{"title": "Silva Marinova / Tatjana Motta", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/eventlist", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["literature", "stage"], "description": "A reading programme of the transnational MEDUSA Festival Berlin in the Roter Salon at the Volksbühne. It presents texts by the Bulgarian author Silva Marinova and the Italian Tatjana Motta, read by Eddy Barroso, Barbara Behrendt, Anton Berman and Aylin Esener, directed by Marie Bues. Marinova's science-fiction play ДЕБЕЛАКЪТ (FETTSACK) follows a writer couple travelling to a slimming clinic on the Moon in the year 2125, while Motta's Notte Bianca (Lange Nacht) accompanies a tourist couple in a city in transition, dealing with migration and belonging. Afterwards there is an audience talk with the authors and the translator Henrieke Markert.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/silva-marinova-tatjana-motta-278/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/reihen-und-projekte/medusa/silva-marinova-tatjana-motta/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/592f76b7ba0be887b6a671252526d94bf80ca41c0948dfe91f1b9d121d005782-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "MEDUSA", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23814", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/contemporary-play"], "description": "On the first evening of the MEDUSA Festival Berlin, the Roter Salon hosts staged readings of two contemporary theatre texts presented in German. The programme brings together „Notte Bianca (Lange Nacht)“ by Tatjana Motta and „ДЕБЕЛАКЪТ (FETTSACK)“ by Silva Marinova. The evening is directed by Marie Bues and performed by an ensemble of twelve actors, with audience talks accompanying the readings. The transnational project, run by partner institutions from Naples, Sofia and Berlin and coordinated in Berlin by Das Kombinat e.V. together with Drama Panorama e.V., is dedicated to contemporary drama and inclusive identities in Europe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/medusa-16820/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/reihen-und-projekte/medusa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/44bb26fd28e9585539e598b66f4293362b376a3f7ac78efc734a1667d82f90ac-600.webp"}, {"title": "Teodora Georgieva / Natalie Baudy", "start": "2026-11-07T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23816", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/drama"], "description": "A theatre evening as part of the MEDUSA Festival Berlin featuring texts by Teodora Georgieva and Natalie Baudy, which closes the festival. It is directed by Salome Dastmalchi, with readings of Georgieva's „СИЛНИ. СМЕЛИ. СТРАХОВИТИ.“ in Alexander Sitzmann's translation and Baudy's „under the influence oder: die rückkehr der bakchen“, read by Banafshe Hourmazdi, Nadim Jarrar, Patrick Khatami and Niklas Wetzel. Georgieva's play follows three ten-year-old boys who found an army, in which a childhood game develops into a system of power, violence and peer pressure. Baudy's play shows three women of three generations in an apartment block under mysterious plagues, speaking about intoxication, dependencies and solidarity, followed by an audience talk and a closing party with DJAZ & DJ SAESH.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/teodora-georgieva-natalie-baudy-281/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/reihen-und-projekte/medusa/teodora-georgieva-natalie-baudy/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e30992999fa5e7ed1267e697b7a111c94f35f9d77a24ee37d074fa48fb2f19c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lena Riemer / Alessandro Paschitto", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23815", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "literature"], "description": "A staged reading evening as part of the MEDUSA Festival Berlin at the Roter Salon, featuring two contemporary plays. Directed by Tobias Herzberg, with readings by Knut Berger, Theresa Berlage, Joao D'Orey and Via Jikeli. The programme includes SEXUS by Italian playwright Alessandro Paschitto, a pointed and ironic play about gender, identity and social expectations, and Lena Riemer's award-winning debut aufstiegskörper. ein fühlversuch about social mobility, burnout and the body as a site of adaptation and resistance. Afterwards there is an audience talk with the author and translator Carola Köhler.