List of fiction set in Berlin

Summary

This is a list of fiction set in Berlin, Germany.[1][2][3]
¨ Of all European cities, Americans today are perhaps most curious about Berlin, whose position in the American imagination is an essential component of nineteenth-century, postwar and contemporary transatlantic imagology.¨ [4]

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Title Date Medium; Genre Original language Author / Director Publisher / Producer
Bridge of Spies 2015 film: fictionalized account of Cold War spy exchange English (American) Steven Spielberg DreamWorks Pictures et al.
Berlin (Trilogy) 2018 (third book & full collection); first two books in 2000 & 2008 graphic novel English (American) Jason Lutes Drawn & Quarterly
The Seventh Secret 1986 novel: alternative history English Irving Wallace E. P. Dutton
The Girl Behind the Wall 2021 novel: consequences of the erection of the Berlin Wall English (British) Mandy Robotham avon
The Berlin Girl novel: 1938 English (British) Mandy Robotham avon
A Night Divided 2015 historical fiction English (American) Jennifer A. Nielsen Scholastic
Der Ballhausmörder 2020 crime fiction German Susanne Goga DTV
Goodbye Lenin! 2003 film; comedy German Wolfgang Becker Stefan Arndt
The Lives of Others (German: Das Leben Der Anderen) 2006 film; drama German Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Wiedemann & Berg
Wings of Desire (German: Der Himmel über Berlin)[5] 1987 film: fantasy German Wim Wenders Wim Wenders & Anatole Dauman
Run Lola Run (German: Lola rennt) 1998 film; thriller German Tom Tykwer Stefan Arndt
Downfall (German: Der Untergang) 2004 film; historical drama German Oliver Hirschbiegel Bernd Eichinger
Crazy Love (Trilogie) 2014 (third volume & full collection); first two volumes in 2012 & 2013 novel; YA fiction German Eileen Janket Create Space
We Are the Night 2010 film German Dennis Gansel Dennis Gansel
When the Blind See 2018 historical novel English Alex Rhodes Amazon
No Man's Land 2015 historical novel English Michael Califra Hadrian
German Angst [de] 2015 film German Jörg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski, Andreas Marschall [de] Michal Kosakowski
Summer on the Cold War Planet 2015 novel English Paula Closson Buck Fomite
Look Who's Back 2012 novel; also made into a film German Timur Vermes Eichborn Verlag
Voices Under Berlin: The Tale of a Monterey Mary 2008 novel English T. H. E. Hill
The Day Before the Berlin Wall 2010 alternative 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 1947 novel; also made into three movies and a miniseries German Hans Fallada
Berlin Alexanderplatz 1929 novel; also made into 3 movies, a television series and a radio play German Alfred Döblin
Future Pop 1999 near-future novel German Manfred Burgheim Eichborn Verlag
Besitz wird ueberbewertet 2014 crime novel German Manfred Burgheim S. Fischer
Private Berlin 2013 crime novel (part of the "Private" series) English James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
Berlin Calling 2012 historical mystery English Kelly Durham Amazon
Berlin Dancer 2014 historical novel English Cindy Hurst Celdin
Berlin Noir: March Violets; The Pale Criminal; A German Requiem 1994 three short crime pieces English Philip Kerr Penguin
Berlin Requiem 2014 novel Peter Huth
Halbmond über Berlin 2013 thriller and mystery German Michael Kiesen Südwestbuch
Leaving Berlin 2015 thriller and love story Joseph Kanon Atria Books
Nekromantik 1987 film West German Jörg Buttgereit
Linie 1 1986 stage musical German music by Birger Heymann; text by Volker Ludwig (first performed by the Grips-heater in Berlin)
Linie 1 1988 movie musical German (based on the stage musical) Director: Reinhard Hauff
The Thirty-Year-Old Man Who Fell Out the Window and Died 2014 a Lisa Becker

Short Mystery

Falko Rademacher [Kindle Edition]
The Puzzle People 2012 mystery Doug Peterson Bay Forest Books
March Violets 1989 novel Philip Kerr Viking
The Pale Criminal 1990 novel Philip Kerr Viking
A German Requiem 1991 novel Philip Kerr Viking
The Berlin Deception 2013 thriller English Jeffrey Vanke
Mr Norris Changes Trains 1935 novella English Christopher Isherwood[6]
Goodbye to Berlin 1939 novella English Christopher Isherwood[7]
The Berlin Warning 1984 novel: thriller English Nicholas Guild Putnam
Then We Take Berlin 1993 novel English John Lawton Atlantic Monthly
Fatherland 1992 Counterfactual crime Robert Harris Hutchinson
The Innocent 1990 Novel Ian McEwan Jonathan Cape
Stealing the Future 2015 Counterfactual crime and spy Max Hertzberg Wolf Press UK
The Good German 2001 Crime. Film adaptation, 2006 English Joseph Kanon
Funeral in Berlin 1964 Spy novel Len Deighton Jonathan Cape
In The Garden of Beasts 2011 Novel Erik Larsen Crown
Garden of Beasts 2004 Novel English Jeffrey Deaver Simon & Schuster / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Too Far Afield 2000 novel German (Ein weites Feld, 1995) Günter Grass Harcourt
Anarchy in a Cold War 2012 Novel English Kurtis Sunday Cambria Books
Catch 52 - An everyman's tale of surviving in a post-brexit world 2017 Novel English P.G. Ronane Clink Street Publishing
Gestern war Heute 1978 novel German Ingeborg Drewitz Goldmann
Babylon Berlin: Book 1 of the Gereon Rath Mystery Series 2016 (German: 2007) Suspense novel (basis for the television series, Babylon Berlin) German Volker Kutscher Picador
The Quiller Memorandum 1966 neo noir eurospy film English Michael Anderson Ivan Foxwell
Türkisch für Anfänger 2006-2008 TV comedy-drama series German Bora Dağtekin
The Bormann Brief 1974 WWII novel English Clive Egleton A Fawcett Crest book
The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin 2022 YA novel in verse; 1932 English Kip Wilson Versify
Red Winter 2022 Thriller; 1985 Cold War, set in Berlin i.a. English Marc Cameron G.P. Putnam's Sons
Effi Briest 1895 realist novel from a female perspective German Theodor Fontane

References edit

  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. ^ Tales of Berlin in American Literature up to the 21st Century. Brill. 17 March 2016. ISBN 9789004312098.
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^ Thomas, Peter (1976) "'Camp' and Politics in Isherwood's Berlin Fiction," Journal of Modern Literature 5(1}: 117-130.
  7. ^ Thomas, Peter (1976) "'Camp' and Politics in Isherwood's Berlin Fiction," Journal of Modern Literature 5(1}: 117-130.

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