{"title": "Theateraufführung \"Mikrokosmos 1990. Anfang und Ende eines Landes\"", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen", "address": "", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.stiftung-hsh.de/ihr-besuch/veranstaltungen/anmeldung", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "history/gdr"], "description": "The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial presents the research-based theatre piece „Mikrokosmos 1990. Anfang und Ende eines Landes“ by the theatre collective Vajswerk. It follows four young people from Leipzig, Rostock, Hoyerswerda and Berlin through the year 1990, who after the Peaceful Revolution and the fall of the Wall face the question: „Und wie geht es weiter?“ Based on research into historical material, the piece creates a many-layered portrait of a country in upheaval, telling of a generation's experiences in the year of German unity and drawing a line to the present. The joint event with the district's business development office of Lichtenberg sets the stage for the Berlin Freedom Week 2026 and invites reflection on the upheavals of the Wende era as well as on freedom and democracy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/theaterauffuhrung-mikrokosmos-1990-anfang-und-ende-eines-lan-45229/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-hsh.de/ihr-besuch/veranstaltungen/mikrokosmos-1990", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7fa097dec5bcfe2a975448da157f828b5b285f149b466ee80511507b77ee8c3b-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "'Tanzflächen der Wiedervereinigung' im Kraftwerk", "start": "2026-10-03T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-09T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kraftwerk Berlin", "address": "Köpenicker Str. 70 10179 Berlin", "price": "gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/reunification", "music/club-culture"], "description": "The exhibition 'Tanzflächen der Wiedervereinigung' at Kraftwerk shows the social upheaval surrounding the fall of the Wall as seen by club, subcultural and youth culture in Berlin and eastern Germany. More than 30 stories and contributions from private and institutional archives, personal memories and artistic positions create a many-voiced picture of a time between new departures and loss, fresh freedoms, conflict and radical change. The contributions lead from Berlin clubs to eastern German cities and rural areas, and from pre-1989 youth and subcultures to the open spaces of the post-reunification years. Visitors can experience the former cult club and the extraordinary industrial building.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/tanzflachen-der-wiedervereinigung-im-kraftwerk-2524/", "official_url": "https://tanzflaechen-der-wiedervereinigung.de/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/565b41755486a48f6081dcb468ed4e81f6c4c02aa701b773076842284f036828-600.webp"}, {"title": "Verglühende Landschaften - Von Ost nach Jetzt", "start": "2026-11-03T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Prinzenallee", "address": "Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["history/gdr", "stage"], "description": "\"Verglühende Landschaften - Von Ost nach Jetzt\" is a memory performance about Anja, born and raised in the GDR, who lost her familiar world when reunification came in 1989, when she was fifteen. She became a punk, fell in love with her first girlfriend and experienced the so-called baseball bat years of the 1990s first hand. The production by bandentheater, conceived and directed by Anika Lachnitt with performer Anja Gessenhardt, tells of new beginnings and loss, of flag ceremonies and neo-Nazi violence. It is spoken theatre with acrobatics on the Chinese pole, live music and video installation about identity, forgetting and the question of who you are when where you come from suddenly becomes history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vergluhende-landschaften-von-ost-nach-jetzt-3734/", "official_url": "https://www.ballhausprinzenallee.de/spielplan-ballhaus/vergluhende-landschaften---von-ost-nach-jetzt", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bb62bec789328d6dba1b4fe279085ad3a94eca32a2a589efa32ff0cc88d48783-2000.webp"}, {"title": "House of Hopes", "start": "2026-11-09T20:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventim.de/artist/volksbuehne-berlin/house-of-hopes-volksbuehne-am-rosa-luxemburg-platz-4192839/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "history"], "description": "House of Hopes is a theatrical walk through the theatre at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, starting in the box-office foyer and leading via staircases and foyers up to the present day. The production is by Rimini Protokoll (Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel), a co-production of Rimini Apparat with the Volksbühne. Across seven stations, people share autobiographical stories about hope in countries around the world, from the movements of 1989 to today. Following the traces of that historical turning point, it asks whether hoping means waiting or making change