#german television series babylon berlin

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“Zu Asche, zu Staub” (”To Ashes, to Dust”), Moka Efti Orchestra/Severija  First edition ℗ Moka Efti Orchestra Released on: 2020-02-14 “The Moka Efti Orchestra is a 14-person jazz band formed by Nikko Weidemann, Mario Kamien and Sebastian Borkowski. The group was first formed for the German television series Babylon Berlin in 2018“ “The name comes from the legendary Berlin café and dance house of the 1920s and 1930s, Moka Efti.“

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I've come late to the German series, Babylon Berlin. I can't praise it enough. This is incredible, stylish storytelling. It's flash and substance. This is better Television than Hollywood has ever produced. Once again, Netflix connects its customers to great content being produced around the world.

Babylon Berlin is set in 1929 Berlin, during the decline of the Weimer Republic and the rise of National Socialism. It depicts that grime and despair hiding beneath the glitzy hedonism of the Roaring Twenties.

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Netflix Top Eight International series to get Hooked on: Check out the list

Netflix has a wide selection of series and movies from the United States, as well as several critically acclaimed international series to binge watch. Check out the list of the top 8, in no particular order. 1. Babylon Berlin: Country: Germnay This German-noir television series begins before the onset of the Second World War, and follows Inspector Gereon Rath who travels to Berlin and stumbles…

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What would you say to a Raymond Chandler-style murder mystery set in 1920s Germany that stars Volker Bruch (a subtle genetic blend of a Young Dennis Hopper and Montgomery Clift) as a PTSD-addled cop, and cute little Lisa Fries as a Weimar-era Nancy Drew? And done on a budget that would embarrass all of Hollywood combined, and crafted with attention to absurd, gorgeous detail that makes Wes Anderson seem carefree. 

Hold that notion for a moment.

Babylon Berlin’s noir-infused narrative crawls alongside Germany’s rise to power, which we’ve seen in various productions dozens of times. But rather than stern drama, it’s instead a massive-scale fantasia (the most expensive television production in history) that employs the tropes and features of musicals, surrealism, police procedural, occult mystery, and cliffhanger serials. 

Whole episodes seem at times solely devoted to offering brief devotions on the topics of architecture, psychoanalysis, fanaticism, Jugendstil Art Deco, surrealism, or cinema itself. But it’s all done as a delirious (if grim) visual tour, as opposed to a lecture.

I’m not doing the series justice here. Bear in mind that this is a Tom Tykwer project, and it revisits the imaginative, perverse energy of his Run Lola Run and Winter Sleepers work. It gets weirder and broader than all that, by far. 

The aesthetic and vibe bring to mind Werner Herzog re-doing the entire “Avengers” British television series of the 1960s as a tribute to Fritz Lang and Neitzsche, or Paul Thomas Anderson reimagining Cabaret as one big episode of “Law & Order.”

It should be seen on a huge HD screen. Just wait until you get a load of the Hermann Platz and Rosenthaler Platz U-Bahn stations, or the Rotes Rathaus city hall on Alexanderplatz. It’s almost like the very sets and structures are characters in this bizarre, heartbreaking story. 

Thanks to this series, I’ve had Roxy Music’s “Dance Away” in my head for the past few weeks. No, not the version we all grew up with. I mean the jazz age, klezmer-esque, Kurt Weill-ish version that—with a kind of reverse hauntology—woozily snakes its way through this mesmerizing, almost indescribable tale.

That song is about escaping the heartache of betrayal by getting lost in a pleasant diversion, to the point of obsession. That’s how romance and dating turn out sometimes. Babylon Berlin is about escaping betrayal and heartache because, well, that’s how history and culture turn out sometimes. 

In 1920s Berlin, the dancing, along with numerous other diversions that are as perverse, frenetic, dark, and addictive as they want to be, take place in clubs and bars and brothels. Other folks are dancing in the streets, so to speak, in brutal clashes between numerous, barely distinguishable factions of Communists, Social Democrats, and the Berliner Polizist cops. There’s also a group of Trotskyites who can’t catch a break, and countless dual loyalties among Right and Left wings complicating the internecine fights that plague each political group. (Yes, the series does call for a Weimar politics flow chart at times.) 

