{"title": "Theateraufführung 'Monika Haeger - inside stasi' - eine Stasiagentin aus Überzeugung", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkbibliothek zu Ehren der Opfer des Kommunismus in Berlin", "address": "Nicolaikirchplatz 5-7 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["history/gdr/stasi", "stage/theatre/documentary-theatre"], "description": "", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/theaterauffuhrung-monika-haeger-inside-stasi-eine-stasiagent-15943/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6725e69343efbb6a82a631f33fed36ffd519dbd6f3ae288c87424ccf6a310f1c-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkbibliothek zu Ehren der Opfer des Kommunismus in Berlin", "address": "Nicolaikirchplatz 5-7 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Monika Ertl – Eine Frage des Widerstands", "start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Ost", "address": "Pappelallee 15, 10437 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "history"], "description": "“Monika Ertl – Eine Frage des Widerstands” is a documentary theatre production by Berlin's COSTA COMPAGNIE, directed by Felix Meyer-Christian. Four performers from Germany, France and Bolivia tell the life of Monika Ertl with film sequences, interviews and archive material: she left her privileged marriage in Bolivia in the late 1960s and joined the guerrilla built up there by Che Guevara. The piece asks about resistance, violence and revolution, including the confrontation with Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and the Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld. It is the third and final part of a ten-year documentary theatre trilogy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/monika-ertl-eine-frage-des-widerstands-3710/", "official_url": "https://www.ballhausost.de/produktion/monika-ertl-eine-frage-des-widerstands/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f7fcc1b37cfb2a8d62ba0440e27699b31168cf9e9a13abe9a2b8d8a7e419fd6d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Wolf Biermann im Blick der Stasi", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-02T17:30:00+01:00", "place": "Ehemalige Stasi-Zentrale (Haus 7)", "address": "Ruschestraße 103 10365 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr/stasi"], "description": "A guided tour through the exhibition „Einblick ins Geheime“ at the former Stasi headquarters. Organised by the Stasi Records Archive of the Federal Archives, it presents surveillance files on Wolf Biermann, a singer-songwriter who shaped East German culture despite a performance ban. It also covers his stripping of citizenship in 1976 and the cultural scene's response. Afterwards, visitors can view the sample file collection, including a faithfully reproduced file volume on Biermann.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wolf-biermann-im-blick-der-stasi-16718/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/vor-ort-entdecken/veranstaltungen/termin/wolf-biermann-im-blick-der-stasi-berlin-02-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ba0b0fc81a890735148ce4d437282060e9c648dff4a4959a725ef4663225ed68-600.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": "Frau Minister", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Einblick ins Geheime - Ausstellung zum Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv", "address": "Ruschestraße", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventim.de/noapp/eventseries/2587215/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["history/gdr", "stage/theatre"], "description": "„Frau Minister“ is a theatre performance, a solo by and with Jule Torhorst. The actress takes up the question of power starting from her great-great-aunt Dr. Marie Torhorst, who became the first female minister of Germany (GDR) in 1947 yet remains nearly unmentioned in official historiography. In dialogue with archetypal female figures, the piece asks about emancipation in East and West and whether women can break free from the patriarchal style, reaching into the charged present. It is staged by the Bundesarchiv – Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv Berlin-Lichtenberg, co-organised by the Bezirksamt Lichtenberg von Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/frau-minister-28580/", "official_url": "https://www.einblick-ins-geheime.de/termin/frau-minister-berlin-11-11-2026/", "image": ""}, {"title": "+++ ABGESAGT +++ Wolf Biermann im Blick der Stasi", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00+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": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr/stasi"], "description": "The guided tour \"Wolf Biermann im Blick der Stasi\" takes visitors through the exhibition \"Einblick ins Geheime\" about the Stasi Records Archive. Organised by the Federal Archives' Stasi Records Archive Berlin-Lichtenberg, it shows surveillance documents on the singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, how the Stasi handled his expatriation in November 1976, and the reactions of the GDR cultural scene. Biermann, a convinced socialist, moved from Hamburg to the GDR in the early 1950s and, despite a performance ban, was increasingly intensively surveilled by the secret police. Afterwards, visitors can view the sample files collection and submit a request to inspect their files on site; participation is limited to 15 people.