{"title": "Zofia Posmysz „Ein Urlaub an der Adria“. Petra Otto liest aus dem Hauptwerk der polnischen Auschwitz-Überlebenden.", "start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bajszel", "address": "Emser Straße 8-9, 12051 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/holocaust", "literature"], "description": "A reading with Petra Otto from „Ein Urlaub an der Adria“, the main work of the Polish Auschwitz survivor Zofia Posmysz. A Polish woman's chance proximity to a German man at a beach resort awakens memories of her imprisonment in Auschwitz. She intensively relives the short story of her friendship with a fellow prisoner, who, after a tragic incident, entered the camp voluntarily as penance for an oath. Instead of a conversation with her beach neighbour, she has a vision of one predetermined by her memories, unfolding as an inner dialogue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zofia-posmysz-ein-urlaub-an-der-adria-petra-otto-liest-aus-d-31205/", "official_url": "https://bajszel.de/29-10-26-zofia-posmysz-ein-urlaub-an-der-adria-petra-otto-liest-aus-dem-hauptwerk-der-polnischen-auschwitz-ueberlebenden/", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bajszel", "address": "Emser Straße 8-9, 12051 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "„Se questo è un uomo“ – „Ist das ein Mensch?“ von Primo Levi - Lesung mit der Deutsch-Italienischen Gesellschaft", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 3, 12165 Berlin", "price": "5€", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/holocaust", "literature"], "description": "A reading from Primo Levi's work „Se questo è un uomo“ – „Ist das ein Mensch?“ at the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek, held on the memorial day for the pogroms of 9 November 1938. It is conceived and moderated by the historian Prof. Dr. Susanne Zeller and the actor and author Manfred Eisner. The Italian chemist Primo Levi, deported to Auschwitz in 1944, survived and is among the significant witnesses of the Shoah. 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In this deeply personal book, the author traces the story of his father, a member of a Jewish Berlin family who survived the horrors of Auschwitz. It is about silence and speechlessness in the family, remembrance culture and the upheavals of the present up to the events of October 7. The reading takes place at Buchhandlung am Schäfersee in Berlin; advance registration is possible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/misha-schoeneberg-liest-aus-vielleicht-wollte-er-gar-nicht-s-13471/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b76d528393fa3deeeebccf968b564e266c0db82854844ae3c870ae2192546799-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ditha Brickwell liest aus ihren neuesten Werken", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Kladow Forum", "address": "Neukladower Allee 9", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "Ditha Brickwell reads from two of her most important novels, which also have a little to do with Kladow, at Kladower Forum, capping the evening with a »Zuckerl« from her hometown Vienna. »Der Kinderdieb« tells of Otto, a young man coming of age in the dark Vienna of the 1950s, who falls in love with a refugee girl from Hungary and does something unheard of to find comfort. »Die andere Seite der Nacht. Eine Erzählung vom Standhalten und Überleben« recounts the fate of Jewish families in Berlin and their Christian helpers during the National Socialist era. The author, committed to justice and democratic values, engages lively with her audience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ditha-brickwell-liest-aus-ihren-neuesten-werken-26240/", "official_url": "https://kladower-forum.de/veranstaltung/ditha-brickwell-liest-aus-ihren-neuesten-werken/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0334517afc520c0930cd118d8e6673f313b3f61d3f5030c7facb4c5c027c3d44-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Anna Schapiro liest aus ihrem Debütroman", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Anne Frank Zentrum", "address": "Rosenthaler Straße 39, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel", "society/antisemitism"], "description": "As part of the Education and Action Weeks against Antisemitism, the Anne Frank Zentrum invites to a reading with the artist and author Anna Schapiro. She reads from her debut novel »Fühlen Sie sich wie zu Hause, aber vergessen Sie dabei nicht, dass Sie zu Gast sind«, which tells the life story of her grandmother. Its protagonist Anna searches for her family's untold stories, with farewells, emigration and different kinds of arrival at their heart. A moderated talk with the author follows the reading; admission is free and registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/anna-schapiro-liest-aus-ihrem-debutroman-11134/", "official_url": "https://www.annefrank.de/termine/termin/lesung-anna-schapiro-021126", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b853a85901c877889cb5b73e17f83b011416e4ddd03a708d43b040447e7adf2e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Krakau unter deutscher Besatzung 1939–1945. Geschichte und Erinnerung", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas", "address": "Cora-Berliner-Straße 