List of fiction set in Berlin

This is a list of fiction set in Berlin, Germany.Taberner, Stuart (2007)Contemporary German Fiction: Writing in the Berlin Republic (Cambridge Studies in German){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=08Focu96dZMC&q=fiction+set+in+Berlin+deutsch&pg=PP9|title = Writing the New Berlin: The German Capital in Post-Wall Literature|isbn = 9781571133816|last1 = Gerstenberger|first1 = Katharina|year = 2008}}´´ "Weltfabrik Berlin": eine Metropole als Sujet der Literatur´´, 2006, ed. by Matthias Harder and Almut Hille

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.¨ {{Cite book|url=https://brill.com/view/title/32828|isbn = 9789004312098|title = Tales of Berlin in American Literature up to the 21st Century|date = 17 March 2016|publisher = Brill}}

List

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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)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 \| 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
{{Ill\|German Angst\|de\|German Angst (Film)}} \|2015 \|film \|German \|Jörg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski, {{ill\|Andreas Marschall (director)\|de\|3=Andreas Marschall\|lt=Andreas Marschall}} \|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 \|{{sortname\|Timur\|Vermes}} \|Eichborn Verlag
Voices Under Berlin: The Tale of a Monterey Mary \|2008 \|novel \| English \|{{sortname\|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	{{sortname\|T. H. E.\|Hill}} \|Createspace
Every Man Dies Alone \|1947 \|novel; also made into three movies and a miniseries \|German \|{{sortname\|Hans\|Fallada}} \|
Berlin Alexanderplatz \|1929 \|novel; also made into 3 movies, a television series and a radio play \|German \|{{sortname\|Alfred\|Döblin}} \|
Future Pop \|1999 \|near-future novel \|German \|{{sortname\|Manfred\|Burgheim}} \|Eichborn Verlag
Besitz wird ueberbewertet \|2014 \|crime novel \|German \|{{sortname\|Manfred\|Burgheim}} \|S. Fischer
Private Berlin \|2013 \|crime novel (part of the "Private" series) \|English \|James Patterson and Mark Sullivan \|Grand Central Publishing
Berlin Calling \|2012 \|historical mystery \|English \|{{sortname\|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 \| \|{{sortname\|Philip\|Kerr}} \|Viking
{{sort\|Pale Criminal, The\|The Pale Criminal}} \|1990 \|novel \| \|{{sortname\|Philip\|Kerr}} \|Viking
{{sort\|German Requiem, A\|A German Requiem}} \|1991 \|novel \| \|{{sortname\|Philip\|Kerr}} \|Viking
The Berlin Deception \|2013 \|thriller \|English \|{{sortname\|Jeffrey\|Vanke}} \|
Mr Norris Changes Trains \|1935 \|novella \|English \|{{sortname\|Christopher\|Isherwood}}Thomas, Peter (1976) "'Camp' and Politics in Isherwood's Berlin Fiction," Journal of Modern Literature 5(1}: 117-130. \|
Goodbye to Berlin \|1939 \|novella \|English \|{{sortname\|Christopher\|Isherwood}}Thomas, Peter (1976) "'Camp' and Politics in Isherwood's Berlin Fiction," Journal of Modern Literature 5(1}: 117-130. \|
The Berlin Warning \|1984 \|novel: thriller \|English \|{{sortname\|Nicholas\|Guild}} \|Putnam
Then We Take Berlin \|1993 \|novel \|English \|{{sortname\|John\|Lawton\|John Lawton (author)}} \|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) \|{{sortname\|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 \|

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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)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

| 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

When the Blind See

|2018

|historical novel

|English

|Alex Rhodes

|Amazon

No Man's Land

|2015

|historical novel

|English

|Michael Califra

|Hadrian

{{Ill|German Angst|de|German Angst (Film)}}

|2015

|film

|German

|Jörg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski, {{ill|Andreas Marschall (director)|de|3=Andreas Marschall|lt=Andreas Marschall}}

|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

|{{sortname|Timur|Vermes}}

|Eichborn Verlag

Voices Under Berlin: The Tale of a Monterey Mary

|2008

|novel

| English

|{{sortname|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

|Createspace

Every Man Dies Alone

|1947

|novel; also made into three movies and a miniseries

|German

|{{sortname|Hans|Fallada}}

Berlin Alexanderplatz

|1929

|novel; also made into 3 movies, a television series and a radio play

|German

|{{sortname|Alfred|Döblin}}

Future Pop

|1999

|near-future novel

|German

|{{sortname|Manfred|Burgheim}}

|Eichborn Verlag

Besitz wird ueberbewertet

|2014

|crime novel

|German

|{{sortname|Manfred|Burgheim}}

|S. Fischer

Private Berlin

|2013

|crime novel (part of the "Private" series)

|English

|James Patterson and Mark Sullivan

|Grand Central Publishing

Berlin Calling

|2012

|historical mystery

|English

|{{sortname|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

|{{sortname|Philip|Kerr}}

|Viking

|1990

|novel

|{{sortname|Philip|Kerr}}

|Viking

|1991

|novel

|{{sortname|Philip|Kerr}}

|Viking

The Berlin Deception

|2013

|thriller

|English

|{{sortname|Jeffrey|Vanke}}

Mr Norris Changes Trains

|1935

|novella

|English

|{{sortname|Christopher|Isherwood}}Thomas, Peter (1976) "'Camp' and Politics in Isherwood's Berlin Fiction,"

Journal of Modern Literature 5(1}: 117-130.

Goodbye to Berlin

|1939

|novella

|English

|{{sortname|Christopher|Isherwood}}Thomas, Peter (1976) "'Camp' and Politics in Isherwood's Berlin Fiction,"

Journal of Modern Literature 5(1}: 117-130.

The Berlin Warning

|1984

|novel: thriller

|English

|{{sortname|Nicholas|Guild}}

|Putnam

Then We Take Berlin

|1993

|novel

|English

|{{sortname|John|Lawton|John Lawton (author)}}

|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)

|{{sortname|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

Related lists

List of films set in Berlin

External links

[https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/20304.Berlin_in_Fiction Berlin in Fiction]

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