The (Trans)national Appeal within Babylon Berlin?

This article examines Sky Atlantic’s Babylon Berlin (Tom Tykwer, Henk Handloegten, Achim von Borries, 2017–), exploring national and transnational constructions in order to understand the series’ international appeal from British perspective, what Tim Bergfelder identifies as an “imaginary idea of foreign”. analyses series by applying Lawrence Venuti’s hermeneutic approach, adapted translation studies. It treats novels Volker Kutscher on which is based a source text, TV target examining discrepancies interspaces between them, revealing interplay transnational. However, this not immediately apparent viewer notions are buried reframed national. approach enables travel. both plays into profits universal