Most intriguing is that there’s hardly a Nazi to be found in the mix, unless you count the occasional dust-up with a few dozen Sturmabteilung bullies (those clumsy lads in sad, military-surplus brown shirts and little red arm bands).

There does seem to be a larger, more organized group waiting in the wings. Bunch of resentful holdovers from the First World War. Old, humorless guys in quite striking forest-green felduniform. Sure, it’s an army, but everyone in Germany in 1928 knows there aren’t going to be any more wars; that’s verrückt talk.

Speaking of crazy, the series has the main character’s mental illness, in the form of post-traumatic stress, function as a metaphor for the Weimar zeitgeist. It might seem like a facile reduction, especially if it were done in service to the notion that the cure is worse than the illness. But something else happens. 

The close study of multiple characters in this series suggests that history may not always be guided by x-number of people getting swept up by something larger than themselves. Or by a mad leader. Yes, a lot of folks march, shout, and fight in unison. But in this realm, major social changes are catalyzed by discrete (and often discreet), traumatic, life-altering personal histories that, solely by accident of geographical proximity, coalesce into what we would call a movement or a cause.

The world did witness the worst possible manifestations of “the madness of crowds” with what followed in Germany during the 1930s. But a deeper examination of what’s known as “the human experience” might reveal that each German was crazy alone before all of them were crazy together.

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Period Piece Police Procedurals for (almost) Every Period

1300′s -- Cadfael (British) 

           Sir Derek Jacobi stars as the titular crime solving Benedictine Monk, Brother Cadfael. 

Available to US viewers through something called BritBox

1327 -- The Name of the Rose (Italian)

          So much more than a medieval Sherlock Holmes pastiche, but also, what more could you want than a medieval Sherlock Holmes pastiche? Join William of Baskerville and his sidekick, Adso, as they investigate matters of crime and Christian doctrine. I haven’t actually seen this show yet, but the book is a beautiful blend of history, mystery, and theology. I highly recommend it, and I hope that the new miniseries, produced in 2018 in Italy, is as good as the source. 

Available to US viewers through AMC or Sundance TV https://www.amc.com/shows/the-name-of-the-rose

1880-90′s -- Sherlock Holmes (British) 

         Probably no one is surprised to see this one. I’m not even going to tell you what versions to watch. There are so many and you are free people. 

1927 -- Babylon Berlin (German) 

        Extremely intense police drama, set in Weimar Germany. There’s murder, treason, corruption, extortion, ridiculous flapper dancing and more! Taughtly plotted and tensely paced, this show is my current obsession. Main characters include Gereon Rath, a shell-shocked WWI veteran who is having a tough few weeks, and Charlotte Ritter, a brilliant police stenographer who is having an even tougher few weeks. They are both charming disasters and I love them.  As a period piece, the show uses its mystery-triller plot effectively to highlight the political tensions of Weimar Berlin and the vulnerabilities of the social democratic government.  

A warning: this show bills itself as ‘noir’ and it’s not kidding. Some content is extremely graphic and may be disturbing. Available to US viewers on Netflix. 

1920′s -- Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (Australian) 

       Haven’t actually seen much of this, but it’s on my to-watch list supposed to be super fun, lots of great woman characters! Hooray! 

Available to US viewers on Netflix. 

1939-45 -- Foyle’s War (British)

       Warm and sensitive portrayal of the British home front during WWII. This was my introduction to the period mystery sub-genre, and it ignited a love that’s clearly persisted. Features Michael Kitchen as Christopher Foyle, in perfect stern-but-lovable dad mode, and Honeysuckle Weeks as Sam Stewart, the winningest driver-cum-detective in the history of detectives who drive cars. 

Available to US viewers through Acorn TV. 

1952-3 -- The Bletchley Circle (British)

     Four women, formerly wartime codebreakers at Bletchley Park, reunite to catch a serial killer (and to escape the mundane, traditionally feminine roles to which they have been relegated following their returns to civilian life.) More than a satisfying murder mystery, The Bletchley Circle is an excellent portrait of a long overlooked group of historical figures: female wartime intelligence agents, whose contributions, being confidential, were quick to be forgotten after the war. 

Available to US viewers through BritBox. 

