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Volker Kutscher (German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlkɐ ˈkʊtʃɐ] ⓘ; born 26 December 1962) is a German novelist, best known for his Berlin-based Gereon Rath crime series, which serves as the basis for the Sky thriller series Babylon Berlin.
The series is set in Berlin during the latter years of the Weimar Republic, beginning in 1929.It follows Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch), a police inspector on assignment from Cologne who is on a secret mission to dismantle an extortion ring, and Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries), police clerk by day, prostitute by night, who aspires to become a police inspector.
Volker Bruch (German: [ˈfɔlkɐ ˈbʁʊx]; born 1980) is a German television and film actor.He is best known internationally for his leading roles as Wilhelm Winter in the television drama Generation War (2013) and as Inspector Gereon Rath in the neo-noir series Babylon Berlin (2017–present); for the latter, he was awarded the 2018 Grimme-Preis, Germany's most prestigious television award.
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St. Gereon's Basilica, in Cologne, is dedicated to him. [2] Stefan Lochner painted a triptych in the 15th century which, in the centre piece, shows in almost life-size figures the worshipping of the Magi, and the side panels of which represent Ursula with her companions, and Gereon with his warriors. In 1810 the triptych was moved from the town ...
For Mike Ashley'sThe Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives (1995), F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre wrote "Death in the Dawntime", a locked room mystery (or rather, sealed cave mystery) set in Australia around 35,000 BC, which Ashley suggests is the furthest in the past a historical mystery has been set to date. [23]
Bernhard Weiss Bernhard Weiss (center) with Magnus Heimannsberg (left), and Albert Grzesinski (right) at the funeral of murdered police officers Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck, 1931 Memorial Plaque in Berlin-Charlottenburg Memorial Plaque at Weiss's home at Kaiserdamm 1, in Berlin-Charlottenburg
Ernst Gennat's grave at the Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery. Ernst August Ferdinand Gennat (1 January 1880 – 20 August 1939) was director of the Berlin criminal police. He worked under three political systems in his 30-year career as one of the most gifted and successful criminologists in the German Reich.