{"title": "Sein Beruf war das Recht, seine Berufung die Literatur: Ein Abend über den homme de lettres Joachim Kersten", "start": "2026-11-17T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-17T21:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brecht-Haus", "address": "Chausseestraße 125, 10115 Berlin", "price": "6,- € / ermäßigt: 4,- €", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/literary-history"], "description": "An evening of talks about Joachim Kersten, an homme de lettres who worked as a jurist and writer behind the scenes of literary life, shaping how literature was created, spread, preserved in archives and published in editions. Six speakers share different perspectives: Jacqueline Kersten talks about him as an author and collector, Katharina E. Meyer about his involvement in literary foundations, publisher Thedel von Wallmoden sketches him as a partner for publishing houses, Oskar Ansull covers his role as an editor, Matthies van Eendenburg recalls his work as a jurist, and Erdmut Wizisla introduces his commitment to archives. Wizisla also describes how the Walter Benjamin Archive came to the Akademie der Künste thanks to Kersten. The evening takes place in cooperation with the Kurt Wolff Stiftung.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sein-beruf-war-das-recht-seine-berufung-die-literatur-ein-ab-75808/", "official_url": "https://lfbrecht.de/event/sein-beruf-war-das-recht-seine-berufung-die-literatur-ein-abend-ueber-den-homme-de-lettres-joachim-kersten/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fe00035ff40ed1659fe0f6d4b39fa247668ddc896471edbb5fcaa4905be91047-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-17T21:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brecht-Haus", "address": "Chausseestraße 125, 10115 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Sebastian Kleinschmidt »Resonanzen«", "start": "2026-11-10T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-10T18:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brecht-Haus", "address": "Chausseestraße 125, 10115 Berlin", "price": "6,- € / ermäßigt: 4,- €", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.80", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/non-fiction/essay"], "description": "A book presentation with conversation at the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus. Essayist Sebastian Kleinschmidt presents his book »Resonanzen«, in conversation with Matthias Weichelt, editor-in-chief of »Sinn und Form«. With his essays he invites the audience on an intellectual ramble, from the landscape painters of Ahrenshoop via the reception of Bach in the GDR and Wolf Biermann in dispute with God to Heinrich Hauser's seafaring adventures. The result is a many-voiced intellectual interior in which philosophizing painters, musical poetesses, poetic scientists and art-loving theologians step into the light.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sebastian-kleinschmidt-resonanzen-75804/", "official_url": "https://lfbrecht.de/event/sebastian-kleinschmidt-resonanzen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/37845b0c41c1cacb72c5136f77fe942ac101564a17af601f8ea1dd1229764a5e-600.webp"}, {"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": "Der Nobelpreis für Literatur 1966", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin", "address": "Unter den Linden 8, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/jewish-history", "literature"], "description": "The Berlin State Library hosts a commemorative evening marking the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature sixty years ago to Nelly Sachs and S. J. Agnon. After a welcome by director general Achim Bonte and greetings, literary scholar Lina Barouch, writer Aris Fioretos and Thomas Sparr discuss the paths of Jewish literature. An introduction is given by Caroline Jessen of the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, while cantor Assaf Levitin accompanies the evening musically at the piano with Naaman Wagner. The evening also commemorates the November pogroms of 1938 and Agnon's publisher Salman Schocken.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/der-nobelpreis-fur-literatur-1966-109756/", "official_url": "https://blog.sbb.berlin/termin/der-nobelpreis-fuer-literatur-1966/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/37cdb6995735a3ee055011891044aa1a329b71dd17df7ddacc5135df2090f4c1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Literaturstadt Berlin #8: Die neuen Leute", "start": "2026-11-13T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "PopUp Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek", "address": "Eva-Mamlok-Platz 1, 10961 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A panel discussion on the prospects of the emerging generation of writers, readers and curators in Berlin. It is organised by the Berliner Literaturkonferenz, an alliance of Berlin literature institutions and the independent literature scene, in cooperation with radio3, and picks up a presentation the literaturWERKstatt berlin first staged in 2002 under the same title. The panel brings together editor Katharina Holzmann, politician Louis Krüger, author I. V. Nuss and Eli Makuth from the youth reading group Die LesArtigen, moderated by Anne-Dore Krohn and Katja Weber. The talk also opens the Open Mike weekend and will be recorded and broadcast on radio3.