{"title": "Einar Schleef", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Delphi LUX", "address": "Kantstraße 10, 10623 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "stage/theatre"], "description": "A special screening with a following film talk, showing the documentary “EINAR SCHLEEF – ICH HABE KEIN DEUTSCHLAND GEFUNDEN” in the presence of director Sandra Prechtel. The film portrays Einar Schleef, who was a theatre maker, stage designer, writer, photographer, painter and filmmaker, and never found a home in either Germany. With his monumental productions he pushed the boundaries of theatre and upset expectations in East and West alike. From the archives emerges a universal artist: “I am not a human being, I am dynamite”.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/einar-schleef-22207/", "official_url": "https://www.yorck.de/specials/special-screening-einar-schleef", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/71ea160b759381919eed6b083bd77b15b744be4e4f2e926848adb205efb2ab12-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Delphi LUX", "address": "Kantstraße 10, 10623 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Einar Schleef – Ich habe kein Deutschland gefunden", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "€7 – €9 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/das-getraeumte-abenteuer/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "stage/theatre"], "description": "The documentary „Einar Schleef – Ich habe kein Deutschland gefunden“ portrays the theater-maker and all-round artist Einar Schleef, who died far too early in 2001, having fled from the East and never arrived in the West. Director Sandra Prechtel composed a richly faceted portrait from historical footage, interviews and archive material of a defiant loner with an enfant terrible reputation. The film tells of theater, the repressive mechanisms of postwar society and, unlike familiar accounts, of German-German reality. It premiered in the Forum of the 2026 Berlinale and won the Documentary Audience Award at the NFF and the CLIO Award 2026.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/einar-schleef-ich-habe-kein-deutschland-gefunden-8525/", "official_url": "https://www.filmgalerie451.de/de/filme/einar-schleef-ich-habe-kein-deutschland-gefunden", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/f69baadd571de498be47814603860def6ae0169f7a72db07b098e04de4705e1b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Marie Schleef: The Gap as a Source of Inspiration: Toward a Feminist Theater Practice", "start": "2026-10-30T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ZK/U", "address": "Siemensstraße 27, 10551 Berlin", "price": "Free admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "A lecture by theatre director Marie Schleef offering a personal insight into her artistic practice and how exploring the unknown, the forgotten and the unseen became a driving force in her work. Drawing on theatrical and non-theatrical projects, she shows how she turned the gap — supposedly an empty and void space — into a vessel of inspiration and a foundation for her feminist theatre approach, while also contextualizing the German theater world and its system. Schleef is a Berlin-based director especially interested in staging texts (by women) never performed before; she studied directing at the \"Ernst Busch\" Academy of Dramatic Arts and worked as an assistant director at the Volksbühne Berlin. The talk is part of the series \"Talks on Curatorial Practice 2026/2027\", is held in English, admission is free, and on-site participation requires no registration.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/marie-schleef-the-gap-as-a-source-of-inspiration-toward-a-fe-10145/", "official_url": "https://www.zku-berlin.org/timeline/marie-schleef-the-gap-as-a-source-of-inspiration-toward-a-feminist-theater-practice/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/140b2ebccc23f48dcb1b1818ce35055320b0087e4189e05afb26cf9c1d1b1808-600.webp"}, {"title": "Führung in Einfacher Sprache | Christoph Schlingensief: Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine", "start": "2026-11-08T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gropius-Bau", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/gropius-bau/besuch/informationen#tickets_gb", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A guided tour in Easy Language through the exhibition \"Christoph Schlingensief: Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine\" at the Gropius Bau. The artist Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010) used his works to cast an unsparing eye on the challenges of the present day. Participation is limited to 20 people. An exhibition ticket is required; meeting point is the Welcome Desk in the foyer.