possible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/house-of-hopes-243/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/house-of-hopes/20261014-1730/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2685d5f6a7fb8cae02f1610e12982cccb6b483ace5531449a9f17d1b2bc84763-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Umbruch 1989/90 und die deutsche Einheit: Gemischte Gefühle?", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "East Side Gallery", "address": "", "price": "kostenfrei", "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": "tours", "tags": ["art/street-art", "history/gdr"], "description": "A spotlight guided tour at the East Side Gallery presenting some of the more than one hundred artworks painted on the Berlin Wall in 1990. They tell of hope and joy, but also of worries and unsettling experiences in the period of upheaval 1989/90. The tour looks at how the artists, more than 35 years after the fall of the Wall, view German unity: what would they paint on the wall today, and are the messages still relevant? It takes place as part of Berlin Freedom Week 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/umbruch-198990-und-die-deutsche-einheit-gemischte-gefuhle-20156/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/east-side-gallery/besuch/programm/umbruch-198990-und-die-deutsche-einheit-gemischte-gefuehle-0?date=2026-11-08T11%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d85c4d00aab736be0800091f9d1ee42f74a3ab1b181d9ae3f0d39d409f17285a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Zwischen Werkbank und Wohnzimmer. Alltag in der DDR", "start": "2026-11-01T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T16:00:00+01:00", "place": "Museum Lichtenberg im Stadthaus", "address": "Türrschmidtstraße 24, 10317 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/printmaking", "history/gdr"], "description": "A workshop for adults with a guided tour through Museum Lichtenberg's permanent exhibition on everyday life in the GDR, from prefab housing and the punk movement to contract labour and emigration applications, using Berlin-Lichtenberg as an example. Afterwards, a hands-on art session lets participants try out different printing techniques and take their own works home. The afternoon is accompanied by art historian Susanne Sabouri and artist Anastasia Mikhaylova. The workshop is free of charge and requires no registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zwischen-werkbank-und-wohnzimmer-alltag-in-der-ddr-23613/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Aufbruch und Abbruch. Vom Runden Tisch zum Parlamentssaal im Palast der Republik", "start": "2026-11-07T16:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://indiv.themisweb.fr/0426/fChoixSeanceWidget.aspx?idstructure=0426&EventId=1341&request=QcE+w0WHSuAzuy2B4/OGXXM5SHkQriVyPpSnIlSPgwi/SvTcAfT+aEjjNRciovQIRNkHdQdPpEPbes4EX/49Cg==", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr/peaceful-revolution"], "description": "A talk about two significant sites of the Peaceful Revolution: the Central Round Table at Schönhausen Palace in Pankow and the parliamentary chamber in the Palace of the Republic. Behind the event are the Humboldt Forum, the ORTS-Termin and the installation „Sturzlage“, held on the occasion of the Berlin Freedom Week 2026. The speaker is Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper, one of the most prominent voices in Berlin's culture of remembrance, who explores the history and significance of these two places. She asks why their history is told so little today and why the democratic potential of the Round Table and the freely elected Volkskammer remains relevant.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/aufbruch-und-abbruch-vom-runden-tisch-zum-parlamentssaal-im-2562/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e34564113d159a91a5b5353bba257fd8d87edaeb255452c59f585bb9f7f1bf1c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Splitter", "start": "2026-10-24T11:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-03-05T11:00:00+01:00", "place": "Theater Strahl, Ostkreuz", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/biographical", "history/gdr"], "description": "\"Splitter\" is a biographical theatre piece at Theater Strahl, suitable from age 14 and 90 minutes long. It collects fragments of memory such as smells, objects, letters and photo albums and reassembles them. The search for traces leads back to a country that no longer exists: the GDR. The piece was developed from the performers' own family stories shaped by escape, emigration and staying (or being left behind), and asks what the GDR still has to do with us.