{"title": "Vortrag und Lesung: Literarische Heimat Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf: Dina Nelken (1900–1989)", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heinrich-Schulz- Bibliothek", "address": "Otto-Suhr-Allee 98, 10585 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/exile", "literature/biography"], "description": "A talk with readings about the writer Dinah Nelken (1900–1989), who was born in Charlottenburg and is now largely forgotten. Nina Weller of the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research gives the talk, while Julie Thiele and Roman Vetrov of the Berlin University of the Arts read texts by the author. The Heinrich-Schulz-Bibliothek is staging the series together with the Leibniz Centre and the acting programme of the Berlin University of the Arts. Nelken wrote novels, screenplays and feuilletons, lived for a time in the Berlin-Wilmersdorf artists' colony and returned to Berlin in 1950 after years of exile.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vortrag-und-lesung-literarische-heimat-charlottenburg-wilmer-125535/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c53a159c82c4845d7af4e87d86795d9607906f55ec65ec19c4e3649a4c61716a-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heinrich-Schulz- Bibliothek", "address": "Otto-Suhr-Allee 98, 10585 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-12-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heinrich-Schulz- Bibliothek", "address": "Otto-Suhr-Allee 98, 10585 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2027-01-28T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heinrich-Schulz- Bibliothek", "address": "Otto-Suhr-Allee 98, 10585 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "\"Wassermilch und Spitzenwein\" - Eine Berliner Familiengeschichte", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Flughafen Tempelhof", "address": "Platz der Luftbrücke 5 12101 Berlin", "price": "Kostenlose Tickets!", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/memoir"], "description": "A reading with Irene Bindel from her autobiographical book “Wassermilch und Spitzenwein”. The author, born in Berlin in 1938 as the daughter of a Jewish father, tells of her childhood in the National Socialist era, of persecution and her father having to go into hiding, and of the new beginning after 1945, shaped by encounters with the American occupiers. Afterwards she speaks about her personal experiences and answers questions from the audience, with the evening guided by the historian Irmgard Zündorf. The event takes place as part of Berlin Freedom Week.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wassermilch-und-spitzenwein-eine-berliner-familiengeschichte-12669/", "official_url": "https://www.thf-berlin.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung/berlin-freedom-week-wassermilch-und-spitzenwein", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1bd42dba9ff116a9bb9215b6baddb856dfb97bdac374c2e5ad20bf6614941769-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Else Ury (1871 – 1943) und Berlin", "start": "2026-11-14T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Dorotheenstädtische Buchhandlung", "address": "Turmstraße 5, 10559 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin", "literature/biography"], "description": "A talk about the writer Else Ury, the “Nesthäkchen author” who set most of her works in Berlin. In it, Hannelore Kempin traces the little-known novel “Wie einst im Mai” from 1930. She conveys urban history, biographical information and Jewish family history, and describes a changing image of women. In this way Ury’s children’s and young adult books also become a portrait of middle-class life in Berlin during the imperial era and the Weimar Republic.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/else-ury-1871-1943-und-berlin-22286/", "official_url": "https://www.dorotheenstaedtische.de/event/else-ury-1871-1943-und-berlin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d2cdf997196927516d95cca6dc1212a3515d6659e7aa5698c455b74b58952732-600.webp"}, {"title": "CHARLOTTENGRAD – EIN STÜCK RUSSLAND MITTEN IN BERLIN", "start": "2026-11-19T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Theater im Palais", "address": "Am Festungsgraben 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/exile", "literature"], "description": "A staged reading about Russian writers in 1920s Berlin, when the city became a hub of literary exile after the October Revolution. The performers are Alina Gause (acting, singing), Carl Martin Spengler (acting, singing) and Lidia Kalendareva (piano), with a text version by Ildiko Bognar. The piece explores how émigrés such as Vladimir Nabokov, Marina Tsvetaeva or Maxim Gorki lived in and perceived Berlin at that time. Back then, the Berlin district of Charlottenburg was nicknamed „Charlottengrad“.