{"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 und ohne Anmeldung", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/cold-war", "literature/biography"], "description": "A talk with readings at the Heinrich-Schulz-Bibliothek presents the writer Angela Rohr (1890–1985) as part of a series on the literary home of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Georgia Lummert of the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung speaks about the author's Berlin years; a writer, psychoanalyst and physician, Rohr became known posthumously through her report on the Gulag and much later as an expressionist poet. Émilie Defeu and Asena Ersöz of the Berlin University of the Arts read from Rohr's texts. Admission is free and without registration, and the event takes place in the library's group room.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vortrag-und-lesung-literarische-heimat-charlottenburg-wilmer-132544/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=296378&ls=0&c=4&v_ort=13119&date_start=06.11.2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2ba49b39e9902ce05c0082904b93758d38ef7c199f055a2f90bc41fd41815ecd-1200.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": "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": "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": "Literarische Erinnerungsbilder", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung", "address": "Straße der Pariser Kommune 8A, 10243 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/germany", "literature"], "description": "\"Literarische Erinnerungsbilder\" is a reading followed by a conversation. The authors Regina Scheer and Annett Gröschner read from their family novels \"Machandel\" and \"Schwebende Lasten\", in which individual fates form a multiperspectival mosaic of twentieth-century German history; the conversation is moderated by literary scholar Therese Hörnigk. The event takes place in the Eva-Mamlok-Bibliothek of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and is accessible, registration is requested. Literary images of memory are meant to broaden the range of society's perceptions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/literarische-erinnerungsbilder-97085/", "official_url": "https://www.rosalux.de/veranstaltung/es_detail/YWZCR/literarische-erinnerungsbilder?cHash=784309a7c779e052580b64ff3c5d54eb", "image": "https://noky.io/images/575c4c578c748ea7fdb4b59a6de9414192fc00aa1475a32faab15ae71ceac786-1200.webp"}, {"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": "\"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": "Anna Seghers im Kreis ihrer Freundinnen", "start": "2026-11-17T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Akademie der Künste", "address": "Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin", "price": "6 EUR (Ermäßigt: 3 EUR)", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/biography"], "description": "A themed tour of the Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof. In the faithfully preserved apartment where the writer lived from 1955 until her death in 1983, the tour looks at the support Anna Seghers found among her close women friends. These included the actresses Steffie Spira and Helene Weigel, the author Berta Waterstradt and the politician Lore Wolf, with whom she remained closely connected until the end of her life. Her library of around 10,000 volumes, including books by writer friends from many countries, can also be viewed; registration by email is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/anna-seghers-im-kreis-ihrer-freundinnen-72032/", "official_url": "https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/rf/anna-seghers-im-kreis-ihrer-freundinnen/596567", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fad3f639517fa7d1c2d407bf8e147bbf10a4c0e6b97e06e984d7dd7d620248b5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung mit Bundeskanzlerin a. D. Dr. Angela Merkel", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "52€ / ermäßigt 44€", "price_from": "52.00", "price_to": "52.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "Angela Merkel reads from her memoirs \"Freiheit\", written together with Beate Baumann. The former Chancellor looks back on her life in two German states, from childhood and studies in the GDR to the year 1989 and her meetings with the most powerful people in the world. The book shows how decisions were made that shape our time and is a plea for freedom. The event is a cooperation between BUCHBOX!, Kiepenheuer & Witsch and HKW.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-bundeskanzlerin-a-d-dr-angela-merkel-8372/", "official_url": "https://www.buchboxberlin.de/event-calendar/lesung-mit-bundeskanzlerin-d-dr-angela-merkel", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7026bdd2b16e034496fe3af5d10726e456cb2c90f93abd76d48404818615fff2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Anna Seghers und Die Macht der Worte", "start": "2026-11-12T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Akademie der Künste", "address": "Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin", "price": "6 EUR (Ermäßigt: 3 EUR)", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/german-literature"], "description": "A themed tour through the faithfully preserved apartment of the writer Anna Seghers in Berlin-Adlershof, where she lived from 1955 until her death in 1983. The Akademie der Künste invites visitors; after registering by email, the apartment can be viewed with its furnishings, personal mementos and some 10,000 books. The tour asks about the power of words: Seghers returned in 1947 as a world-famous author from Mexican exile and put her writing at the service of the new society, also as president of the writers' association of the GDR. While her work met with rejection in West Germany, she was a role model for many authors of the young GDR such as Christa Wolf and Heiner Müller.