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Dreaming of Germany? We've compiled our favorite library resources and web links for a virtual travel experience. Happy journey!
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Streaming Films Set in Germany
- Isn't Life Wonderful
Made on location in Germany during the period of the Great Inflation, Isn't Life Wonderful is a tender ode to the resilience of the human spirit and the all-conquering power of love. - Lose Your Head
Lose Your Head is a psycho thriller inspired by the true story of a young Portuguese man who disappeared some years ago after a night of club hopping in Berlin. - The Tower
A searing look at Communist East Germany in its final decade, The Tower reveals the intimate realities of life behind the Berlin Wall. - Mommy Is Coming
Pioneer filmmaker Cheryl Dunye returns with a sassy, raunchy, romantic sex comedy set in the edgy underground of Berlin where love and taboo affairs collide! - Young Goethe in Love
Germany 1772 - the young and tumultuous Johann Goethe (Alexander Fehling) aspires to be a poet; but after failing his law exams, he is sent by his father (Henry Huebchen) to a sleepy provincial court to mend his ways. - Lore
Left to fend for themselves after their SS officer father and mother, staunch Nazi believers, are interred by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, five German children undertake a harrowing journey that exposes them to the reality and consequences of their parents' actions. - Land of Storms
Best friends Szabolcs and Bernard are playing in the same German football team. After a lost game, Szabolcs decides to go home to Hungary where he meets another boy, Áron with whom they become lovers but soon Bernard comes after his friend. - Snowman's Land
In this wry German dark comedy, Walter is a professional hitman who has just botched a job. Forced to leave the city, he reluctantly takes up an offer from eccentric crime boss to protect his house (and young, pretty, free-spirited wife) in a remote region of the Carpathian Mountains
Fiction Books Set in Germany
Every Man Dies Alone by Call Number: Print, eAudiobookPublication Date: 2009-03-03This novel presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decide to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front.
Hiddensee by Call Number: Print, eBook, Book on CDPublication Date: 2017-10-31Gregory Maguire returns with an inventive novel inspired by a timeless holiday legend, intertwining the story of the famous Nutcracker with the life of the mysterious toy maker named Drosselmeier who carves him.
The Man Who Saw Everything by Call Number: Print, eBookPublication Date: 2019-10-15It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic.
The Reader by Call Number: PrintPublication Date: 1999-03-10A riveting, provocative, and deeply moving novel about a young boy's erotic awakening in a passionate, clandestine love affair with an older woman, and what happens to them both when the secrets in her past are revealed.
Resistance Women by Call Number: Print, eBook, Book on CDPublication Date: 2019-05-14An American wife of a German intellectual and her circle of women friends sabotage Hitler's regime until an errant Russian signal exposes their resistance cell.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by Call Number: PrintPublication Date: 1964On its publication in 1964, John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in From the Cold forever changed the landscape of spy fiction. Le Carré combined the inside knowledge of his years in British intelligence with the skills of the best novelists to produce a story as taut as it is twisting, unlike any previously experienced, which transports anyone who reads it back to the shadowy years in the early 1960s, when the Berlin Wall went up and the Cold War came to life.
The Women in the Castle by Call Number: Print, eBook, eAudiobookPublication Date: 2017-03-28Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined.
The World That We Knew by Call Number: Print, eAudiobook, Book on CDPublication Date: 2019-09-24From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a beautiful story of one Jewish child refugee's flight to safety in Nazi German and her mother's impossible decision to set her free.
