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Bern is Switzerland's low-key capital, a clock-tower old town looped by a river. A patent clerk rewrote physics here in 1905. Open Bern on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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6 famous stories set in Bern

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Browse 5 books and 1 movie set in Bern.

The Miracle of Bern

Senator Film-Little Shark Entertainment-Seven Pictures

movie

The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II and the father returns from Russia…

Setting: Bern, Switzerland; Germany; RussiaTime Period: 1950s

Einstein's Dreams

by Alan Lightman (Goodreads Author)

book

A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his…

Setting: ['Bern (Switzerland)']Time Period: 1905; Einstein's Theory of Relativity

The Other Woman

by Daniel Silva

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She was his best-kept secret …In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child…

Setting: ['Washington, DC (United States)', 'Tel Aviv (Israel)', 'London, England', 'Seville (Spain)', 'Vienna (Austria)', 'Jerusalem (Israel)', 'Hampshire, England', 'Andalusia (Spain)', 'Israel', 'Bern (Switzerland)', 'Spain', 'England', 'Strasbourg (France)', 'Austria', 'Montreal, Quebec (Montréal, Québec) (Canada)', 'Dartmoor, Devon, England', 'Switzerland', 'Budapest (Hungary)']Time Period: 2007

Kolbe (Geschichte erleben mit Spannung)

by Andreas Kollender

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During one of history’s darkest chapters, one man is determined to make a difference.In the tradition of Schindler’s List comes a thrilling novel based on the heroic true story of Fritz Kolbe, a widowed civil servant in…

Setting: ['Cape Town (South Africa)', 'Berlin (Germany)', 'Bern (Switzerland)']Time Period: UNKNOWN

Der Richter und sein Henker

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, John J. Neumaier (Editor), William Gillis (Editor)

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"Der Richter und sein Henker" ist einer seiner berühmtesten Romane - die Geschichte eines Mordes. Mit den reißerischen Mitteln einer Detektivstory erzählt er die Aufklärung einer Gewalttat an einem Polizeileutnant, den…

Setting: ['Bern (Switzerland)']Time Period: 1951

Eindstation Bern

by Colin Forbes

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Zwitserland. Een besneeuwd landschap. Een vrouw rent hysterisch schreeuwend de donkere nacht in, achternagezeten door luid blaffende dobermanns en geüniformeerde bewakers. Voordat ze bij het hek is, vlak bij de…

Setting: ['Bern (Switzerland)', 'Switzerland']Time Period: 1984

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