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/charlottengrad-ein-stuck-russland-mitten-in-berlin-8107/", "official_url": "https://www.theater-im-palais.de/event/charlottengrad-ein-stueck-russland-mitten-in-berlin/2026-11-19/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9e886615b38cd4e7f1639d89b56d16707eb828033e24160c72c927ed725ef1c7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Diti Ronen & Tal Ronen, Anne Birkenhauer: Kleines Drossel", "start": "2026-11-17T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Neue Synagoge", "address": "Oranienburger Straße 28-30, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii", "literature"], "description": "An event with Diti Ronen & Tal Ronen and Anne Birkenhauer at the Neue Synagoge in Berlin. At its center is 'Kleines Drossel': a labor camp near Elbing a few weeks before the end of the Second World War. A shot is fired, and a small thrush falls from the sky. For five hungry women the bird becomes a last meal – and a fleeting moment.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/diti-ronen-tal-ronen-anne-birkenhauer-kleines-drossel-28756/", "official_url": "https://papagena-shop.comfortticket.de/de/veranstaltung/30cfe244-bfa6-4516-a159-2f4362c14792/3009", "image": "https://noky.io/images/037537aca177ccaaf430c10ee76f54ce0b7d32ed8c2ee305529579a7b0685c12-600.webp"}, {"title": "Angela Rohr – Über Wilmersdorf nach Moskau: Psychoanalyse als Schule des Schreibens – Lesung", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heinrich-Schulz- Bibliothek", "address": "Otto-Suhr-Allee 98, 10585 Berlin", "price": "frei (ohne Anmeldung)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin", "literature/reading"], "description": "A reading from works by the writer, psychoanalyst and physician Angela Rohr (1890–1985), who became known only posthumously through her biographical account of the Gulag and much later as an expressionist poet and feuilletonist. She is introduced by Georgia Lummert of the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research, with passages read by acting students Émilie Defeu and Asena Ersöz of the Berlin University of the Arts. The reading looks at Rohr's Berlin years – she moved into the Uhlandstraße in 1920 and later the Hindenburgstraße – and her life after following her husband Wilhelm to Moscow in the mid-1920s. It is the third instalment of the series 'Literarische Heimat Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf', in which the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf public library together with the ZfL and the acting programme of the UdK presents authors who lived in Wilmersdorf and Charlottenburg.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/angela-rohr-uber-wilmersdorf-nach-moskau-psychoanalyse-als-s-29016/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/angela-rohr/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fb2aa5ed1dfd8cffb5fac87c9b784ac0f64dc34b30ddcaadeab158e22c04186e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Eine Berliner Familiengeschichte von über 100 Jahren – Lesung und Gespräch mit der Zeitzeugin Irene Bindel", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bezirkszentralbibliothek Pablo Neruda", "address": "Frankfurter Allee 14a, 10247 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/biography/autobiography", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A reading followed by a conversation at the Bezirkszentralbibliothek Pablo Neruda. Irene Bindel, a contemporary witness born in Berlin in 1938, reads from her book „Wassermilch und Spitzenwein“ and tells of her family history spanning more than a century. As the daughter of a Christian mother and a Jewish father, she recounts her family's fate during the Nazi era and the difficult post-war years – her father was imprisoned by the Nazi regime and never returned, while her young mother had to struggle through a time of hardships alone with her daughter. Drawing on her mother's diaries, she offers very personal insights into this moving era, invites the audience to ask questions in the ensuing conversation, and the event is a cooperation between the Gilberto-Bosques-Volkshochschule Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, the Stadtbibliothek Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and the Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit in Berlin e.V.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/eine-berliner-familiengeschichte-von-uber-100-jahren-lesung-31736/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-friedrichshain-kreuzberg/bibliotheken/bezirkszentralbibliothek-pablo-neruda/veranstaltungen-projekte/eine-berliner-familiengeschichte-von-ueber-100-jahren-lesung-und-gespraech-mit-der-zeitzeugin-irene-bindel-1712806.php", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6db1ad9d16ca379cc65669840255ecd48f4ed05c8af944d03201eff22a31ce15-600.webp"}, {"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": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "€8 – €10 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/jewish-history", "literature"], "description": "A literary evening of readings and conversation about Jewish history and Jewish life in contemporary literature and film, with Weißensee and its large Jewish cemetery as an example of regional places of Jewish life. Reading and discussing are the writers Marina Frenk and Slata Roschal and the author and filmmaker Britta Wauer, with Alexander Estis moderating. The evening asks about regional references in the work of Jewish and non-Jewish authors. 