{"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": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-18T20:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-18T22:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-25T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-25T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Gestern Mitte Morgen", "start": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "The documentary »Gestern Mitte Morgen – Yesterday Mitte Tomorrow« is a portrait of the alternative culture scenes in Berlin's central district of Mitte after 1989. It was written, directed, shot and edited by Peter Zach, who will be present; it was produced by PZF Produktion in co-production with ZDF – Kleines Fernsehspiel, featuring Mark Ates, Guy Bettini, Christine Hill, Yuko Kaseki and Sasha Waltz, among others. In the early 1990s, in the so-called Spandauer Vorstadt near Friedrichstrasse, young international artists found an affordable, freely inhabitable space in the empty houses of the former border zone, a freedom that had already vanished in their expensive home countries. The film tells of these people, the places they lived, their longings, everyday life and their art – of those who lived almost without money and felt this part of Berlin to be their personal centre of the world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gestern-mitte-morgen-48539/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/gestern-mitte-morgen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/848dac6e6d247f1160c5fe5761bfb12f85089bdedbdf27100b26978c9d0bee19-2000.webp"}, {"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"}, {"title": "Former East / Former West", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/reunification"], "description": "A documentary based on hundreds of street interviews conducted in Berlin two years after reunification, showing what it meant to be German at that particular point in history. The New York artist Shelly Silver questions the notion of a shared language by focusing on shifting definitions of political and economic terms such as democracy, freedom, capitalism and socialism, and of words describing nations and identities such as nationality, Germany, history, foreigner and home. She explores the tension between the public and the private, the narrative and the documentary, and the relationship between subject and object of contemplation. Her works have been exhibited worldwide, including at MoMA in New York, the Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/former-east-former-west-9413/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/former-east-former-west/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4028d731bd9108dfb1c3260ecf594c4de98ab8cd86c08b949f38e6fe66a16f0e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "DIE VERLIERER + SCHIMMEL ÜBER BERLIN", "start": "2026-11-06T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Astra Kulturhaus", "address": "Revaler Straße 99, 10245 Berlin", "price": "30,80€ / Supporter Ticket 13,00€ / Sozialticket 23,30€ (+ Geb.)", "price_from": "30.80", "price_to": "30.80", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/rock/post-punk"], "description": "A concert night with two bands at Astra Kulturhaus. Die Verlierer play songs from their third album \"Ideale\", with big refrains, long pieces and clearly political lyrics against greed and war; they are joined by Schimmel über Berlin, the project of Liv Billerbeck whose sound is shaped by 1980s West Berlin and British post-punk. Afterwards Fish'n'Candy play an aftershow. The concert is completely sold out and there will be no box office tickets.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-verlierer-schimmel-uber-berlin-6791/", "official_url": "https://www.astra-berlin.de/events/2026-11-06-die-verlierer", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f1b57738e5a4d7d24e9cc9e5670f6c51db7d46a14948f153c76fa4fec1bba07-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Biermann", "start": "2026-11-06T16:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hackesche Höfe Kino", "address": "Rosenthaler Straße 40-41, 10178 Berlin", "price": "10,-- €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/folk/singer-songwriter", "film/documentary", "history/gdr"], "description": "\"Biermann\" is a documentary about the life and work of the poet and singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann. Jens Meurer, a winner of the European Film Award and the Golden Globe, traces Biermann's biography as an immediate, close-up retrospective, combining personal memories with political contemporary history. At its center are Biermann's origins, his turn to music, his work in the GDR, the Cologne concert of 1976 and its consequences, and his artistic work up to the present. The camera follows the 90-year-old at meetings with young artists, politicians and his family, weaving the footage into a collage of historical documents and previously unpublished archive footage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/biermann-8778/", "official_url": "http://tilsiter-lichtspiele.de/kinoprogramm.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fe826c1f3087bbf126f0e2a89841744035e6f33d5bb393ee8d6e6dfc03c28819-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mein Berlin - ein Ort mit Gedächtnis?", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-09T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "KulturMarktHalle", "address": "Hanns-Eisler-Straße 93, 10409 Berlin", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/antisemitism"], "description": "\"Mein Berlin - ein Ort mit Gedächtnis?\" is a film offering an artistic and journalistic approach to the uncertainty that many Berlin Jews have experienced since October 7, 2023. It portraits six Jewish people living in Berlin without showing their faces; the renunciation of identifiability is both a protective measure and part of the artistic concept. The camera stays close but never revealing, observing movements, gestures and living spaces, showing apartments, workplaces, family objects and favorite places in the city. At a time when antisemitism is becoming visible and more radical again in Germany, the film looks not only at those affected but also at the majority society – at its reactions, withheld empathy, distance and silence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/mein-berlin-ein-ort-mit-gedachtnis-20445/", "official_url": "https://www.kulturmarkthalle.berlin/event-details/film-mein-berlin-ein-ort-mit-gedachtnis", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f73b455b1470f0057773d4f06131c621ad7cc9ce52444fb1b8938abe5476a194-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Asphaltnacht", "start": "2026-11-06T17:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zeughauskino", "address": "Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Asphaltnacht is a film by Peter Fratzscher that follows a journey through the night in West Berlin in the late 1970s. The not-so-old veteran rocker Angel meets the young punk Johnny, and together they drift in a Ford Mustang from the Lido in Kreuzberg to the Funkturm and the Tauentzien. Angel is a romantic who wants to tear down walls with rock’n’roll; Johnny acts cool, cynical and defiant. Neither knows where they belong, yet they share the certainty that “Rock’n’Roll is bigger than all of us”.