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Stories Set in Bremen — top stories

Bremen is a Hanseatic port on the Weser river, built on coffee, ships and beer. A fairy tale stapled itself to it — the Town Musicians statue draws crowds — and its stories stay storybook-sized. The Four Musicians of Bremen retell the legend; Neue Vahr Süd grows up here. Open Bremen on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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4 famous stories set in Bremen

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Browse 2 books and 2 movies set in Bremen.

Neue Vahr Süd

Neue Vahr Süd

WDR-Radio Bremen
movie

Frank Lehmann 20 still lives with his parents in the dreary high-rise housing project "Neue Vahr" in Bremen. It's the year 1980 and Frank gets drafted to the army even though his friends assure him that "he's not really…

Setting: Bremen, GermanyTime Period: 1980
The Last Temptation

The Last Temptation

by Val McDermid
book

Coming to terms over her breakup with criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill, Chief Inspector Carol Jordan plunges into a risky undercover sting: track down a European drug trafficker and gain his confidence. But she's being…

Setting: ['Berlin (Germany)', 'Bremen (Germany)', 'Heidelberg (Germany)', 'Leiden (Netherlands)', 'Rotterdam (Netherlands)', 'Hamburg (Germany)', 'Schloss Hochenstein', 'Seaford, England (United Kingdom)', 'Amsterdam (Netherlands)']Time Period: 2002
The Four Musicians of Bremen

The Four Musicians of Bremen

movie

Four animal musicians consisting of a Horse Cat Dog & Rooster set out on their own quest to try to find some fame by playing their own music. Unfortunitly every where they go trouble always occurs whether they are…

Setting: Bremen, GermanyTime Period: Fantasy: Not known
Queen of the Bremen: The True Story of an American Child Trapped in Germany During World War II

Queen of the Bremen: The True Story of an American Child Trapped in Germany During World War II

by Marlies Adams Difante, Ann Marie Difante (With)
book

It is 1939 when five-year-old Marlies Adams travels with her family on a transatlantic journey from America to Germany so that her mother can visit her terminally ill father. As the SS Bremen leaves New York Harbor with…

Setting: Germany; Bremerhaven, Germany; New York Harbor, USATime Period: 1939-1945

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