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/abgesagt-wolf-biermann-im-blick-der-stasi-7129/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/vor-ort-entdecken/veranstaltungen/termin/wolf-biermann-im-blick-der-stasi-berlin-02-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e29fc30800ad127b448a9dcaa6a2e7c43b80bb873f1734bd84de1ce72987856-1200.webp"}, {"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"}, {"title": "BIG Helga - een kleenet Menschenkind", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2028-06-28T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Stadttheater Köpenick", "address": "Wendenschloßstr. 103-105 12557", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["comedy/satire", "music/schlager"], "description": "„Big Helga – Een kleenet Menschenkind“ is a stage show built around the songs and comedy sketches of singer and actress Helga Hahnemann. It is performed by her longtime stage partner Dagmar Gelbke and the cabaret artist Wolfgang Flieder. Together they bring Hahnemann's best-known material, written by author Angela Gentzmer, to the stage with humour and powerful vocals.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/big-helga-een-kleenet-menschenkind-15456/", "official_url": "https://altstadttheater-koepenick.de/reihe/big-helga-een-kleenet-menschenkind/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0df3bbf68825f28d8e661a3515ab55f6ac1d2faaca07d06a21f2056a4ce78a88-600.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": "Nie wieder!", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grips Theater im Podewil", "address": "Klosterstraße 68 10179 Berlin", "price": "10 €, ermäßigt 5 €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/service/Kartenkauf", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "\"Nie wieder!\" is a musical reading in remembrance of the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. Three performers (Eva Blum, Michaela Hanser, Falk Berghofer) read from Inge Deutschkron's \"Ich trug den gelben Stern\", accompanied by Volker Ludwig's \"Zeitlosen Lieder\" from \"Ab heute heißt Du Sara\", newly arranged for choir. The vocal.ensemble.tempelhof as well as Matthias Witting with arrangements and piano take part. The evening is meant to be stirring and encouraging at once, dealing with humanity, solidarity and civil courage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nie-wieder-4635/", "official_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/spielplan/nie-wieder/3387", "image": ""}, {"title": "BÄR. Ein Zeitzeuge erzählt", "start": "2026-11-09T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grips Theater im Podewil", "address": "Klosterstraße 68 10179 Berlin", "price": "15 €, ermäßigt 10 €", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/service/Kartenkauf", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A documentary theatre piece for ages 9 and up, recommended for grades 4 to 6. It is based on the memoirs of Irene Grumach-Shirun, written down by Jill Levenfeld, performed by Josephine Hock and directed by Hannes Kapsch. The story is told from the perspective of a teddy bear named 'Bär' who is over a hundred years old and witnessed the life of a Jewish child under the Nazi dictatorship. Long-sealed rooms come back to life through shadow play and sound; the morning show is followed by a discussion, and the piece won the IKARUS Fachjury 2025 prize in the children's theatre category.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/bar-ein-zeitzeuge-erzahlt-4636/", "official_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/spielplan/bar-ein-zeitzeuge-erzahlt/3251", "image": ""}, {"title": "DIE HEXEN VON BERNAU", "start": "2026-11-07T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Theater im Palais", "address": "Am Festungsgraben 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://theater-im-palais-berlin.reservix.de/p/reservix/group/533881", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["history/witch-persecution", "stage/theatre"], "description": "\"DIE HEXEN VON BERNAU\" is a scenic-musical in-house production by the Theater im Palais devoted to the witch persecutions as a dark chapter of history. Fitting the yearly motto \"Die Kraft der Frauen\" (The Power of Women), the piece depicts the wave of persecution that began in Bernau near Berlin in 1617, in which many innocents, above all women, were accused of witchcraft. At its center is 70-year-old Dorothea Meermann, arrested for sorcery in the third generation of her family and repeatedly tortured for over two years, yet she holds to her statement that she is no witch until her death. Based on intensive historical research and true fates, Alina Gause and Carl Martin Spengler dive, now acting, now narrating, into a story in which narratives outweigh facts and the powerful are always right.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-hexen-von-bernau-8098/", "official_url": "https://www.theater-im-palais.de/event/die-hexen-von-bernau-2026-06-21/2026-10-28/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c57431d38f076e4b1df66d6222c0885c61a0bd64fb837da925af99dd351cd011-600.webp"}, {"title": "Helene Weigel – Revolutionärin im Rampenlicht", "start": "2026-11-12T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "€7 – €9 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/free-at-heart/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "stage/theatre"], "description": "A documentary about the actress Helene Weigel, who rose from being called the loudest actress in Berlin to a theater star and later headed the Berliner Ensemble. Direction, screenplay and production are by Maria Wischnewski. Using newly digitized archive material, personal letters and contemporary witnesses such as Katharina Thalbach, Johanna Schall and Manfred Karge, the film portrays the woman at Bertolt Brecht's side and her struggle for herself, the art of acting and cultural policy. It also tells of the private side of this highly political life, with letters spoken by Birgit Minichmayr and August Diehl.