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]
(Clicking on the small triangles at the head of a category will sort the list according to this category.)
| 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," 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 | |
| 2015 | film | German | Jörg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski, | 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 | Eichborn Verlag | ||
| 2008 | novel | English | ||||
| 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 | |||
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | 1929 | novel; also made into 3 movies, a television series and a radio play | German | |||
| Future Pop | 1999 | near-future novel | German | Eichborn Verlag | ||
| Besitz wird ueberbewertet | 2014 | crime novel | German | 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 | 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 BeckerShort Mystery | Falko Rademacher | [Kindle Edition] | ||
| The Puzzle People | 2012 | mystery | Doug Peterson | Bay Forest Books | ||
| March Violets | 1989 | novel | Viking | |||
| 1990 | novel | Viking | ||||
| 1991 | novel | Viking | ||||
| The Berlin Deception | 2013 | thriller | English | |||
| Mr Norris Changes Trains | 1935 | novella | English | [6] |
117-130.||-|Goodbye to Berlin|1939|novella|English|[7] ||-|The Berlin Warning|1984|novel: thriller|English||Putnam|-|Then We Take Berlin|1993|novel|English||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)||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||}