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/splitter-16796/", "official_url": "https://www.theater-strahl.de/programm/splitter/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cc314b4c12579072a64c25c0788acbe64f30e6e1c0ce5f7e42009ae73d1da1ff-600.webp"}, {"title": "Generation 75 – Mit 14 ins neue Deutschland", "start": "2026-10-11T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-13T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Dokumentationszentrum)", "address": "Bernauer Straße 111, 13355 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art", "history/gdr"], "description": "Generation 75 – Mit 14 ins neue Deutschland is a video installation in the studio of the Berlin Wall Memorial. It is a work by video artist Ina Rommee and filmmaker Stefan Krauss of KRRO Film together with the Hector-Institut für Empirische Bildungsforschung, on a project idea developed by education researcher Dr. Christiane Bertram with the two artists. The piece follows nine people born in 1975 who grew up in the GDR and in the Federal Republic of Germany and were 14 years old when the Berlin Wall fell. It is funded by the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/generation-75-mit-14-ins-neue-deutschland-20114/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/ausstellungen/generation-75-mit-14-ins-neue-deutschland", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e81d5b5478197576d38fff1dc132cb2b550827b3837d634720135f1677b545d3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ein Land im Container", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "DDR-Museum", "address": "Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "„Ein Land im Container\" is an event at the DDR Museum in Berlin about the disposal of GDR state symbols. The museum is behind it, and it deals with the removal of signs of SED rule from public space after the GDR came to an end. Much of this ended up in bulky-waste containers as the public space visibly changed in the weeks and months before 3 October 1990.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ein-land-im-container-3479/", "official_url": "https://www.ddr-museum.de", "image": "https://noky.io/images/337070af1e99a203206c58fb9f09f5f91f0bb5751c8ca0a72b78f9a4e72c3767-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sturzlage", "start": "2026-11-07T10:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-16T18:30:00+01:00", "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr/peaceful-revolution"], "description": "\"Sturzlage\" is an event dealing with the democratic awakening of 1989/90. It centers on the Central Round Table at Schloss Schönhausen in Pankow, where crucial decisions were made. From December 1989 to March 1990, representatives of the citizens' movements and parties met there. The event takes place at the Humboldt Forum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sturzlage-16880/", "official_url": "https://www.humboldtforum.org/de", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e34564113d159a91a5b5353bba257fd8d87edaeb255452c59f585bb9f7f1bf1c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Freiheit, Solidarität und der Wunsch nach Erneuerung -", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Katholische Akademie in Berlin", "address": "Hannoversche Straße 5b, 10115 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["occasion/anniversary"], "description": "A discussion event marking the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian popular uprising. The Catholic Academy in Berlin, together with Renovabis, invites guests to talk about the meaning of \"1956\" in Hungarian memory culture and politics, as well as Hungary's present and future. Speakers include Zsuzsa Breier, Kornélia Kiss, Konrád Dejcsics and Gergely Romsics, moderated by Kai-Olaf Lang. The Research Prize Eastern Europe 2026 will be awarded directly afterwards.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/freiheit-solidaritat-und-der-wunsch-nach-erneuerung-9177/", "official_url": "https://www.katholische-akademie-berlin.de/veranstaltung/freiheit-solidaritaet/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/946a2019808db63b1e647b63b54d108542fd54e332ca08ea9e3ac9400b788086-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Metaxy : Zwischen Zerstörung und Wiederaufbau – Führung in Deutscher Gebärdensprache", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Akademie der Künste", "address": "Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin", "price": "€ 5 zzgl. Ausstellungsticket", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://adk.eventim-inhouse.de/webshop/webticket/shop?event=20813", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/exhibition", "history/postwar"], "description": "A guided tour in German Sign Language through the exhibition \"Metaxy : Zwischen Zerstörung und Wiederaufbau\". The exhibition looks at the period between destruction and reconstruction, that uncertain moment when it is still open how societies deal with loss, guilt and memory. The tours are led by a deaf guide. Starting from the academy building at Hanseatenweg as an exemplary site of post-1945 reconstruction, it presents a search for traces in the history of Berlin's Hansaviertel and positions from many countries.