Babylon Berlin: A Conversation with Showrunner Henk Handloegten

This event will feature a screening and discussion of select scenes from the fourth season of the acclaimed German television series Babylon Berlin—a neo-noir crime/ historical drama set in late 1920s, early 1930s Berlin—with Henk Handloegten,
one of the show’s three creators. Smith and Baer coedited Babylon Berlin, German Visual Spectacle, and Global Media Culture (Bloomsbury, March 2024), the first scholarly volume on the series.

Henk Handloegten, born in 1968, studied film at the Berlin Film Academy and received multiple awards for his graduation film, Paul Is Dead, followed by TV plays, crime thrillers, and successful features like Learning To Lie and Summer Window and
cowriting the script for the international hit Good Bye, Lenin. Handloegten creates, writes, and directs Babylon Berlin with Achim von Borries and Tom Tykwer.

Sponsored by the Departments of Art History, German, History, Music, and Theater and Dance, the Programs in Cinema Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS), the Blythe Bickel Edwards Fund, the Office of the President, and the German Embassy’s “Germany on Campus” Initiative.

Open to the public free of charge.

For more information, contact jsmith5@bowdoin.edu.

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