{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lettrétage", "address": "Veteranenstr. 21, 10119 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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«. 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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": ""}, {"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": "https://stiftungbrandenburgertor.de/veranstaltungen/liebermanns-welt/?source=bde", "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": "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": ""}, {"title": "Literaturstadt Berlin #8: Die neuen Leute", "start": "2026-11-13T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A panel discussion on the prospects of the emerging generation of writers, readers and curators in Berlin. It is organised by the Berliner Literaturkonferenz, an alliance of Berlin literature institutions and the independent literature scene, in cooperation with radio3, and picks up a presentation the literaturWERKstatt berlin first staged in 2002 under the same title. The panel brings together editor Katharina Holzmann, politician Louis Krüger, author I. V. Nuss and Eli Makuth from the youth reading group Die LesArtigen, moderated by Anne-Dore Krohn and Katja Weber. The talk also opens the Open Mike weekend and will be recorded and broadcast on radio3.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/literaturstadt-berlin-8-die-neuen-leute-211/", "official_url": "https://www.hausfuerpoesie.org/de/programm/literaturstadt-berlin-8-die-neuen-leute", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6bc39107596c17ee255cd73fda51d01b1948f7d79f7fc37764e239ebe4fdabcf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "»Berlin Babel. Stories of the city by Berliners old and new«", "start": "2026-11-06T20:30:00+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/4251-tickets-across-the-page-sheila-armstrong-gesa-stedman-berlin-babel-dj-natalie-stardust-literaturhaus-berlin-berlin-am-06-11-2026", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A book presentation of the new anthology »Berlin Babel«, which brings together 14 stories by writers from 11 countries. Among them are Leon Craig from the UK and Katy Derbyshire, who edited the anthology for V&Q. The evening asks how writers tackle that seemingly eternal subject, Berlin, what makes a good Berlin story, and whose perspective counts. It also includes a reading and talk with Sheila Armstrong and Gesa Stedman as well as music from DJ Natalie Stardust.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/berlin-babel-stories-of-the-city-by-berliners-old-and-new-206/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/berlin-babel-stories-of-the-city-by-berliners-old-and-new/", "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": "Die strauchelnde Welt.", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ticket.deutschestheater.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=22108", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/contemporary-history", "literature"], "description": "An evening at Deutsches Theater Berlin exploring where the origins lie of the existential crises the world is fighting today. Philipp Blom and André Mumot explore the roots of these crises and the pressing questions of our time. The title ties in with Philipp Blom's book 'Die strauchelnde Welt', which places these themes on history's gravel road.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-strauchelnde-welt-4402/", "official_url": "https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/auf-der-schotterpiste-der-geschichte-die-strauchelnde-welt", "image": ""}, {"title": "PEN Berlin: Geht's noch?", "start": "2026-11-01T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Preis 16/9 EURO", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://berliner-ensemble.eventim-inhouse.de/webshop/webticket/shop?event=15937", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "A public discussion event with conversations about home and democracy after the elections in East Germany and Berlin. The writers' association PEN Berlin invites guests from politics and culture as well as the audience, which is welcome to ask questions, join in and disagree. It asks questions such as: can people with different political opinions still talk to each other? What divides East and West, what connects them, and what has changed in recent years? The series is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for East Germany and has previously travelled through East Germany and Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/pen-berlin-gehts-noch-3773/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/pen-berlin-gehts-noch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/33b1cbab610ffda3d8005e5c5ef3739321581f59829c18d13e9a6b19846bbd58-1200.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": "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://tickets.stadtmuseum.de/#/product/event/801", "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": "A Friend in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grüner Salon", "address": "Rückerstraße 9, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "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": ["art/media-art/film", "history/colonialism"], "description": "“A Friend in Berlin” is an evening event with a screening and a conversation in English at Grüner Salon. The series focuses on the fellows of the DAAD's Berliner Künstlerprogramm and their connections to the city, and this edition brings together the artists Wang Tuo and Sim Chi Yin, who has lived in Berlin since 2024. The evening begins with a screening of Wang Tuo's most recent work “Ratchet Drill” (2026), followed by a conversation based on a selection of both artists' works, exploring the connections between their practices and how they engage with challenging histories and historical experiences and find ways to speak about them with people outside of those experiences. Wang Tuo weaves historical facts, cultural archives, fiction and mythology into speculative narratives, while Sim Chi Yin uses artistic and archival interventions to question and complicate historiographies and colonial narratives and to explore transgenerational memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/a-friend-in-berlin-277/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/a-friend-in-berlin/20261105-1800/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Brecht-Haus Untergrund Die multiliterarische Keller-Revue", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brecht-Haus", "address": "Chausseestraße 125, 10115 Berlin", "price": "6,- € / ermäßigt: 4,- €", "price_from": "6.80", "price_to": "6.80", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.lfbrecht.de/produkte/4287-tickets-brecht-haus-untergrund-die-multiliterarische-keller-revue-literaturforum-im-brecht-haus-berlin-am-12-11-2026", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "In the cellar of the Brecht-Haus, an evening is devoted to Berlin's literary life and its voices beyond the big markets and fairs. Authors, song poets, performers and musicians present literary texts of the city past and present, entirely without big discussion. The result is a mix of texts, music and performance, now and then spiced with videos or digital dialogues. This time the three guests are the poet Marion Poschmann, the writer Helga Kurzchalia and the indiepop poet Josepha Conrad, hosted by Martin Jankowski.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/brecht-haus-untergrund-die-multiliterarische-keller-revue-75807/", "official_url": "https://lfbrecht.de/event/brecht-haus-untergrund-die-multiliterarische-keller-revue-17/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/90f32d44b0e80078e4a674a0749621116a0d1240404f915e094ed95b1651c0c2-600.webp"}, {"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": "»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. 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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": "Spazieren in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Dorotheenstädtische Buchhandlung", "address": "Turmstraße 5, 10559 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.dorotheenstaedtische.de/event/spazieren-in-berlin", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "The bookshop hosts a reading from Franz Hessel's book „Spazieren in Berlin“, a textbook on the art of strolling through Berlin first published in 1929. The actor Hans-Jürgen Schatz reads from it, and the evening is moderated by the publisher André Förster. Hessel (1880–1941) was a writer, editor and translator who lived in Berlin in the 1920s and emigrated to Paris in 1938. Walter Benjamin called the book a memorising while strolling, for which remembering was not the source but the muse.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/spazieren-in-berlin-22283/", "official_url": "https://www.dorotheenstaedtische.de/event/spazieren-in-berlin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/faf9fe110b11b1f17ff173b8dee0dd9c07708277df0d93e23d4cc0f60c697d68-600.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"}]}