{"title": "Wolokolamsker Chaussee III – Das Duell", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Anna-Seghers-Museum", "address": "Anna-Seghers-Straße 81 12489 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/play-reading", "history/gdr"], "description": "This is a staged reading of Heiner Müller's play „Wolokolamsker Chaussee III – Das Duell“. The directorial study by Solaf Almusleh is read by Florian Müller and Noé Lausch, students of the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin. Müller's 1987 text is written as the inner monologue of plant director Bötcher, whose deputy Helwig challenges him during the workers' uprising of 17 June 1953. The Soviet tanks that end the uprising save the rule of the SED, but at the same time destroy the hope for a democratic socialism.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wolokolamsker-chaussee-iii-das-duell-8297/", "official_url": "https://www.hfs-berlin.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/wolokolamsker-chaussee-iii-das-duell/", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Anna-Seghers-Museum", "address": "Anna-Seghers-Straße 81 12489 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "Seid doch laut", "start": "2026-11-18T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stasi-Zentrale. Campus für Demokratie, \"Haus 22\"", "address": "Ruschestraße 103 10365 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["history/gdr/dissent", "stage/theatre"], "description": "„Seid doch laut“ is a theatre performance that brings the story of the East German opposition group „Frauen für den Frieden“ to the stage. Five performers combine personal memories with live music, movement and video projections. At the former Stasi headquarters, today's „Campus für Demokratie“, they tell of defiance, solidarity and self-determination, and ask about our civil courage today. The production is a guest here for the fourth time and is considered the most successful play of recent years at this venue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/seid-doch-laut-49768/", "official_url": "https://www.einblick-ins-geheime.de/termin/seid-doch-laut-berlin-18-11-2026/", "image": ""}, {"title": "DDRdirekt", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gratis in Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "„DDRdirekt“ is a reading and performance that brings back to life forgotten texts written by workers in the GDR. These poems, stories and prose pieces were created in workplace writing circles, dealing with work, everyday life, hopes, longings and political convictions. Behind the project are anna martha and Thomas Hartung, who searched the archive of writing workers for traces of these voices, with music by Christian Beckers. The event is part of the Berlin Freedom Week programme and admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ddrdirekt-96836/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/vor-ort-entdecken/veranstaltungen/termin/ddrdirekt-berlin-09-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6463eb8bf155284a8f6380c3c28473076a3a3794a76491e725c1c3c7da97952e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung mit Musik", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturhaus Karlshorst", "address": "Treskowallee 112, 10318 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/weimar-republic", "literature/reading"], "description": "A reading with music about the end of the Weimar Republic from 1929 to 1933. Roman Knižka and the ensemble OPUS 45 combine literature and music and devote a chapter of their own to the locality of Karlshorst. The programme was awarded the Hans-Frankenthal Prize of the Stiftung Auschwitz-Komitee.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-musik-24538/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/336d68c4f70c0f2d14bb2cee19d5829f1397189515d312f028d1ba5a5db725c6-600.webp"}, {"title": "DDRdirekt", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stasi-Zentrale. Campus für Demokratie", "address": "Normannenstr. 20, 10365 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "\"DDRdirekt\" is a reading and performance with music about workers writing in the GDR. 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": "Buchvorstellung »Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin«", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "DDR-Museum", "address": "Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr/dissent", "literature"], "description": "A book presentation and discussion of »Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin«, the first volume of Wolf Biermann's diaries. The historian Dr. Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, scholarly advisor at the DDR Museum, edits excerpts from the diaries for the first time, presenting an artist who consistently challenged the East German regime. The talk is moderated by Dr. Liza Soutschek. The event is part of the »Berlin Freedom Week« and takes place in the DDR Museum's conference room at Sankt Wolfgang-Str. 2.