Reading, Listening & Film Tips on Berlin Today, East and West Berlin, National Socialism, 1920s Berlin, 19th century and 18th century. >> Berlin online travel guide Wladimir Kaminer: Russian Disco
tales of every day lunacy on the streets of multicultural 1990's Russian Berlin
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featuring the Russian mafia, the Potsdamer Platz is the scenery of the love story of a New York mafia killer with an East German girl ...
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US-American multicultural Berlin
" ...on a whim, aging director Dixon Greenhouse accepted the three-month fellowship in Berlin, with a promise that nothing would be required of him but an interview about his moviemaking career. Thirty years have passed since he directed his greatest film, a cult classic called Summer, about a group of German artists between he wars. Now, out of inspiration, in the dark Berlin winter, he sifts through past and present for a new creative direction..."
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Hannes Stoehr: Berlin is in Germany
film comedy on reunited Germany
Joerg Schuettauf and Julia Jaeger
DVD, Language German, English subtitles
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Wolfgang Becker: Good Bye Lenin
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"... heroes like us was the first novel to comment on the downfall of East Germany by an author who had grown up with the Berlin Wall. Klaus Uhltzscht, born in 1968 in East Germany, grows up across the street from the Ministry of State Security, and he is inspired early on to do his share to win the Cold War. Naturally he joins the Secret Police, but his glorious career as an international agent never materializes. Instead, he spends countless hours keeping his fellow citizens under control ...
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>>via Abebooks UK Sven Regener: Berlin Blues
West Berlin Kreuzberg memories by the singer of the band Element of Crime
"... the year is 1989 and Herr Lehmann lives entirely free of responsibility in a tiny flat in the bohemian Berlin district of Kreuzberg. But suddenly one unforseen incident after another seems to threaten his idyllic and rather peaceable existence..."
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>>via jpc.de angels want to be human in 1987's divided Berlin
Wim Wenders, Peter Handke: Wings of Desire
poetic film in black and white
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>>via amazon.co.uk Westberlin's music scene and film underground from 1978 to 1984
Berlin Super 80
documentation
bands like Die Toedliche Doris, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Flucht nach Vorn, Malaria, MDK, Mona Mur, Notorische Reflexe, Sprung aus den Wolken, super 8 photos, poster, flyer, people, pubs & in locations
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>> via jpc.de in the film's 1961 Berlin, people still move between East and West, represented by Coca Cola, the Wall was built when the film came out and people did not consider the jokes funny any more, the comedy is well worth seeing, because the director is
Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three
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>>via amazon.co.uk John le Carre: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
spy novel classic
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>>via Abebooks UK William L. Shirer: Berlin Diary 1934-41; The End 1944-45
William L. Shirer was Berlin correspondent for CBS New York
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>> via Abebooks UK Oliver Hirschbiegel: The downfall
last days in the bunker near Potsdamer Platz
Corinna Harfouch as Magda Goebbels murders her six children
dvd, available September 2005
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>>via jpc.de the film is based on the memories of Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge: 'Until the final hour'
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>>via Abebooks UK Vorbei - Beyond Recall - Documentation of Jewish music Berlin 1933-38
Recordings of the Juedischer Kulturbund - Jewish Culture Club - in Berlin
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>> via amazon.de Alfred Doeblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin 1920s petty criminals
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kids want their money back in 1920's Berlin
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>> via Abebooks UK Joseph Roth: What I saw. Reports from Berlin. 1920-1933.
vintage journalism
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an Englishman in 1920's Berlin, the film 'Cabaret' is based on this book
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>>via Abebooks UK Friedrich Hollaender: Wenn ich mir was wuenschen duerfte
194 cabaret songs from 50 years, parts of the film music from 'Der Blaue Engel' with Marlene Dietrich singing "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt" and Claire Waldoff's 1920's feminist song "Raus mit den Maennern aus dem Reichstag, raus mit den Maennern aus dem Landtag, raus mit den Maennern aus dem Herrenhaus ..." 168-page booklet
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Friedrich Hollaender: Bei uns um die Gedaechtniskirche rum
Friedrich Hollaender and 1920s cabaret in the original recordingswith Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Curt Bois, Ernst Busch, MarleneDietrich, Blandine Elbinger, Werner Finck, Kurt Gerron, Paul Graetz, Max Hansen, Rudolf Platte,Joachim Ringelnatz, Claire Waldoff, Heinz Ruehmann, the Comedian Harmonists ...
including Marlene Dietrich's "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt" and Claire Waldoff's "Raus mit den Maennern aus dem Reichstag ..."
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from Otto Reutter: "Das Hirschfeld-Lied" to Marlene Dietrich & Margo Lion "Wenn die beste Freundin"
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>>via amazon.co.uk Alexander Granach: There goes an actor
autobiographical account of an actor's career in 1920's Berlin. Alexander Granach emigrated to Hollywood - he is the Soviet commissar Kopalski in Ninotchka with Greta Garbo, the film's director Ernst Lubitsch and writer Billy Wilder came from Berlin too
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>>via Abebooks UK satirical view on love, money, the arts and the pretensions of Berlin's end of the 19th century Gruenderzeit society Theodor Fontane: Trials and Tribulations
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>>via Abebooks UK Theodor Fontane: Jenny Treibel
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>> via Abebooks UK it is Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy everybody is interested in, however, the grandfather was a famous 18th century Jewish philosopher of the Enlightenment, model of Lessing's Nathan the Wise, father and uncle were successfull Berlin bankers', and granddaughter and grandson were gifted musicians and composers ... Herbert Kupferberg: The Mendelssohns. Three generations of genius
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