{"title": "Sophie Calle »Erinnerungen an Ostberlin«", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://literatur-berlin.tickettoaster.de/produkte/4255-tickets-sophie-calle-erinnerungen-an-ostberlin-literaturhaus-berlin-berlin-am-11-11-2026", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "A book launch at Literaturhaus Berlin where Sophie Calle presents her new book »Erinnerungen an Ostberlin«. In it, the French artist documents places in Berlin from which the visible symbols of East German history were removed after reunification, asking passers-by and residents to describe what had once filled these now-empty spaces. In conversation with the author and filmmaker Felix von Boehm, she talks about remembering, her art and writing. The event is held in French with simultaneous German interpretation by Kerstin Elsner; Carolin Haupt reads.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sophie-calle-erinnerungen-an-ostberlin-209/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/sophie-calle-erinnerungen-an-ostberlin/", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "In Conversation: Sophie Calle", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart", "address": "Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.smb.museum/ticketshop", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/conceptual-art"], "description": "An artist talk with French conceptual artist Sophie Calle, moderated by Lisa Hörstmann, curator at Hamburger Bahnhof. The conversation takes place in English as part of the series „In Conversation“ in cooperation with Deutsche Bank. Calle works in photography, text, performance and video, addressing themes such as voyeurism, surveillance, love, intimacy, violence and death. The talk is linked to her first solo exhibition in Berlin in over 20 years, „Sophie Calle. Is It Better?“, presenting six bodies of work from the last three decades.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/in-conversation-sophie-calle-10922/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/in-conversation-sophie-calle-2026-11-06-170000-160423/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f28544b72dddc69cdae71a5c1a66517f716fbc64529d280c8c460fa8fc3f778a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Eröffnung der Ausstellung „Sophie Calle. Is It Better?“", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart", "address": "Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei. Keine Anmeldung erforderlich.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.smb.museum/ticketshop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/conceptual-art"], "description": "Hamburger Bahnhof invites you to the opening of the exhibition \"Sophie Calle. Is It Better?\". After more than 20 years, Sophie Calle returns to the capital for her first solo exhibition in Berlin. The show presents \"The Detachment\", the first series of works she realized in Berlin in 1996, addressing the removal of GDR monuments. For the museum's 30th anniversary she has created a new work on the Palast der Republik and the Berlin Palace.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/eroffnung-der-ausstellung-sophie-calle-is-it-better-32521/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/eroeffnung-der-ausstellung-sophie-calle-is-it-better-2026-11-12-190000-163149/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4aae05ed582499106ed20e397632882d797397ff5839bb23bce84e2c6ef5d7e4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "THERE IS NO PAST IN BERLIN: Ioana Cristina Casapu in conversation with Alexander Wells", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lettrétage", "address": "Veteranenstr. 21, 10119 Berlin", "price": "on a donation basis (recommended 5-10€)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin", "literature"], "description": "A literary evening of readings, conversation and mutual interviewing at Lettrétage. Romanian author and curator Ioana Cristina Casapu welcomes Australian writer and critic Alexander Wells for the second edition of her series „THERE IS NO PAST IN BERLIN“, which she initiated together with Lars Jongeblod. Starting from Karl Scheffler's verdict that Berlin is „condemned forever to becoming“, they ask how much of the past we carry into a new life, tracing writers who came to Berlin to begin again – from Isherwood's Schöneberg and Joseph Roth's streets to today's perpetually unfinished capital. Casapu draws on her essay collection „Berliner Tagebuch – Die Geschichte meiner inneren Mauer“ (2025), Wells on essays following Joseph Roth, questioning young Australians in Berlin and examining how the Stasi became part of a reassuring Western narrative.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/there-is-no-past-in-berlin-ioana-cristina-casapu-in-conversa-7372/", "official_url": "https://www.lettretage.de/programm/there-is-no-past-in-berlin-ioana-cristina-casapu-in-conversation-with-alexander-wells", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e09be97596bab3997375df8499f6ed2c59095e2ee59382927e1616fdeeb5a42-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Vortrag: Wo die Mauer stand - Eine Spurensuche mit dem Skizzenbuch", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T22:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie KungerKiez", "address": "Karl-Kunger-Straße 15 12435 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Spenden willkommen!", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/drawing", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "The talk is a commented picture show by the Berlin illustrator and urban sketcher Detlef Surrey. With his sketchbook, he captured what he encounters today at the places where the Wall once stood, from Prenzlauer Berg to Treptow. He shows what he found and shares the thoughts that went through his head along the way. The evening invites visitors to remember and to get to know the history of the city and the neighbourhood.