1964-70 -- George Gently (British) 

      Classic mismatched partners cop pairing. Chief Inspector George Gently leaves London for a position in Northumberland, where he's joined by local sergeant John Bacchus. The show highlights how the cultural and political waves of the 1960s ripple out to affect relatively remote towns and rural communities in the north. I find this show especially interesting because it was adapted from a series of novels that were written in the 50′s and 60′s as straight pulp murder mysteries; adapted today, they’ve been given a depth and historical awareness that (imo) isn’t present in the source material. 

Available to US viewers through Acorn TV

1965-1969 -- Endeavor (British) 

      Prequel to the popular Inspector Morse and Lewis/Inspector Lewis series. Set in Oxford, so a reliable source of scenery/architecture porn. Tone is variable, some episodes are much more lighthearted than others, but even when it’s silly, it’s usually charming and stylish. 

Available to US viewers through PBS Passport or  Amazon Prime

1973 -- Life on Mars (British, there is an American version and it is NOT the same)

      It’s been maybe 8 years since I’ve watched this and it’s still probably the best television show I’ve ever seen. A police procedural with a metaphysical sci-fi twist, Sam Tyler, struck by a car in 2006, wakes up in Manchester in 1973-- the city of his own childhood. Is he ‘mad, in a coma, or back in time?’ It’s hard to say, but this tight, two-season show is absolutely riveting. John Simm and Philip Glenister give fantastic performances as fish-out-of-water Sam Tyler and gruff, nineteen-seventies cop, Gene Hunt. Also the soundtrack is excellent.

Available to US viewers through Britbox 

1981-3 -- Ashes to Ashes sequel to Life on Mars (British) 

      If you watched Life on Mars and now you need ANSWERS, this is the show for you. Moved to London and the eighties, with a new main character, Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes), it clues you in, while providing more of the inimitable Gene-genie. 

Not gonna lie, this one is really hard to find. My family (American) ended up ordering bootleg dvds all the way from Britain. It’s worth it though. 

A clarifying note: for my purposes, a period piece must be produced after the period in which it is set, so, for instance, Dragnet is not a period piece because it both aired and was set in the 50′s. 

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The "Netflix effect" has been very real for many TV shows that grew in popularity and found new life after they started streaming on the service.

The term was popularized by AMC's "Breaking Bad," which enjoyed a surge in ratings after streaming on Netflix. The show's creator, Vince Gilligan, credited Netflix with keeping the show alive.

"I think Netflix kept us on the air," Gilligan said in 2013 when the show won the Emmy for best drama series. "I don't think our show would have even lasted beyond season two. It's a new era in television, and we've been very fortunate to reap the benefits."

Television-tracking app TV Time provided Business Insider with an analysis of some of the TV shows that have benefited most from the Netflix bump, based on data from its 12 million global users. The shows include some international favorites that Netflix has acquired, such as the German-language series "Babylon Berlin" and the Golden Globe-winning "Bodyguard" from the UK.

"American Crime Story"

Original network: FX

Number of seasons: 2

Description: "Inspired by actual events, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story is the second installment of FX's award-winning limited series, American Crime Story ... FX's first installment of ACS, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, garnered 9 Emmy Awards while collecting 22 nominations. As one of the most critically acclaimed programs of 2016, it also won Golden Globe, BAFTA, AFI, PGA, WGA and TCA awards."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 92%

What critics said (Season 2): "Featuring less star power than OJ but a few stellar performances of its own, Gianni Versace will be a tougher sell to casual viewers, but those who go along for this journey into the world of a sociopath will be dramatically rewarded." —Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com

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Babylon Berlin

The name of this post comes from one of my favorite television series, Babylon Berlin, a lavishly produced German neo-noir drama that takes place during the final years of the Weimar Republic, or precisely where we are in the timeline of this blog. Jan. 9, 1931 cover by Theodore Haupt. The tumultuous Weimar years of the 1920s and early 30s represented Germany’s initial flirtation with democracy,…

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Upcoming Project: Maria Theresia

Hello everyone,

I wanted to do this for quite some time now and today I just decided to do it. In the last years, German and also Austrian television have upped their TV mini series game. Especially in the period drama department. Series like “Babylon Berlin” and “Deutschland 83″ have been successful not only in German speaking countries but also abroad. Still there are so many series that never received a translation which I am sure many would have enjoyed.