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/fuhrung-in-einfacher-sprache-christoph-schlingensief-es-ist-20166/", "official_url": "https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/gropius-bau/programm/2026/ausstellungen/christoph-schlingensief/veranstaltungen/schlingensief-fuehrung-einfache-sprache", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/fba3bfa47e2973c4e19dd676d916f5a39e6d352b9da81e568ae8e77917fe304e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Splitter", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "OST", "address": "Alt-Stralau 1-2, 10245 Berlin", "price": "Karten zum halben Preis für junge Menschen bis 18 Jahre und ihre Begleitung (nur über den Besucher*i", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/biographical", "history/gdr"], "description": "\"Splitter\" is a biographical theatre piece that collects memories of the GDR – flavoured by plum cake, old paper, crackling telephones or a particular shade of green – and reassembles them collage-like. Through stories, letters, lyrics, music and interactive moments, it traces a past that today often survives only in fragments. The piece was developed from the performers' own family histories, shaped by experiences of fleeing, leaving and staying behind, and asks what the GDR still has to do with us. Directed by Anna Vera Kelle, it is performed by Jana Heilmann, Yasmina Hempel and Marcus Thomas, lasts 90 minutes and is suitable from age 14.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/splitter-58070/", "official_url": "https://www.theater-strahl.de/programm/splitter/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/caace0a6916f12c7b3382d95dfb8d010446288f526804eda98172f942492959c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Christoph Schlingensief: Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gropius-Bau", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin", "price": "15 € / ermäßigt 10 €", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/gropius-bau/besuch/informationen#tickets_gb", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "Christoph Schlingensief: Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine is an exhibition at Gropius Bau. It is presented by Gropius Bau / Berliner Festspiele alongside Wiener Festwochen | Freie Republik Wien and MAK – Museum für Angewandte Kunst, under the curation of Raphael Gygax with Dalwin Kryeziu and Christopher Wierling. The show covers the genre-crossing output of Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010), ranging from political actions via theatre, opera and film to fine art. It begins with the large-scale installation Kaprow City in the freely accessible atrium and unfolds across eight rooms of installations and video works set in context by documentary film and archive material.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/christoph-schlingensief-es-ist-nicht-mehr-mein-problem-macht-12014/", "official_url": "https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/gropius-bau/programm/2026/ausstellungen/christoph-schlingensief", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/7a9741285382714efcf81d6b22b4b1b7ebe703920ac82589f0746749b43c6891-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Biermann", "start": "2026-10-29T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kino Toni & Tonino", "address": "1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "10,-- €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.kino-union.de/programm", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/folk/singer-songwriter", "film/documentary", "history/gdr"], "description": "\"Biermann\" is a documentary about the life and work of the poet and singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann. Jens Meurer, a winner of the European Film Award and the Golden Globe, traces Biermann's biography as an immediate, close-up retrospective, combining personal memories with political contemporary history. At its center are Biermann's origins, his turn to music, his work in the GDR, the Cologne concert of 1976 and its consequences, and his artistic work up to the present. The camera follows the 90-year-old at meetings with young artists, politicians and his family, weaving the footage into a collage of historical documents and previously unpublished archive footage.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/biermann-8778/", "official_url": "http://tilsiter-lichtspiele.de/kinoprogramm.html", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/fe826c1f3087bbf126f0e2a89841744035e6f33d5bb393ee8d6e6dfc03c28819-2000.webp"}, {"title": "SOHLE EINS-ACHTZIG", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schaubude Berlin", "address": "Greifswalder Straße 81-84, 10405 Berlin", "price": "10,00 €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://schaubude.reservix.de/p/reservix/event/2610097", "category": "theatre", "tags": [], "description": "\"SOHLE EINS-ACHTZIG\" is a machine comedy for phonola and theatrum mundi, a puppet theatre piece followed by a discussion. Puppeteer Moritz Schönbrodt and composer Johannes Kürschner tell of Heiko, a man believed dead who resurfaces with the earth one 26 March. When rubble buried him, coal was still black gold; now he stands as an undead figure in a new world of lakes, forests and overgrowing grass. Using contemporary music, a historical player piano and mechanical theatre, the piece explores failing to forget the past.