{"title": "Village Film Night", "start": "2026-10-27T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-27T22:30:00+01:00", "place": "Village.Berlin", "address": "Kurfürstenstraße 31-32, 10785 Berlin", "price": "kostenlos mit Anmeldung", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://wearevillage.org/shop/instinct-short/w38-2024", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/gdr"], "description": "In the fall of 1961, the mayor of a small village in the Thuringian border region accidentally learns of a secret plan to forcibly relocate all the inhabitants. 53 people risk the dangerous border crossing to the West, but not everyone is prepared to flee, and a Stasi informer threatens to betray the plan. Based on true events, the feature film tells a gripping story of courage, solidarity and the longing for freedom. After the screening, a contemporary witness and experts discuss the events.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/village-film-night-27516/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67a003b0d103b860edb6dc7a37dcb02b156513e845d4d90c216beda7aa532d2d-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-27T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-27T22:30:00+01:00", "place": "Village.Berlin", "address": "Kurfürstenstraße 31-32, 10785 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "Das schweigende Klassenzimmer", "start": "2026-09-20T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Delphi Filmpalast", "address": "Kantstraße 12a, 10623 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "The drama „Das schweigende Klassenzimmer“ is set in 1956: after a cinema visit in West Berlin, the pupils Theo and Kurt see dramatic newsreel images of the Hungarian uprising in Budapest. Back in Stalinstadt, where they are preparing for their school-leaving exams with classmates Lena, Paul and Erik, they come up with the plan of a silent minute of solidarity in class for the victims of the uprising against the Russian superiority. The SED leadership condemns the quiet gesture as a „counter-revolutionary action“, and the minute of silence turns into a conflict with the state authorities. For the young people, the action becomes an experience that shapes the rest of their lives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/das-schweigende-klassenzimmer-8930/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b48a71ed7779d6105899315c8d4839bb64a3874675d7f4714aec8353d639faad-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Flucht damals und heute", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde", "address": "Marienfelder Allee 66/80, 12277 Berlin", "price": "5 €, ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/berlin-bike-berliner-mauertour-mit-dem-fahrrad#/experience/BTM00020101074869526", "category": "tours", "tags": ["society/migration/refugees", "history/gdr"], "description": "The tandem guided tour \"Flucht damals und heute\" takes place at the Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde, a museum about flight and emigration from the GDR that also serves as a transitional home for around 700 refugees. Between 1949 and 1990, around four million people left the GDR, many of them through the reception camp in West Berlin, known as the \"gate to freedom\". The tour brings two perspectives into dialogue: the historical view of the camp and a current view of the residential home's daily operations, represented by a social worker who came to Berlin in 2011 at the age of 17 and spent her first years living here herself. It also grants access to the camp's historic grounds, which are otherwise closed during regular museum operations, and takes place as part of the Berlin Freedom Week 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/flucht-damals-und-heute-31366/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/notaufnahmelager-marienfelde/besuch/programm/flucht-damals-und-heute?date=2026-11-08T14%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a2a06b8499e4401ab5a463d6f1f097ccd45382728a6b61b390bb1b7a2f946e2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Transport aus dem Paradies | Die Enkelinnen", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus der Wannseekonferenz", "address": "Am Großen Wannsee 58, 14109 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/holocaust"], "description": "A matinee combining a screening of „Transport aus dem Paradies“ with the ensuing talk „Die Enkelinnen“. The multi-award-winning Czechoslovak film, directed by Zbyněk Brynych in 1962, is based on Arnošt Lustig's story „Nacht und Hoffnung“ and is set in 1944 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where the Nazis had a propaganda film made that pretended a normal camp life with fulfilling work and rich cultural activity, while all participants were afterwards deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp, to which the title bitterly ironicly alludes. In the talk, Eva Lustigová, daughter of Arnošt Lustig, and Jacqueline Gies, granddaughter of the personal secretary of Karl Hermann Frank, a key figure of the Nazi terror in the so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, speak, moderated by Aya Zarfati and Dr. Wolfgang Schwarz. The event is a cooperation of the Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz with the Arnošt Lustig Stiftungsfonds, the Kulturreferat für die böhmischen Länder im Adalbert Stifter Verein, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin and the Czech Centre Berlin, funded by the Deutsch-Tschechischer Zukunftsfonds.