{"title": "»Zeitzeugen im Gespräch« – Fluchthelfer Burkhart Veigel", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Unterwelten e.V", "address": "Brunnenstraße 143, 10115 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall"], "description": "»Zeitzeugen im Gespräch« is a talk followed by a discussion about escape aid and fates at the Berlin Wall. Burkhart Veigel, one of the most successful escape helpers, reports on his activities between 1961 and 1970, during which he says he helped around 950 refugees to freedom. He tells of legendary routes such as the legendary »Doppelgänger-Tour«, escapes hidden in a Cadillac, and the »Franzosen-Tour«. The organizer is Berliner Unterwelten e.V.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zeitzeugen-im-gesprach-fluchthelfer-burkhart-veigel-30518/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/neuigkeiten/zeitzeugen-im-gespraech-fluchthelfer-berichten.html", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Unterwelten e.V", "address": "Brunnenstraße 143, 10115 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "»Zeitzeugen im Gespräch« – Fluchthelfer Klaus-M. von Keussler", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Unterwelten e.V. Bildungsseminare", "address": "Brunnenstraße 142, 10115 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/barrierefreiheitserklaerung/barrierefreiheitserklaerung-online-shop.html", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "»Zeitzeugen im Gespräch« is a talk with escape helper Klaus-M. von Keussler, hosted by Berliner Unterwelten e.V. at their Bildungsseminare. At its center is his »Tunnel-Tagebuch« (tunnel diary), into which he wrote with passion on 8 January 1964: »Freiheit kennt keine Mauern« (freedom knows no walls). It is about the fourth tunnel (the »Kohlenplatz-Tunnel«), in which he took part and which was brought to an end by East German border guards and/or members of the East German state security. The then 24-year-old gives a firsthand account of this escape assistance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zeitzeugen-im-gesprach-fluchthelfer-klaus-m-von-keussler-24451/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/neuigkeiten/zeitzeugen-im-gespraech-fluchthelfer-berichten.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d99249268b72e2d26d77febcf0499ea23798b1d566d071880580824136b7b09d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Flucht damals und heute", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde", "address": "Marienfelder Allee 66/80, 12277 Berlin", "price": "5 €, ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/berlin-bike-berliner-mauertour-mit-dem-fahrrad#/experience/BTM00020101074869526", "category": "tours", "tags": ["society/migration/refugees", "history/gdr"], "description": "The tandem guided tour \"Flucht damals und heute\" takes place at the Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde, a museum about flight and emigration from the GDR that also serves as a transitional home for around 700 refugees. Between 1949 and 1990, around four million people left the GDR, many of them through the reception camp in West Berlin, known as the \"gate to freedom\". The tour brings two perspectives into dialogue: the historical view of the camp and a current view of the residential home's daily operations, represented by a social worker who came to Berlin in 2011 at the age of 17 and spent her first years living here herself. It also grants access to the camp's historic grounds, which are otherwise closed during regular museum operations, and takes place as part of the Berlin Freedom Week 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/flucht-damals-und-heute-31366/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/notaufnahmelager-marienfelde/besuch/programm/flucht-damals-und-heute?date=2026-11-08T14%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a2a06b8499e4401ab5a463d6f1f097ccd45382728a6b61b390bb1b7a2f946e2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Unterirdisch in die Freiheit mit Zeitzeugin Eveline Rudolph", "start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Unterwelten e.V", "address": "Brunnenstraße 143, 10115 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "26.00", "price_to": "26.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall"], "description": "The special tour »Unterirdisch in die Freiheit mit Zeitzeugin E. Rudolph« is a tour by the association Berliner Unterwelten e.V. Together with a contemporary witness, it deals with the subject of the Berlin Wall: with its construction in August 1961, the population of East Berlin was suddenly and unpreparedly separated overnight from their families, partners, friends and their workplaces or places of study and school in West Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/unterirdisch-in-die-freiheit-mit-zeitzeugin-eveline-rudolph-16879/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/fuehrungen/sonderfuehrungen/unterirdisch-in-die-freiheit-eveline-rudolph.