{"title": "»Zeitlang« – Lesung & Gespräch mit Claudia Klischat & Donata Rigg", "start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-29T21:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/literatur/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/reading"], "description": "A reading and talk at the Brotfabrik in Berlin-Weißensee. Authors Claudia Klischat and Donata Rigg read from their joint novel »Zeitlang« about family entanglements, political uncertainty and the lingering effects of the past. At its centre is the aspiring journalist Benedikt, who becomes communications adviser to a populist politician, driving himself and his relationships into crisis. Using selected passages, the two discuss how the novel came about, collaborative writing and engaging literarily with the world in the text.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zeitlang-lesung-gesprach-mit-claudia-klischat-donata-rigg-16542/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/literatur/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/870ff0a2862205a56ab4d045f4f0af64bf93666e4d58db3b80def87ec42e934c-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-29T21:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "1, 13086 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Lesung und Gespräch mit der Autorin Lena Müller", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Pro Kiez Bötzowkiez e.V.", "address": "Esmarchstraße 18, 10407 Berlin", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "Lena Müller reads from her novel »Club der Verschwenderinnen« and then talks about it. In it, on a hot summer in the big city, single mother and translator Eli meets Gunda, who has been standing alone behind the bar of a pub for 20 years. Out of an initial makeshift arrangement a friendship gradually grows that becomes a great story. The event by AG Kultur bei Pro Kiez e.V. and the Kurt-Tucholsky-Bibliothek takes place in the reading room on the ground floor left; registration by e-mail is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-und-gesprach-mit-der-autorin-lena-muller-24490/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=295241&ls=30&c=409", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b20fea682d96371a2ea0645f8655578325f34a4c87d61fd442cd89760aeeecda-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“. 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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": "»Schweinebaumeln« – Lesung und Gespräch mit Marta Dzido, Antje Ritter-Miller & Sarah Käsmayr", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1 13086 Berlin", "price": "€7 – €9 (zzgl. 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The German passages will be read by the actress Veronika Bachfischer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buchpremiere-olivia-laing-buch-der-traume-11976/", "official_url": "https://georg-kolbe-museum.de/programm/veranstaltungen/buchpremiere-olivia-laing-buch-der-traeume/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/963dfc3ce2312221f7c1557dd52600717f2b139338417b53806f2bc00df01532-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Gudrun Bernhagen liest", "start": "2026-11-04T14:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stadtteilzentrum PestalozziTreff", "address": "Pestalozzistraße 1A, 12623 Berlin", "price": "6 Euro inklusive Kaffeegedeck", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-germany", "literature/reading"], "description": "Gudrun Bernhagen reads excerpts from her novel \"Und ... und ... und ... kann ich gut\", which is about the childhood years of a girl from 1945 to 1952. 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The reading takes place at the OrankeBuch bookshop in Alt-Hohenschönhausen. Violinist Regina Seehausen accompanies the evening with short pieces on the violin. In the novel, the narrator looks each morning at her mother's window – until one day it stays closed and old conflicts surface.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/orankebuch-live-das-fenster-gabriele-treige-stellt-ihren-rom-48575/", "official_url": "https://orankebuch.buchkatalog.de/content/20251202Rudis", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fb688eeaa9505707836c5ad235c2078f972c612d467df8e6a219d1b33046f039-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Club de lectura de noviembre: Malina, de Ingeborg Bachmann", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bartleby & Co.", "address": "Boppstraße 2", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel"], "description": "In November, the Bartleby reading circle meets at the Bartleby & Co. bookshop on Boppstraße 2. The Spanish-language bookshop invites its readers to read a book together and then discuss it in person. The chosen title is Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann, an astonishing portrait of a writer trying to tell her own story in a world dominated by men. The novel follows a woman in postwar Vienna between her inaccessible lover Ivan and her reserved flatmate Malina, a feminist psychological masterpiece of European literature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/club-de-lectura-de-noviembre-malina-de-ingeborg-bachmann-12904/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b5f679be336ded5a712898b70574c79015fbfe42ff1b6224a7eae4b1e54d0b62-2000.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": "1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "€8 – €10 (zzgl. 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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": "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": "Performance-Lesung: „Working Class Daughters. Über Klasse sprechen“", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "StbMitte", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/reading", "society/class"], "description": "A performative reading based on the book „Working Class Daughters. Über Klasse sprechen“. Karolina Dreit and Kristina Dreit have worked together under this title since 2018, examining class relations at the intersection of care, structure and experience. Their 2024 book draws on interviews arranged as „conversations at the kitchen table“, many of the interviewees work or worked in the arts and culture sector. In the reading, the two create a space where different voices speak for themselves and at once invite self-questioning.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/performance-lesung-working-class-daughters-uber-klasse-sprec-3029/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ebb522237a34ac0f747c80b44d5195c2a2839db057de52eb67e34b590c440a01-600.webp"}, {"title": "Interaktive Lesung: Drei Frauen sprechen über gelebte Wege. Echt, authentisch und Mut gebend.", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Pax Blu Café", "address": "Knobelsdorffstraße 47, 14059 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "An interactive reading followed by a discussion at the Pax Blu Café. Three authors read from their books about lived paths: Mareen Behrendt-Deter from „Geschenke aus dem Nichts“ about more ease in life after a great loss, Marion Antonidis from „Steh auf mein Mädchen“ about a near-death experience, and Ines Rosika Werner from „Liebe ist Alles“ about life after her mother's suicide. Real, authentic and encouraging.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/interaktive-lesung-drei-frauen-sprechen-uber-gelebte-wege-ec-28518/", "official_url": "https://www.paxblu-cafe.com/events/interaktive-lesung-drei-frauen-sprechen-ueber-gelebte-wege-echt-authentisch-und-mut-gebend/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d8ce992a6e916b60f3d3c217fb167834ec95284951415ddc8ed118604c414011-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Geschichten aus der Klimazukunft – Teilnehmende der Kreativen Schreibwerkstatt lesen ihre Texte", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 3, 12165 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 the Creative Writing Workshop run by the Steglitz-Zehlendorf adult education centre read their own texts under the title „Geschichten aus der Klimazukunft“ at the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek. Together with the author and editor Katrin Imma Deibert and science journalist Antonia Rötger, they explored in writing what our future might feel like. In lively texts they tell of adapting and rebelling, of longing and desire, of leaving and arriving. 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In conversation with Kathleen Reinhardt, director of the Georg Kolbe Museum and curator of the German Pavilion at the 61. Biennale di Venezia 2026, she speaks about Venice as a place of longing, le belli arti and the novel. The novel tells of a penniless young English artist's encounter with the visionary costume and production designer Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema. The two travel to Rome and surrender themselves to the intoxicating dream world of Cinecittà in Italy's politically tense »Years of Lead« – a hypnotic, captivatingly told novel about power and illusion, loneliness and uncompromising desire.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/olivia-laing-buch-der-traume-201/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/olivia-laing-buch-der-traeume/", "image": ""}]}