Gaze up at the starry sky during the talks at the planetarium. Or listen to well-known authors as they read from their books, bringing them to life. You’ll find a wide range of talks on a variety of topics at the Urania, for example.
Lectures & Readings © visitBerlin, Foto Wolfgang Scholvien Lectures & Readings ZEIT FORUM Health: Depression – The Underestimated Illness Lectures & Readings One in five to six Germans will experience depression at some point in their lives—more than five million people each year. Read more
Lectures & Readings © Moritz Haase Lectures & Readings 09/11/2026 ZEIT-Recherchen: War Opa ein Nazi? Lectures & Readings 09/11/2026 Millions of Germans were members of the Wehrmacht and the NSDAP, yet many of their descendants knew nothing about it. Recently, anyone has… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Maxim Gorki Theater - 2026 Lectures & Readings ZEKAMERONE Lectures & Readings On 5 February 2023, the Gorki hosted a book presentation of Zekamerone, announcing it with »Maxim Znak, a brilliant lawyer and prominent… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Willi van Hengel Lectures & Readings Zersehnt – The Poetry of Ambitious Misconduct Lectures & Readings Let yourself be swept away by a performance about loneliness, shattering, and the tremulous longing for healing—an evening filled with… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Bode-Museum / Lia Darjes Lectures & Readings Zieh mich neu an! Style-Update für antike Held:innen Lectures & Readings Venus, Hermes or Heracles need a style update. How were the goddesses and heroes of antiquity portrayed over a thousand years later? What… Read more
Lectures & Readings © (c) Tony Elieh Lectures & Readings 11/11/2026 Zone Null & Dora Bleu Lectures & Readings 11/11/2026 The duo Zone Null and Dora Bleu come together in a live performance that interprets language and sound as equal, interwoven forms of… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Arne Vogelgesang Lectures & Readings Zwillingswelten Lectures & Readings Read more
Lectures & Readings © visitBerlin Lectures & Readings "a rhyme" – Book launch with reading & sound performance by Sophia Barthelmes & Alexey Kokhanov Lectures & Readings Sophia Barthelmes will read from her new collection that evening. Voice and performance artist Alexey Kokhanov, who has written compositions… Read more
Lectures & Readings © visitBerlin Lectures & Readings "Contemporary witnesses in conversation" - escape helper Boris Franzke Lectures & Readings Boris Franzke (born in 1937) was one of the most active escape tunnel builders in Berlin in the early 1960s. He was involved in the… Read more
Lectures & Readings © visitBerlin Lectures & Readings "HE HAS RISEN, WHO HAS SURFACED FOR A LONG TIME" (THE WAR, 1911, GEORG HEYM) Lectures & Readings Sigrid Grajek and Jens-Karsten Stoll embark on a literary exploration of the beginning of the last century, when, after a long period of… Read more
Lectures & Readings © visitBerlin Lectures & Readings "Mein Vater, der Spion" Lectures & Readings Reading by Jürgen Tatzkow from "My Father, the Spy" – on behalf of the CIA and the Stasi. (in German) Read more
Lectures & Readings © visitBerlin Lectures & Readings "Top Girls" – Reading and discussion with Ana Drezga & Lea-Liane Winkler Lectures & Readings Ana Drezga's debut novel, "Top Girls" (2025), is a big-city novel about nights when anything seems possible. That evening, Ana Drezga will… Read more
Lectures & Readings © visitBerlin Lectures & Readings "Wherever we go, everything is luminous" – Feminist Literature & Illustration in dialogue with Anuscha Zbikowski & Lina Gröttrup Lectures & Readings That evening, Lina Gröttrup and Anuscha Zbikowski will talk about their feminist approaches in their art, read, show and exchange ideas… Read more
Lectures & Readings © visitBerlin Lectures & Readings “…to remove them from the list of members” Lectures & Readings With these words, architect Erich Mendelsohn was informed in November 1933 that he was no longer a member of the German Werkbund (DWB)… Read more
Lectures & Readings © visitBerlin Lectures & Readings “My Father, Bin Laden and I” Lectures & Readings ‘My Father, Bin Laden and I’, taking 11 September 2001 as its starting point, explores (post-)migrant life stories, weaving together… Read more
Lectures & Readings © visitBerlin Lectures & Readings “The world is a song - creation in rhyme and sound” Lectures & Readings “The world is a song – creation in rhyme and sound” invites you to a poetic encounter with the beauty of nature at the Nature Poetry Evening… Read more
Lectures & Readings © visitBerlin Lectures & Readings 21/10/2026 »Too Fragile to Scan«. Addressing the Physical Challenges of Film Material Lectures & Readings 21/10/2026 This presentation by Digital Film Technology (DFT) is aimed at archivists, film conservators and specialists involved in the preservation of… Read more
Lectures & Readings © visitBerlin Lectures & Readings 20 Years of the Documentation Centre for Nazi Forced Labour Lectures & Readings For 20 years now, the Documentation Centre for Nazi Forced Labour has been a place of remembrance, learning and encounter. We warmly invite… Read more
Lectures & Readings © visitBerlin Lectures & Readings 27/12/2026 2027 kann kommen – Martensteins beste Kolumnen Lectures & Readings 27/12/2026 When columnist Harald Martenstein dissects the festive season, it becomes anything but contemplative. Amidst burning Christmas trees, lost… Read more
Lectures & Readings © visitBerlin Lectures & Readings A guest in the vending machine Lectures & Readings Visiting the Automat - a lecture by Alwin Cubasch (cultural studies scholar, HU) on the rise and fall of vending machine restaurants. Read more
Lectures & Readings © visitBerlin Lectures & Readings A new play about love Lectures & Readings In the "Love Lab," participants transform the theater stage into a space of love, celebrating their bodies, boldly exploring questions about… Read more
