{"title": "Was lehrt(e) die Vergangenheit? Die Frage nach dem Orientierungswert von Geschichte", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung", "address": "Hiroshimastraße 17, 10785 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/historiography"], "description": "An evening lecture held as part of an annual conference asks what the past teaches us for the present. The talk is given by Martin Sabrow, spokesperson of the Leibniz research network „Wert der Vergangenheit“, moderated by Anja Kruke of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. The conference explores history's value as orientation in science, museums, schools, politics and the media. The evening event is open to anyone interested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/was-lehrte-die-vergangenheit-die-frage-nach-dem-orientierung-116091/", "official_url": "https://zzf-potsdam.de/wissenstransfer/veranstaltungen/vortrag-von-martin-sabrow-was-lehrt-e-die-vergangenheit", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf232ab32b86c0688787fa4ee6b9de76117c4914a43141c3c8e0ab07a594589e-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung", "address": "Hiroshimastraße 17, 10785 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "„Nie wieder ist jetzt?“ – Erinnerung und Gedenken an den Holocaust zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft und Schule", "start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "diekleinegalerie", "address": "Goßlerstraße 21, 12161 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/holocaust/commemoration"], "description": "diekleinegalerie invites to a conversation on a current topic: „Nie wieder ist jetzt?“ – Remembrance and commemoration of the Holocaust between historical scholarship and school. The conversation is between Prof. Wolfgang Benz, a historian, and Jakob Ciré, a teacher of history at a Berlin integrated comprehensive school. It addresses how remembrance can be conveyed when there are no more contemporary witnesses, how it can be kept alive in our post-migrant society, and what the claim of „never again“ means in the present. Due to limited seating, registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nie-wieder-ist-jetzt-erinnerung-und-gedenken-an-den-holocaus-22255/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Staging the Past: Living History, Live Audiences, Real Challenges", "start": "2026-11-12T09:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "PETRI Berlin", "address": "Gertraudenstraße 8", "price": "100 – 140 Euro", "price_from": "100.00", "price_to": "140.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "history"], "description": "\"Staging the Past\" is an open conference on living history and museum theatre, also accessible to anyone interested beyond the field. It is jointly organised by EXARC, an international network for archaeological open-air museums and experimental archaeology, and the team of the Museumsdorf Düppel of the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin. The focus lies on the opportunities and challenges of presenting the past through living history and museum theatre, and on how authenticity, interpretation and practical conditions of experimental archaeology and museum work can be reconciled. The conference is held in English, and online participation is free of charge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/staging-the-past-living-history-live-audiences-real-challeng-24462/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.museum/veranstaltungen/staging-the-past-living-history-live-audiences-real-challenges", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d6cda723c7e0b6a14259d86f165c5f3a940d8459cc285fcef967e87112a1f4eb-600.webp"}, {"title": "After Art History? Future Paradigms for the Contemporary Art Museum", "start": "2026-11-12T08:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart", "address": "Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin", "price": "Admission free of charge, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/museum"], "description": "“After Art History? Future Paradigms for the Contemporary Art Museum” is a one-day symposium at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart. The event is organised by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, with speakers including Dr Sam Bardaouil, Dr David Joselit and other scholars from art history, sociology and science and technology studies. The symposium asks what happens when art history is no longer the unquestioned epistemic centre of the museum but becomes one form of knowledge among many. It explores how museums can classify, interpret and preserve under conditions of uncertainty, and how historical knowledge can coexist with provisional, situated and collaborative forms of knowledge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/after-art-history-future-paradigms-for-the-contemporary-art-10939/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/after-art-history-future-paradigms-for-the-contemporary-art-museum-2026-11-12-083000-160217/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Geschichte statt Mythen. Rechtsextremen Geschichtsumdeutungen begegnen", "start": "2026-11-17T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Topographie des Terrors", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/extremism", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A lecture evening on historical revisionism: how right-wing extremists systematically reinterpret, relativise and trivialise the National Socialist past. Behind the project „Geschichte statt Mythen“ are Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, funded by the foundation Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft. Berit Kö and Jakob Schergaut report on their project