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buchvorstellung-ihr-loscht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-11722/", "official_url": "https://www.ddr-museum.de/de/veranstaltungen/buchvorstellung-ihr-loescht-das-feuer-mit-benzin", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f94e15d6cf0ac1be9d0f2ae1f2a8fa3d4b9e4434b30f0da4250abce7db38369-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Von der Bühne auf die Straße. Theater in der späten DDR.- Vortrag von Jutta Braun", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Finckensteinallee 63, 12205 Berlin", "address": "Finckensteinallee 63, 12205 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "stage/theatre"], "description": "A lecture about the role of theatre in the late GDR as a kind of alternative public sphere and a space for intellectual rebellion, at a time when party and state security intervened harshly in what was staged. Dr. Jutta Braun, head of department at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, traces, using several famous productions, the commitment of theatre makers which culminated in the demonstration of 4 November 1989 in Berlin – with the declaration \"Wir treten aus unseren Rollen heraus\" they supported the Peaceful Revolution. After a lecture of about 45 minutes there will be time for questions and discussion, with suitable documents from the Federal Archives shown. Before the event, a one-hour public guided tour of the Federal Archives is offered, introducing the premises, its exhibitions and the professional handling of historical sources.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/von-der-buhne-auf-die-strae-theater-in-der-spaten-ddr-vortra-96856/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/vor-ort-entdecken/veranstaltungen/termin/von-der-buehne-auf-die-strasse-berlin-12-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f74eaec2bade805d989c3edd74fd7560d6dccf14ce595d20cc34f3eb7f8a0efd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "„Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin“ – Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+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", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/biography"], "description": "A book presentation of „Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin“ – Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns at the Berlin Wall Memorial. The historian Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, a friend of the songwriter, is publishing excerpts from Biermann's extensive diaries on the 50th anniversary of his expatriation and his 90th birthday, presenting the book together with co-editor Arno Polzin. It tells of Biermann's life in the GDR and his sudden expatriation on 16 November 1976, which triggered an unexpected wave of protest. The talk is moderated by Doris Liebermann.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ihr-loscht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-die-tagebucher-wolf-biermann-11961/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/ihr-loescht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-die-tagebuecher-wolf?date=2026-11-12T19%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fd51ab9ebb625aac48d5c9324abb9cadaaed9006a4752eaf0a8c6ffb77a95141-1200.webp"}, {"title": "„Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin“ – Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer", "address": "", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature/diary"], "description": "A book presentation for „„Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin“ – Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns“, presenting excerpts from the diaries of the singer-songwriter. The historian Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, a friend of Biermann's, is publishing them on the 50th anniversary of Biermann's expatriation and his 90th birthday, and presents the book together with co-editor Arno Polzin. The conversation is moderated by Doris Liebermann. The event takes place in the visitor centre of the Berlin Wall Memorial, is free of charge, and registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ihr-loscht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-die-tagebucher-wolf-biermann-30517/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/ihr-loescht-das-feuer-mit-benzin-die-tagebuecher-wolf?date=2026-11-12T19%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fd51ab9ebb625aac48d5c9324abb9cadaaed9006a4752eaf0a8c6ffb77a95141-1200.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": "Sonntagslesung", "start": "2026-11-08T10:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T10:30:00+01:00", "place": "Dünenpavillon (Raum 0.11), Ribnitzer Str. 1b, Berlin, 13051", "address": "", "price": "4,00 Euro", "price_from": "4.00", "price_to": "4.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii", "literature/reading"], "description": "The Sonntagslesung is a public reading at which Wolfram Adolphi reads from his family-history novel „Hartenstein oder Die unerhörte Arbeit des Erinnerns“ and from the manuscript of his new book „Familiensache Russland. Ein baltendeutsches Panoptikum“. Behind the event is the Verein für aktive Vielfalt e.V., which invites people to reflect together. The occasion is the attack of fascist Germany on the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, 85 years ago.