Berlin (dpa) – 15 years ago – on March 23, 2006 – the Stasi drama “The Lives of Others”, which was later awarded an Oscar, was shown in the cinema.
If you are in Berlin near the famous Berghain club, you can walk past the house of the film characters Georg Dreyman and Christa-Maria Sieland (played by Sebastian Koch and Martina Gedeck) – in Wedekindstraße, house number 21.
Other addresses and places in Germany are also remembered by many from film and television and sometimes almost as pilgrimage sites for decades. A selection – of course completely incomplete:
Stahnsdorf: The local cemetery (Südwestkirchhof) near Berlin became world famous through the Netflix series “Dark”, in which the wooden chapel in Norway style can be seen as a motif of the fictional city of Winden.
Roseburg: The Wotersen estate is located in this municipality in the Duchy of Lauenburg (Schleswig-Holstein). Its yellow buildings and stables were the location of the ZDF series “The Legacy of the Guldenburgs”.
Ahlbeck: The pier of the old Baltic Sea resort on Usedom has an appearance at the end of Loriot’s 30-year-old pensioner comedy “Pappa ante portas” – as a place for a family celebration.
Moritzburg: The baroque Moritzburg Castle in the district of Meißen near Dresden is famous for the cult film “Three hazelnuts for Cinderella” – a fairy tale coproduction by CSSR and GDR in 1973.
Görlitz: The old town of the East Saxon city is popular as a backdrop, for example for historical films such as “Fabian”, “Inglourious Basterds”, “Werk ohne Autor”, “Grand Budapest Hotel”, “The Reader”.
Schulzendorf: The local castle near Berlin is – slightly changed in terms of computer technology – the alleged Methuen Home girls ‘orphanage in Kentucky from the Netflix series “The Ladies’ Gambit”. Recordings at Berlin’s Friedrichstadtpalast and the Palais am Funkturm are also sold as America in the series.
Unterhaching: Among other things, the school comedy “Fack Ju Göthe” was filmed in the 1970s school building of the Lise Meitner High School in Unterhaching near Munich.
Eisenhüttenstadt: The Stalinist planned district from the 50s is the largest area monument in Germany and was excellently suited for the GDR film “The Silent Classroom” by Lars Kraume.
Hamburg: On Hein-Hoyer-Strasse (Altona), for example, scenes were created for Fatih Akins “Out of Nowhere”, at the Hotel Atlantic for the Bond film “Tomorrow never dies” and on St. Pauli for “The Golden Glove”.
Landshut: This is where the soon-to-be-ending ARD series “Um Himmels Willen” was created around the fictional Kaltenthal monastery. The historic town hall in Landshut is the town hall, Niederaichbach Castle is the monastery.
Kronberg: The local castle hotel near Frankfurt / Main, once the residence of the Emperor’s widow “Victoria Kaiserin Friedrich”, will become Sandringham Castle in 2022 in the film “Spencer” with Kristen Stewart as Lady Di.
Glottertal: The “Black Forest Clinic” is a building in Glottertal and is still a popular destination today. The Hüsli local history museum in Grafenhausen served as the home of head physician Professor Brinkmann.
Plattenburg: Michael Haneke shot for the black and white film “The White Ribbon – A German Children’s Story” in the Netzow district of Brandenburg. The village factory takes place before the First World War.
Pöcking: The real castle of Sisi’s Bavarian family is located in the district of Possenhofen, but Fuschl Castle in the Salzkammergut was used in the “Sissi” films of the 1950s – today a luxury hotel.
Lüneburg: The picturesque old town in Lower Saxony serves as a romantic backdrop for the ARD telenovela “Rote Rosen”, and the hotel “Drei Könige” is one of the main locations.
Monschau: The old town with its half-timbered houses near Belgium serves, among other things, as a filming location for the ARD film series “Die Eiffelpraxis” or was seen in the Netflix miniseries “About Christmas”.
Much: The ARD crime series “Murder with a View” in the fictional Eifel town of Hengasch had different locations; The residence of the character Sophie Haas (Caroline Peters) was the old forester’s house in Heckhaus (municipality of Much).
Eltville: Here in the Hessian Rheingau in the (Cistercian) monastery of Eberbach, the interior shots for the Umberto Eco film “The Name of the Rose” with Sean Connery took place in the mid-80s.
Bad Tölz: The Upper Bavarian town with its splendid Marktstrasse became popular with the Sat.1 crime series “Der Bulle von Tölz” with Ottfried Fischer as chief inspector Benno Berghammer.
Quedlinburg: Places in the Harz World Heritage City in Saxony-Anhalt featured in the film “Goethe!” (2010) Wetzlar and in the new film “Heidi” (2015) the historical Frankfurt am Main.
Bamberg: The Franconian city is the plot and location of three children’s films about “Sams”, which Paul Maar invented. Christine Urspruch played the little mythical creature.
Baddeckenstedt: The community near Wolfenbüttel and Oelber Castle served as the backdrop for scenes from the comedy “The Spooky Castle in Spessart” (1960) with Lilo Pulver. Other scenes were actually shot on the Spessart, namely in Miltenberg; but most of it in studios.
Munich: In the 80s cult series “Kir Royal”, for example, the funeral hall at the Ostfriedhof served as the portal of a restaurant, in which glue mogul Haffenloher (Mario Adorf) had a bang.
Gelsenkirchen: In the Bismarck district, the Ahlmannshof street served as an authentic setting for Hape Kerkeling’s childhood years in Recklinghausen in the film adaptation of the book “The boy has to get some fresh air”.
Berlin: The former Delphi cinema in Weißensee (now a theater) served as the “Moka Efti” club in the “Babylon Berlin” series. The Schumanns’ house from the ZDF series “I marry a family” is in Steglitz, and the Oscar-Niemeyer-Haus from the film “Lara” with Corinna Harfouch is in the Hansaviertel. The Oberbaumbrücke over the Spree – between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain – was an important motif in the 90s film “Run Lola Run”, the Karl-Marx-Allee near Alexanderplatz in the turnaround drama “Good Bye, Lenin!”.
The Neukölln Uthmannstrasse served over 40 years ago as the old Danzig in the Grass film adaptation of “The Tin Drum”. The Berlin Zoologischer Garten train station was of course the motif of the film as well as of the new series “We children from the Zoo train station”. The Glienicke Bridge over the Havel on the border with Potsdam made a big appearance in the Hollywood film “Bridge of Spies” with Tom Hanks.
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