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/helene-weigel-revolutionarin-im-rampenlicht-48540/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/helene-weigel-revolutionaerin-im-rampenlicht/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1f30f475d9f8cd333781b6e41c02f3c640595e528757e25d864940010a9ecebf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mononoke", "start": "2026-11-03T19:30:00+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://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/eventlist?production=320002", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "\"Mononoke\" is a theatre piece at the Volksbühne, named after Japanese spirits that nest in people and smuggle in curses. It tells of Takako, a hardware dealer who carries such a curse – her father's curse, who disappeared when she had her first period – and tries to free herself from it. Behind the piece is Japanese author and director Satoko Ichihara, an important voice of a new feminist generation of theatre makers, with stage designs by the artist Mire Lee. The result is a surreal heroine's journey through a world populated by gods, puppets, ironware and sales talks.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/mononoke-242/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/mononoke/20261013-1730/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/42dc32db88cacec3d76587699af6bb3b90759a55847bef80a0f1203c980bda71-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Revolution, Revolte, Krach: HELENE WEIGEL – Revolutionärin im Rampenlicht", "start": "2026-11-11T20:30:00+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://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23800", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary portrays the actress Helene Weigel, bringing her out of the shadow of her lifelong partner Bertolt Brecht. Director Maria Wischnewski combines interviews with contemporary witnesses, heirs and relatives with new, exciting archive material, while Birgit Minichmayr reads from Weigel's texts and letters. The result is the picture of an intelligent, combative woman who spent her life grappling with questions more topical than ever today. The private Weigel also comes to light, with contributors including Katharina Thalbach, Sarah Brecht, Johanna Schall and August Diehl.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/revolution-revolte-krach-helene-weigel-revolutionarin-im-ram-290/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/revolution-revolte-krach/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fa4b215b183f6371b1c6e9fbd326f9d89231dac87b5a5f0d448c3f2ddec19dab-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Helene Weigel – Revolutionärin im Rampenlicht", "start": "2026-11-08T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "12/9 EURO", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/gdr"], "description": "„Helene Weigel – Revolutionärin im Rampenlicht“ is a film portrait of the actress and intendant Helene Weigel. Director Maria Wischnewski traces, with archive material, personal letters and contemporary witnesses such as Katharina Thalbach, Johanna Schall and Manfred Karge, her path from the „loudest actress in Berlin“ to intendant of the Berliner Ensemble. The film also tells of the private side of her highly political life and of the artistic-intellectual symbiosis between Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel. It presents a shrewd portrait of a woman of action who was too good for nothing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/helene-weigel-revolutionarin-im-rampenlicht-3780/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/helene-weigel-revolutionaerin-im-rampenlicht", "image": "https://noky.io/images/52dd696245c6efb4549015482d2b49aa1d2d9f33aaaebc2892bbbe56a6304c3d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "LINA MORGENSTERN", "start": "2026-11-08T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T16:00:00+01:00", "place": "Theater im Palais", "address": "Am Festungsgraben 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "30.80", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.reservix.de/tickets-lina-morgenstern-wie-eine-frau-berlin-veraenderte-in-berlin-theater-im-palais-am-30-10-2026/e2583689", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/women/womens-rights", "stage/theatre/drama", "history/berlin"], "description": "Theater im Palais presents its in-house production \"LINA MORGENSTERN – Wie eine Frau Berlin veränderte\" as part of its series on Berlin personalities. After two years of research, author and filmmaker Gerhard J. Rekel brought the life of writer, women's rights campaigner and social activist Lina Morgenstern to the stage: she founded a charity, launched the first newspaper by women for women, organised the first International Women's Congress in Germany and became famous as \"Suppenlina\" for the Berlin soup kitchens she initiated. She is played by Alina Gause, who also composed the music, joined by Carl Martin Spengler and Dennis Weissert as her companions and adversaries.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lina-morgenstern-8100/", "official_url": "https://www.theater-im-palais.de/event/lina-morgenstern/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b6b994453d68567b8df29302f5b20af83702525e35cb777ace656184254a6be-600.webp"}]}