{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ephraim-Palais", "address": "Poststraße 16, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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. 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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": "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://www.berliner-ensemble.de/shop", "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/d785fec1318952c8c1715dd7b1d801d8ba0ffcb95b2bef2d6a3dbfbabc6e7650-600.webp"}, {"title": "Erzählsalon Migration Special: Des Märchens Kern", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berlin Museum: Ephraim-Palais", "address": "Fidicinstraße 40, 10965 Berlin", "price": "Regulär: 5 Euro; Ermäßigt: 3 Euro; Kinder unter 6 Jahren kostenfrei", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.rundfunkchor-berlin.de/konzerte/rundfunkchorlounge-26-27-sauberes-wasser-und-schmutzige-geschaefte/?source=bde", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration", "literature"], "description": "\"Erzählsalon Migration Special: Des Märchens Kern\" is an evening of conversation with music at the Ephraim-Palais museum. It centers on Vasıf Öngören's book \"Des Märchens Kern\", with which the story of the Ararat Verlag began, one of the first publishers of Turkish literature in the German-speaking world in the late 1970s. With publisher Ahmet Işık Doğan and scholar of culture and literature Nesrin Tanç, the evening discusses the migrant literary scene and the relationship between literature, visual art and music, asking how this cultural heritage can be secured for the future. The book artwork \"Hommage an Istanbul\" is also presented, and singer Sema Moritz performs songs live with Martin Lillich on double bass from her German-Turkish music project \"Sema & Taksim\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/erzahlsalon-migration-special-des-marchens-kern-30449/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.museum/veranstaltungen/erzaehlsalon-migration-special-des-maerchens-kern", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cae297b69967f0a91f7b4dce7811bb7f16ee84ac9ab2bd5664fe32af0b663572-2000.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": "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": ""}, {"title": "Erzählsalon Migration Special: Des Märchens Kern", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ephraim-Palais", "address": "Poststraße 16, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Regulär: 5 Euro, Ermäßigt: 3 Euro, Kinder unter 6 Jahren kostenfrei", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature", "music"], "description": "Erzählsalon Migration Special: Des Märchens Kern is a talk evening hosted by the Berlin Museum at the Ephraim-Palais with music by Sema Moritz. With publisher Ahmet Işık Doğan and literary scholar Nesrin Tanç, the evening explores migrant literature and the story of the Ararat Verlag, which began with Vasıf Öngören's book „Des Märchens Kern“. Also presented is the book artwork „Hommage an Istanbul“, combining drawings by Hanefi Yeter with texts and a CD of songs by the German-Turkish music project „Sema & Taksim“. Sema Moritz performs several songs live with Martin Lillich on double bass, and the evening is moderated by Aurora Rodonò.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/erzahlsalon-migration-special-des-marchens-kern-11820/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.museum/veranstaltungen/erzaehlsalon-migration-special-des-maerchens-kern", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e50d017a10b7c6988283581b7e2039ba8e016d0b6e2458e40d7031b9601f5c59-600.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": "Geschichten aus der Klimazukunft – Teilnehmende der Kreativen Schreibwerkstatt lesen ihre Texte in der Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gottfried-Benn-Bibliothek", "address": "Nentershäuser Platz 1, 14163 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/science-fiction", "nature/climate/climate-change"], "description": "Participants of a creative writing workshop at the Volkshochschule Steglitz-Zehlendorf read their own texts about stories from the climate future. Together with author and editor Katrin Imma Deibert and science editor Antonia Rötger, they explored in writing what our future might feel like. In vivid texts they tell of adapting and rebelling, of longing and desire, of leaving and arriving. Admission is free and no registration is needed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/geschichten-aus-der-klimazukunft-teilnehmende-der-kreativen-57828/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7b66f2695c14bc7ed2ba482f0c2f9b66c1ad207e71f1e807077b401243d63ecb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Wir sind anders! Wie die DDR Frauen bis heute prägt", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Forum Willy Brandt Berlin", "address": "Behrenstraße 15, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "A reading and conversation about the book „Wir sind anders!