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sonntagslesung-73384/", "official_url": "https://vav-lichtenberg.de/aktuelles/sonntagslesung-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9122dc6c4ed0db6219695259ca65c4716d0ea2466404d57f6e753582232b67b2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Rosa L.", "start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Ausverkauft", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "history"], "description": "A theatre world premiere on the Kammer stage of the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Director Anica Tomić, who lives in Croatia, has adapted Margarethe von Trotta's film about Rosa Luxemburg for the stage together with author Jelena Kovačić and continues the story into the present day. The piece traces how Luxemburg became an icon of the European left and asks how her thinking can be read in a time of militarisation, rising nationalism and war becoming conceivable again. Based on the film by Margarethe von Trotta and the graphic novel by Kate Evans, in a translation by Ivna Žic.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/rosa-l-4407/", "official_url": "https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/rosa-l", "image": ""}, {"title": "Wie Grischa mit einer verwegenen Idee beinahe den Weltfrieden auslöste", "start": "2026-11-16T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-16T21:40:00+01:00", "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy", "history/gdr"], "description": "\"Wie Grischa mit einer verwegenen Idee beinahe den Weltfrieden auslöste\" is a German-German comedy staged as a world premiere on the Kammer stage of the Deutsches Theater, based on Jakob Hein's novel and directed by Wilke Weermann, running 1 hour 40 minutes without an intermission. Grischa Tannberg starts his first job at the State Planning Commission and, instead of practicing artful waiting, develops a plan for economic cooperation with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan – involving an agricultural product that officials prefer not to mention too loudly. The audacious idea grows into a pilot project involving border troops, ministries and political leadership, raising the question of what happens when an absurd idea suddenly works. The play is about files, border crossings and big politics, and whether world history sometimes arises not from conviction but from jurisdiction, chance and the wrong person at the right desk.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wie-grischa-mit-einer-verwegenen-idee-beinahe-den-weltfriede-4362/", "official_url": "https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/wie-grischa-mit-einer-verwegenen-idee-beinahe-den-weltfrieden-ausloeste", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b262b943da6d6969621b1c3f51e17681c091acbb3b657a372e2a8a5ea2c22d24-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nie wieder!", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grips Theater im Podewil", "address": "Klosterstraße 68 10179 Berlin", "price": "10 €, ermäßigt 5 €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "\"Nie wieder!\" is a musical reading in remembrance of the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. Three performers (Eva Blum, Michaela Hanser, Falk Berghofer) read from Inge Deutschkron's \"Ich trug den gelben Stern\", accompanied by Volker Ludwig's \"Zeitlosen Lieder\" from \"Ab heute heißt Du Sara\", newly arranged for choir. The vocal.ensemble.tempelhof as well as Matthias Witting with arrangements and piano take part. The evening is meant to be stirring and encouraging at once, dealing with humanity, solidarity and civil courage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nie-wieder-4635/", "official_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/spielplan/nie-wieder/3387", "image": ""}, {"title": "TD BERLIN ON TOUR: TAGEBUCH VOM ENDE DER WELT – von Natalja Kljutscharjowa / Fabian Gerhardt", "start": "2026-11-20T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "TD Berlin", "address": "Klosterstraße 44, 10179 Berlin", "price": "Voll: 22 Euro, ermäßigt: 17 Euro, Schüler*innen/Studierende/Bürgergeld-empfänger*innen: 10 Euro, Sol", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "22.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "society/war"], "description": "A stage play based on the diary the Russian writer Natalja Kljutscharjowa began on the day the Russian army attacked Ukraine. In countless miniatures she recorded what was happening around her and what she did, thought and felt, swinging between anger and grief, while describing the rifts within Russian society. Actress Anastasia Gubareva approaches the text through the prism of her own biography, directed by Fabian Gerhardt. The performance is in German with English subtitles and is followed by an audience discussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/td-berlin-on-tour-tagebuch-vom-ende-der-welt-von-natalja-klj-32405/", "official_url": "https://www.societaetstheater.de/veranstaltung/tagebuch-vom-ende-der-welt/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0b74e4784a206154e0a36e008a477122f0b8efbb3424ada1c9f5c959f509d25e-600.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"}]}