{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-03T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Zweigbibliothek Germanistik", "address": "Dorotheenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "161. TEXTBAR", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturring in Berlin e.V.", "address": "Ernststraße 14-16, 12437 Berlin", "price": "vielleicht eine eigene Geschichte?", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "The Lesebühne Marzahn-NordWest reading stage is on the theme of „U. a. erotisch“ (among other things, erotic). 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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. 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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": "Aufbruch und Abbruch. 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The speaker is Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper, one of the most prominent voices in Berlin's culture of remembrance, who explores the history and significance of these two places. She asks why their history is told so little today and why the democratic potential of the Round Table and the freely elected Volkskammer remains relevant.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/aufbruch-und-abbruch-vom-runden-tisch-zum-parlamentssaal-im-2562/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e34564113d159a91a5b5353bba257fd8d87edaeb255452c59f585bb9f7f1bf1c-600.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": "Autor*innenlesung", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "UNI.T", "address": "Fasanenstraße 1b, 10623 Berlin", "price": "frei (ohne Reservierung)", "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": ["literature/drama"], "description": "Writers who write for the stage read from their unpublished texts on the UNI.T stage. Behind it is the 18th cohort of Scenic Writing at the Berlin University of the Arts. It is not a battle, but a broad spectrum of coexisting styles of writing and voices. Admission is free, without reservation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/autorinnenlesung-20173/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/autorinnenlesung-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6100ccc21c54f13d2dd7d3c0353615fabe3d73de77e929a746ad5b331ad6241a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Was bewirkt Kunst? - Über die Zukunft der Kunst", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Universität der Künste Berlin – Fakultät Gestaltung", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 5-2, 10823 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "This event is an evening of the public talk series \"Warum Kunst?\" at the Berlin University of the Arts, asking what art achieves and where its future lies. Speaking are Wolfram Lotz, a dramatist, poet and radio playwright, and Prof. Iris ter Schiphorst, a composer, musician and author, with the evening moderated by Prof. Marion Hirte. At its center is the question of the value of artistic practice in a time of multiple crises and of art's capacity to open new spaces of thought, experience and imagination. The series sees itself as an open forum for exchange between artists, scholars, students and the public and is held in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/was-bewirkt-kunst-uber-die-zukunft-der-kunst-29003/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/was-bewirkt-kunst-ueber-die-zukunft-der-kunst/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d15fc74466d2d59d061a382a866b11fd2e029e4e233aab65df9db28f0234b93-600.webp"}, {"title": "Verdrängte Musik-Geschichte/n. Konzepte und kulturelle Praktiken", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "UNI.T", "address": "Fasanenstraße 1b, 10623 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "music/history"], "description": "The lecture series „Verdrängte Musik-Geschichte/n. Konzepte und kulturelle Praktiken“ is a digital, cross-university series of talks in the winter semester 26/27. It is run by the Musica inaudita team at the Berlin University of the Arts and is intended as a space for networking and exchange between teachers, researchers and students from different locations. A sequence of themed evenings is planned, opening up different perspectives on writing music history, including questions of repertoire formation, visibility in exile, gender staging, media and knowledge transfer, biographical research, queerness, decolonialisation and postcolonial approaches. The series takes place weekly on Wednesdays from 18:00 to 19:30; admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/verdrangte-musik-geschichten-konzepte-und-kulturelle-praktik-31774/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/verdraengte-musik-geschichte-n-konzepte-und-kulturelle-praktiken/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c17ecb4fb37de9ce9f181889be993ee9d58b0567483e8468be186a38bc566288-600.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": "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"}, {"title": "Lankwitzer Lesekreis", "start": "2026-11-06T16:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gottfried-Benn-Bibliothek", "address": "Nentershäuser Platz 1, 14163 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "The Lankwitzer Lesekreis is a monthly reading circle where participants discuss a jointly chosen book in a cozy setting. It is hosted by the Stadtteilbibliothek Lankwitz, the Lankwitz neighborhood library. Everyone interested in literature is warmly welcome. Registration is possible by email.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lankwitzer-lesekreis-57710/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5781e32088a7c53c8edc9984d95c1f80275dc3afcf0329d016b6d839b56278a1-600.webp"}, {"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": "Verdrängte Musik-Geschichte/n. Konzepte und kulturelle Praktiken", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Universität der Künste Berlin – Fakultät Gestaltung", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 5-2, 10823 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/history", "history"], "description": "The lecture series \"Verdrängte Musik-Geschichte/n. Konzepte und kulturelle Praktiken\" is a digital, cross-university series of talks held in the winter semester 26/27. It aims to be a space for networking and exchange between teachers, researchers and students from different locations. A sequence of themed evenings is planned, opening up different perspectives on the writing of music history, including questions of repertoire formation, visibility in exile, the staging of gender, media and knowledge dissemination, biographical research, queerness, decolonialisation and postcolonial approaches. The weekly series takes place online on Wednesdays from 18:00 to 19:30; admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/verdrangte-musik-geschichten-konzepte-und-kulturelle-praktik-28974/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/verdraengte-musik-geschichte-n-konzepte-und-kulturelle-praktiken/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c17ecb4fb37de9ce9f181889be993ee9d58b0567483e8468be186a38bc566288-600.webp"}, {"title": "Schreibwerkstatt für Jugendliche", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturring in Berlin e.V.", "address": "Ernststraße 14-16, 12437 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/creative-writing"], "description": "A writing workshop where young people aged 12 and up work on their own texts together. It is run by Kulturring in Berlin, and the group of teenagers and young adults reads their written pieces aloud to one another. It invites everyone who is young, creative and enjoys writing. Admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/schreibwerkstatt-fur-jugendliche-78122/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Büchertisch: Berliner Literaturwerkstatt QUEER Vol 3", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Eisenherz", "address": "Motzstraße 23, 10777 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/creative-writing", "society/queer"], "description": "The Berliner Literaturwerkstatt QUEER continues its series in 2026; in each workshop session, two literary texts in progress are read and discussed. Up to five queer authors from Berlin give appreciative feedback, together with the audience, in a moderated session lasting 120 minutes. The workshops make visible how many decisions lie behind writing that is often solitary, and they also serve to network queer writers, especially those just starting out. They are a cooperation between »Glitter – Die Gala der Literaturzeitschriften«, the bookshop Eisenherz and BrotfabrikLiteratur.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buchertisch-berliner-literaturwerkstatt-queer-vol-3-14678/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8066c99e09151c04d6d617d4673534290abbd2a612297eed005fb87c590cb614-2000.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": "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": ""}]}