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/asphaltnacht-10162/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/zeughauskino/vorfuehrung/default-title-14784/", "image": ""}, {"title": "GRENZGESCHICHTEN. Filmzeugnisse zur Berliner Mauer (1961–1989)", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Leibniz-Saal", "address": "Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "Film records from the holdings of the Landesarchiv Berlin show the history of the Berlin Wall from 1961 to its fall in 1989 in rarely seen images, many of which are part of the UNESCO Memory of the World. The historian and deputy Berlin commissioner for reappraisal Jens Schöne, the director of the Landesarchiv Berlin Sven Kriese and the BAB education officer Anna Kokenge comment on the footage and explain its historical background. A subsequent panel discussion explores the significance of these film records for remembering Germany's division. Carmen Schwietzer, deputy director of the Landesarchiv Berlin, hosts the evening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/grenzgeschichten-filmzeugnisse-zur-berliner-mauer-19611989-82521/", "official_url": "https://www.aufarbeitung-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/detail/grenzgeschichten-filmzeugnisse-zur-berliner-mauer", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30796f4e44771c7979beec97c854047b683a3c5506907a8aff4be63708deaca9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Führung in englischer Sprache | Kreuzberg: Kunst und Migration seit 1960", "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": ["history/migration", "art"], "description": "A guided tour in English through the exhibition \"Kreuzberg: Kunst und Migration seit 1960\" at the Gropius Bau. The exhibition looks at Kreuzberg as a place where the social and cultural upheavals of West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s were especially visible, for instance through recruitment agreements with countries such as Italy, Greece and Turkey. The tour is organised by the Gropius Bau. Participation is limited to 20 people; you meet at the Welcome Desk in the foyer at least ten minutes before it starts, and an exhibition ticket is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/fuhrung-in-englischer-sprache-kreuzberg-kunst-und-migration-15444/", "official_url": "https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/gropius-bau/programm/2026/ausstellungen/kreuzberg/veranstaltungen/kreuzberg-fuehrung-englisch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0954717bdb838e95b8f23e6c3923ec558cf417d3ae9174e94b120655ca2d3067-600.webp"}, {"title": "Zwischen Herkunft und neuem Zuhause", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+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", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "The film „Die noch unbekannten Tage“ by filmmaker Jola Wieczorek is a cinematic journey of remembrance into the 1980s. At its center is the story of her family and their emigration from Poland to Austria. The filmmaker asks how a key event in her own family might have turned out differently and what it would be like to look at the details of the past today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause-11960/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause?date=2026-11-10T18%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/69f4f1336e055102790bff38eb82a5e89baad1ca2c3b80be395c5541c6149b06-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Optische Schreie – Die Geschichte des Aachener Wandmalers Klaus Paier", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-13T21:00:00+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": ["art/street-art", "film/documentary"], "description": "The documentary »Optische Schreie – Die Geschichte des Aachener Wandmalers Klaus Paier« is being shown at Kino Brotfabrik. Lovorka Perić-Hassler, a filmmaker living in Aachen, made this first comprehensive documentation of Klaus Paier, a pioneer of street art in Germany. Paier, a trained physicist and self-taught artist, treated mural painting as political art, and with his quote »Unser Museum ist die Stadt« gave public space back to the people symbolically and artistically. Using interviews, archive footage and conversations with the late artist, the film looks at the spirit of the 1970s to 1990s and the controversial reactions to his work, from walls being painted over to his pieces being honoured as monuments.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/optische-schreie-die-geschichte-des-aachener-wandmalers-klau-67591/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/optische-schreie-die-geschichte-des-aachener-wandmalers-klaus-paier/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4fe3f20579076d3514bd6e96cd5cb22af2f1eb8e9664e269182438451c0f450c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer", "address": "", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "“Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land” is an exhibition of color photographs of the former Berlin Wall strip, taken between 2017 and 2024. The photographer Thomas Meyer, a member of the agency OSTKREUZ, spent eight years, across different seasons, tracing where the division of the city is still visible and perceptible today. His pictures, made in digital medium format, show places that once made history, the disappearance of the Wall, and the overlapping layers of history and present. In doing so, the exhibition also documents Berlin's urban development.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/thomas-meyer-mauer-land-34536/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}