List of fiction set in Berlin

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This is a list of fiction set in Berlin, Germany. [1] [2] [3]

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TitleDateMedium; GenreOriginal languageAuthor / DirectorPublisher / Producer
Bridge of Spies 2015film: fictionalized account of Cold War spy exchangeEnglish (American) Steven Spielberg DreamWorks Pictures et al.
Berlin (Trilogy)2018 (third book & full collection); first two books in 2000 & 2008graphic novelEnglish (American) Jason Lutes Drawn & Quarterly
The Seventh Secret 1986novel: alternative historyEnglish Irving Wallace E. P. Dutton
The Girl Behind the Wall 2021novel: consequences of the erection of the Berlin WallEnglish (British) Mandy Robotham avon
The Berlin Girl novel: 1938English (British) Mandy Robotham avon
A Night Divided2015historical fictionEnglish (American) Jennifer A. Nielsen Scholastic
Der Ballhausmörder2020crime fictionGermanSusanne Goga DTV
Goodbye Lenin! 2003film; comedyGerman Wolfgang Becker Stefan Arndt
The Lives of Others (German: Das Leben Der Anderen)2006film; dramaGerman Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Wiedemann & Berg
Wings of Desire (German: Der Himmel über Berlin) [4] 1987film: fantasyGerman Wim Wenders Wim Wenders & Anatole Dauman
Run Lola Run (German: Lola rennt)1998film; thrillerGerman Tom Tykwer Stefan Arndt
Downfall (German: Der Untergang)2004film; historical dramaGerman Oliver Hirschbiegel Bernd Eichinger
Crazy Love (Trilogie)2014 (third volume & full collection); first two volumes in 2012 & 2013novel; YA fictionGermanEileen JanketCreate Space
We Are the Night 2010filmGerman Dennis Gansel Dennis Gansel
When the Blind See2018historical novelEnglishAlex RhodesAmazon
No Man's Land2015historical novelEnglish Michael Califra Hadrian
German Angst  [ de ]2015filmGerman Jörg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski, Andreas Marschall  [ de ]Michal Kosakowski
Summer on the Cold War Planet2015novelEnglishPaula Closson BuckFomite
Look Who's Back 2012novel; also made into a filmGerman Timur Vermes Eichborn Verlag
Voices Under Berlin: The Tale of a Monterey Mary 2008novelEnglish T. H. E. Hill
The Day Before the Berlin Wall2010alternative history; spy novel. Winner of the 2011 "Stars and Flags" Book Award for Historical Fiction. Finalist for the 2011 NIEA Book Award in the "Thriller" category.English T. H. E. Hill Createspace
Every Man Dies Alone 1947novel; also made into three movies and a miniseriesGerman Hans Fallada
Berlin Alexanderplatz 1929novel; also made into 3 movies, a television series and a radio playGerman Alfred Döblin
Future Pop 1999near-future novelGerman Manfred Burgheim Eichborn Verlag
Besitz wird ueberbewertet2014crime novelGerman Manfred Burgheim S. Fischer
Private Berlin2013crime novel (part of the "Private" series)English James Patterson and Mark SullivanGrand Central Publishing
Berlin Calling 2012historical mysteryEnglish Kelly Durham Amazon
Berlin Dancer2014historical novelEnglishCindy HurstCeldin
Berlin Noir: March Violets; The Pale Criminal; A German Requiem1994three short crime piecesEnglish Philip Kerr Penguin
Berlin Requiem2014novelPeter Huth
Halbmond über Berlin2013thriller and mysteryGermanMichael KiesenSüdwestbuch
Leaving Berlin2015thriller and love story Joseph Kanon Atria Books
Nekromantik 1987filmWest German Jörg Buttgereit
Linie 1 1986stage musicalGermanmusic by Birger Heymann; text by Volker Ludwig(first performed by the Grips-heater in Berlin)
Linie 11988movie musicalGerman(based on the stage musical) Director: Reinhard Hauff
The Thirty-Year-Old Man Who Fell Out the Window and Died2014a Lisa Becker

Short Mystery

Falko Rademacher[Kindle Edition]
The Puzzle People 2012mysteryDoug PetersonBay Forest Books
March Violets 1989novel Philip Kerr Viking
The Pale Criminal 1990novel Philip Kerr Viking
A German Requiem 1991novel Philip Kerr Viking
The Berlin Deception 2013thrillerEnglish Jeffrey Vanke
Mr Norris Changes Trains 1935novellaEnglish Christopher Isherwood [5]
Goodbye to Berlin 1939novellaEnglish Christopher Isherwood [6]
The Berlin Warning 1984novel: thrillerEnglish Nicholas Guild Putnam
Then We Take Berlin 1993novelEnglish John Lawton Atlantic Monthly
Fatherland 1992Counterfactual crime Robert Harris Hutchinson
The Innocent 1990Novel Ian McEwan Jonathan Cape
Stealing the Future2015Counterfactual crime and spyMax HertzbergWolf Press UK
The Good German 2001Crime. Film adaptation, 2006English Joseph Kanon
Funeral in Berlin 1964Spy novel Len Deighton Jonathan Cape
In The Garden of Beasts 2011Novel Erik Larsen Crown
Garden of Beasts 2004NovelEnglish Jeffrey Deaver Simon & Schuster / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Too Far Afield 2000novelGerman (Ein weites Feld, 1995) Günter Grass Harcourt
Anarchy in a Cold War2012NovelEnglishKurtis SundayCambria Books
Catch 52 - An everyman's tale of surviving in a post-brexit world2017NovelEnglishP.G. RonaneClink Street Publishing
Gestern war Heute1978novelGerman Ingeborg Drewitz Goldmann
Babylon Berlin: Book 1 of the Gereon Rath Mystery Series2016 (German: 2007)Suspense novel (basis for the television series, Babylon Berlin )German Volker Kutscher Picador
The Quiller Memorandum 1966neo noir eurospy filmEnglish Michael Anderson Ivan Foxwell
Türkisch für Anfänger 2006-2008TV comedy-drama seriesGerman Bora Dağtekin
The Bormann Brief1974WWII novelEnglish Clive Egleton A Fawcett Crest book
The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin 2022YA novel in verse; 1932English Kip Wilson Versify
Red Winter2022Thriller; 1985 Cold War, set in Berlin i.a.English Marc Cameron G.P. Putnam's Sons
Effi Briest 1895realist novel from a female perspectiveGerman Theodor Fontane

References

  1. ↑ Taberner, Stuart (2007)Contemporary German Fiction: Writing in the Berlin Republic (Cambridge Studies in German)
  2. ↑ Gerstenberger, Katharina (2008). Writing the New Berlin: The German Capital in Post-Wall Literature. ISBN   9781571133816.
  3. ↑ ´´ "Weltfabrik Berlin": eine Metropole als Sujet der Literatur´´, 2006, ed. by Matthias Harder and Almut Hille
  4. ↑ Cook, Roger (1991) "Angels, Fiction and History in Berlin: Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire|1987," The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory66(1): 34-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/00168890.1991.9936532
  5. ↑ Thomas, Peter (1976) "'Camp' and Politics in Isherwood's Berlin Fiction," Journal of Modern Literature 5(1}: 117-130.
  6. ↑ Thomas, Peter (1976) "'Camp' and Politics in Isherwood's Berlin Fiction," Journal of Modern Literature 5(1}: 117-130.
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