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": "Lesung mit der Dramatikerin und Autorin Ishbel Szatrawska aus dem Roman „Die Tiefe”", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-18T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin", "address": "Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/war", "literature/fiction"], "description": "A reading from the novel „Die Tiefe” as part of the series „Polish Affairs. Polnische Kultur zu Gast in der Stabi”. The dramatist and author Ishbel Szatrawska takes the family home in the Masurian province of the former East Prussia as the starting point for a moving tale of four generations of a family, of the region's multiculturalism and the painful experiences of war, flight, loss of homeland and a new beginning. The event takes place in the Theodor-Fontane-Saal of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, in cooperation with the Zentrum für Historische Forschung Berlin of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the editor and translator Benjamin Voelkel. Registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-der-dramatikerin-und-autorin-ishbel-szatrawska-au-109760/", "official_url": "https://blog.sbb.berlin/termin/lesung-mit-der-dramatikerin-und-autorin-ishbel-szatrawska-aus-dem-roman-die-tiefe/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ef5d0cc37c18f59cb79010c0aa0ccfa7d7fe6bfb52183bf2f98c24fb7dbd6ee2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Charles Lewinsky: Eine andere Geschichte | 39. Jüdische Kulturtage Berlin", "start": "2026-11-16T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Neue Synagoge", "address": "Oranienburger Straße 28-30, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/jewish-history", "literature/fiction"], "description": "Charles Lewinsky gives a reading and conversation as part of the Jewish Culture Days Berlin. In Eine andere Geschichte he tells of Curt Melnitz' extraordinary life. The story moves between Leipzig, Hollywood and Europe, and between historical reality and literary fiction.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/charles-lewinsky-eine-andere-geschichte-39-judische-kulturta-24706/", "official_url": "https://www.eventim.de/noapp/event/21911121/?affiliate=VB1&utm_source=VB1&utm_medium=dp&utm_campaign=berlintourismus", "image": ""}, {"title": "LEKTÜREN FÜR DEN SALON: GABRIELE TERGIT", "start": "2026-11-17T16:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mendelssohn-Remise", "address": "Jägerstraße 51 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Spenden willkommen", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/german-literature"], "description": "A reading in the series „Lektüren für den Salon“ is dedicated to the author and journalist Gabriele Tergit. Dorothee Nolte reads from Tergit's texts revolving around „Käsebier“, the „Effingers“ and the decline of the Jewish educated middle class in Berlin. The event carries the title „Teestunde“ bei Rahels Schwestern, den femmes de lettres & Gastgeberinnen. Annalisa Derossi plays at the grand piano, admission is free, donations are welcome, registration by phone or email.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lekturen-fur-den-salon-gabriele-tergit-68045/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Lesereihe: „Auf den Spuren vergessener Schriftstellerinnen“", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Brunnenstr. 181, 10119 Berlin", "address": "Brunnenstr. 181, 10119 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction", "society/women"], "description": "A reading from the series „Auf den Spuren vergessener Schriftstellerinnen“ dedicated to the Berlin writer Annemarie Weber. Publisher Britta Jürgs introduces the author, born in 1918 and died in 1991, and Simone Hausdorf reads. Weber's novel portrays with wit the contrasting worlds of the wild sixties in West Berlin, between marriage and pills, left-wing demos and stylish receptions. The event is free and requires no registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesereihe-auf-den-spuren-vergessener-schriftstellerinnen-96850/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f4ef89a2cb1e5b4323ec5040459bde9ecf4e63745cf7fd28a08eec0913b7626d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Julia Franck: Ich ertrinke in den Wassern meiner eigenen Liebe. Rilkes letzte Geliebte", "start": "2026-11-15T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Neue Synagoge", "address": "Oranienburger Straße 28-30, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/biography"], "description": "The author Julia Franck presents her new book, in which she follows the traces of an extraordinary relationship. It is about Baladine Klossowska and Rainer Maria Rilke, who knew each other from Paris in the years before the war. The event takes place at the New Synagogue on Oranienburger Straße.