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/transport-aus-dem-paradies-die-enkelinnen-12040/", "official_url": "https://www.ghwk.de/de/termine/termin/transport-aus-dem-paradies-die-enkelinnen", "image": "https://noky.io/images/acd4478464de2bf7ee35d38e4781dc246c97ef81b488ce2ac6f8820f1c1d86bc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Grenzen, Gewalt, Geschichte", "start": "2026-11-09T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Historisches Museum Pei-Bau", "address": "Hinter dem Gießhaus 3 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://stiftungbrandenburgertor.de/veranstaltungen/liebermanns-welt/?source=bde", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "„Grenzen, Gewalt, Geschichte“ is a free themed tour through selected exhibition rooms of the museum presenting rare objects from its collection that illustrate German division, flight and violence. The tour spans from a family's flight into Reformed exile during the confessional split of the Holy Roman Empire to a border stone of a city divided after 1914 on the German-Dutch border. Its highlight is the original diary of the student Peter Rutzen from 1963, which traces the dangerous attempt to dig an escape tunnel under Bernauer Straße. The tunnel was betrayed to the Stasi before anyone could flee, leading to numerous arrests in East Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/grenzen-gewalt-geschichte-24447/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/veranstaltung/grenzen-gewalt-geschichte-1/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8cb7898919d22729568409b8beaf050bbd4ca5664a4e33046a02a34e062b01c5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Das Geheimnis, der Tunnel und Helmut", "start": "2026-11-10T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Astrid Lindgren Bühne im FEZ-Berlin", "address": "Straße zum FEZ 12459 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.planetarium.berlin/veranstaltungen/der-regenbogenfisch-und-seine-freunde?page=3#dates", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["history/gdr", "stage/puppetry"], "description": "The puppet theatre piece „Das Geheimnis, der Tunnel und Helmut“ is a search for traces between secret and history, recommended from age 9. It comes from the Figurentheater Ute Kahmann and is performed on the studio stage of the Astrid-Lindgren-Bühne at the FEZ. At its centre is Helmut, the new father of a child who senses that something about him is different: only after the opening of the Wall does his hidden secret become visible, that he helped people flee from East to West and was imprisoned for it. The roughly 60-minute piece tells of courage and fear, of constraints and longings, and of the struggle between speaking and keeping silent.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/das-geheimnis-der-tunnel-und-helmut-30501/", "official_url": "https://fez-berlin.de/bildung/lernorte/astrid-lindgren-buehne/detailansicht-lernort-theater-macht-schlau?tx_brcalendar2_calendar%5Baction%5D=show&tx_brcalendar2_calendar%5Bcontroller%5D=Event&tx_brcalendar2_calendar%5Bevent%5D=3594&cHash=8ea6d961655fe1bec1b8974b0d332954", "image": ""}, {"title": "Das Geheimnis, der Tunnel und Helmut", "start": "2026-11-10T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Studiobühne", "address": "Luxemburger Straße 20, 13353 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["history/gdr", "stage/puppetry"], "description": "A puppet theatre piece for children aged 9 and up. Behind the piece is Figurentheater Ute Kahmann. It tells of a child whose new father, Helmut, carries a secret: he helped people flee from East to West and was imprisoned for it. Only after the opening of the Wall does his secret come to light; the piece is about courage, fear and the struggle between speaking and silence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/das-geheimnis-der-tunnel-und-helmut-14880/", "official_url": "https://fez-berlin.de/programm/detailansicht/das-geheimnis-der-tunnel-und-helmut?tx_brcalendar2_calendar%5Bctrl%5D=Date&cHash=e81716073cc03375b6d04ec7d973b0b3", "image": ""}, {"title": "Festival des kritischen Geistes", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Rollberg Kino", "address": "Rollbergstraße 70, 12053 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/poetry"], "description": "A festival evening of music, readings, talks and film about Wolf Biermann, whom the GDR stripped of