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/anna-seghers-und-die-macht-der-worte-72030/", "official_url": "https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/rf/anna-seghers-und-die-macht-der-worte/596571", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6212b3d8b44620132aa264c918adb5532fb2b5f00c43335e4ea9325c1df693be-2000.webp"}, {"title": "BÜHNENTAUSCH \" Die Frauen tragen die Last\" - Lesung & Gespräch mit Rainer Drews", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilbibliothek Frohnau", "address": "Fuchssteinerweg 17, 13465 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-germany", "literature"], "description": "A reading followed by a conversation under the title „BÜHNENTAUSCH „Die Frauen tragen die Last“ - Lesung & Gespräch mit Rainer Drews“. Behind it is Rainer Drews, an author born in Berlin-Hermsdorf, an educationalist who taught at universities in Berlin and Potsdam, reading from his biographical reportage „Leben am Hermsdorfer Waldsee“. It traces the lives of Maria Koerfgen and her daughter Renate, who from 1947 onwards had to manage alone as a widow and half-orphan after son and son-in-law went missing in the war. Claudia Wasow-Kania of the Museum Reinickendorf gives the welcome; participation is only possible with registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buhnentausch-die-frauen-tragen-die-last-lesung-gesprach-mit-82211/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c63e3e1b8e725a01141475468b78dc7276cdbc54e015ac9f96c9a83e69dde7ce-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Anna Seghers im Kreis ihrer Freundinnen", "start": "2026-11-17T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Anna-Seghers-Museum", "address": "Anna-Seghers-Straße 81 12489 Berlin", "price": "5 EUR (reduced 2.50 EUR)", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/biography"], "description": "A themed tour of the Anna-Seghers-Museum in Berlin-Adlershof, the faithfully preserved apartment of the writer, who lived there from 1955 until her death in 1983. The tour is organised by the Archive of the Academy of Arts and requires registration by email. It focuses on Anna Seghers' circle of women friends who gave support to the often shy author: the actresses Steffie Spira and Helene Weigel, the author Berta Waterstradt and the politician Lore Wolf. On display are the furnishings, personal mementoes and her library of around 10,000 volumes, including books by writer friends from many countries.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/anna-seghers-im-kreis-ihrer-freundinnen-15774/", "official_url": "https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/rf/anna-seghers-im-kreis-ihrer-freundinnen/531115", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9e08afc20e0db8225168c0353141c93b5eb73f9bc414fcbec8296e3d410642d6-600.webp"}, {"title": "Transformationszeit: Fantasie gegen Realität …", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ephraim-Palais", "address": "Poststraße 16, 10178 Berlin", "price": "10 Euro", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "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": "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": "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": "Anna Seghers im Kreis ihrer Freundinnen", "start": "2026-11-17T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kunstsammlung der Akademie der Künste", "address": "Luisenstraße 60, 10117 Berlin", "price": "6 EUR (Ermäßigt: 3 EUR)", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/biography"], "description": "A guided tour through the Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof, where the writer lived from 1955 until her death in 1983. Organised by the Akademie der Künste, it looks at the circle of friends who gave the often shy and cautious author support, among them the actresses Steffie Spira and Helene Weigel, the author Berta Waterstradt and the politician Lore Wolf. Her apartment has been preserved in its original state, holding furnishings, personal mementoes and a library of some 10,000 volumes spread over four rooms and the hallway. The tour is held in German; visitors can register at annaseghersmuseum@adk.de.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/anna-seghers-im-kreis-ihrer-freundinnen-89632/", "official_url": "https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/rf/anna-seghers-im-kreis-ihrer-freundinnen/596567", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fad3f639517fa7d1c2d407bf8e147bbf10a4c0e6b97e06e984d7dd7d620248b5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Buchvorstellung: Utopie und Terror: Sibirien", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Museum Berlin-Karlshorst", "address": "Zwieseler Straße 4, 10318 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/contemporary-fiction", "history/ussr"], "description": "A book presentation evening at Museum Berlin-Karlshorst is devoted to Viktor Remizov's novel \"Permafrost\". The novel's translator Franziska Zwerg and political scientist Félix Krawatzek explore how literature addresses the world of forced labour camps under the Stalinist terror in the Soviet Union of the 1930s and 1940s centred on the building of the \"Great Stalin Railway\", moderated by Nina Frieß of ZOiS. Admission is free, and registration by e-mail is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buchvorstellung-utopie-und-terror-sibirien-98195/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Aber jetzt bin ich Dir unsere Schuld schuldig: Die Berliner Briefe von Susanne Kerckhoff", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mitte Museum", "address": "Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-germany", "literature"], "description": "A reading and conversation at Mitte Museum about the writer Susanne Kerckhoff. In 1948, in her Berlin letters, she spoke out against the great silence after National Socialism, writing about guilt, atonement and the search for a new beginning in a destroyed society. Lena Bührichen talks with publisher Peter Graf about who this woman was, why she fell into obscurity after her death in 1950, and why she is worth reading again today. The music comes from Jens-Karsten Stoll, with moderation by Jörg Braunsdorf.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/aber-jetzt-bin-ich-dir-unsere-schuld-schuldig-die-berliner-b-72945/", "official_url": "https://www.mittemuseum.de/de/veranstaltung/2026/aber-jetzt-bin-ich-dir-unsere-schuld-schuldig-die-berliner-briefe-von-susanne-kerckhoff", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6019ca1155cf17362ddd11b47b3bdefa5bc887d91d81932d75abe53256c16e80-1200.webp"}]}