\" by Annette Schuhmann. The historian from the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam portrays 13 East German women – artists as well as workers, scientists as well as activists – and shows how memories, ruptures and origins continue to have an effect 35 years after reunification. Elke Sasse and Petra Steffan moderate, and the bookshop „Buchfink\" joins in with a book table. A joint event by the Willy-Brandt-Haus Lübeck with the women's office of the city of Lübeck and the equal opportunities office of the city of Wismar; registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wir-sind-anders-wie-die-ddr-frauen-bis-heute-pragt-29696/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c043b0c81e463db7c6232d9d1fa42cd5d53dfe0fa7bf9cda497949bc2c8d2088-2000.webp"}, {"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": "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": "Geschichten aus der Klimazukunft – Teilnehmende der Kreativen Schreibwerkstatt lesen ihre Texte", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 3, 12165 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/science-fiction", "nature/climate/climate-change"], "description": "Participants of the Creative Writing Workshop run by the Steglitz-Zehlendorf adult education centre read their own texts under the title „Geschichten aus der Klimazukunft“ at the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek. Together with the author and editor Katrin Imma Deibert and science journalist Antonia Rötger, they explored in writing what our future might feel like. In lively texts they tell of adapting and rebelling, of longing and desire, of leaving and arriving. Admission is free and no registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/geschichten-aus-der-klimazukunft-teilnehmende-der-kreativen-57693/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7b66f2695c14bc7ed2ba482f0c2f9b66c1ad207e71f1e807077b401243d63ecb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Vortrag zu »Arbeitsgemeinschaften Junger Autoren in der SBZ/DDR« im Rahmen einer öffentlichen Ringvorlesung", "start": "2026-11-03T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-03T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Zweigbibliothek Germanistik", "address": "Dorotheenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "A public lecture at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as part of the lecture series »Literatur im geteilten Deutschland«. Marco Lorenz of the DIPF speaks on the topic »Man kann keinen Schriftsteller ‚erziehen'. Die Arbeitsgemeinschaften Junger Autoren in SBZ und DDR«. The series, organized by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Vedder and Prof. Dr. Stefan Willer, examines the functions of literature during Germany's division, such as its cultural-political significance in the GDR and FRG and the role of authors who moved between the two states. The lecture takes place in lecture hall 1.101 in the university building at Hegelplatz.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vortrag-zu-arbeitsgemeinschaften-junger-autoren-in-der-sbzdd-72113/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ec8e4603688b161fee4abeb38f28a13050e2b128afa7bd043da3cf1ebe97ef8b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Utopischer Überschuss: Zukunftserzählungen der DDR-Literatur", "start": "2026-11-01T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/science-fiction", "history/gdr"], "description": "A talk in the DT Kontext series at the Deutsches Theater's Rangfoyer about science fiction literature of the GDR. The guests are Dr. Karlheinz Steinmüller, a physicist, philosopher and futurologist, and Dietmar Dath, an author and journalist, moderated by Fabian Raith. It asks how GDR science fiction imagined the future, what image of humanity it designed, and what became of those ideas after reunification. SciFi there served as a niche where the present was hidden in the future and shortcomings were named in veiled terms. Admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/utopischer-uberschuss-zukunftserzahlungen-der-ddr-literatur-4399/", "official_url": "https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/auf-der-schotterpiste-der-geschichte-utopischer-ueberschuss", "image": ""}, {"title": "Palästina zwischen Augen: Between Solidarity and Silence: What remains? Palestinian voices in the GDR and now", "start": "2026-10-31T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf", "address": "Auerbacher Ring 41, 12619 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/gdr"], "description": "A conversation titled \"Palästina zwischen Augen: Between Solidarity and Silence: What remains? Palestinian voices in the GDR and now\". Mahmoud Dabdoub and Sophie Ataya talk with each other, moderated by Irit Neidhardt. The subject is Palestinian voices in the GDR and today, between solidarity and silence. The talk takes place as part of the nGbK program \"Palästina zwischen Augen\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/palastina-zwischen-augen-between-solidarity-and-silence-what-12798/", "official_url": "https://ngbk.de/en/programm/termine/palaestina-zwischen-augen-between-solidarity-and-silence-what-remains-palestinian-voices-in-the-gdr-and-now", "image": ""}, {"title": "Auf der Schotterpiste der Geschichte 4: Utopischer Überschuss", "start": "2026-11-01T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/science-fiction", "history/gdr"], "description": "\"Utopischer Überschuss: Zukunftserzählungen der DDR-Literatur\" is a talk event in the theater's Rangfoyer. It is devoted to East German science fiction, which served as a niche where the present was hidden in the future and grievances were named in veiled terms. The guests are Dr. Karlheinz Steinmüller, a physicist, philosopher and futurologist, and Dietmar Dath, an author and journalist; moderation is by Fabian Raith. The discussion asks how GDR science fiction imagined the future, what image of humanity it created, and which ideas survived after reunification. Admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/auf-der-schotterpiste-der-geschichte-4-utopischer-uberschuss-16701/", "official_url": "https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/auf-der-schotterpiste-der-geschichte-utopischer-ueberschuss", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc5c2ecaa26477b4abaf702a62d55bafe5cba3f71174a147e7d5183ce2ab3391-600.webp"}]}