{"title": "Schweigen - eine dokumentarische Graphic Novel", "start": "2026-11-19T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in der Villa Oppenheim", "address": "Schloßstraße 55, 14059 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/comics/graphic-novels", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A reading and conversation with Birgit Weyhe about her documentary graphic novel „Schweigen“. In it, she recalls two women of different generations: Ellen Marx, the only member of her Jewish family to survive Nazi persecution after emigrating from Berlin to Buenos Aires at seventeen, and Elisabeth Käsemann, who set out for Argentina against the backdrop of the student movement. The graphic novel repeatedly touches on local history and opens a narrative about the entanglements between Germany and Argentina, the Argentine military dictatorship, and the political failure connected with it. Based on in-depth research, it confronts the experiences of violence and the defiant remembrance in Argentine society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/schweigen-eine-dokumentarische-graphic-novel-72959/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/572bb2868b2cd7d852c6810eceaf38a550041157dec34c8c44f570dccdbebeb5-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in der Villa Oppenheim", "address": "Schloßstraße 55, 14059 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "Lesung: Psychiatrieerfahrungen im Elsass – Lebensgeschichten zwischen Strasbourg und Hadamar im NS", "start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hörsaalruine, Charité Campus Mitte", "address": "Virchowweg 16, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/non-fiction"], "description": "GeDenkOrt.Charité invites visitors to a reading from the book \"Psychiatrieerfahrungen im Elsass – Lebensgeschichten zwischen Strasbourg und Hadamar im Nationalsozialismus\", followed by a conversation. The author Lea Münch, a physician and historian at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, traces the life stories of five women and men who were or became psychiatric patients in the annexed border region of Alsace. From Strasbourg, their paths sometimes led to the killing institution Hadamar, which became a symbol of the National Socialist \"euthanasia\" crimes. The work takes the perspective of those affected and explores intergenerational effects reaching into the present.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-psychiatrieerfahrungen-im-elsass-lebensgeschichten-zw-96870/", "official_url": "https://gedenkort.charite.de/metas/veranstaltung/veranstaltung/details/lesung_psychiatrieerfahrungen_im_elsass_lebensgeschichten_zwischen_strasbourg_und_hadamar/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5cd136b645c5e55dc87eab1d47a3655a13de83f16d3aed251dfd89488f41e011-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Eine Berliner Familiengeschichte von über 100 Jahren – Lesung und Gespräch mit der Zeitzeugin Irene Bindel", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+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": ["literature/biography/autobiography", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A reading followed by a conversation at the Bezirkszentralbibliothek Pablo Neruda. Irene Bindel, a contemporary witness born in Berlin in 1938, reads from her book „Wassermilch und Spitzenwein“ and tells of her family history spanning more than a century. As the daughter of a Christian mother and a Jewish father, she recounts her family's fate during the Nazi era and the difficult post-war years – her father was imprisoned by the Nazi regime and never returned, while her young mother had to struggle through a time of hardships alone with her daughter. Drawing on her mother's diaries, she offers very personal insights into this moving era, invites the audience to ask questions in the ensuing conversation, and the event is a cooperation between the Gilberto-Bosques-Volkshochschule Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, the Stadtbibliothek Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and the Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit in Berlin e.V.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/eine-berliner-familiengeschichte-von-uber-100-jahren-lesung-31736/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-friedrichshain-kreuzberg/bibliotheken/bezirkszentralbibliothek-pablo-neruda/veranstaltungen-projekte/eine-berliner-familiengeschichte-von-ueber-100-jahren-lesung-und-gespraech-mit-der-zeitzeugin-irene-bindel-1712806.php", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6db1ad9d16ca379cc65669840255ecd48f4ed05c8af944d03201eff22a31ce15-600.webp"}, {"title": "Gedenkveranstaltung zum 9. November: Filmvorführung von „Des Vaters Schweigen“ („The Father’s Silence“) & Gespräch & Musik", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heilig Kreuz-Kirche", "address": "Zossener Straße 65, 10961 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/holocaust", "occasion/memorial"], "description": "A memorial event for 9 November at the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Kreuzberg, featuring a screening of the documentary „Des Vaters Schweigen“ („The Father’s Silence“) followed by a talk and music. It is organised by the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde vor dem Halleschen Tor. The film tells the story of Sylvia Salomon, who only learned a few years before her father’s death that he had survived the Holocaust. Afterwards the director Mariella Santibáñez Koref and the film’s protagonist Sylvia Salomon will talk about it, with music by Yael Gat and Ofer Löwinger and moderation by pastor Christina Biere.