{"title": "Olivia Laing »Buch der Träume«", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://literatur-berlin.tickettoaster.de/produkte/4249-tickets-olivia-laing-buch-der-traeume-literaturhaus-berlin-berlin-am-04-11-2026", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A book premiere in the Großer Saal of the Literaturhaus Berlin: author Olivia Laing presents her new novel »Buch der Träume«, in English, with the German passages read by actress Veronika Bachfischer. In conversation with Kathleen Reinhardt, director of the Georg Kolbe Museum and curator of the German Pavilion at the 61. Biennale di Venezia 2026, she speaks about Venice as a place of longing, le belli arti and the novel. The novel tells of a penniless young English artist's encounter with the visionary costume and production designer Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema. The two travel to Rome and surrender themselves to the intoxicating dream world of Cinecittà in Italy's politically tense »Years of Lead« – a hypnotic, captivatingly told novel about power and illusion, loneliness and uncompromising desire.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/olivia-laing-buch-der-traume-201/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/olivia-laing-buch-der-traeume/", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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://go-gnocchi.app/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": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/963dfc3ce2312221f7c1557dd52600717f2b139338417b53806f2bc00df01532-2000.webp"}, {"title": "VOCI IN TRANSITO (it)", "start": "2026-11-07T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Buchhandlung a Livraria", "address": "Torstraße 159, 10115 Berlin", "price": "Freies Angebot / free donation", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/italian-literature"], "description": "A literary reading with Italian authors in Berlin. Lucia Camilloni, Fedra Mincio, Linda Nocera and Daniela Porto read short stories, excerpts from novels, poems and reflections. 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Using selected passages, the two discuss how the novel came about, collaborative writing and engaging literarily with the world in the text.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/zeitlang-lesung-gesprach-mit-claudia-klischat-donata-rigg-16542/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/literatur/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/870ff0a2862205a56ab4d045f4f0af64bf93666e4d58db3b80def87ec42e934c-1200.webp"}, {"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. 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The encounter takes place in an imaginary town on the Adriatic coast, exemplary of the feeling of life in the Italian provinces.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/lesung-mit-massimo-gezzi-adriatica-31328/", "official_url": "https://www.danteconnection.de/2026/10/19/donnerstag-5-november/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/35b236dbda3c04845b2a97aeb07b5ce2e7f0f66bdf6f22905cb2c1ae3897f471-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Özge İnan: \"Die Dichterin\"", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bezirkszentralbibliothek Pablo Neruda", "address": "Frankfurter Allee 14a, 10247 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "The author Özge İnan reads from her novel „Die Dichterin“ at the Bezirkszentralbibliothek Pablo Neruda. The novel follows the celebrated young poet Emma Rodenstock, whose story begins to unravel when a second lyricist claims to have written her texts – a tale of authenticity, classism and the power of scandal. The evening is moderated by TV journalist and book reviewer Georgina Fakunmoju. 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The series focuses on the fellows of the DAAD's Berliner Künstlerprogramm and their connections to the city, and this edition brings together the artists Wang Tuo and Sim Chi Yin, who has lived in Berlin since 2024. The evening begins with a screening of Wang Tuo's most recent work “Ratchet Drill” (2026), followed by a conversation based on a selection of both artists' works, exploring the connections between their practices and how they engage with challenging histories and historical experiences and find ways to speak about them with people outside of those experiences. Wang Tuo weaves historical facts, cultural archives, fiction and mythology into speculative narratives, while Sim Chi Yin uses artistic and archival interventions to question and complicate historiographies and colonial narratives and to explore transgenerational memory.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/a-friend-in-berlin-277/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/a-friend-in-berlin/20261105-1800/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/6c68a80a8a08c14808c9c9a55e4a4feac6f4f3ed54d4d6daa58cdfe35d9349ae-600.webp"}, {"title": "Augen für die Kunst – 50 Ansichten und Deutungen", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt-Bibliothek", "address": "Karolinenstraße 19, 13507 Berlin", "price": "entgeltfrei", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art", "literature"], "description": "A reading from the book \"Augen für die Kunst\", which presents 50 artists of the present and past through one of their paintings, sculptures or installations each. The author Prof. Dr. Hans Dickel and co-author Liane Nelius read selected pointed texts, among others on Giovanni Bellini, Caspar David Friedrich, Henri Matisse and Jeff Wall, in which they describe the works and explore the question of the beautiful and the meaningful. The reading is accompanied by a large-format presentation of the pictures. The event is part of Bühnentausch, a cooperation between the Stadtbibliothek Reinickendorf and the Museum Reinickendorf; admission is free and no registration is required.