work and use concrete examples to present common strategies and narrative patterns of the far right – and what can be done to counter them. The evening is introduced by Jens-Christian Wagner, who leads the project; the moderation is by Andrea Riedle, director of the Topography of Terror Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/geschichte-statt-mythen-rechtsextremen-geschichtsumdeutungen-31760/", "official_url": "https://www.topographie.de/veranstaltungen/detail/geschichte-statt-mythen-rechtsextremen-geschichtsumdeutungen-begegnen", "image": ""}, {"title": "Auf den Spuren der Geschichte", "start": "2026-11-15T13:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "9 EUR pro Person", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/berlin"], "description": "The event \"Auf den Spuren der Geschichte\" is an overview tour about the history of the site where the Humboldt Forum stands today. It is offered by the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss. Using selected stops and objects, it traces the site's history from the time of the electors, kings and emperors to the debate over demolishing the Palast der Republik. The tour invites discussion about historical images and their impact in the present.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/auf-den-spuren-der-geschichte-22932/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a57bf98a92fb92fad9a6726ebc71e383846c4931d0f981a902a79b529d603e6e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "80. Waisenhausgespräch", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "SchuleEins Waisenhaus, Betsaal, Berliner Straße 120-121, 13187 Berlin", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei / free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "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-72986/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Aufbruch und Abbruch", "start": "2026-11-07T16:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr/peaceful-revolution"], "description": "A talk about two significant sites of the Peaceful Revolution: the Central Round Table at Schönhausen Palace in Pankow and the parliamentary chamber in the Palace of the Republic. Behind the event are the Humboldt Forum, the ORTS-Termin and the installation „Sturzlage“, held on the occasion of the Berlin Freedom Week 2026. 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-2562/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e34564113d159a91a5b5353bba257fd8d87edaeb255452c59f585bb9f7f1bf1c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Führung zur Geschichte des Ortes", "start": "2026-09-02T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-30T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "9 EUR pro Person", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/berlin"], "description": "„Auf den Spuren der Geschichte. Führung zur Geschichte des Ortes“ is a one-hour overview tour at the Humboldt Forum. It explores the eventful history of the site where the Humboldt Forum stands today: a Hohenzollern residence, a parade ground, the Palast der Republik and a large meadow. Using selected stops and objects, it offers insight from the time of the electors, kings and emperors up to the debate about demolishing the Palast der Republik. The tour, recommended from age 14 and held in German, invites discussion about images of history and their impact on the present.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/fuhrung-zur-geschichte-des-ortes-79939/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e5dc869b65291554136e7d18694431c66efefbaf56902b48e103d0cd84be32ce-2000.webp"}, {"title": "INTERFILM42: The Past - Of Landscapes, Objects and Historicity", "start": "2026-11-14T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zeiss-Großplanetarium", "address": "Prenzlauer Allee 80, 10405 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary/essay-film", "history/historiography"], "description": "A film event at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium in Prenzlauer Berg looks at how history is told. The idea of a red thread running through history is tempting but soon reaches its limits. Instead, a whole carpet unrolls before us: history appears as a chaotic tangle and a complex weave.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/interfilm42-the-past-of-landscapes-objects-and-historicity-24612/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c73adbd92386185e5788de6500518831f33363bec1e6fe9f74214cb5ab0c57e3-600.webp"}, {"title": "Friedrich Burschel liest & diskutiert: PRESENT PAST. Wie Nachfahren ihre NS-Familiengeschichte erforschen", "start": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Die gute Seite", "address": "Richardplatz 16, 12055 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A reading and conversation with author Friedrich Burschel, who talks about his own family research into the National Socialist era. At the centre is the volume „Present Past“, in which ten descendants describe how they investigated their family's Nazi past and how they deal with what they found. Burschel, who works on anti-fascism at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, contextualises the stories and then invites an audience discussion on memory politics. The event is part of the autumn series 2026 of the Neukölln bookshops against right-wing populism and racism.