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lena-riemer-alessandro-paschitto-279/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/reihen-und-projekte/medusa/lena-riemer-alessandro-paschitto/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fbe17100448823dd8e9106bf09630d368e037bc5eb66b071a29d35e5150c87a9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Club de lectura de noviembre: Malina, de Ingeborg Bachmann", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bartleby & Co.", "address": "Boppstraße 2", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel"], "description": "In November, the Bartleby reading circle meets at the Bartleby & Co. bookshop on Boppstraße 2. The Spanish-language bookshop invites its readers to read a book together and then discuss it in person. The chosen title is Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann, an astonishing portrait of a writer trying to tell her own story in a world dominated by men. The novel follows a woman in postwar Vienna between her inaccessible lover Ivan and her reserved flatmate Malina, a feminist psychological masterpiece of European literature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/club-de-lectura-de-noviembre-malina-de-ingeborg-bachmann-12904/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b5f679be336ded5a712898b70574c79015fbfe42ff1b6224a7eae4b1e54d0b62-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Die Feder und der Spiegel - Geschichten einer Reise", "start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "UNI.T", "address": "Fasanenstraße 1b, 10623 Berlin", "price": "15,00 Euro, ermäßigt 12,00 Euro", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word/storytelling", "music"], "description": "A performance of storytelling and music in German and Italian titled \"Die Feder und der Spiegel - Geschichten einer Reise\". It is created by professional storyteller Maria Carmela Marinelli, who performs together with musician Elettra Bargiacchi, her regular musical partner since 2013. At its heart is a humorous autobiographical love story between a mother and daughter, interwoven with different travel experiences on the way to the same goal: finding happiness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-feder-und-der-spiegel-geschichten-einer-reise-31791/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/erzaehlabend-mit-maria-carmela-marinelli/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7163b5378043d1b915919c8fb8349178bdb98dc833ebf38f56791252ca16c705-600.webp"}, {"title": "„28 Days“: eine szenische Lesung von Olga Shiliaevas", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "PANDA Platforma", "address": "", "price": "Online 20 Euro, Abendkasse 25 Euro", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "literature"], "description": "“28” is a staged reading in English about a woman trying to hear her own thoughts and feelings through a chorus of voices with plenty to say about her body. The play is by Olga Shiliaeva and is staged by Anja Demidova, translated by Katherine Soloviev. The performance grows out of a week-long theatre laboratory in which seven actors work with the text, movement and masks that become their costumes on stage. Shiliaeva's play was shortlisted for the Lubimovka Festival in 2018 and nominated for a Golden Mask theatre award in 2020.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/28-days-eine-szenische-lesung-von-olga-shiliaevas-33813/", "official_url": "https://panda-platforma.berlin/events/28-staged-reading/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f00277fd586c2f5d1f16f78b03787c0bac0f5730e1d75cea5906d06bf10cc0f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "»Schweinebaumeln« – Lesung und Gespräch mit Marta Dzido, Antje Ritter-Miller & Sarah Käsmayr", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T22:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "€7 – €9 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.rundfunkchor-berlin.de/konzerte/rundfunkchorlounge-26-27-sauberes-wasser-und-schmutzige-geschaefte/?source=bde", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/short-story", "society"], "description": "A reading and conversation at BrotfabrikKino centered on the story collection »Schweinebaumeln«. Polish writer Marta Dzido presents her nine stories about love, eroticism and sensuality, whose characters struggle with desire and the social norms of 1990s Poland. Antje Ritter-Miller, who translated the German passages, reports on the translation work and reads from it. The evening is moderated by Sarah Käsmayr, with Agnieszka Grzybkowska interpreting.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/schweinebaumeln-lesung-und-gesprach-mit-marta-dzido-antje-ri-16791/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/schweinebaumeln-lesung-und-gespraech-mit-marta-dzido-antje-ritter-miller-sarah-kaesmayr/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70b32ac4497bc931bb2cf4d6e725d474fb20e9c57a0dc2edc33f5389817c04be-1200.webp"}, {"title": "»Schweinebaumeln« – Lesung und Gespräch mit Marta Dzido, Antje Ritter-Miller & Sarah Käsmayr", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1 13086 Berlin", "price": "€7 – €9 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.hkw.de/programme/diskurs-pop-liebe/conversation-with-jan-kuhlbrodt-and-martina-hefter", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/contemporary-fiction", "society/gender"], "description": "A literary evening of reading and conversation at the BrotfabrikKino. Polish writer Marta Dzido presents her story collection »Schweinebaumeln« (Maro Verlag, 2025), in which nine tales explore facets of love, eroticism and sensuality and show how the social norms of 1990s Poland shaped her characters. Translator Antje Ritter-Miller reads the German passages and reports on the translation work; the evening is moderated by publisher Sarah Käsmayr, with interpreter Agnieszka Grzybkowska.