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vortrag-wo-die-mauer-stand-eine-spurensuche-mit-dem-skizzenb-67846/", "official_url": "https://kungerkiez.de/austellungs-details/vortrag-wo-die-mauer-stand-eine-spurensuche-mit-dem-skizzenbuch.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/94d76473372c19e9dd895fab98a01e563912e297fcd72aa2d8351558068cb3ab-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Erinnerungsort Kolonialismus. Call & Response mit Alice Hasters und Khuê Phạm.", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23831", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "A keynote dialogue on the question of how a central place of learning and remembrance for the history of colonialism and its continuities can be shaped. Following an introduction by literary scholar and curator Ibou Diop, Alice Hasters and Khuê Phạm take up questions about forms, practices and politics of remembering and bring them into conversation with each other, after which the exchange continues with the audience. The event reflects on the Erinnerungskonzept Kolonialismus (2025), initiated by actors of Berlin's civil society, which combines activist, scholarly and artistic positions and presents guidelines for engaging with and remembering Berlin's long-suppressed colonial history. In cooperation with Kolonialismus erinnern, the dialogue opens the event „Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort.“ on 13 November.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/erinnerungsort-kolonialismus-call-response-mit-alice-hasters-283/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/kolonialismus-erinnern/20261109-1700/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Die Mauer - Innen - Dazwischen - Außen", "start": "2026-11-09T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Wedding", "address": "Wriezener Straße 6, 13359 Berlin", "price": "15 € Vorverkauf - 18 € AK", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall", "literature/reading"], "description": "A literary and scenic evening featuring readings from „Fall: Berlin, 1989“. Author Claire Elizabeth Terry and Kathrin Berger connect the story of the fall of the Wall with scenic moments and drawings. In German and English, a shared exchange on walls and freedom follows.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-mauer-innen-dazwischen-auen-21827/", "official_url": "https://www.ballhauswedding.de/details-registrierung/die-mauer-innen-dazwischen-aussen", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68850f2f3633bdd4609c8d53845848fb987864d4cc975df90243ac2bfe17d939-2000.webp"}, {"title": "„Niewiedervereinigung: 100 Zwischenrufe zur deutschen Einheit“", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "5 EUR / ermäßigt 3 EUR", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/reunification", "literature"], "description": "This event is a reading from the book „Niewiedervereinigung: 100 Zwischenrufe zur deutschen Einheit“ at the Humboldt Forum. It is part of the series „Über Grenzen: Ziehen, Einreißen, Verschieben“ at BERLIN GLOBAL. Author Paula Fürstenberg looks at German reunification from the perspective of a post-reunification generation, asking about the gaps in the narrative of unity, accompanied by unemployment, emigration and racist violence in the East. The reading is moderated by journalist and author Nhi Le.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/niewiedervereinigung-100-zwischenrufe-zur-deutschen-einheit-16573/", "official_url": "https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/termin/gespraech/niewiedervereinigung-100-zwischenrufe-zur-deutschen-einheit-169340/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e98cae2e745a3746936932cc1a28342234c61e7d88d397c2de9508a06e5f613b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "„Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin“ – Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer", "address": "", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.de/e/elshan-ghasimi-reinterpretation-des-radif-dastgah-e-chahargah-tickets-1997393231925", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/diary"], "description": "A book presentation for „„Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin“ – Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns“, presenting excerpts from the diaries of the singer-songwriter. The historian Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, a friend of Biermann's, is publishing them on the 50th anniversary of Biermann's expatriation and his 90th birthday, and presents the book together with co-editor Arno Polzin. The conversation is moderated by Doris Liebermann. The event takes place in the visitor centre of the Berlin Wall Memorial, is free of charge, and registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ihr-loscht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-die-tagebucher-wolf-biermann-30517/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/ihr-loescht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-die-tagebuecher-wolf?date=2026-11-12T19%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fd51ab9ebb625aac48d5c9324abb9cadaaed9006a4752eaf0a8c6ffb77a95141-1200.webp"}, {"title": "80. Waisenhausgespräch – “Lernt die Menschheit nie? Erinnerungskultur als Mehrgenerationenprojekt”", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Betsaal, Berliner Straße 120-121, 13187 Berlin", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei / free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/memory-culture", "literature/reading"], "description": "The 80th Waisenhausgespräch asks how a culture of remembrance can succeed as a project across generations. Organized by the Cajewitz Stiftung together with the SchuleEins and the Theater OfW, it features pupils presenting their research into the history of the former orphanage, a staged reading by Anja S. Gläser and Florentine Schara (text and staging by Philipp Urrutia, with English surtitles), and a panel discussion with Lena Ditte Nissen and Rosa Jellinek. In this way the historic building's Betsaal becomes a place of living memory where past and present enter into dialogue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/80-waisenhausgesprach-lernt-die-menschheit-nie-erinnerungsku-72986/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/329132cfdc6e62bbf56f4d99a2545873f591cd7059a253d659e06c3ba751762f-2000.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": "Regulär: 10 Euro, Ermäßigt: 6 Euro", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "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": "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", "tickets_url": "https://www.spsg.de/ticket-app/entity/eventTime/13833?cHash=c6704a2bef694b5e4f5d72735428c352", "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": "Mein Berlin - ein Ort mit Gedächtnis?", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "KulturMarktHalle", "address": "Hanns-Eisler-Straße 93, 10409 Berlin", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/berlin-bike-berliner-mauertour-mit-dem-fahrrad#/experience/BTM00020101074869526", "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/82239c6147b5d1474e3a6175e1cb2ed9ce7bdd7dfd29c6b405981d37477b795a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Erzählsalon Migration: Wir haben keine Wahl, aber eine Stimme!", "start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berlin Museum: Ephraim-Palais", "address": "Fidicinstraße 40, 10965 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://waldsamkeit.de/produkt/survival-pflanzliche-notnahrung-berlin/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/migration", "society/activism"], "description": "The “Erzählsalon Migration: Wir haben keine Wahl, aber eine Stimme!” is an informal storytelling event at the Berlin Museum: Ephraim-Palais. It is the second instalment of a new quarterly series by the Stadtmuseum Berlin, in which actors from migrant and diasporic communities share their stories of migration and resistance. This edition is about migrant struggles and international solidarities from the 1970s to the 1990s, when Berlin (West) was shaped by resistance and fights for a more just world. Contemporary witnesses such as political scientist and urban researcher Max Welch Guerra tell these stories with photos, documents and music; moderation is by Aurora Rodonò, curator for migration history, and visitors are welcome to bring their own mementos.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/erzahlsalon-migration-wir-haben-keine-wahl-aber-eine-stimme-16877/", "official_url": "https://www.stadtmuseum.de/veranstaltungen/erzaehlsalon-migration-wir-haben-keine-wahl-aber-eine-stimme", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f032946314bbfa165cd0081a68e36afe6d9c0defe3c0f8f8a60a3780b0aaf605-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Klingel bei…? Begleitprogramm zur Ausstellung – Zeitzeug*innen im Gespräch. Ein Abend mit und über Zeitzeug*innen", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Lichtenberg im Stadthaus", "address": "Türrschmidtstraße 24, 10317 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "An evening of conversation held as accompanying programme for the exhibition „Klingel bei…?“. Contemporary witnesses talk with co-curator Karl-Heinz Steinle about queer lived realities in Lichtenberg, sharing memories, anecdotes and personal perspectives. Rare interview and film clips make the evening a lively encounter with queer history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/klingel-bei-begleitprogramm-zur-ausstellung-zeitzeuginnen-im-12364/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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, "tickets_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/naza/", "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": "Misha Schoeneberg liest aus „Vielleicht wollte er gar nicht schweigen er fand bloß die Worte nicht” mit musikalischer Begleitung", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00+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, "tickets_url": "", "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"}]}