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/sohle-eins-achtzig-16729/", "official_url": "https://schaubude.berlin/de/spielplan/sohle-eins-achtzig/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/495aa584a3fb967af2dff0eb10482e4701be9a131dce8de697ebabc11bb58bcc-600.webp"}, {"title": "Matinee für Dieter Sturm", "start": "2026-11-08T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz", "address": "Kurfürstendamm 153, 10709 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://schaubuehne.eventim-inhouse.de/webshop/webticket/shop?event=13887", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "A matinee where friends, companions and ensemble members remember Dieter Sturm. Sturm was a co-founder and longtime chief dramaturg of the Schaubühne. His life and work, his great curiosity and his passionate understanding of theatre as socially relevant art are honoured. Together they bid farewell to a significant theatre artist whose work shaped the Schaubühne for decades.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/matinee-fur-dieter-sturm-9916/", "official_url": "https://www.schaubuehne.de/de/produktionen/matinee-fuer-dieter-sturm-2.html?ID_Vorstellung=7301&m=398", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/82a2ff87eaf64e36ee9db96065f50fca3990a5773a39a6056a29c781af5f93bf-600.webp"}, {"title": "Splitter", "start": "2026-10-24T11:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-03-05T11:00:00+01:00", "place": "Theater Strahl, Ostkreuz", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.designeroutletberlin.com/stories/sonntag-shoppen/?source=bde", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/biographical", "history/gdr"], "description": "\"Splitter\" is a biographical theatre piece at Theater Strahl, suitable from age 14 and 90 minutes long. It collects fragments of memory such as smells, objects, letters and photo albums and reassembles them. The search for traces leads back to a country that no longer exists: the GDR. The piece was developed from the performers' own family stories shaped by escape, emigration and staying (or being left behind), and asks what the GDR still has to do with us.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/splitter-16796/", "official_url": "https://www.theater-strahl.de/programm/splitter/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/cc314b4c12579072a64c25c0788acbe64f30e6e1c0ce5f7e42009ae73d1da1ff-600.webp"}, {"title": "Lebensläufe", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Zeughauskino", "address": "Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin", "price": "5 €", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/germany"], "description": "„Klassenphoto – Erinnerungen deutscher Bürger“ is a two-part documentary by Eberhard Fechner. It shows history „from below“ – as ordinary people experienced and helped shape the twentieth century – based on hours-long interviews without verbal commentary. The film screens in a retrospective marking the director's 100th birthday, with which the Zeughauskino and the Deutsche Kinemathek invite audiences to rediscover his work. An introduction accompanies the screening.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/lebenslaufe-12765/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/2467c96682fb4fa2dfa0fa067640c4328d9dbf56069aa38e67e18a1df425fdc1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Vaterland", "start": "2026-10-29T11:45:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kino im Kulturhaus Spandau", "address": "Mauerstraße 6, 13597 Berlin", "price": "8,-- € (Kinotag)", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.kinoheld.de/kino/berlin/b-ware-ladenkino/vorstellung/3681289165/vaterland?target=self&mode=widget&appView=1&ref=indie", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/postwar-germany"], "description": "The cinema screens the feature film „Vaterland“, a German-language production from Germany, Poland, Italy and France. After the Second World War, Nobel laureate in literature Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, an actress, author and cabaret artist, travel through a Germany in ruins, from Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar. Pawel Pawlikowski directs, with Hanns Zischler, Sandra Hüller, August Diehl and Devid Striesow in the cast. For the first time since the war, Mann returns to the homeland he once fled into exile – a journey into the wounded German soul that becomes a journey inward for father and daughter.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/vaterland-8496/", "official_url": "https://moviemento.de/film/vaterland/3679977113", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/c1bced9a4d4227c9c0781c17d98bf83b5b3ae0a517f7b2710179183d6d6a741f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "HILDEGARD KNEF: ICH GLAUB‘, ‚NE DAME WERD‘ ICH NIE", "start": "2026-11-01T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T16:00:00+01:00", "place": "Theater im Palais", "address": "Am Festungsgraben 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Sonderpreis: 15,-€ pro Person", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.reservix.de/berlin/venue/theater-im-palais-berlin/v16794", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "music/chanson"], "description": "„HILDEGARD KNEF: ICH GLAUB', 'NE DAME WERD' ICH NIE“ is a theatre evening at the Theater im Palais in Berlin, a portrait of a modern woman. With texts and Hildegard Knef's unforgettable songs, Carl Martin Spengler (acting, vocals) and Jürgen Beyer (piano) paint a picture of the Berliner who had three brilliant careers as an actress, chanson singer and author. The stage version is by Ildiko Bognar, the musical arrangement by Ute Falkenau. The show portrays a woman of extremes who was always ahead of her time in her thinking and actions.