Conférences & Lectures

Reading

© Lissia Silva

Reading

08.01.2026 + 4 additional dates

Portuguese Reading Circle

Reading

08.01.2026 + 4 additional dates

The book being read is “A cabeça do santo” by Socorro Acioli. The Portuguese Reading Circle / Roda de leitura is a monthly meeting to exchange impressions while reading a novel in Portuguese.

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Bibliothek am Wasserturm Bibliothek am Wasserturm

10:30

https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=252142&ls=0&c=409&v_ort=37541&date_start=01.09.2025
Lecture

© Jana Edisonga

Lecture

08.01.2026

Studio 9. The Day with Georg Mascolo. Deutschlandfunk Kultur - live from the Humboldt Forum

Lecture

08.01.2026

For a pretzel, for a word. Deutschlandfunk Kultur invites to the live radio show from the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. Be there when they welcome a prominent guest from culture, science, media or politics to the Mechanical Arena. Have an engaging conversation…

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- Free of charge
- Politics & Society
Humboldt Forum - Foyer Humboldt Forum - Foyer

11:50 – 13:00

https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/programm/event-reihe/talk/studio-9-der-tag-mit-57997/
Top événement

Workshop

Affichage

© Nihad Nino Pušija

Top événement

Workshop

23.01.2026

Settling in. From collapse to chance?

Top événement

Workshop

23.01.2026

Panel Discussion & Concert: From refugee to recognized personality — few have mastered the journey from fleeing the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina to successfully settling in Germany or Austria. But what does it take to truly arrive?

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- Free of charge
- Accessible Events
Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung

18:00

https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/ankommen-vom-zerfall-zum-zufall/?source=bde

Plus d'information
Workshop

© Katalin Poege

Workshop

08.01.2026 + 3 additional dates

Workshop Let it snow

Workshop

08.01.2026 + 3 additional dates

Craft workshop as part of the "Sweating & Freezing" exhibition.

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- Children
MACHmit! Museum für Kinder MACHmit! Museum für Kinder

14:00 – 18:00

https://machmitmuseum.de
Workshop

© Bild: Syda_Productions/Depositphotos.com

Workshop

08.01.2026 + 4 additional dates

3D Technology for Kids

Workshop

08.01.2026 + 4 additional dates

Printing, Laser Cutting and Milling for children ages 6 and up.

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- Children
- Free of charge
Heinrich-Böll-Bibliothek Heinrich-Böll-Bibliothek

16:00

https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=241711&ls=0&c=409&v_ort=41678&date_start=01.09.2025
Reading

Affichage

© Foto Zaucke

Reading

23.01.2026 + 1 additional date

Manfred Krug: „Abgehauen“

Reading

23.01.2026 + 1 additional date

In an exciting interplay of music and narration, Krug's diary entries merge with his song lyrics to form a concert reading that brings to life the moving events surrounding his departure from the GDR – touching and surprisingly topical. With Ludwig Blochberger…

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- Around Kurfürstendamm
- Berlin's neighbourhoods
Renaissance-Theater Berlin Renaissance-Theater Berlin

19:30

https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/manfred-krug-abgehauen/?source=bde

Billets & Dates
Lecture

© How & Nosm / Kulturprojekte Berlin und Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Foto: Oana Popa-Costea

Lecture

08.01.2026

Berlin and the world. Training for primary school teachers

Lecture

08.01.2026

After a one-hour tour of BERLIN GLOBAL, primary school teachers can try out examples from the action-oriented workshops for primary school children in the WELTSTUDIO.

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- Accessible Events
- Free of charge
Humboldt Forum: Berlin Ausstellung, 1. OG Humboldt Forum: Berlin Ausstellung, 1. OG

16:00 – 18:15

https://www.humboldtforum.org

Acheter les billets
Workshop

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Workshop

08.01.2026 + 4 additional dates

Explanation and Repair Café

Workshop

08.01.2026 + 4 additional dates

Recycling – For the Sake of the Environment - Self-help support for small repairs for co-creators and participants

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- Sustainability
- Free of charge
Heinrich-Böll-Bibliothek Heinrich-Böll-Bibliothek

16:00

https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=241708&ls=0&c=409&v_ort=41678&date_start=01.09.2025
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Reading

Affichage

© Christina Schmidt

Top événement

Reading

15.01.2026

Book Launch: House of the Dreiseitels

Top événement

Reading

15.01.2026

Book launch with author Christina Schmidt. This book is a personal search for traces of the Dreiseitel family, who lived for generations as part of the German minority in Eastern Galicia (now Ukraine) until resettlement and expulsion in 1939 abruptly changed…

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- Free of charge
- Accessible Events
Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung

18:30

https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/das-haus-der-dreiseitels-eine-galizische-familiengeschichte/?source=bde

Plus d'information
Lecture

© tic / Friedel Kantaut

Lecture

08.01.2026 + 10 additional dates

Wir sind nicht allein (We are not alone) - Auf der Suche nach Leben im All (In search of life in space)

Lecture

08.01.2026 + 10 additional dates

For millennia, mankind believed that the Earth was at the centre of the universe. Since the first view through a telescope, our perspective has changed radically. Today we know: Our sun is just one ordinary star among hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky…

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Zeiss-Großplanetarium Zeiss-Großplanetarium

17:00

https://www.planetarium.berlin/veranstaltungen/wir-sind-nicht-allein
Workshop

© visitBerlin

Workshop

08.01.2026

Open Lab Evening: 3D Printers

Workshop

08.01.2026

This Open Lab evening will feature participants exploring the dream tool of all three-dimensional enthusiasts – the 3D printer! Are you interested in 3D printers and looking for a beginner's course on the subject? Then come to the Open Lab evening for a simple…

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- Free of charge
Futurium Futurium

17:00 – 20:00

https://futurium.de/de/open-lab-abend/open-lab-abend-3d-drucker-2-2
Reading

© Promo

Reading

08.01.2026 + 2 additional dates

The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen

Reading

08.01.2026 + 2 additional dates

Hans Christian Andersen's fantastic coming-of-age fairy tale has moved generations with his fantastical fairy tale.

