{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Prinzenallee", "address": "Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-24T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Prinzenallee", "address": "Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-24T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Prinzenallee", "address": "Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-25T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Prinzenallee", "address": "Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "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": "'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": "„Niewiedervereinigung: 100 Zwischenrufe zur deutschen Einheit“", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "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/14149d7214a8e7465078031a2f0660b9d59e8fc2f194d169e26c95ae08b5a3c8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "When I Came into Being", "start": "2026-11-11T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ACUD Theater", "address": "Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin", "price": "15,- / 10,- (erm.)", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.acud-theater.de/programm/5734-when-i-came-into-being.html", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/puppetry/object-theatre"], "description": "\"When I Came into Being\" is a wordless performance at ACUD Theater set in a world of miniature furniture, doll-sized objects and toy-like architecture. It was created by artist Venera Kazarova, with performer Elizaveta Poliakova and dramaturg Denis Beznosov. In this space, an adult performer tries to become smaller—not physically, but through gestures, posture and movement. The performance explores the tension between the adult body and the memory of a world that once fit it perfectly, as the miniature surroundings become an archive of memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/when-i-came-into-being-3540/", "official_url": "https://www.acud-theater.de/programm/5734-when-i-came-into-being.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d45cb1ac2104f64d1a25b1e0933a651755f0a7650ad0fff3fee089a1d7a48609-600.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": "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": "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": "L*Ost DDR Vortrag: „Lesben in der Provinz“ – damals und heute", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Spinnboden Lesbenarchiv & Bibliothek e.V.", "address": "Anklamer Straße 38, 10115", "price": "Spende erwünscht.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "A talk with a contemporary witness conversation about lesbians in the GDR's provinces, then and now. Judith Geffert, who researched the 1989 lesbian conference in Halle, will talk with contemporary witnesses about the events of that time and their significance in the transformation process, and draw connections to the situation of lesbians living outside big cities today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lost-ddr-vortrag-lesben-in-der-provinz-damals-und-heute-42855/", "official_url": "https://spinnboden.de/angebot/lost-ddr-vortrag-lesben-in-der-provinz-damals-und-heute/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0572be631cbe32e9bbcb66085617a842a0ca8e2c2755623b0a59e9a1b98aaa3f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Former East / Former West", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/naza/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/reunification"], "description": "A documentary based on hundreds of street interviews conducted in Berlin two years after reunification, showing what it meant to be German at that particular point in history. The New York artist Shelly Silver questions the notion of a shared language by focusing on shifting definitions of political and economic terms such as democracy, freedom, capitalism and socialism, and of words describing nations and identities such as nationality, Germany, history, foreigner and home. She explores the tension between the public and the private, the narrative and the documentary, and the relationship between subject and object of contemplation. Her works have been exhibited worldwide, including at MoMA in New York, the Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/former-east-former-west-9413/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/former-east-former-west/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4028d731bd9108dfb1c3260ecf594c4de98ab8cd86c08b949f38e6fe66a16f0e-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": "AS THE STARS FALL", "start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "TAK - Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg", "address": "Prinzenstr. 85 F im Aufbau Haus am Moritzplatz 10969 Berlin", "price": "12,00 ermäßigt, 18,00 normal, 3,00 Berlin-Pass", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.de/e/2003216853534?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/war", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "\"AS THE STARS FALL\" is a performance by Monirah Hashemi having its German premiere at TAK - Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg. The actress, director and playwright from Afghanistan explores survival, embodied memory and the struggle to reclaim the right to one's own story. Moving between an adult and a child's perspective, the performance approaches memory as something fragmented, physical and continuously present. Through storytelling, movement, ritual, repetition and sound, the audience is positioned not simply as spectators but as witnesses.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/as-the-stars-fall-20428/", "official_url": "https://www.tak-berlin.org/programm/asthestarsfall", "image": "https://noky.io/images/014323e9de3ae9002fcc7ef81af2b3204c0229599903647257dc5074054276c1-600.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": "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"}, {"title": "Zwischen Herkunft und neuem Zuhause", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Dokumentationszentrum)", "address": "Bernauer Straße 111, 13355 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "The film „Die noch unbekannten Tage“ by filmmaker Jola Wieczorek is a cinematic journey of remembrance into the 1980s. At its center is the story of her family and their emigration from Poland to Austria. The filmmaker asks how a key event in her own family might have turned out differently and what it would be like to look at the details of the past today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause-11960/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause?date=2026-11-10T18%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/69f4f1336e055102790bff38eb82a5e89baad1ca2c3b80be395c5541c6149b06-2000.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"}]}