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cdc1be63c9d25e5ca20ea0514e38c1180f807a1600369ecdc5afa0662faa5898-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Grenzen, Gewalt, Geschichte", "start": "2026-11-09T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Historisches Museum Pei-Bau", "address": "Hinter dem Gießhaus 3 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://stiftungbrandenburgertor.de/veranstaltungen/liebermanns-welt/?source=bde", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "„Grenzen, Gewalt, Geschichte“ is a free themed tour through selected exhibition rooms of the museum presenting rare objects from its collection that illustrate German division, flight and violence. The tour spans from a family's flight into Reformed exile during the confessional split of the Holy Roman Empire to a border stone of a city divided after 1914 on the German-Dutch border. Its highlight is the original diary of the student Peter Rutzen from 1963, which traces the dangerous attempt to dig an escape tunnel under Bernauer Straße. The tunnel was betrayed to the Stasi before anyone could flee, leading to numerous arrests in East Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/grenzen-gewalt-geschichte-24447/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/veranstaltung/grenzen-gewalt-geschichte-1/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8cb7898919d22729568409b8beaf050bbd4ca5664a4e33046a02a34e062b01c5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Flucht im geteilten Deutschland", "start": "2026-10-24T11:30:00+02:00", "end": "2027-10-23T17:00:00+02:00", "place": "Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde", "address": "Marienfelder Allee 66/80, 12277 Berlin", "price": "5 €, ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.sbm-shop.de/#/product/event/81", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "A public tour of the permanent exhibition \"Flucht im geteilten Deutschland\". It is offered by the Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde and spans the arc from the decision to leave the GDR to the refugees' integration into the Federal Republic. Political developments are thereby linked with the personal experiences of those who fled or left. The tour lasts 75 minutes and is in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/flucht-im-geteilten-deutschland-11826/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/notaufnahmelager-marienfelde/besuch/programm/flucht-im-geteilten-deutschland", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d9d7413332d86f636a6595e2305a214ceaa0eb7a59a0acac446aa924f06cf59-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Das Geheimnis, der Tunnel und Helmut", "start": "2026-11-10T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Studiobühne", "address": "Luxemburger Straße 20, 13353 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["history/gdr", "stage/puppetry"], "description": "A puppet theatre piece for children aged 9 and up. Behind the piece is Figurentheater Ute Kahmann. It tells of a child whose new father, Helmut, carries a secret: he helped people flee from East to West and was imprisoned for it. Only after the opening of the Wall does his secret come to light; the piece is about courage, fear and the struggle between speaking and silence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/das-geheimnis-der-tunnel-und-helmut-14880/", "official_url": "https://fez-berlin.de/programm/detailansicht/das-geheimnis-der-tunnel-und-helmut?tx_brcalendar2_calendar%5Bctrl%5D=Date&cHash=e81716073cc03375b6d04ec7d973b0b3", "image": ""}, {"title": "+++ ABGESAGT +++ Wolf Biermann im Blick der Stasi", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Einblick ins Geheime - Ausstellung zum Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv", "address": "Ruschestraße", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr/stasi"], "description": "The guided tour \"Wolf Biermann im Blick der Stasi\" takes visitors through the exhibition \"Einblick ins Geheime\" about the Stasi Records Archive. Organised by the Federal Archives' Stasi Records Archive Berlin-Lichtenberg, it shows surveillance documents on the singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, how the Stasi handled his expatriation in November 1976, and the reactions of the GDR cultural scene. Biermann, a convinced socialist, moved from Hamburg to the GDR in the early 1950s and, despite a performance ban, was increasingly intensively surveilled by the secret police. Afterwards, visitors can view the sample files collection and submit a request to inspect their files on site; participation is limited to 15 people.