as a video recording), Raúl Krauthausen, Philipp Ruch and Tom Tykwer. It takes place on the occasion of the exhibition Christoph Schlingensief: Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine at the Gropius Bau, in co-production with the Gropius Bau / Berliner Festspiele. It is about the artist's work, which addressed inclusion and German colonial history and was marked by provocations as well as human warmth and vulnerability. Video clips plunge back into the TV satire, the political activism and the stage spectacle – also for those who no longer remember or could not be there back then.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-groe-schlingensief-beschimpfung-298/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/schlingensief-special/20261117-1900/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Führung in Einfacher Sprache | Christoph Schlingensief: Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine", "start": "2026-11-07T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gropius-Bau", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin", "price": "Kostenlos", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A guided tour in Easy Language through the exhibition \"Christoph Schlingensief: Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine\" at the Gropius Bau. The artist Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010) used his works to cast an unsparing eye on the challenges of the present day. Participation is limited to 20 people. An exhibition ticket is required; meeting point is the Welcome Desk in the foyer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/fuhrung-in-einfacher-sprache-christoph-schlingensief-es-ist-20166/", "official_url": "https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/gropius-bau/programm/2026/ausstellungen/christoph-schlingensief/veranstaltungen/schlingensief-fuehrung-einfache-sprache", "image": "https://noky.io/images/47e063498606ddc01410c02b0fdb77e1c62a494797a630855a311a67cd114aa5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Misha Schoeneberg liest aus „Vielleicht wollte er gar nicht schweigen er fand bloß die Worte nicht” mit musikalischer Begleitung", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00+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, "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"}, {"title": "Führung in englischer Sprache | Christoph Schlingensief: Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine", "start": "2026-11-14T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gropius-Bau", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A guided tour through the exhibition \"Christoph Schlingensief: Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine\" at the Gropius Bau, held in English. Behind the exhibition is the artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010, whose work ranges from sensational political actions to projects between theatre, opera, film and visual art. His works cast an unsparing eye on the demands and absurdities of the present. Participation is limited to 20 people, and an exhibition ticket does not guarantee a place on the tour.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/fuhrung-in-englischer-sprache-christoph-schlingensief-es-ist-16376/", "official_url": "https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/gropius-bau/programm/2026/ausstellungen/christoph-schlingensief/veranstaltungen/schlingensief-fuehrung-englisch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a52b611ca59ecbf7aa978d40136d4f159d1c70c964dda7ff88b7939034ed4e23-600.webp"}, {"title": "Exiltexte: Kunst, Macht, Erinnerung. Lesung mit Tania Arcimovich, Karima Shabrang und Fariba Vafi", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schloss Schönhausen", "address": "Tschaikowskistraße 1, 13156 Berlin", "price": "15 €, ermäßigt 12 €", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/poetry"], "description": "A reading titled \"Exiltexte: Kunst, Macht, Erinnerung\" at Schloss Schönhausen. The writers in exile Tania Arcimovich (Belarus), Karima Shabrang (Afghanistan) and Fariba Vafi (Iran) read texts born from a literary engagement with the palace and its history during the Nazi era, drawing on their own experiences of exile and political pressure, in their original languages. Actress Melika Foroutan presents the German translations, and cellist Basilius Alawad accompanies the evening with music. The event is inspired by the Weiter Schreiben interventions and ends with a reception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/exiltexte-kunst-macht-erinnerung-lesung-mit-tania-arcimovich-12534/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bac59a00fc6e07b1c6b537c7dae5d24dad5e3004a3463316b846a6b01b1aecb4-600.webp"}, {"title": "Theater Techno Tempel", "start": "2026-11-13T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-13T22:00:00+01:00", "place": "Theater im Kino", "address": "Rigaer Straße 77 10247 Berlin", "price": "12 Euro (erm. 7 Euro)", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/urbanism/gentrification", "stage/theatre"], "description": "„Theater Techno Tempel“ is a theatre performance at Theater im Kino on Rigaer Straße, in the rooms that once housed the legendary club „Schizzo-Tempel“. Behind the production is director Richard Haufe-Ahmels with dramaturg Paul Marwitz-Seyffert, workshops by Jonin Herzig and an ensemble of ten performers. The performance brings the club back to life and plunges into 1990s Berlin-Friedrichshain, shaped by upheaval, vacant spaces, evictions and gentrification. The piece negotiates questions of freedom, security and living together and deals with club culture, alcohol and drug use and police violence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/theater-techno-tempel-32829/", "official_url": "https://www.theater-im-kino.de/veranstaltung/theater-techno-tempel-10/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ec0d76dda8e997c3dd21e796f7d46c70681ef024658fdec52edb320cc64d2784-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Drop-In: Scherben bringen Glück", "start": "2026-11-14T14:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "PETRI Berlin", "address": "Gertraudenstraße 8", "price": "Kosten sind im Eintrittspreis enthalten", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/ceramics", "history/archaeology"], "description": "Drop-In: Scherben bringen Glück is a drop-in workshop at PETRI Berlin where participants glue shards of everyday pottery back together into a vessel. It is offered by the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, where the conservation of archaeological pottery finds is part of the daily work. Visitors pick how many pieces they want to assemble, put the vessel together and trace the break lines in colour; alternatively they can bring a white porcelain vessel that may break or is already broken. The offer is open to everyone from the age of 8 and is held on the 5th floor, with entry possible up to 45 minutes before the end.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/drop-in-scherben-bringen-gluck-10805/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/drop-in-scherben-bringen-glueck-2026-10-17-141500-161072/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/87c2fa8d2d16a1d3e6d0425f927b2af4586ca0cde9d4dabc6269c8048550c48a-2000.webp"}, {"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, "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": "CHARLOTTENGRAD – EIN STÜCK RUSSLAND MITTEN IN BERLIN", "start": "2026-11-19T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Theater im Palais", "address": "Am Festungsgraben 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/exile", "literature"], "description": "A staged reading about Russian writers in 1920s Berlin, when the city became a hub of literary exile after the October Revolution. The performers are Alina Gause (acting, singing), Carl Martin Spengler (acting, singing) and Lidia Kalendareva (piano), with a text version by Ildiko Bognar. The piece explores how émigrés such as Vladimir Nabokov, Marina Tsvetaeva or Maxim Gorki lived in and perceived Berlin at that time. Back then, the Berlin district of Charlottenburg was nicknamed „Charlottengrad“.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/charlottengrad-ein-stuck-russland-mitten-in-berlin-8107/", "official_url": "https://www.theater-im-palais.de/event/charlottengrad-ein-stueck-russland-mitten-in-berlin/2026-11-19/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9e886615b38cd4e7f1639d89b56d16707eb828033e24160c72c927ed725ef1c7-2000.webp"}]}