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/friedrich-burschel-liest-diskutiert-present-past-wie-nachfah-48498/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a49c27e608476b4c56a6c9195696c4be5a36311623fceb5d740b3742f4278648-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort", "start": "2026-11-13T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "„Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort“ is an evening devoted to the question of how a central learning and memorial site on the history of colonialism could be designed in Berlin. The event brings together perspectives from academia, art, architecture, activism and memorial policy practice, sharing with a broad audience the conceptual and spatial foundations of the future site as well as the structures and networks that could sustain it. Artistically, the evening is framed by the dance company Fii ak Fee with the work DEM DEM and by Nathalie Vairac, who reads for the first time from Felwine Sarr's „Traces – A Speech to African Nations“. The event takes place in cooperation with „Kolonialismus erinnern“ and further partners, with simultaneous translation into English and French.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kolonialismus-erinnern-vom-konzept-zum-ort-293/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/kolonialismus-erinnern/20261113-1900/", "image": ""}, {"title": "1989 als Auftrag: Verpasste Chancen? Neue Perspektiven", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "5 Euro/ 3 Euro ermäßigt", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/reunification"], "description": "A panel discussion exploring the legacy of 1989 and asking whether opportunities were missed back then. It takes place as part of a series on 1989 that aims to open up new perspectives on the era of change. Experts on stage debate which of that period's tasks still resonate today. Visitors can follow the discussion live and contribute their own ideas.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/1989-als-auftrag-verpasste-chancen-neue-perspektiven-33824/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Leibniz-Labs Transfer: Wen interessiert’s? Transformationswissen vermitteln", "start": "2026-11-18T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Vertretung des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science"], "description": "A panel discussion on how knowledge can be exchanged between science and society. Behind it is the Leibniz Lab „Umbrüche und Transformationen“ (Upheavals and Transformations), which has been testing so-called Moving Labs since 2024 and brings together 28 Leibniz institutes. It first looks at experiences from dialogue events in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg, followed by a panel where Bodo Ramelow, Uta Bretschneider, Sabine Rennefanz and Frank Bösch discuss the challenges of knowledge transfer. The event is part of the Leibniz-Labs Transfer series; registration is required by 10 November 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/leibniz-labs-transfer-wen-interessierts-transformationswisse-90118/", "official_url": "https://www.zzf-potsdam.de/wissenstransfer/veranstaltungen/leibniz-labs-transfer-wen-interessierts-transformationswissen", "image": ""}, {"title": "DemokratieGEDICHTE: Erinnerungen neu gestalten - Demokratiegeschichte als gemeinsame Aufgabe", "start": "2026-11-16T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus für Poesie", "address": "Knaackstr. 97 (Kulturbrauerei), 10435 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/democracy", "literature/spoken-word"], "description": "An evening of poetry slam and a panel discussion on how the history of democracy is remembered. At the third evening of the \"DemokratieGEDICHTE\" series, poetry slam on democracy past and present meets experiences from memorial work. The focus lies on whose democratic history is told, which voices are missing, and how remembrance can be shaped openly and with many voices. The event takes place at the Haus für Poesie in the Kulturbrauerei and participation is free of charge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/demokratiegedichte-erinnerungen-neu-gestalten-demokratiegesc-96878/", "official_url": "https://www.deutsche-gesellschaft-ev.de/veranstaltungen/diskussionsreihen/2184-demokratiegedichte-reihe.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/03faa6179bc7152671053557f26f1f554402955af53a677c0d06b56b14c108bb-600.webp"}, {"title": "Voneinander lernen und gemeinsam agieren: Provenienzforschung und Vermittlung zu NS und Kolonialismus zusammendenken.", "start": "2026-11-16T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus Bastian – Zentrum für kulturelle Bildung", "address": "Am Kupfergraben 10, 10117 Berlin", "price": "0 €", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/provenance-research"], "description": "An evening talk and discussion in the lecture series „Provenienz und Vermittlung im Gespräch“, part of the project „Kunst, Raub und Rückgabe – Vergessene Lebensgeschichten“. Dr. Sven Haase, provenance researcher at the Central Archive of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, and Dr. Patrick Helber, curator for education and outreach at the Ethnologisches Museum, report on their projects on the intersections of the Nazi era and colonialism. Moderated by Dr. Lilja-Ruben Çaharnas Vowe, they discuss similarities and differences between the two disciplines from a transhistorical perspective and what public debate can learn from discussions on colonial looted art. The project is a cooperation between the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden with the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste; admission and participation are free, registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/voneinander-lernen-und-gemeinsam-agieren-provenienzforschung-10956/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/voneinander-lernen-und-gemeinsam-agieren-provenienzforschung-und-vermittlung-zu-ns-und-kolonialismus-zusammendenken-2026-11-16-180000-160852/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/97a02728430dd9e7149162dc18524e394401c06a15d53d6b2957f6956f8ece5a-2000.webp"}]}