{"title": "The Heart in Winter: Irish novelist Kevin Barry in conversation with Andreas Martin Widmann", "start": "2026-10-30T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bard College", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/kevin-barry-reading-and-discussion-the-heart-in-winter-tickets-2001558156326", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "Irish novelist Kevin Barry presents his recent novel „The Heart in Winter“ and talks about his writing with Bard College Berlin faculty member Andreas Martin Widmann, on the occasion of its German publication. The darkly comic, lyrical Western is set in Montana in 1891, where two lovers on the run flee across the frozen American frontier with dangerous men on their trail. The bilingual event features readings in English by Kevin Barry and in German by actress Cristin König. 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The event is a cooperation with the Center for British Studies and the British Council.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sheila-armstrong-and-gesa-stedman-205/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/reading-talk/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Buchpremiere Olivia Laing „Buch der Träume“", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Georg-Kolbe-Museum", "address": "Sensburger Allee 25, 14055 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/books"], "description": "A book launch for Olivia Laing's novel „Buch der Träume“ with a conversation. The author talks to Kathleen Reinhardt, director of the Georg Kolbe Museum, about Venice as a place of longing and her novel about two men who meet in Venice and plunge into the dream world of Cinecittà, until their excessive lives grow threatening amid Italy's 'Years of Lead'. The German passages will be read by the actress Veronika Bachfischer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buchpremiere-olivia-laing-buch-der-traume-11976/", "official_url": "https://georg-kolbe-museum.de/programm/veranstaltungen/buchpremiere-olivia-laing-buch-der-traeume/", "image": ""}, {"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": "Ein Berliner Wintermärchen", "start": "2026-11-08T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum", "address": "Fidicinstraße 40, 10965 Berlin", "price": "Kinder: 5 €, Erwachsene: 8 €", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/childrens-books"], "description": "A reading for children aged 4 and up at the Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum. Babette Winter reads the fairy tale \"Das Märchen vom kleinen Herrn Moritz\" with the audience's help, accompanied by Kurt Mühlenhaupt's pictures and a barrel organ. It is a morality tale without any shudders, about nothing but winter cold, flowers on heads and a small miracle. 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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"}]}