So out of my recently discovered passion for foreign period drama (thanks especially to all the Turkish and Spanish speaking people for their translations into English), I decided to start to translating some of them into English so more period drama fans might enjoy them.

My first project is not going to be German, but actually a Czech-Austrian co-production which just recently aired: Maria Theresia. So far I cannot say when it will be done but I am on the first of the two episodes at the moment.

The series itself is about the young Maria Theresa - as she is known in English - and her way onto the Austrian throne and her struggle to stay on it. Each episode is about 1,5 hours long.

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“Zu Asche, zu Staub” / ”To Ashes, to Dust”, (Psycho Nikoros)  Moka Efti Orchestra/Severija First edition ℗ Moka Efti Orchestra Released on: 2020-02-14 “The Moka Efti Orchestra is a 14-person jazz band formed by Nikko Weidemann, Mario Kamien and Sebastian Borkowski. The group was first formed for the German television series Babylon Berlin in 2018“ “The name comes from the legendary Berlin café and dance house of the 1920s and 1930s, Moka Efti.“

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TV Series in German

Babylon Berlin

Babylon Berlin is a German neo-noir television series. It is created, written and directed by Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries and Hendrik Handloegten, based on novels by German author Volker Kutscher. The series takes place in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, starting in 1929.

Deutschland 86

Deutschland 86 is a 2018 television series starring Jonas Nay as an agent of East Germany in 1986. It is a sequel to the 2015 series Deutschland 83.

Dark

Dark is a German science fiction thriller web television series co-created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese.[5][6][7] Set in the town of Winden, Germany, Dark concerns the aftermath of a child's disappearance which exposes the secrets of, and hidden connections among, four estranged families as they slowly unravel a sinister time travel conspiracy which spans three generations. Throughout the series, Dark explores the existential implications of time and its effects upon human nature.

Freud

Freud is an Austrian-German crime television series re-imagining the life of a young Sigmund Freud. 8 episodes have been produced, with the first series airing on 23 March 2020 on Netflix.

Wir sind die Welle 

A new version of Rhue's novel in which a group of teenagers who start a youth movement which develops a dangerous momentum.

Parfum

When a singer is found murdered, with her scent glands excised from her body, detectives probe a group of friends who attended boarding school with her.

Zeit der Geheimnisse 

A Christmas reunion becomes a gateway to the past in this three-part series that explores the intimate complexities of one family's history.

Nailed It! 

Home bakers with a terrible track record take a crack at re- creating edible masterpieces for a $10,000 prize. It's part reality contest, part hot mess.

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German history takes to the small screen

GERMAN TELEVISION USED to be dominated by sentimental romantic dramas and worthy but dry documentaries. But a succession of innovative new series is now taking the culture world by storm. In 2015 the first episode of “Deutschland 83”, a spy thriller set in former East Germany, was the most watched subtitled programme ever to air on British television; a sequel, “Deutschland 86”, will hit screens later this year. Now reviewers are raving about “Babylon Berlin”, a Weimar-era crime drama that has been described as “ ‘Cabaret’ on cocaine”.

Deep-pocketed American studios are working with German writers and actors to make television aimed at global markets. “Babylon Berlin”, the costliest non-English-language series ever made, was half-funded by Sky, a European media group, and distributed by Netflix, an American entertainment company, which in December produced its own first German-language series—“Dark”, a science-fiction thriller. Amazon, an online giant, did the same last year with the Berlin-based “You Are Wanted”, a series about the aftermath of a cyber-crime attack.

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“When our series was popular in the US and the UK, Germans were surprised but I wasn’t,” recalls Anna Winger, one of the makers of “Deutschland 83”. Comfortable in its skin and blessed with a cool, creative capital city, Germany is now seen as sexy. In 2017 it overtook the United States to become the world’s most respected country, according to an annual survey of 50 nations by GfK, a market-research firm. Its long-undigested past is at last considered suitable material for television programmes.

This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline "Squarely in the frame"

Special report: The new GermansMore in this special report:

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Babylon Berlin - Season 3 VFX Breakdown RISE

Babylon Berlin – Season 3 VFX Breakdown RISE

Babylon Berlin is a German neo-noir television series. It is created, written and directed by Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, and Hendrik Handloegten, based on novels by German author Volker Kutscher.

