Conferenze & Letture

Films

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Films

04.05.2025 + 8 additional dates

Polaris and the mystery of the polar night

Films

04.05.2025 + 8 additional dates

James, a penguin from the South Pole traveling around the world, meets polar bear Vladimir in the icy world of the North Pole. Together they look at the stars, wonder about the length of polar nights, and realize they want to know more. Together they build the…

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- Children
- Film events in Berlin
Zeiss-Großplanetarium Zeiss-Großplanetarium

15:00

https://www.planetarium.berlin/veranstaltungen/polaris-und-das-raetsel-der-polarnacht
Workshop

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie von Stillfried

Workshop

04.05.2025 + 3 additional dates

TRANSFORMERS. Build your own convertible mask!

Workshop

04.05.2025 + 3 additional dates

Since time immemorial, the First Nation Kwakwaka`wakw from Canada have been carving masks that open up and can be transformed into various animal and human faces.

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Humboldt Forum - Ethnologisches Museum Humboldt Forum - Ethnologisches Museum

15:00 – 18:00

https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/angebote/fuer-wen/kinder-und-familien/
Reading

© KSB

Reading

04.05.2025

Britzer Lektüren #2 | Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain

Reading

04.05.2025

To mark the 150th anniversary of Thomas Mann's birth, reciter Gunnar Hermann will read from the novel ‘The Magic Mountain’.

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- Literature
Festsaal im Schloss Britz Festsaal im Schloss Britz

16:00

https://schloss-gutshof-britz.de/schloss-britz/veranstaltungen/kalender/britzer-lektueren-2-thomas-mann-der-zauberberg#/

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Reading

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Reading

04.05.2025 + 1 additional date

KURT TUCHOLSKY - YOU DON'T WHISTLE AGAINST AN OCEAN

Reading

04.05.2025 + 1 additional date

Experience the journalistic-literary campaign of the “fat little Berliner who wanted to stop a catastrophe with his typewriter” (Erich Kästner).

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- Literature
Theater im Palais Theater im Palais

16:00

https://www.theater-im-palais.de/event/ein-stueck-illusion
Lecture

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Lecture

04.05.2025 + 9 additional dates

Dunkles Universum

Lecture

04.05.2025 + 9 additional dates

What do people already know about the cosmos and what secrets still need to be deciphered? Dive into the depths of the universe and find out what great discoveries have been made in the last 100 years and what cosmic mysteries still need to be solved. We will…

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Archenhold-Sternwarte Archenhold-Sternwarte

18:00

https://www.planetarium.berlin/veranstaltungen/dunkles-universum?page=2#dates
Films

© Maxim Gorki Theater - 2025, Photos: Fish eye Art Cultural Foundation

Films

04.05.2025

Tevanik

Films

04.05.2025

The lives of three teenage protagonists fall apart in one day, as the first Nagorno-Karabakh war unfolds with full force at the beginning of the 1990s. Told from multiple perspectives, director Jivan Avetisyan’s debut feature starkly dramatizes the horrific…

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- Film events in Berlin
- International
Maxim Gorki Theater Maxim Gorki Theater

18:00 – 20:30

https://www.gorki.de/de/tevanik
Reading

© Promo

Reading

05.05.2025

AKADEMIE FORUM: DANA VON SUFFRIN

Reading

05.05.2025

What holds a family together when there seem to be only centrifugal forces at work, and everything seems to be heading towards something breaking? In the end, only your own story. Dana von Suffrin has written a virtuoso novel about modern Jewish life between…

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- Literature
- Jewish Berlin
Pierre Boulez Saal - Foyer Pierre Boulez Saal - Foyer

18:00

https://prod.pbs-1.io.swhost.in/de/event/akademie-forum-dana-von-suffrin-572381
Lectures & Readings

© Kai Abresch, Nordische Botschaften

Lectures & Readings

05.05.2025

Heroes in dark times

Lectures & Readings

05.05.2025

80 years ago, World War II ended in Europe. In Denmark, the anniversary is commemorated with candles in the window, while in Scandinavia, it is commemorated with memories of resistance and rescue operations such as the Swedish Red Cross's "White Buses," which…

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Nordische Botschaften - Felleshus/Gemeinschaftshaus Nordische Botschaften - Felleshus/Gemeinschaftshaus

18:30

https://mfa-events.dk/weissebusse/conference

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Lecture

© Kulturprojekte Berlin

Lecture

05.05.2025

80 Years of Liberation from National Socialism: Learning from History - Debates, Reflections and Engagement in Youth, Pop and Subcultures

Lecture

05.05.2025

What role do National Socialism, the culture of remembrance, and the fight against misanthropy play in youth, pop, and subcultures?

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Archiv der Jugendkulturen Archiv der Jugendkulturen

19:00
Films

© Centrum Judaicum

Films

05.05.2025 + 1 additional date

Film series “Jewish 1945”: The Road is Long (1948)

Films

05.05.2025 + 1 additional date

As one of the first German feature films to address the fate of Jewish persecution, the film depicts the journey of a Jewish person from Poland who survived the Holocaust and is searching for his mother. He and other displaced persons (DPs) struggle for a new…

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Urania Urania

19:30
Films

© Centrum Judaicum

Films

05.05.2025

Filmreihe Jüdisches 1945: Die Gezeichneten (1948)

Films

05.05.2025

"The Marked Ones" (1948) – A boy separated from his mother after the war wanders through Europe in search of his family. Discussion with Adriana Altaras and Imme Klages.