his citizenship in 1976 after a concert in Cologne. It is staged by the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur on the 50th anniversary of his expatriation, hosted by Salwa Houmsi. The programme features a keynote by Angela Merkel, a conversation with Wolf Biermann and Balbina, a contemporary witness talk with Gabriele Stötzer, Doris Liebermann and Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, and literary-artistic panoramas of Biermann's poems and literature from exile with, among others, Durs Grünbein, Thomas Brussig and Fabian Hinrichs. It closes with the cinema documentary \"BIERMANN\" by Jens Meurer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/festival-des-kritischen-geistes-73117/", "official_url": "https://www.yorck.de/specials/festival-des-kritischen-geistes", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6147a1401a67d19f036447ef09712a08f315482b9a994589debb79b118c251f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "DOKUMENTARFILM MAL ANDERS", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturhaus Karlshorst", "address": "Treskowallee 112, 10318 Berlin", "price": "5 € / Ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history"], "description": "A documentary film titled „Grenzland“ is being shown. Andreas Voigt wrote it and directed it. The 2020 film is about home and belonging in the German-Polish border region. Admission costs 5 €, reduced 3 €.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/dokumentarfilm-mal-anders-33801/", "official_url": "https://karlshorst.de/event/dokumentarfilm-mal-anders-grenzland/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Unterirdisch in die Freiheit mit Zeitzeugin Eveline Rudolph", "start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Unterwelten e.V", "address": "Brunnenstraße 143, 10115 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "26.00", "price_to": "26.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall"], "description": "The special tour »Unterirdisch in die Freiheit mit Zeitzeugin E. Rudolph« is a tour by the association Berliner Unterwelten e.V. Together with a contemporary witness, it deals with the subject of the Berlin Wall: with its construction in August 1961, the population of East Berlin was suddenly and unpreparedly separated overnight from their families, partners, friends and their workplaces or places of study and school in West Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/unterirdisch-in-die-freiheit-mit-zeitzeugin-eveline-rudolph-16879/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/fuehrungen/sonderfuehrungen/unterirdisch-in-die-freiheit-eveline-rudolph.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cdc1be63c9d25e5ca20ea0514e38c1180f807a1600369ecdc5afa0662faa5898-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Wohin mit mir?", "start": "2026-09-09T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-04T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Amnesty International", "address": "Zinnowitzer Straße 8, 10115 Berlin", "price": "9 € / 8 € ermäßigt", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["community/refugees", "film/documentary"], "description": "„Wohin mit mir?“ is a screening of a documentary film by the young German director Marvin Menné, made in 2025, running 79 minutes and released for viewers aged six and up. Amnesty International presents the film together with Murnau-Filmtheater, Angekommen Wiesbaden e.V. and Flüchtlingsrat Wiesbaden e.V. It accompanies Majd and Shahfaisal, who live in a residential group for unaccompanied minor refugees in Germany and begin to discover themselves as teenagers with dreams and fears. Between asylum procedures, the threat of deportation, pressure from their families and social rejection, the film shows their everyday life between hope and existential uncertainty, and thus growing up in a state of exception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wohin-mit-mir-11083/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4ef63991d3a42be6a73dd0c36dad9f4656612151772dbbc8fbaf72f38b086675-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Einblicke in die Sonderausstellung „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche“ (EN)", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-17T11:30:00+01:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/german-polish-history"], "description": "This is an English-language guided tour through the special exhibition „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche“ at the Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung in Berlin. It is run by the Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung and opens up central themes, artistic positions and questions of the exhibition. At its core are the stories, memories and historical traces behind the photographic works, along with differing perspectives on remembrance, origin, loss and belonging. It lasts 40 