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/schweinebaumeln-lesung-und-gesprach-mit-marta-dzido-antje-ri-68700/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/schweinebaumeln-lesung-und-gespraech-mit-marta-dzido-antje-ritter-miller-sarah-kaesmayr/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70b32ac4497bc931bb2cf4d6e725d474fb20e9c57a0dc2edc33f5389817c04be-1200.webp"}, {"title": "From Translation to Circulation: Three European Perspectives", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Internationales Theaterinstitut Deutschland", "address": "Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/translation"], "description": "A public conversation on the visibility and circulation of theatre translations, hosted by the Internationales Theaterinstitut (ITI) together with the Medusa Festival. Curators from Germany, Bulgaria and Italy give impulses on the conditions for translated theatre texts in their countries. Afterwards they discuss with further guests, including authors and translators, and with the audience. The evening also marks the public launch of MEDUSA and ends with an informal get-together.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/from-translation-to-circulation-three-european-perspectives-34125/", "official_url": "https://www.iti-germany.de/de/news/from-translation-to-circulation-three-european-perspectives/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3dc6823806a8ea4c5bce7c508a44a23148d14a802cd718c0d83b45a75e2ea3d4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Özge İnan: \"Die Dichterin\"", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+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", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "The author Özge İnan reads from her novel „Die Dichterin“ at the Bezirkszentralbibliothek Pablo Neruda. The novel follows the celebrated young poet Emma Rodenstock, whose story begins to unravel when a second lyricist claims to have written her texts – a tale of authenticity, classism and the power of scandal. The evening is moderated by TV journalist and book reviewer Georgina Fakunmoju. Admission is free, with advance registration available.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ozge-inan-die-dichterin-24126/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-friedrichshain-kreuzberg/bibliotheken/bezirkszentralbibliothek-pablo-neruda/veranstaltungen-projekte/oezge-inan-die-dichterin-1720666.php", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6deb390e939cb4fc80877f8b78d45d9f64d5f83812f181d9b65315df5068c6a6-600.webp"}, {"title": "»Jüdisches Weißensee« – Jüdische Geschichte(n) in der Gegenwartsliteratur. Lesung & Gespräch mit Marina Frenk, Slata Roschal, Britta Wauer & Alexander Estis", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "€8 – €10 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.de/e/judisches-weiensee-judische-geschichten-in-der-gegenwartsliteratur-tickets-2002713633389", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/jewish-history", "literature"], "description": "A literary evening of readings and conversation about Jewish history and Jewish life in contemporary literature and film, with Weißensee and its large Jewish cemetery as an example of regional places of Jewish life. Reading and discussing are the writers Marina Frenk and Slata Roschal and the author and filmmaker Britta Wauer, with Alexander Estis moderating. The evening asks about regional references in the work of Jewish and non-Jewish authors. It also shows connections with other arts such as film and music.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/judisches-weiensee-judische-geschichten-in-der-gegenwartslit-24489/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/juedisches-weissensee-juedische-geschichten-in-der-gegenwartsliteratur-lesung-gespraech-mit-marina-frenk-slata-roschal-britta-wauer-alexander-estis/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7aa03cefa9225588537a71a1b4cc898cc495990abe24dca58d954ddb23868d72-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Geschichten aus der Klimazukunft – Teilnehmende der Kreativen Schreibwerkstatt lesen ihre Texte in der Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gottfried-Benn-Bibliothek", "address": "Nentershäuser Platz 1, 14163 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/science-fiction", "nature/climate/climate-change"], "description": "Participants of a creative writing workshop at the Volkshochschule Steglitz-Zehlendorf read their own texts about stories from the climate future. Together with author and editor Katrin Imma Deibert and science editor Antonia Rötger, they explored in writing what our future might feel like. In vivid texts they tell of adapting and rebelling, of longing and desire, of