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A lecture and discussion event about the history of Kraków under German occupation from 1939 to 1945 and the everyday life of the different population groups, including the complete exclusion of the Jewish population, the ghetto established in Podgórze and the concentration camp in Płaszów. It is jointly hosted by the Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, the Deutsches Kulturforum östliches Europa and the Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas together with the Deutsch-Polnische Gesellschaft Berlin. Following an introductory talk by Isabel Röskau-Rydel, Edyta Gawron, Stephan Lehnstaedt and Isabel Röskau-Rydel will discuss; the conversation is moderated by Uwe Neumärker. Present-day places and forms of remembrance of the Nazi crimes in Poland's second-largest city are also addressed; the event takes place in German and Polish with simultaneous interpretation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/krakau-unter-deutscher-besatzung-19391945-geschichte-und-eri-28577/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-denkmal.de/aktuelles/krakau-unter-deutscher-besatzung-1939-1945-geschichte-und-erinnerung/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f8e01a7188752997003a3a48931e9cf80cb11d7ca882459f51e5e9938ce45d45-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Zwischen Herkunft und neuem Zuhause", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+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": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "The film „Die noch unbekannten Tage“ by filmmaker Jola Wieczorek is a cinematic journey of remembrance into the 1980s. At its center is the story of her family and their emigration from Poland to Austria. The filmmaker asks how a key event in her own family might have turned out differently and what it would be like to look at the details of the past today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause-11960/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause?date=2026-11-10T18%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/69f4f1336e055102790bff38eb82a5e89baad1ca2c3b80be395c5541c6149b06-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Transport aus dem Paradies | Die Enkelinnen", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus der Wannseekonferenz", "address": "Am Großen Wannsee 58, 14109 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/holocaust"], "description": "A matinee combining a screening of „Transport aus dem Paradies“ with the ensuing talk „Die Enkelinnen“. The multi-award-winning Czechoslovak film, directed by Zbyněk Brynych in 1962, is based on Arnošt Lustig's story „Nacht und Hoffnung“ and is set in 1944 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where the Nazis had a propaganda film made that pretended a normal camp life with fulfilling work and rich cultural activity, while all participants were afterwards deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp, to which the title bitterly ironicly alludes. In the talk, Eva Lustigová, daughter of Arnošt Lustig, and Jacqueline Gies, granddaughter of the personal secretary of Karl Hermann Frank, a key figure of the Nazi terror in the so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, speak, moderated by Aya Zarfati and Dr. Wolfgang Schwarz. The event is a cooperation of the Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz with the Arnošt Lustig Stiftungsfonds, the Kulturreferat für die böhmischen Länder im Adalbert Stifter Verein, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin and the Czech Centre Berlin, funded by the Deutsch-Tschechischer Zukunftsfonds.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/transport-aus-dem-paradies-die-enkelinnen-12040/", "official_url": "https://www.ghwk.de/de/termine/termin/transport-aus-dem-paradies-die-enkelinnen", "image": "https://noky.io/images/acd4478464de2bf7ee35d38e4781dc246c97ef81b488ce2ac6f8820f1c1d86bc-2000.webp"}, {"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", "tickets_url": "", "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": "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", "tickets_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/service/Kartenkauf", "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": "Lesung mit Massimo Gezzi – „Adriatica“", "start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Dante Connection", "address": "Oranienstraße 165a, 10999 Berlin", "price": "Soli-Eintritt 8/10/15 Euro", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel"], "description": "The bookshop Dante Connection invites to a reading with Massimo Gezzi, part of the week of independent bookshops and held in German and Italian. The author, who lives in Lugano, founded the literary platform Le parole e le cose and received the Swiss Literature Prize in 2016, reads from „Adriatica“, his first novel, published by Gramma Feltrinelli and nominated for the Premio Strega 2026. In it, Emilie, an angry young woman full of dreams, and Tullio, a man almost seventy, meet by chance on the seaside promenade, and their deep loneliness connects the two generations. The encounter takes place in an imaginary town on the Adriatic coast, exemplary of the feeling of life in the Italian provinces.