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/einblicke-in-die-sonderausstellung-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodn-15590/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/einblicke-die-sonderausstellung-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodnie-eine-deutsch-polnische-15", "image": "https://noky.io/images/11478a75d7c252eb1ad291b44fda2b13bd88a61ae00e42b8ae24e8aae8c988cb-600.webp"}, {"title": "»Zeitzeugen im Gespräch« – Fluchthelfer Burkhart Veigel", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Unterwelten e.V", "address": "Brunnenstraße 143, 10115 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall"], "description": "»Zeitzeugen im Gespräch« is a talk followed by a discussion about escape aid and fates at the Berlin Wall. Burkhart Veigel, one of the most successful escape helpers, reports on his activities between 1961 and 1970, during which he says he helped around 950 refugees to freedom. He tells of legendary routes such as the legendary »Doppelgänger-Tour«, escapes hidden in a Cadillac, and the »Franzosen-Tour«. The organizer is Berliner Unterwelten e.V.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zeitzeugen-im-gesprach-fluchthelfer-burkhart-veigel-30518/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/neuigkeiten/zeitzeugen-im-gespraech-fluchthelfer-berichten.html", "image": ""}, {"title": "Festival des kritischen Geistes", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kino International", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 33, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/folk/singer-songwriter", "film/documentary", "history/gdr"], "description": "An evening festival with music, readings, conversations and film marking the 50th anniversary of Wolf Biermann's expatriation from the GDR. It is organised by the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, and Salwa Houmsi guides through the programme. After a concert in Cologne in 1976, the GDR stripped Biermann of his citizenship and refused to let him return, yet his voice only grew louder and moved divided Germany alike. Highlights include excerpts from the legendary Cologne concert of 1976, a keynote by Dr. Angela Merkel, a conversation between Wolf Biermann and Balbina, and the cinema documentary \"BIERMANN\" by Jens Meurer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/festival-des-kritischen-geistes-9218/", "official_url": "https://www.yorck.de/specials/festival-des-kritischen-geistes", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6147a1401a67d19f036447ef09712a08f315482b9a994589debb79b118c251f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Flucht im geteilten Deutschland", "start": "2026-10-24T11:30:00+02:00", "end": "2027-10-23T17:00:00+02:00", "place": "Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde", "address": "Marienfelder Allee 66/80, 12277 Berlin", "price": "5 €, ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.sbm-shop.de/#/product/event/81", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "A public tour of the permanent exhibition \"Flucht im geteilten Deutschland\". It is offered by the Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde and spans the arc from the decision to leave the GDR to the refugees' integration into the Federal Republic. Political developments are thereby linked with the personal experiences of those who fled or left. The tour lasts 75 minutes and is in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/flucht-im-geteilten-deutschland-11826/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/notaufnahmelager-marienfelde/besuch/programm/flucht-im-geteilten-deutschland", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d9d7413332d86f636a6595e2305a214ceaa0eb7a59a0acac446aa924f06cf59-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Heimsuchung", "start": "2026-10-31T14:45:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "filmkunst 66", "address": "Bleibtreustraße 12, 10623 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.kinoheld.de/kino-berlin/filmkunst-66-berlin?mode=widget&layout=movies&rb=0&hideFilter=1&showName=HEIMSUCHUNG", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "literature/adaptation"], "description": "The cinema filmkunst 66 is showing the film \"Heimsuchung – Eine Jahrhundertgeschichte\". Volker Schlöndorff adapted Jenny Erpenbeck's 2007 novel, telling how four families experience one plot of land by a Brandenburg lake over a century. Its changing inhabitants live through the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the war, the GDR and reunification while searching for home and belonging. Lars Eidinger, Martina Gedeck, Susanne Wolff, Ulrich Matthes, Detlev Buck and Michael Maertens appear in the film.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/heimsuchung-9239/", "official_url": "https://www.kino-union.de/detail/82964/Heimsuchung-Eine_Jahrhundertgeschichte?Slider", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d044a87681a935592a153dc1ccc575a779696fedcedaac72e01d485e1892f763-1200.webp"}]}