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gedenkveranstaltung-zum-9-november-filmvorfuhrung-von-des-va-121011/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "\"Wassermilch und Spitzenwein\" - Eine Berliner Familiengeschichte", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Flughafen Tempelhof", "address": "Platz der Luftbrücke 5 12101 Berlin", "price": "Kostenlose Tickets!", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/memoir"], "description": "A reading with Irene Bindel from her autobiographical book “Wassermilch und Spitzenwein”. The author, born in Berlin in 1938 as the daughter of a Jewish father, tells of her childhood in the National Socialist era, of persecution and her father having to go into hiding, and of the new beginning after 1945, shaped by encounters with the American occupiers. Afterwards she speaks about her personal experiences and answers questions from the audience, with the evening guided by the historian Irmgard Zündorf. The event takes place as part of Berlin Freedom Week.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wassermilch-und-spitzenwein-eine-berliner-familiengeschichte-12669/", "official_url": "https://www.thf-berlin.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung/berlin-freedom-week-wassermilch-und-spitzenwein", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1bd42dba9ff116a9bb9215b6baddb856dfb97bdac374c2e5ad20bf6614941769-1200.webp"}, {"title": "CrossKultur 2026 | \"Schattenleben\" - Comiclesung und Gespräch in der Bibliothek Schöneberg", "start": "2026-11-17T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-17T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Bibliothek Schöneberg", "address": "Hauptstraße 40, 10827 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/comics", "society/migration"], "description": "The Bibliothek Schöneberg hosts a comic reading and conversation about \"Schattenleben\", with comic artist Lisa Frühbeis, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kron and Brienne, one of the book's protagonists. \"Schattenleben\" is a comic reportage about people without papers, in which four people from very different backgrounds tell of their lives without documents in Germany. One of them is Brienne from Thailand, who fought her way out of forced prostitution in Germany and got her boss sent to prison. The book is the result of five years of intensive research, dozens of conversations and a joint collaboration between the four protagonists, journalist Jonas Seufert and Lisa Frühbeis; the event is part of CrossKultur 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/crosskultur-2026-schattenleben-comiclesung-und-gesprach-in-d-108292/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/32497b66a62180f67b66a1ac9f66c8451f4ea786ec687590f9ab032a2ddc047e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "„Nie wieder ist jetzt?“ – Erinnerung und Gedenken an den Holocaust zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft und Schule", "start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "diekleinegalerie", "address": "Goßlerstraße 21, 12161 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/holocaust/commemoration"], "description": "diekleinegalerie invites to a conversation on a current topic: „Nie wieder ist jetzt?“ – Remembrance and commemoration of the Holocaust between historical scholarship and school. The conversation is between Prof. Wolfgang Benz, a historian, and Jakob Ciré, a teacher of history at a Berlin integrated comprehensive school. It addresses how remembrance can be conveyed when there are no more contemporary witnesses, how it can be kept alive in our post-migrant society, and what the claim of „never again“ means in the present. Due to limited seating, registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nie-wieder-ist-jetzt-erinnerung-und-gedenken-an-den-holocaus-22255/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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": "Lettekiez liest! \"Vielleicht wollte er gar nicht schweigen, er fand bloß die Worte nicht\" Lesung & Gespräch mit Misha Schoeneberg", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bibliothek am Schäfersee Stadtteilbibliothek Reinickendorf-Ost", "address": "Markstrasse 36, 13409 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/jewish-history", "literature/memoir"], "description": "A reading followed by a conversation about the book “Vielleicht wollte er gar nicht schweigen, er fand bloß die Worte nicht” at the Bibliothek am Schäfersee library. Its author Misha Schoeneberg, who also wrote songs for Max Prosa and lyrics for Rio Reiser and Ton Steine Scherben, tells the story of his family there: his father came from a Jewish Berlin family and survived Auschwitz, while his mother came from Western Pomerania and belonged to the BDM as a girl. It is already his eighth published book, presenting an unusual German-Jewish family history of postwar Germany.