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/abgesagt-wolf-biermann-im-blick-der-stasi-7129/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/vor-ort-entdecken/veranstaltungen/termin/wolf-biermann-im-blick-der-stasi-berlin-02-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e29fc30800ad127b448a9dcaa6a2e7c43b80bb873f1734bd84de1ce72987856-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Das Geheimnis, der Tunnel und Helmut", "start": "2026-11-10T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Astrid Lindgren Bühne im FEZ-Berlin", "address": "Straße zum FEZ 12459 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.planetarium.berlin/veranstaltungen/der-regenbogenfisch-und-seine-freunde?page=3#dates", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["history/gdr", "stage/puppetry"], "description": "The puppet theatre piece „Das Geheimnis, der Tunnel und Helmut“ is a search for traces between secret and history, recommended from age 9. It comes from the Figurentheater Ute Kahmann and is performed on the studio stage of the Astrid-Lindgren-Bühne at the FEZ. At its centre is Helmut, the new father of a child who senses that something about him is different: only after the opening of the Wall does his hidden secret become visible, that he helped people flee from East to West and was imprisoned for it. The roughly 60-minute piece tells of courage and fear, of constraints and longings, and of the struggle between speaking and keeping silent.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/das-geheimnis-der-tunnel-und-helmut-30501/", "official_url": "https://fez-berlin.de/bildung/lernorte/astrid-lindgren-buehne/detailansicht-lernort-theater-macht-schlau?tx_brcalendar2_calendar%5Baction%5D=show&tx_brcalendar2_calendar%5Bcontroller%5D=Event&tx_brcalendar2_calendar%5Bevent%5D=3594&cHash=8ea6d961655fe1bec1b8974b0d332954", "image": ""}, {"title": "Versteckt & Verschwunden Zwei Gefängnisse im ehemaligen Ost-Berlin – eine Erkundung", "start": "2026-11-08T13:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lernort Keibelstraße", "address": "Bernhard-Weiß-Straße 6, 10178 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/berlin-bike-berliner-mauertour-mit-dem-fahrrad#/experience/BTM00020101074869526", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "\"Versteckt & Verschwunden\" (Hidden & Gone) is a roughly two-hour tour that for the first time connects two prisons in East Berlin where people were detained for different reasons during the GDR era. The offering comes from the Lernort Keibelstraße, and the tours are to form the basis for a permanent joint offering of the two sites from 2027. The tour starts at the former remand prison on Keibelstraße, whose cells, corridors and doors are preserved, and leads to the former women's prison on Barnimstraße, which no longer stands and whose history is now made accessible through an artistic audio walk by the artist Christoph Viscorsum. The focus is on detention, control and political persecution in the GDR, especially the experiences of politically persecuted women and the questions of what is worth remembering and what disappears; participation is free, and registration by email is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/versteckt-verschwunden-zwei-gefangnisse-im-ehemaligen-ost-be-2570/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Als die Mauer Berlin durchschnitt", "start": "2026-10-24T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-10-24T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/berlin-bike-berliner-mauertour-mit-dem-fahrrad#/experience/BTM00020101074869526", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall"], "description": "\"When the Berlin Wall was cutting the city\" is a commemoration of the victims of Berlin's division and an invitation to learn about this chapter of German and Berlin history at numerous places in the city. In August 1961, in the night of 12 to 13, the Nationale Volksarmee sealed off the roads and rail routes to West Berlin, after which the GDR government had a wall built along the sector border. According to current research, several hundred people were killed trying to overcome the 167.8-kilometre-long border installations. The Wall fell on 9 November 1989.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/als-die-mauer-berlin-durchschnitt-33730/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Andacht in der Kapelle der Versöhnung", "start": "2026-11-03T12:00:00+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", "tickets_url": "", "category": "worship", "tags": ["religion/christian/protestant", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "A short memorial service at the Berlin Wall Memorial. Organized by the Protestant congregation of reconciliation and the Berlin Wall Foundation, it has commemorated the victims of the Berlin Wall since 2005. The name of one of the 140 people killed at the Wall is spoken, remembering their story. It closes with a prayer embracing all who long for freedom.