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/julia-franck-ich-ertrinke-in-den-wassern-meiner-eigenen-lieb-24678/", "official_url": "https://papagena-shop.comfortticket.de/de/veranstaltung/30cfe244-bfa6-4516-a159-2f4362c14792/3001", "image": "https://noky.io/images/41687ca11f3a5335debf1859d0815e101aca3da9e4faf76e17e7d0ce5239af33-600.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung: Kerstin Hensel: Abendgruß", "start": "2026-11-17T18:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heinrich-Schulz- Bibliothek", "address": "Otto-Suhr-Allee 98, 10585 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/contemporary"], "description": "The Heinrich-Schulz-Bibliothek hosts an author reading in which Kerstin Hensel presents her new book of stories, Abendgruß. The book brings together two artfully contrasting narratives: the story of siblings Karin and Wolf Kohlmann growing up in the GDR in the late 1960s, alongside glimpses into a life today. Hensel, born in Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1961 and a writer of poetry, novels and stories, portrays false morality, petty bourgeois attitudes and shattered dreams, at times poetic, at times wryly ironic. A reading promising to be both profound and entertaining for anyone interested in contemporary German literature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-kerstin-hensel-abendgru-125534/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=297464&ls=0&c=4&v_ort=13119&date_start=05.11.2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c0a45fad643ee3dd8b95101996efae7c0c2e14b834b5754580448ddcea97d2e5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Poetry and Correspondence: A German-Hebrew Network", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Eberhard-Lämmert-Saal", "address": "Eingang Meierottostr. 8, 10719 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "A talk on German-Hebrew correspondence and poetry of the twentieth century. Na’ama Rokem presents her book „Zionism in Translation: Encounters in the German-Hebrew Archive“, which examines writings by figures such as Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Paul Celan and Walter Benjamin. In conversation with Dina Berdichevsky, she discusses belonging, resistance and the Zionist movement; with an introduction by Eva Geulen. Admission is free, no booking is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/poetry-and-correspondence-a-german-hebrew-network-26950/", "official_url": "https://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltungen-detail/items/poetry-and-correspondence-a-german-hebrew-network.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/57e12191e8d59b4f62ff13556dde40c16991c1176d9912d64e1dedd4cbd6319c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Der Nobelpreis für Literatur 1966", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin", "address": "Unter den Linden 8, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/jewish-history", "literature"], "description": "The Berlin State Library hosts a commemorative evening marking the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature sixty years ago to Nelly Sachs and S. J. Agnon. After a welcome by director general Achim Bonte and greetings, literary scholar Lina Barouch, writer Aris Fioretos and Thomas Sparr discuss the paths of Jewish literature. An introduction is given by Caroline Jessen of the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, while cantor Assaf Levitin accompanies the evening musically at the piano with Naaman Wagner. The evening also commemorates the November pogroms of 1938 and Agnon's publisher Salman Schocken.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/der-nobelpreis-fur-literatur-1966-109756/", "official_url": "https://blog.sbb.berlin/termin/der-nobelpreis-fuer-literatur-1966/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/37cdb6995735a3ee055011891044aa1a329b71dd17df7ddacc5135df2090f4c1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Musikalische Lesung R. Tennenbaum -„Bin nur ein armer Großstadtspatz“", "start": "2026-11-11T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt-Haus", "address": "Warnitzer Straße 13A, 13057 Berlin", "price": "6 €", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/weimar-republic", "literature/poetry", "stage/cabaret"], "description": "A musical reading held in memory of the German-Jewish poet Mascha Kaléko, fifty years after her death. Rosa Tennenbaum tells the life story of the poet, who was born in Austria-Hungary, and whose poem „Kein Neutöner“ described everyday life in Berlin of the late 1920s and early 1930s with humour and modesty. With wit, charm and a touch of melancholy, the audience is taken into the lyrical Berlin of the 1920s.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/musikalische-lesung-r-tennenbaum-bin-nur-ein-armer-grostadts-31507/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}