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-massimo-gezzi-adriatica-31328/", "official_url": "https://www.danteconnection.de/2026/10/19/donnerstag-5-november/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/35b236dbda3c04845b2a97aeb07b5ce2e7f0f66bdf6f22905cb2c1ae3897f471-1200.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": "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. She is accompanied musically by Adrian Wagner and Rudolf Bernhagen. Admission includes a coffee set, and registration is possible by phone at 56 58 69 20. The reading takes place at the Stadtteilzentrum „Pestalozzi-Treff\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gudrun-bernhagen-liest-72804/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Auf Wiederlesen #57: Holger Franke liest \"Abendlicht\" von Stefan Hermlin", "start": "2026-10-30T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T22:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie KungerKiez", "address": "Karl-Kunger-Straße 15 12435 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Spenden willkommen!", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "A public reading at a gallery in Berlin's Alt-Treptow: Holger Franke reads from Stefan Hermlin's prose collection \"Abendlicht\". Published in 1979, the book tells, in 22 texts, of a first-person narrator looking back on his life, from childhood in a well-to-do bourgeois family and a critical young man's path into the Communist Party to impressions of the Nazi era and repeated attempts at resistance. The author's concern is a more humane way of dealing with one another in society. Admission is free, donations are welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/auf-wiederlesen-57-holger-franke-liest-abendlicht-von-stefan-67841/", "official_url": "https://kungerkiez.de/austellungs-details/auf-wiederlesen-57-holger-franke-liest-abendlicht-von-stefan-hermlin.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/12d3aa419235d755381d0888c74a6c5501188dd77e6ca9f9f110859194793650-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Exiltexte: Kunst, Macht, Erinnerung – Lesung mit Tania Arcimovich, Karima Shabrang und Fariba Vafi", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schloss Schönhausen", "address": "Tschaikowskistraße 1, 13156 Berlin", "price": "15 €, ermäßigt 12 €", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.spsg.de/ticket-app/entity/eventTime/13833?cHash=c6704a2bef694b5e4f5d72735428c352", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/poetry"], "description": "A reading titled \"Exiltexte: Kunst, Macht, Erinnerung\" at Schloss Schönhausen. The writers in exile Tania Arcimovich (Belarus), Karima Shabrang (Afghanistan) and Fariba Vafi (Iran) read texts born from a literary engagement with the palace and its history during the Nazi era, drawing on their own experiences of exile and political pressure, in their original languages. Actress Melika Foroutan presents the German translations, and cellist Basilius Alawad accompanies the evening with music. The event is inspired by the Weiter Schreiben interventions and ends with a reception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/exiltexte-kunst-macht-erinnerung-lesung-mit-tania-arcimovich-12534/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bac59a00fc6e07b1c6b537c7dae5d24dad5e3004a3463316b846a6b01b1aecb4-600.webp"}, {"title": "Buchpremiere Olivia Laing „Buch der Träume“", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Georg-Kolbe-Museum", "address": "Sensburger Allee 25, 14055 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/books"], "description": "A book launch for Olivia Laing's novel „Buch der Träume“ with a conversation. The author talks to Kathleen Reinhardt, director of the Georg Kolbe Museum, about Venice as a place of longing and her novel about two men who meet in Venice and plunge into the dream world of Cinecittà, until their excessive lives grow threatening amid Italy's 'Years of Lead'. 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": ""}, {"title": "Krakau unter deutscher Besatzung 1939–1945. Geschichte und Erinnerung", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Topographie des Terrors", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "A panel discussion with a lecture on the history of Kraków under German occupation from 1939 to 1945 and how it is remembered today. Isabel Röskau-Rydel gives the introductory lecture; Edyta Gawron, Stephan Lehnstaedt and Isabel Röskau-Rydel take part in the panel, moderated by Uwe Neumärker. The event sheds light on the everyday life of the various population groups under German civil administration, the persecution of the Jewish population, the ghetto in Podgórze and the Płaszów concentration camp, and the annihilation of the Jewish population and the intellectual elite. It also looks at present-day places and forms of remembrance of the Nazi crimes in Poland's second-largest city.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/krakau-unter-deutscher-besatzung-19391945-geschichte-und-eri-12691/", "official_url": "https://www.topographie.de/veranstaltungen/detail/krakau-unter-deutscher-besatzung-1939-1945-geschichte-und-erinnerung", "image": ""}]}