{"id":529,"date":"2017-01-01T21:38:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T20:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berlin-privateguide.de\/?p=529"},"modified":"2023-09-11T20:48:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T18:48:51","slug":"berlin-books-and-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berlin-privateguide.de\/en\/berlin-books-and-films\/","title":{"rendered":"BERLIN BOOKS AND FILMS"},"content":{"rendered":"
Berlin books and films – a small selection, mostly 20th century.<\/div>\r\n
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Nancy Mitford, Frederick the Great \/ Friedrich der Gro\u00dfe<\/div>\r\n
James Hawes: The shortest history of Germany<\/div>\r\n
Rainer Werner Fassbinder \/ Alfred D\u00f6blin, Berlin Alexanderplatz \u2013 book and film (1980)<\/div>\r\n
Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020), Burhan Qubani, film<\/div>\r\n
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NATIONAL SOCIALISM: FILMS<\/strong><\/h6>\r\n

The Counterfeits, on forgery of British pounds in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
The Downfall \/ Der Untergang \u2013 Hitler’s last weeks in the bunker
Blind Spot \u2013 Hitler’s secretary \/ Im toten Winkel – interview with Traudl Junge
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds: filmed in Claerchen’s Ballhaus
Stauffenberg \u2013 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<\/p>\r\n

Roman Polanski, The pianist \/ Der Pianist<\/p>\r\n

Ein blinder Held – Die Liebe des Otto Weidt, TV, ZDF<\/p>\r\n

NATIONAL SOCIALISM: BOOKS<\/strong><\/h6>\r\n
Anthony Beevor: The Downfall \u2013 Berlin 1945 on battle of Berlin
Joachim Fest: Not me \u2013 a German Childhood \/ Ich nicht, growing up in Nazi Germany
Philip Kerr: Berlin Noir \u2013 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 \u201eEbony\u201c 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.<\/div>\r\n
Daniel James Brown, The boys in the boat, about US rowing crew in the Olympics 1936
W. Michael Blumenthal, The Invisible Wall. German and Jews, a personal exploration.
Christian Gerlach, Der Mord an den europ\u00e4ischen Juden \/ The Extermination of the European Jews<\/div>\r\n
Stefan K\u00fchl, Ganz normale Organisationen \/ Ordinary Organisations, on Nazi perpetrators<\/div>\r\n
Heike G\u00f6rtemaker, Eva Braun<\/div>\r\n
Marie-Fran\u00e7oise Peteuil: Helen Hessel \u2013 Die Frau, die Jules und Jim liebte<\/div>\r\n
G\u00f6tz Aly: Warum die Deutschen? Warum die Juden? \/ Why the Germans? Why the Jews?<\/div>\r\n
Jean Lopez, Den Zweiten Weltkrieg verstehen<\/div>\r\n
Yishai Sarid, Monster<\/div>\r\n
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Peter Wyden: Stella Goldschlag<\/div>\r\n
Wolfgang Brenner: Zwischen Ende und Anfang. Nachkriegsjahre in Deutschland<\/div>\r\n
Irmgard Keun: Nach Mitternacht \/ After midnight<\/div>\r\n
Harald J\u00e4hner, Wolfszeit<\/div>\r\n
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DDR \/ GDR SOCIALISM:\u00a0 BOOKS<\/strong><\/h6>\r\n
Anna Funder: Stasiland \u2013 stories from behind the Wall. Australian explores East German Stasi victims and perpetrators.
Jane Kramer: Eine Amerikanerin in Berlin
Ian McEwan, The Innocent \/ Die Unschuldigen \u2013 on british-american spy tunnel
Uwe Tellkamp, Der Turm \/ The Tower
Wolfgang Hilbig, Ich \/ \u201eI\u201c – about Stasi
Brigitte Reimann, Franziska Linkerhand (same title in english)<\/div>\r\n
Andreas Petersen, Die Moskauer \u2013 Stalinismus und DDR<\/div>\r\n
Tim Mohr: Burning down the Haus, about punks in the GDR<\/div>\r\n
Peter Wensierski: Jena Paradies<\/div>\r\n
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DDR \/ GDR SOCIALISM – FILMS<\/strong><\/h6>\r\n
One Two Three \u2013 best Berlin comedy by Billy Wilder
The life of the others \/ Das Leben der anderen \u2013 Oscar-winner on life in the GDR under Stasi surveillance
Mauerhase \u2013 Wall Rabbits; fantastic metaphor of dictatorships: documentary on life of rabbits between the Berlin walls
12 means I love you \u2013 12 heisst Ich liebe dich \u2013 true story \u2013 Stasi prisoner and her interrogator fall in love (they’re married today)
Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg, on spy exchange 1962 Gary Powers \u2013 Richard Abel
This ain\u2019t California \u2013 documentary on skateboarders in East Germany
Der gleiche Himmel. Dreiteiler \u00fcber Stasi-Romeos
Boxhagener Platz \u2013 life in Friedrichshain
Goodbye Lenin \u2013 comedy on end of GDR
Der Turm – TV production of book above<\/div>\r\n
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BERLIN TODAY: <\/strong>BOOKS<\/strong><\/h6>\r\n
Peter Schneider, Berlin Now: the rise of the city and the fall of the Wall. 25 years after the fall of the wall. 2014<\/div>\r\n
Katja Oskamp: Marzahn mon amour<\/div>\r\n
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BERLIN TODAY: FILMS<\/strong><\/h6>\r\n
Victoria \u2013 \u201eBerlin today\u201c – movie filmed in a single take. 2014
Michael Ballhaus, In Berlin, 2009: famous director of photography\u2019s love declaration on Berlin
KDD Kriminaldauerdienst – Fernsehserie 2010<\/div>\r\n
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You know more Berlin books and films – I’m happy about tips!<\/div>\r\n\r\n

E-Mail: janna@berlin-privateguide.de<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Tel: +49 (0)30 440 93 71<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Mobile: +49 (0)172 386 25 35<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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