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/literaturstadt-berlin-8-die-neuen-leute-211/", "official_url": "https://www.hausfuerpoesie.org/de/programm/literaturstadt-berlin-8-die-neuen-leute", "image": ""}, {"title": "Brecht-Haus Untergrund Die multiliterarische Keller-Revue", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brecht-Haus", "address": "Chausseestraße 125, 10115 Berlin", "price": "6,- € / ermäßigt: 4,- €", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.80", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "In the cellar of the Brecht-Haus, an evening is devoted to Berlin's literary life and its voices beyond the big markets and fairs. Authors, song poets, performers and musicians present literary texts of the city past and present, entirely without big discussion. The result is a mix of texts, music and performance, now and then spiced with videos or digital dialogues. This time the three guests are the poet Marion Poschmann, the writer Helga Kurzchalia and the indiepop poet Josepha Conrad, hosted by Martin Jankowski.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/brecht-haus-untergrund-die-multiliterarische-keller-revue-75807/", "official_url": "https://lfbrecht.de/event/brecht-haus-untergrund-die-multiliterarische-keller-revue-17/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/90f32d44b0e80078e4a674a0749621116a0d1240404f915e094ed95b1651c0c2-600.webp"}, {"title": "Brechts Pinselknecht. Ein Brecht-Abend zu Ehren von Karl-Heinz Drescher", "start": "2026-11-20T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Helle Panke e.V.", "address": "Kopenhagener Straße 9, 10437 Berlin", "price": "2 €", "price_from": "2.00", "price_to": "2.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/lieder", "literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening of songs, texts and poems by Bertolt Brecht, combining literature and music. It is hosted by mezzo-soprano Luzia Ostermann, bass Andrew Munn and pianist Jacob Greenberg at Helle Panke e.V. – Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Berlin. The evening honours Karl-Heinz Drescher (1936–2011), who from 1962 to 1999 designed posters, programmes and publications for the Berliner Ensemble, with his type and photo posters shaping the face of East Berlin. The three musicians invite the audience on a journey in thought through Brecht's texts of headwinds, wet meadows, migrating birds and the time of exile.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/brechts-pinselknecht-ein-brecht-abend-zu-ehren-von-karl-hein-29774/", "official_url": "https://www.helle-panke.de/de/topic/3.termine.html?id=4127", "image": "https://noky.io/images/54c68b4376fb6ac9ee603f3292c70b757cb4f3ba3418b178aab9261766fe2bc2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung: Kerstin Hensel: Abendgruß", "start": "2026-11-17T18:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heinrich-Schulz- Bibliothek", "address": "Otto-Suhr-Allee 98, 10585 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/contemporary"], "description": "The Heinrich-Schulz-Bibliothek hosts an author reading in which Kerstin Hensel presents her new book of stories, Abendgruß. The book brings together two artfully contrasting narratives: the story of siblings Karin and Wolf Kohlmann growing up in the GDR in the late 1960s, alongside glimpses into a life today. Hensel, born in Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1961 and a writer of poetry, novels and stories, portrays false morality, petty bourgeois attitudes and shattered dreams, at times poetic, at times wryly ironic. A reading promising to be both profound and entertaining for anyone interested in contemporary German literature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-kerstin-hensel-abendgru-125534/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=297464&ls=0&c=4&v_ort=13119&date_start=05.11.2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c0a45fad643ee3dd8b95101996efae7c0c2e14b834b5754580448ddcea97d2e5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Humanismus und Judentum in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-13T09:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T09:00:00+01:00", "place": "Katholische Akademie in Berlin", "address": "Hannoversche Straße 5b, 10115 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/jewish-history", "religion/jewish"], "description": "The study conference „Humanismus und Judentum in Berlin – Die Welt von Leo Baeck (1873-1956)“ commemorates the life and work of the rabbi Leo Baeck. It looks at his years in Berlin, his deportation to Theresienstadt and his work after the Shoah, and asks what significance liberal Judaism holds today. It is organised by the Deutscher Koordinierungsrat der Gesellschaften für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit together with the Katholische Akademie in Berlin. Speakers include among others Rabbi Prof. Dr. Andreas Nachama, Pastor Friedhelm Pieper, Father Elias H. Füllenbach OP and Prof. Dr. Asher Biemann.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/humanismus-und-judentum-in-berlin-9181/", "official_url": "https://www.katholische-akademie-berlin.de/veranstaltung/humanismus-judentum/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/71b2fb37f87831a8df2a4d14956a3c8e885b63f931b7a7ba05ff3bee0a24ff3f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Poetry and Correspondence: A German-Hebrew Network", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Eberhard-Lämmert-Saal", "address": "Eingang Meierottostr. 