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- Literature
Theater am Frankfurter Tor Theater am Frankfurter Tor

18:00

Acheter les billets
Workshop

© MOR für Wikimedia Deutschland, Fotos von Erik Lucatero, Jonnelle Yankovich und Ethan De Long von Unsplash, CC BY-SA 4.0

Workshop

08.01.2026

Youth edits Wikipedia

Workshop

08.01.2026

The event series ‘Youth edits’ is organised by the Jungwikipedians. This is a community in which young people not only get involved in Free Knowledge and learn how to edit and create Wikipedia articles, but can also make new friends.

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- Politics & Society
- Teenager
18:00 – 21:00

https://www.wikimedia.de/veranstaltungen/jugend-editiert/
Reading

© Maxim Gorki Theater - 2025

Reading

08.01.2026

BRING MICH FORT AUS DIESER STILLE: GEDICHTE

Reading

08.01.2026

In November 2024, İlhan Sami Çomak was released after 30 years in a Turkish prison. The multiaward- winning poet wrote ten poetry collections, an autobiography, and a play during his internment. The poetry collection Bring mich fort aus dieser Stille (Take me…

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- Literature
- International
Maxim Gorki Theater: Studio Я Maxim Gorki Theater: Studio Я

18:30

https://www.gorki.de/de/bring-mich-fort-aus-dieser-stille-gedichte
Films

© Salzgeber

Films

08.01.2026

Drawing lines. A film by Gerd Kroske

Films

08.01.2026

Film screening in conjunction with the exhibition "Today, Tomorrow: Cinematic Perspectives on Berlin around 1990" at the nGbK. With director Gerd Kroske.

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nGbK / neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst nGbK / neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst

19:00 – 21:00

https://www.stadtmuseum.de/veranstaltungen/striche-ziehen-ein-film-von-gerd-kroske
Lecture

© Studio Pandan

Lecture

08.01.2026

Spätschicht x Schwules Museum

Lecture

08.01.2026

For the first edition of Spätschicht (Late Shift) in the new year, the Gropius Bau, in collaboration with the Schwules Museum (Gay Museum), has created a program that opens up a space for a queer perspective, one that confronts societal impositions with a…

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- Free of charge
- LGBTI
Gropius-Bau Gropius-Bau

19:00 – 22:00

https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/gropius-bau/programm/2026/veranstaltungen/spaetschicht-x-schwules-museum
Lectures & Readings

© Foto: Sasha Stone, 1927 © Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur

Lectures & Readings

08.01.2026

The new edition of Benjamin's essay 'Goethe's Elective Affinities'

Lectures & Readings

08.01.2026

Walter Benjamin's essay on Goethe's famous novel Elective Affinities (1809) was controversial from the outset.

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- Literature
Akademie der Künste Pariser Platz Akademie der Künste Pariser Platz

19:00 – 21:00

https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/2026/01/die-neuedition-von-benjamins-essay-goethes-wahlverwandtschaften/534017
Films

© Ulrike Ottinger, Freak Orlando, film still, 1981, courtesy of Arsenal Filminstitut

Films

08.01.2026

Ulrike Ottinger: Freak Orlando

Films

08.01.2026

As part of the January edition of Spätschicht, developed in collaboration with the Schwules Museum (Gay Museum), the Gropius Bau will screen the 1981 film Freak Orlando. Ulrike Ottinger, the artist and creator of the film, will be present during the screening.

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- Free of charge
- Film events in Berlin
Gropius-Bau Gropius-Bau

19:00 – 21:45

https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/gropius-bau/programm/2026/veranstaltungen/spaetschicht-x-schwules-museum/ulrike-ottinger-freak-orlando
Lecture

© Florian Bolk

Lecture

08.01.2026

Bernhard Moser: reMENÜscenes – Memories of a Restaurant Critic –

Lecture

08.01.2026

If you want to know how wine seminar participants become alcoholics, how an ice wine becomes a “polar bear harvest” or what it feels like to dine in restaurants that turn out to be Potemkin villages – then this evening is the right place for you.

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- On Tour
BKA Theater BKA Theater

20:00

Acheter les billets
Lecture

© Kiezpoeten

Lecture

08.01.2026

Champions Slam – Poetry Slam Stars

Lecture

08.01.2026

At the Best-of-Poetry Slam in the Berlin Philharmonie, the art of language meets the grand stage: The rebellious child of high literature presents itself in festive attire at the Champions Slam.

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- On Tour
Philharmonie Berlin – Kammermusiksaal Philharmonie Berlin – Kammermusiksaal

20:00

https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/konzerte/kalender/56917

Acheter les billets
Lecture

© Hugo Tepest © Foto: Lee Everett Thieler

Lecture

08.01.2026

Hugo Tepest: Sind Penisse real?

Lecture

08.01.2026

At this year's first edition of Spätschicht, Hugo Tepest will offer insights into his essay "Are Penises Real?" This essay explores transition, self-perception, penises, and society. The reading and subsequent discussion will be moderated by Lee Everett…

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- Free of charge
- LGBTI
Gropius-Bau Gropius-Bau

20:00 – 21:00

https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/gropius-bau/programm/2026/veranstaltungen/spaetschicht-x-schwules-museum/sind-penisse-real