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/augen-fur-die-kunst-50-ansichten-und-deutungen-12353/", "official_url": "https://museum-reinickendorf.de/termine/augen-fuer-die-kunst-50-ansichten-und-deutungen-lesung-prof-dr-hans-dickel-und-liane-nelius-in-der-humboldt-bibliothek-im-rahmen-von-buehnentausch/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/197220e217f8ecc43cc23bed6dd409fd5b0ba79d31f3255bbdee14b4f8e25d2a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Kunstgespräche", "start": "2026-10-11T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-05T15:00:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "Im Ausstellungsticket inbegriffen", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "Kunstgespräche are conversations with Vivien Anderson and Daniela Fernández Rodríguez. They take place at Haus der Kulturen der Welt as part of »Nicht alle Reisenden folgen Wegen – Humanität als Praxis«, the Berlin Edition of the 36. Bienal de São Paulo. Visitors gather at the counter in the Sylvia Wynter Foyer, and the exhibition ticket covers admission.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/kunstgesprache-8324/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/ad80335ad51a639abf277b9fd09a1bcb6477c3d736f52b672fdb20dbeb306d59-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Silva Marinova / Tatjana Motta", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/eventlist", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["literature", "stage"], "description": "A reading programme of the transnational MEDUSA Festival Berlin in the Roter Salon at the Volksbühne. It presents texts by the Bulgarian author Silva Marinova and the Italian Tatjana Motta, read by Eddy Barroso, Barbara Behrendt, Anton Berman and Aylin Esener, directed by Marie Bues. Marinova's science-fiction play ДЕБЕЛАКЪТ (FETTSACK) follows a writer couple travelling to a slimming clinic on the Moon in the year 2125, while Motta's Notte Bianca (Lange Nacht) accompanies a tourist couple in a city in transition, dealing with migration and belonging. Afterwards there is an audience talk with the authors and the translator Henrieke Markert.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/silva-marinova-tatjana-motta-278/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/reihen-und-projekte/medusa/silva-marinova-tatjana-motta/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/592f76b7ba0be887b6a671252526d94bf80ca41c0948dfe91f1b9d121d005782-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Martin Suter „Ein und Alles“ – Buchpremiere", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Renaissance-Theater Berlin", "address": "Knesebeckstraße 100, 10623 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "44.95", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://visitberlin.reservix.de/tickets-martin-suter/b519d2daf-d75d-4a72-97fe-d94eea54a3ef", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/thriller"], "description": "Martin Suter \"Ein und Alles\" – Book Premiere is a literary evening with Swiss bestselling author Martin Suter, presenting his new novel. It is an elegant thriller about a love stronger than fate: a man disappears, and his wife Mila receives mysterious signs, following the clues halfway around the world to the South Pacific. Together with Bettina Rust, Nora Zukker and other guests, the evening promises captivating stories with surprising twists. With over 10 million books sold, Suter is one of the most popular authors in the German-speaking world.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/martin-suter-ein-und-alles-buchpremiere-16788/", "official_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/martin-suter-ein-und-alles-buchpremiere/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/327c5db8ac22db5c259ae27b71512f4ede6b76ae86262d92814355bf17fe24f3-600.webp"}, {"title": "Info on Books", "start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T23:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kindl - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst", "address": "Am Sudhaus 3, 12053 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://babette-beauty.com/info-on-books/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art", "literature"], "description": "“Info on Books” is a regular event hosted by Café Babette at which artists and art publishers present their latest publications. The series takes place at Café Babette in the Sudhaus of the Kindl - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst. The evening brings together titles such as “Deviations” by Josephin Böttger, “situations_ll_2026” by Anne Wodtcke, “Vor der Verwandlung / Before the Metamorphosis” by Bettina Hauke and “Find Me Paradise” by Benita Suchodrev. Also on show are books like “arcade - 10 Sekunden Neukölln” by Reinhold Gottwald, “Raised Hides” by Silke Nowak and “Karl - Tausche Bilder gegen Geschichten” by Petra Spielhagen.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/info-on-books-12107/", "official_url": "https://cafebabette.de/info-on-books/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/7d98e2fed1ae0a08fc928c206436281da479e9e4dcf5ebf284cda1a1c0a01de1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lena Riemer / Alessandro Paschitto", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23815", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "literature"], "description": "A staged reading evening as part of the MEDUSA Festival Berlin at the Roter Salon, featuring two contemporary plays. Directed by Tobias Herzberg, with readings by Knut Berger, Theresa Berlage, Joao D'Orey and Via Jikeli. The programme includes SEXUS by Italian playwright Alessandro Paschitto, a pointed and ironic play about gender, identity and social expectations, and Lena Riemer's award-winning debut aufstiegskörper. ein fühlversuch about social mobility, burnout and the body as a site of adaptation and resistance. Afterwards there is an audience talk with the author and translator Carola Köhler.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/lena-riemer-alessandro-paschitto-279/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/reihen-und-projekte/medusa/lena-riemer-alessandro-paschitto/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/fbe17100448823dd8e9106bf09630d368e037bc5eb66b071a29d35e5150c87a9-1200.webp"}]}