leaving and arriving. Admission is free and no registration is needed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/geschichten-aus-der-klimazukunft-teilnehmende-der-kreativen-57828/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7b66f2695c14bc7ed2ba482f0c2f9b66c1ad207e71f1e807077b401243d63ecb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Книжный клуб. 18+0", "start": "2026-11-05T12:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T13:00:00+01:00", "place": "Totschka", "address": "Prenzlauer Allee 216, 10405 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/book-club"], "description": "«Книжный клуб. 18+0» is a Russian-language book club for people aged 18 and over with babies, for those who want to read and discuss books but are not yet ready to leave their baby at home. The club reads small forms such as short stories, essays and novellas that do not require several free evenings, meeting once a month in a small group where a baby's presence bothers no one. For November the group chose Nabokov's first Berlin novel «Машенька» from 1926, plus, if time and energy allow, Vyacheslav Kuritsyn's documentary essay «Счастье. Набоков в Берлине летом 1926 года». The club is moderated by Alexanderа Chervotkina, a mother of three.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/180-28015/", "official_url": "https://fienta.com/211195", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a8ec3455dd8ae32f5c278a5dd7b9ac19b15170f0dec63b2145b87c89dcd917ed-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Erzählsalon Migration Special: Des Märchens Kern", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ephraim-Palais", "address": "Poststraße 16, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Regulär: 5 Euro, Ermäßigt: 3 Euro, Kinder unter 6 Jahren kostenfrei", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature", "music"], "description": "Erzählsalon Migration Special: Des Märchens Kern is a talk evening hosted by the Berlin Museum at the Ephraim-Palais with music by Sema Moritz. With publisher Ahmet Işık Doğan and literary scholar Nesrin Tanç, the evening explores migrant literature and the story of the Ararat Verlag, which began with Vasıf Öngören's book „Des Märchens Kern“. Also presented is the book artwork „Hommage an Istanbul“, combining drawings by Hanefi Yeter with texts and a CD of songs by the German-Turkish music project „Sema & Taksim“. Sema Moritz performs several songs live with Martin Lillich on double bass, and the evening is moderated by Aurora Rodonò.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/erzahlsalon-migration-special-des-marchens-kern-11820/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.museum/veranstaltungen/erzaehlsalon-migration-special-des-maerchens-kern", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e50d017a10b7c6988283581b7e2039ba8e016d0b6e2458e40d7031b9601f5c59-600.webp"}, {"title": "VOCI IN TRANSITO (it)", "start": "2026-11-07T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Buchhandlung a Livraria", "address": "Torstraße 159, 10115 Berlin", "price": "Freies Angebot / free donation", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/italian-literature"], "description": "A literary reading with Italian authors in Berlin. Lucia Camilloni, Fedra Mincio, Linda Nocera and Daniela Porto read short stories, excerpts from novels, poems and reflections. They tell of being in transit between Berlin, Italy and the world, of changes and challenges, and of the wish to give voice to their own voice and uniqueness. Afterwards there will be an open discussion between the authors and the audience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/voci-in-transito-it-13461/", "official_url": "https://www.mondolibro.de/p/sa-07-11-2026i-17-uhr-i-voci-in-transito-it", "image": "https://noky.io/images/34dbca9a64865198ba619a56aa6b939de87297a02ef8747a3b3b1414146a5dee-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sasha Marianna Salzmann & Raphaëlle Red", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sinema Transtopia", "address": "Lindower Straße 20/22", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "ALL YOU CAN READ is a reading series that invites its guests to a shared meal at SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA. It is curated by Josephine Apraku and Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, who ask how literature changes when writing and reading take place at the kitchen table. In this edition, writer, playwright, essayist and curator Sasha Marianna Salzmann and writer Raphaëlle Red take a seat at the table. Together they talk about texts, memories, family influences and political questions – while eating and in good company.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sasha-marianna-salzmann-raphaelle-red-50390/", "official_url": "https://sinematranstopia.com/de/all-you-can-read/sasha-marianna-salzmann-raphaelle-red", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0a9ad3dd37f1bfcab0858cb397e1a219fe09f3c95435a5200501d3a8af108247-1200.webp"}]}