8, 10719 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "A talk on German-Hebrew correspondence and poetry of the twentieth century. Na’ama Rokem presents her book „Zionism in Translation: Encounters in the German-Hebrew Archive“, which examines writings by figures such as Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Paul Celan and Walter Benjamin. In conversation with Dina Berdichevsky, she discusses belonging, resistance and the Zionist movement; with an introduction by Eva Geulen. Admission is free, no booking is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/poetry-and-correspondence-a-german-hebrew-network-26950/", "official_url": "https://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltungen-detail/items/poetry-and-correspondence-a-german-hebrew-network.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/57e12191e8d59b4f62ff13556dde40c16991c1176d9912d64e1dedd4cbd6319c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Transformationszeit: Fantasie gegen Realität …", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ephraim-Palais", "address": "Poststraße 16, 10178 Berlin", "price": "10 Euro", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "A conversation about life and writing in East and West Berlin, the final installment of the series „Transformationszeit“. Katja Oskamp, a writer born in East Berlin and author of „Marzahn, mon amour“ and „Die vorletzte Frau“, and West Berlin author Björn Kuhligk, known for „Überall Nachbarn“ and „Berlin-Beschimpfung“, join moderator Marion Brasch to discuss inventing reality. They explore how everyday life and social conditions shape writing, what artistic freedoms existed on either side of the Wall, and what changed after 1989. The talk takes place in the salon on the ground floor and lasts one hour and thirty minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/transformationszeit-fantasie-gegen-realitat-11821/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.museum/veranstaltungen/transformationszeit-fantasie-gegen-realitaet", "image": "https://noky.io/images/09af503cac5f68817fe03a2a5975b32abb478c6644eab9d240ec33d10e0388f3-600.webp"}, {"title": "LEKTÜREN FÜR DEN SALON: GABRIELE TERGIT", "start": "2026-11-17T16:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mendelssohn-Remise", "address": "Jägerstraße 51 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Spenden willkommen", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/german-literature"], "description": "A reading in the series „Lektüren für den Salon“ is dedicated to the author and journalist Gabriele Tergit. Dorothee Nolte reads from Tergit's texts revolving around „Käsebier“, the „Effingers“ and the decline of the Jewish educated middle class in Berlin. The event carries the title „Teestunde“ bei Rahels Schwestern, den femmes de lettres & Gastgeberinnen. Annalisa Derossi plays at the grand piano, admission is free, donations are welcome, registration by phone or email.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lekturen-fur-den-salon-gabriele-tergit-68045/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Was bewirkt Kunst? - Über die Zukunft der Kunst", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "UNI.T", "address": "Fasanenstraße 1b, 10623 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "“Was bewirkt Kunst? – Über die Zukunft der Kunst” is a public evening as part of the discussion series “Warum Kunst?” at the Berlin University of the Arts. The playwright, poet and radio playwright Wolfram Lotz and the composer, musician and author Prof. Iris ter Schiphorst discuss what effect art has today and how it can gain new relevance. The evening is moderated by Prof. Marion Hirte and takes place in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/was-bewirkt-kunst-uber-die-zukunft-der-kunst-31795/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/was-bewirkt-kunst-ueber-die-zukunft-der-kunst/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Was bewirkt Kunst? - Über die Zukunft der Kunst", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Universität der Künste Berlin – Fakultät Gestaltung", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 5-2, 10823 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "This event is an evening of the public talk series \"Warum Kunst?\" at the Berlin University of the Arts, asking what art achieves and where its future lies. Speaking are Wolfram Lotz, a dramatist, poet and radio playwright, and Prof. Iris ter Schiphorst, a composer, musician and author, with the evening moderated by Prof. Marion Hirte. At its center is the question of the value of artistic practice in a time of multiple crises and of art's capacity to open new spaces of thought, experience and imagination. The series sees itself as an open forum for exchange between artists, scholars, students and the public and is held in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/was-bewirkt-kunst-uber-die-zukunft-der-kunst-29003/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/was-bewirkt-kunst-ueber-die-zukunft-der-kunst/", "image": ""}]}