The series takes place in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, starting in 1929. It follows Gereon Rath, a police inspector on assignment from Cologne who is on a secret mission to dismantle an…

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The scenario is that likely

Update: In the meantime, the European Union has also dealt with the topic.

EU Commissioner Thierry Breton contacted Netflix founder Reed Hastings and got in touch a tweet back in which he appealed to keep the resolution used for streaming as low as possible so as not to burden the networks unnecessarily. The original message follows.

The cinemas close in several German cities. Film fans still use television and streaming services such as Netflix as sources of entertainment. But what if the network breaks down under the unusual stress?

The strain on the Internet is changing due to the corona virus. The spread of Covid-19 is to be slowed down with social distancing. The resulting distances are compensated for via the Internet: employees and companies use video telephony for conferences.

Netflix shutdown: are the lines reaching their limits?

For leisure activities in quarantine there is little else than watching television, reading and streaming films and series. In Italy, there were already isolated connection failures last week on Wednesday, writes Bloomberg . Telecom Italia reports a traffic increase of 70 percent above normal values. This is mainly due to video games like Fortnite. Broadband providers in Sweden are also reporting traffic increases.

What does that mean for streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Sky and Disney + next week? First of all, the Internet did not turn out to be widespread in Italy, only a few functions suddenly buckled under the new requirements, it is said. Telecom Italia announced that the providers are well prepared and able to withstand traffic increases.

Nevertheless: In corona times, more data has to be transmitted via the Internet. It is difficult to predict how the networks will react to this and how high the requirements will actually be. The statements on this have so far come from individual industry experts. They are only partially applicable to all scenarios that we could still expect and do not provide any information about local peculiarities.

In an emergency, Netflix should give way

The Swiss Daily indicator headlined this weekend: “In an emergency, Netflix could be turned off.” This assessment also comes from a single expert who paints an extreme scenario in which an extreme measure could occur. “There is a risk that the capacity will no longer be sufficient,” quotes the Tagesanzeiger.

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Is the Netflix screen threatening?

The newspaper had the classification confirmed by the Swiss Federal Office of Communications. If the networks were to be overloaded, the country would therefore, together with the providers, encourage the temporary shutdown of “less important services”.

This means “bandwidth-intensive streaming services”, ie Netflix and Amazon Prime. In an absolute emergency, streaming services would probably not have priority in Germany either.

Why streaming services are unlikely to be turned off

Overall, however, the providers seem well prepared for the challenges. The expert

Roger Entner

 explained to Slate that the additional burdens caused by the corona situation are overestimated.

The video consumption for streaming services was already very high around the evening hours before the changed Corona circumstances. The increased use of video telephony is worrying. However, the peaks are shifting: work-related video streams tend to take place during the day, streams of series and films for leisure activities tend to take place in the evening. So everything as always, only to an increased extent.

But what does this increased scope do?

Set streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon

According to Roger Entner, cloud providers are designed to handle extremely high traffic fluctuations and are therefore unlikely to collapse under them. These cloud providers from Amazon, Microsoft and Google, via which data from streaming services are transmitted, are “elastic” and can dynamically provide bandwidth.

The Internet can endure a little more than we initially believe. Streaming services are well prepared for high loads and can derive them technically. There should be no shutdown or even a crash of Netflix or Amazon Prime for the time being.

Podcast for streaming fans: Are the celebrated series Bad Banks & Babylon Berlin worth it?

In the new episode Stream rush – also with Spotify – let's check out the acclaimed German series Bad Banks and Babylon Berlin, which regularly make the media libraries glow:

Babylon Berlin is the most expensive non-English language series and, like Bad Banks, enjoys international popularity. Andrea, Jenny and Matthias discuss why the twenties thriller and the financial thriller are worthwhile for you.

Have you hammered enough DVDs and Blu-rays?

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Babylon Berlin Vol. II Soundtrack

Babylon Berlin Vol. II - Original Television Soundtrack by Various Artists #BabylonBerlin #neonoir #soundtrack

Original Television Soundtrack (Vol. II) for the series Babylon Berlin (2017-2020). The music was composed by Various Artists.

Source: Babylon Berlin Series Genre: Original Television Soundtrack Music by Various Artists Label: BMG Format: Digital Release Date: January 24, 2020

Babylon Berlin is a 2017 German neo-noir period drama television series created by Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, Henk…