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Urania Berlin e.V. Urania Berlin e.V.

19:30 – 23:00
Reading

© Lucas Bäuml

Reading

05.05.2025

Literary Excursion No. 116: Lorenz Hemicker "My Grandfather, the Perpetrator. A Search for Clues"

Reading

05.05.2025

In the late autumn of 1941, the SS and their helpers murdered over 27,000 Jews in the Rumbula forest. The pits in which the people were shot were constructed by SS officer Ernst Hemicker. He was never convicted for this.

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- History of National Socialism
- Literature
Renaissance-Theater Berlin / Bruckner-Foyer Renaissance-Theater Berlin / Bruckner-Foyer

19:30

https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/literarischer-streifzug-116-lorenz-hemicker-mein-grossvater-der-taeter-eine-spurensuche-buchpremiere/

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Reading

© Anne Hufnagl

Reading

05.05.2025

Achilles: Lies have fast legs

Reading

05.05.2025

In Achilles' second Berlin crime thriller, Inspector Peer Pedes has to unpack not only his running shoes, but also his hated swimming trunks and his bicycle in order to solve a series of murders.

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- Literature
Pfefferberg - Theater Pfefferberg - Theater

20:00

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Films

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Films

05.05.2025 + 2 additional dates

BEHIND THE COLOURS

Films

05.05.2025 + 2 additional dates

BEHIND THE COLOURS tells the story of Micha, who is trapped for three days in the cavity of a waterfall into which he was sucked by a strong current while mountain climbing.

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fsk-Kino am Oranienplatz fsk-Kino am Oranienplatz

20:00
Lectures & Readings

© Luna Zscharnt

Lectures & Readings

05.05.2025

Sophie Rois liest anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstags Texte des intellektuellen Guerillero Wolfgang Pohrt

Lectures & Readings

05.05.2025

Sophie Rois reads texts by Wolfgang Pohrt, including texts about love and money in Balzac and the statement “Life is dying”.

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- Literature
Volksbühne - Roter Salon Volksbühne - Roter Salon

20:00 – 22:00

https://www.volksbuehne.berlin/#/de/veranstaltungen/sophie-rois-liest-anlaesslich-seines-80-geburtstags-texte-des-intellektuellen-guerillero-wolfgang-pohrt

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Reading

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Reading

05.05.2025 + 1 additional date

Walzer für Niemand

Reading

05.05.2025 + 1 additional date

Songwriter Sophie Hunger reads from her profound, poetic, tragicomic and sophisticated coming-of-age novel, which tells of what people have to lose in order to become something.

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- City of music
- Literature
Berliner Ensemble: Großes Haus Berliner Ensemble: Großes Haus

20:00

https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/walzer-fuer-niemand

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Lecture

© tic / Friedel Kantaut

Lecture

06.05.2025 + 13 additional dates

Unendliche Weiten (Infinite expanses)

Lecture

06.05.2025 + 13 additional dates

Experience the beginning of our universe 13.7 billion years ago and watch how structures, stars and galaxies are formed. The universe is very dynamic: stars live and die, galaxies are born, collide with others and merge - a constant coming and going.

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Zeiss-Großplanetarium Zeiss-Großplanetarium

12:00

https://www.planetarium.berlin/veranstaltungen/unendliche-weiten
Lecture

© Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Foto Jens Ziehe

Lecture

06.05.2025

Symposium Robbery without Restitution: the Portrait of Walther Silberstein by Lovis Corinth (1923)

Lecture

06.05.2025

The Jewish Museum Berlin invites you to a symposium on May 6, 2025, to mark the donation of the painting Portrait of Walther Silberstein (1923) by Lovis Corinth. Titled "Looting Without Restitution: The Portrait of Walther Silberstein by Lovis Corinth (1923),"…

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W. M. Blumenthal Akademie W. M. Blumenthal Akademie

14:30
Lectures & Readings

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Verein / Jörg P. Anders

Lectures & Readings

06.05.2025

Academy lecture series: Visual worlds in the age of cathedrals

Lectures & Readings

06.05.2025

The importance of the Middle Ages for shaping Europe's identity was recently demonstrated again at the solemn consecration of the restored Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. This lecture series will introduce the Gothic era in architecture and painting.

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- History
Kulturforum Kulturforum

15:00 – 16:00

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=149044
Reading

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Reading

06.05.2025 + 7 additional dates

Reading Afternoon on Tuesday

Reading

06.05.2025 + 7 additional dates

Come by and enjoy fantastic stories at the library.

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Heinrich-Böll-Bibliothek Heinrich-Böll-Bibliothek

17:00

https://www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-pankow/bibliotheken/heinrich-boell-bibliothek/veranstaltungen/
Lecture

© Kulturprojekte Berlin

Lecture

06.05.2025

80 years of liberation in Berlin and Hohenschönhausen

Lecture

06.05.2025

May 8, 1945, marked the end of the Nazi regime in Germany – including in Berlin and what is now the Hohenschönhausen district. The Red Army had already occupied the Lichtenberg district in April. However, liberation also marked the transition to a new…

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- History of National Socialism
- Free of charge
Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen

18:00

https://www.stiftung-hsh.de/ihr-besuch/veranstaltungen/80-jahre-befreiung