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Set in the DDR during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, it’s based on a true story and a book of the same title by Dietrich Garstka. This recent addition to the Netflix inventory won the 2018 peace prize of German film, Die Brücke – and for good reason. In a sense, the aim of Die Barbaren is to spark a reconsideration of this part of history, instead of leaving it to stagnate in the realm of alt-right propaganda. Nolting, one of the writers of the series, said he intended to reclaim the narrative from “those forces we detest”.
For a long time, the narrative had been co-opted by nationalists and far-right. The story of the Teutoburg Forest is a surprisingly contentious topic in Germany.
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While this might not be what the critics would call “original”, it does make the series very bingeable. It’s embellished with a neat check-list of Netflix must-haves: a dynamic love triangle, an outspoken female heroine, and plenty of Game of Thrones-style gratuitous violence and sex scenes. The plot is based (loosely) on the story of the battle of the Teutoburg Forest, when a group of Germanic tribes resisted annexation by the Roman Empire. It’s easy to see why: the series’ aesthetics are very seductive, morphing modern beard-grooming with a rough-and-ready, fur-clad fantasy of the Germanic tribes. In November, the first series of Die Barbaren was so successful that Netflix immediately announced that they are working on a second one.
On that note, here are the five most bingeable and/or thought-provoking historical dramas in German right now: This, at least, is how I rationalise my “Watch it again” list. Rather than the factual history, history dramas offer a distanced perspective of the anxieties and preoccupations of the present, as well as a tell-all insight into the cultural psyche of a country’s perception of its past. However, in recent years, the rise of series like Chernobyl – and even Bridgerton – have proven the range and variety that can be found in this genre. They are a notorious “trash” genre and while “historical” is in the name, “accuracy” is usually not the game. Historical dramas are often denigrated and belittled.
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READ ALSO: Ten top films and TV shows to discover Germany from your couch And for reasons I can’t quite explain myself, I found myself drawn to the plethora of historical dramas that German Netflix offers. Like many, during this pandemic, I turned to streaming sites.
Since almost everything was shut when I arrived in the German capital at the end of August last year, I needed to get my culture-fix elsewhere. In practice: well, there was this little thing called Covid-19 that kind of got in the way a bit. I was ready to soak up that German influence like a sponge, and take it home with me to England to wring out during my final year of uni. When I moved to Berlin for my year abroad, I was meant to immerse myself in the language, the culture, the history.