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/metaxy-zwischen-zerstorung-und-wiederaufbau-fuhrung-in-deuts-24478/", "official_url": "https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/2026/09/metaxy-zwischen-zerstoerung-und-wiederaufbau/fuehrungen-in-deutscher-gebaerdensprache-metaxy/596503", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4580697189e674f8650aeafceec4c4a16353aba4e865f32be207e9dab27f2fc4-600.webp"}, {"title": "BEYOND LINES Tanzperformance zur Berlin Freedom Week", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tränenpalast", "address": "Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei / Free admission; registration required / Anmeldung erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://app.cituro.com/booking/3221113?presetService=11f1bb401d37e788bf1b918037f4ae89", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/dance/performance", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "BEYOND LINES is a site-specific dance performance staged for Berlin Freedom Week. Behind the project are choreographer Kosmas Kosmopoulos and the initiative LUNA PARK e.V., which has combined professional dance production with socio-cultural practice since 2003, together with the Haus der Geschichte Foundation at the Tränenpalast. The performance deals with crossing borders: departure, waiting, fear and hope, as well as leaving behind home, language and the familiar. In the Tränenpalast, a place of farewell, control and transition, choreographic images of resistance, loss and change emerge, asking which borders people had and still have to overcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/beyond-lines-tanzperformance-zur-berlin-freedom-week-7137/", "official_url": "https://www.hdg.de/traenenpalast/veranstaltungen/beyond-lines-tanzperformance", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01d7f31a0635db0e4343515ffb94a51dc3b5f4334e7f7a9b0eeddd5c51ec88dd-600.webp"}, {"title": "DDRdirekt", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Einblick ins Geheime - Ausstellung zum Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv", "address": "Ruschestraße", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "\"DDRdirekt\" is a reading and performance with music about workers writing in the GDR. It is organised by the Bundesarchiv – Stasi Records Archive Berlin-Lichtenberg, the Lichtenberg district office of Berlin and the Büro für organische Poesie. anna martha and Thomas Hartung searched the archive for writing workers and discovered voices from a vanished society – sometimes fully in line with official ideology, sometimes full of nuance, contradictions and cautious criticism. With sounds of factory halls and housing shortages, of the collective, football and big dreams, they bring these surprising texts to life again, accompanied by music by Christian Beckers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ddrdirekt-28578/", "official_url": "https://www.einblick-ins-geheime.de/termin/ddrdirekt-berlin-09-11-2026/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Metaxy : Zwischen Zerstörung und Wiederaufbau - Führung", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-06T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Akademie der Künste am Hanseatenweg", "address": "Hanseatenweg 10 10557 Berlin", "price": "10 EUR (ermäßigt 7 EUR); free for under 18s and on Tuesdays", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://adk.eventim-inhouse.de/webshop/webticket/shop?tsproduction=1511", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/postwar"], "description": "This guided tour leads through the exhibition \"Metaxy : Zwischen Zerstörung und Wiederaufbau\" at the Akademie der Künste am Hanseatenweg. It is an inclusive tour for blind and visually impaired people together with sighted visitors. The project by the Akademie der Künste in cooperation with ARCH+ looks at the period between destruction and reconstruction, at that uncertain moment when how societies deal with loss, guilt and memory is still open. It shows positions from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Israel, Yemen, Palestine, Poland, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and the USA, alongside an exhibition architecture that retraces the floor plan of the former buildings on the site.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/metaxy-zwischen-zerstorung-und-wiederaufbau-fuhrung-15629/", "official_url": "https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/2026/09/metaxy-zwischen-zerstoerung-und-wiederaufbau/588488", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dc9b231d83a482331c9d82fea38de863a1b4c894eaa45c6ed98620c66fb5d5af-600.webp"}, {"title": "LEBEN GROPIUSSTADT GEBRAUCHSANWEISUNG", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heimathafen Neukölln", "address": "Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 Berlin", "price": "Regulär 20,00 €, ermäßigt 14,50 €, Zugabe-Ticket (Support) 25,00 €", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://heimathafen-neukoelln.de/tickets", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "history/berlin"], "description": "A documentary theatre work about Gropiusstadt, a large housing estate in Berlin whose residents connect many very different stories. Behind the piece is Arthur Romanowski, a director and performer from Gropiusstadt, whose team conducted interviews with people living in the neighbourhood. Inspired by Georges Perec's novel »Das Leben Gebrauchsanweisung« (Life: A User's Manual), the production weaves these biographies into a mosaic together with the director's own biography. In this way a lively, many-voiced portrait of the district emerges, forming an image of Berlin in the 20th and 21st centuries.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/leben-gropiusstadt-gebrauchsanweisung-15662/", "official_url": "https://heimathafen-neukoelln.de/events/leben-gropiusstadt-gebrauchsanweisung/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67affd991680410a16c6d984d5f38cf3f552b24f53631ead806eb4e56ea76554-600.webp"}]}