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lettekiez-liest-vielleicht-wollte-er-gar-nicht-schweigen-er-82192/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/89dcabe9f720c3411294f4388ccbce8165ef629b30a4ef499bc75e2a5964cd03-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Literarische Erinnerungsbilder", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung", "address": "Straße der Pariser Kommune 8A, 10243 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/germany", "literature"], "description": "\"Literarische Erinnerungsbilder\" is a reading followed by a conversation. The authors Regina Scheer and Annett Gröschner read from their family novels \"Machandel\" and \"Schwebende Lasten\", in which individual fates form a multiperspectival mosaic of twentieth-century German history; the conversation is moderated by literary scholar Therese Hörnigk. The event takes place in the Eva-Mamlok-Bibliothek of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and is accessible, registration is requested. Literary images of memory are meant to broaden the range of society's perceptions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/literarische-erinnerungsbilder-97085/", "official_url": "https://www.rosalux.de/veranstaltung/es_detail/YWZCR/literarische-erinnerungsbilder?cHash=784309a7c779e052580b64ff3c5d54eb", "image": "https://noky.io/images/575c4c578c748ea7fdb4b59a6de9414192fc00aa1475a32faab15ae71ceac786-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Nie wieder!", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grips Theater im Podewil", "address": "Klosterstraße 68 10179 Berlin", "price": "10 €, ermäßigt 5 €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "\"Nie wieder!\" is a musical reading in remembrance of the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. Three performers (Eva Blum, Michaela Hanser, Falk Berghofer) read from Inge Deutschkron's \"Ich trug den gelben Stern\", accompanied by Volker Ludwig's \"Zeitlosen Lieder\" from \"Ab heute heißt Du Sara\", newly arranged for choir. The vocal.ensemble.tempelhof as well as Matthias Witting with arrangements and piano take part. The evening is meant to be stirring and encouraging at once, dealing with humanity, solidarity and civil courage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nie-wieder-4635/", "official_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/spielplan/nie-wieder/3387", "image": ""}, {"title": "Aber jetzt bin ich Dir unsere Schuld schuldig: Die Berliner Briefe von Susanne Kerckhoff", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mitte Museum", "address": "Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-germany", "literature"], "description": "A reading and conversation at Mitte Museum about the writer Susanne Kerckhoff. In 1948, in her Berlin letters, she spoke out against the great silence after National Socialism, writing about guilt, atonement and the search for a new beginning in a destroyed society. Lena Bührichen talks with publisher Peter Graf about who this woman was, why she fell into obscurity after her death in 1950, and why she is worth reading again today. The music comes from Jens-Karsten Stoll, with moderation by Jörg Braunsdorf.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/aber-jetzt-bin-ich-dir-unsere-schuld-schuldig-die-berliner-b-72945/", "official_url": "https://www.mittemuseum.de/de/veranstaltung/2026/aber-jetzt-bin-ich-dir-unsere-schuld-schuldig-die-berliner-briefe-von-susanne-kerckhoff", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6019ca1155cf17362ddd11b47b3bdefa5bc887d91d81932d75abe53256c16e80-1200.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, "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": "Lesereihe: „Auf den Spuren vergessener Schriftstellerinnen“", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Brunnenstr. 181, 10119 Berlin", "address": "Brunnenstr. 181, 10119 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction", "society/women"], "description": "A reading from the series „Auf den Spuren vergessener Schriftstellerinnen“ dedicated to the Berlin writer Annemarie Weber. Publisher Britta Jürgs introduces the author, born in 1918 and died in 1991, and Simone Hausdorf reads. Weber's novel portrays with wit the contrasting worlds of the wild sixties in West Berlin, between marriage and pills, left-wing demos and stylish receptions. The event is free and requires no registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesereihe-auf-den-spuren-vergessener-schriftstellerinnen-96850/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f4ef89a2cb1e5b4323ec5040459bde9ecf4e63745cf7fd28a08eec0913b7626d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Besuch der Sonderausstellung: „Holocaust - Was wussten die Deutschen?“", "start": "2026-11-07T11:15:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T12:30:00+01:00", "place": "Topographie des Terrors", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/holocaust", "society/queer"], "description": "A guided visit for queer FLINTA* people through the special exhibition „Holocaust – Was wussten die Deutschen?“ at Topographie des Terrors, held as part of the weeks against antisemitism. The invitation comes from LesLeFam (Treffpunkt LesLeFam), while the tour itself is led by a person from Topographie des Terrors. It addresses the historical connections and the different forms of knowledge, partial knowledge and looking away during the National Socialist era. The group aims to create a shared space for critically engaging with Nazi history and culture of remembrance; the event takes place in German spoken language and is a sober (alcohol-free) event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/besuch-der-sonderausstellung-holocaust-was-wussten-die-deuts-26966/", "official_url": "https://leslefam.de/event/commnity-ausflug-zur-sonderausstellung-holocaust-was-wussten-die-deutschen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cd8c934a184d389b7adf2e95182383da1e177521d9ba3a921bc42bc7231945c3-2000.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"}]}