BÜCHER UND FILME
Bücher und Filme zur Berliner Geschichte: hier finden Sie eine kleine Auswahl, vor allem zum 20. Jahrhundert.
NATIONAL SOCIALISM: FILMS
The Counterfeits, on forgery of British pounds in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
The Downfall / Der Untergang – Hitler’s last weeks in the bunker
Blind Spot – Hitler’s secretary / Im toten Winkel – interview with Traudl Junge
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds: filmed in Claerchen’s Ballhaus
Stauffenberg – German film which was copied by Tom Cruise in Valkyrie
Cabaret, with Liza Minelli (better watch the stage show live in Berlin)
Die Wannsee-Konferenz / Conspiracy, real-time pic with Kenneth Branagh, filmed on site
Roman Polanski, The pianist / Der Pianist
Ein blinder Held – Die Liebe des Otto Weidt, TV, ZDF
NATIONAL SOCIALISM: BOOKS
Joachim Fest: Not me – a German Childhood / Ich nicht, growing up in Nazi Germany
Philip Kerr: Berlin Noir – crime stories in and after Third Reich (total of about 8 Bernie Gunther novels, all great)
Pierre Frei: Berlin. A novel – crime story in and after Third Reich
Judith Kerr: When Hitler stole pink rabbit, daughter of Alfred Kerr describes emigration / Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl
Anonyma: A woman in Berlin. Woman surviving post-war Berlin. True story. / Eine Frau in Berlin.
Gad Beck, An Underground Life: autobiography of Jewish gay communist / Und Gad ging zu David.
H.-J. Massaquoi, Destined to witness (Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger): autobiography of black boy in Nazi Germany, he became head of „Ebony“ magazine later
Madeleine Albright, Winter in Prague (her family history, Theresienstadt, Heydrich, CSSR)
Inge Deutschkron, Your name is Sarah / Dein Name ist Sarah, Ich trug den gelben Stern, Emigranto
Erik Larson: In the Garden of Beasts. Non-fiction on US ambassador W. Dodd around Hitler’s rise.
W. Michael Blumenthal, The Invisible Wall. German and Jews, a personal exploration.
Christian Gerlach, Der Mord an den europäischen Juden / The Extermination of the European Jews
DDR / GDR SOCIALISM: BOOKS
Jane Kramer: Eine Amerikanerin in Berlin
Ian McEwan, The Innocent / Die Unschuldigen – on british-american spy tunnel
Uwe Tellkamp, Der Turm / The Tower
Wolfgang Hilbig, Ich / „I“ – about Stasi
Brigitte Reimann, Franziska Linkerhand (same title in english)
DDR / GDR SOCIALISM – FILMS
The life of the others / Das Leben der anderen – Oscar-winner on life in the GDR under Stasi surveillance
Mauerhase – Wall Rabbits; fantastic metaphor of dictatorships: documentary on life of rabbits between the Berlin walls
12 means I love you – 12 heisst Ich liebe dich – true story – Stasi prisoner and her interrogator fall in love (they’re married today)
Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg, on spy exchange 1962 Gary Powers – Richard Abel
This ain’t California – documentary on skateboarders in East Germany
Der gleiche Himmel. Dreiteiler über Stasi-Romeos
Boxhagener Platz – life in Friedrichshain
Goodbye Lenin – comedy on end of GDR
Der Turm – TV production of book above
BERLIN TODAY: BOOKS
BERLIN TODAY: FILMS
Michael Ballhaus, In Berlin, 2009: famous director of photography’s love declaration on Berlin
KDD Kriminaldauerdienst – Fernsehserie 2010
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