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/hildegard-knef-ich-glaub-ne-dame-werd-ich-nie-8093/", "official_url": "https://www.theater-im-palais.de/event/hildegard-knef-ich-glaub-ne-dame-werd-ich-nie/2026-10-21/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/8a10e8a82bf7d2e9abe09f74adf8d6a401545c95a58ad38f373e5b3d04db4424-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Angabe der Person", "start": "2026-10-30T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T22:00:00+01:00", "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ticket.deutschestheater.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/eventlist?language=de&production=5713", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "\"Angabe der Person\" is a theatre play by Elfriede Jelinek at the Deutsches Theater, in which tax investigators search private premises and confiscate papers. On those papers gather the stories of a long life, mostly of the dead, while a voice looks back on its own life's course. It tells of Jewish family history, flight and persecution, compensation of perpetrators, and old and new Nazis. It is directed by Jossi Wieler, who has worked closely with Jelinek for thirty years; the award-winning premiere production here marks its 50th performance.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/angabe-der-person-4394/", "official_url": "https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/angabe-der-person", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/f587103cc27bb6273ae4e70325ed12f118e37a82b17794b37282e2a12d195229-600.webp"}, {"title": "Former East / Former West", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/naza/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/reunification"], "description": "A documentary based on hundreds of street interviews conducted in Berlin two years after reunification, showing what it meant to be German at that particular point in history. The New York artist Shelly Silver questions the notion of a shared language by focusing on shifting definitions of political and economic terms such as democracy, freedom, capitalism and socialism, and of words describing nations and identities such as nationality, Germany, history, foreigner and home. She explores the tension between the public and the private, the narrative and the documentary, and the relationship between subject and object of contemplation. Her works have been exhibited worldwide, including at MoMA in New York, the Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/former-east-former-west-9413/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/former-east-former-west/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/4028d731bd9108dfb1c3260ecf594c4de98ab8cd86c08b949f38e6fe66a16f0e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "DOKUMENTARFILM MAL ANDERS", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturhaus Karlshorst", "address": "Treskowallee 112, 10318 Berlin", "price": "5 € / Ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://samuraimuseum.de/event/hollywood-meets-the-samurai-uma-thurman-berlin/?source=bde", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history"], "description": "A documentary film titled „Grenzland“ is being shown. Andreas Voigt wrote it and directed it. The 2020 film is about home and belonging in the German-Polish border region. Admission costs 5 €, reduced 3 €.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/dokumentarfilm-mal-anders-33801/", "official_url": "https://karlshorst.de/event/dokumentarfilm-mal-anders-grenzland/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/c1cc573d2f4ba3fc0143adbf9359792cc83c9ade40b7c7744b9b825eeeb8cb01-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Heimsuchung", "start": "2026-10-29T14:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Filmtheater am Friedrichshain", "address": "Bötzowstraße 1-5, 10407 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.kino-union.de/programm", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "literature/adaptation"], "description": "The cinema filmkunst 66 is showing the film \"Heimsuchung – Eine Jahrhundertgeschichte\". Volker Schlöndorff adapted Jenny Erpenbeck's 2007 novel, telling how four families experience one plot of land by a Brandenburg lake over a century. Its changing inhabitants live through the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the war, the GDR and reunification while searching for home and belonging. Lars Eidinger, Martina Gedeck, Susanne Wolff, Ulrich Matthes, Detlev Buck and Michael Maertens appear in the film.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/heimsuchung-9239/", "official_url": "https://www.kino-union.de/detail/82964/Heimsuchung-Eine_Jahrhundertgeschichte?Slider", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/d044a87681a935592a153dc1ccc575a779696fedcedaac72e01d485e1892f763-1200.webp"}]}