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Babylon Berlin is a German neo-noir television series. Created, written, and directed by Tom Tykwer , Achim von Borries , and Hendrik Handloegten, it is loosely based on novels by Volker Kutscher .
Walter Andrae, one of Koldewey's many assistants, was an architect and a draftsman, the first at Babylon. His contribution was documentation and reconstruction of Babylon, and then later, the smuggling of the remains out of Iraq and into Germany. A small museum was built at the site, and Andrae was the museum's first director.
Robert Johann Koldewey (10 September 1855 – 4 February 1925) was a German archaeologist, famous for his in-depth excavation of the ancient city of Babylon in modern-day Iraq. He was born in Blankenburg am Harz in Germany, the duchy of Brunswick, and died in Berlin at the age of 69.
Liv Lisa Fries (born 31 October 1990 in Berlin) is a German actress who has appeared in several films and who gained an international following as the female lead Charlotte Ritter in the German TV series Babylon Berlin, which first premiered in 2017. [1]
Berlin Babylon is a 2001 German documentary film directed by Hubertus Siegert with industrial music performed by Einstürzende Neubauten. The film's main focus is on the extensive rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It features internationally acclaimed architects including Rem Koolhaas, Renzo Piano, and I.M. Pei.
Project Babylon was a space gun project commissioned by then Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. It involved building a series of " superguns ". The design was based on research from the 1960s Project HARP led by the Canadian artillery expert Gerald Bull .
Christian Friedel (born 9 March 1979) is a German actor and singer. [1] Having acted in a number of German language productions, he is best known internationally as part of the main cast of the Netflix television thriller series Babylon Berlin (2017–present) and as Rudolf Höss in the 2023 drama The Zone of Interest.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World listed by Hellenic culture. They were described as a remarkable feat of engineering with an ascending series of tiered gardens containing a wide variety of trees, shrubs, and vines, resembling a large green mountain constructed of mud bricks.