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/andacht-in-der-kapelle-der-versohnung-11954/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/andachten?date=2026-11-27T12%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": ""}, {"title": "Überblicksführung in türkischer Sprache", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00+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", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall"], "description": "An overview tour in Turkish about Bernauer Straße, one of the focal points of German division. It illustrates the consequences of the Wall's construction: the destruction of urban space and livelihoods, the separation of family members and friends, and the attempts to overcome the Wall. The tour lasts one hour, is aimed at adults and takes place as part of Berlin Freedom Week 2026. It is offered by the Berlin Wall Memorial.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/uberblicksfuhrung-in-turkischer-sprache-11959/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/ueberblicksfuehrung-tuerkischer-sprache?date=2026-11-08T14%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/97ca3df44b09166b01667e980557ae6ab373b0897aea157e4a4455cd1018c403-600.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", "tickets_url": "", "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": "Wolf Biermann im Blick der Stasi", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-02T17:30:00+01:00", "place": "Ehemalige Stasi-Zentrale (Haus 7)", "address": "Ruschestraße 103 10365 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr/stasi"], "description": "A guided tour through the exhibition „Einblick ins Geheime“ at the former Stasi headquarters. Organised by the Stasi Records Archive of the Federal Archives, it presents surveillance files on Wolf Biermann, a singer-songwriter who shaped East German culture despite a performance ban. It also covers his stripping of citizenship in 1976 and the cultural scene's response. Afterwards, visitors can view the sample file collection, including a faithfully reproduced file volume on Biermann.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wolf-biermann-im-blick-der-stasi-16718/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/vor-ort-entdecken/veranstaltungen/termin/wolf-biermann-im-blick-der-stasi-berlin-02-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ba0b0fc81a890735148ce4d437282060e9c648dff4a4959a725ef4663225ed68-600.webp"}, {"title": "Entlang der Berliner Mauer", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Berlin on Bike - Radtouren & Verleih", "address": "Knaackstraße 97 10435 Berlin", "price": "Erwachsene €35, Schüler/Studenten €27, Kinder bis 8 Jahre €9 (inkl. Leihrad); E-Bike-Aufpreis €20", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": "35.00", "tickets_url": "https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/berlinonbike/items/233406/calendar/?ref=https%3A%2F%2Fberlinonbike.de&language=de-de", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/cold-war"], "description": "Entlang der Berliner Mauer is a guided bicycle tour following the former Berlin Wall border strip and the Berlin Wall Cycle Route. Berlin on Bike runs it in small groups through Prenzlauer Berg and onwards to places such as the Bornholmer Straße crossing, Bernauer Straße, the Berlin Wall Memorial, Mauerpark, a surviving watchtower at Kieler Eck and the government district. Riders hear about Germany's division and Cold War Berlin, about daily life in the GDR, escape stories and the opening of the Wall on 9 November 1989, with stops at original sites. The ride takes 3.5 hours and covers 12 to 15 kilometres, with bicycles and helmets provided, starting and finishing at the Kulturbrauerei.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/entlang-der-berliner-mauer-20380/", "official_url": "https://berlinonbike.de/alle-touren/berliner-mauer-radtour/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fa9cb99ddfa777fb0f32177637c14e07f5299c86d36ba20646c037d6e73572da-600.webp"}, {"title": "Führung: On the Roof of Himmler's Guesthouse", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T14:30:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Wannseekonferenz", "address": "Am Großen Wannsee 58, 14109 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A free guided tour of the special exhibition \"On the Roof of Himmler's Guesthouse\" in the garden of the Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz memorial and educational site. Curator Judith Alberth presents the exhibition, which is based on documents and photographs by Fritz Traugott: he fled anti-Semitic persecution to the USA in 1938, returned as a US soldier, and was billeted with a unit of so-called \"Ritchie Boys\" in the former SS guesthouse on the Wannsee, where he sent his wife Lucia letters and photos almost daily. The meeting point is in the main building at the reception desk; no registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/fuhrung-on-the-roof-of-himmlers-guesthouse-12038/", "official_url": "https://www.ghwk.de/de/termine/termin/fuehrung-on-the-roof-of-himmlers-guesthouse-12", "image": "https://noky.io/images/de4b974f3b53cfe17ecd532cf4d50edd9dca8f2400998135d7b168a9d24431a4-2000.webp"}]}