German filmmaker Thomas Stuber, in competition at the Berlinale with romantic drama “In the Aisles,” has re-teamed with writing partner and author Clemens Meyer on a major TV project, a series adaptation of Meyer’s critically acclaimed novel “Im Stein” (“Bricks and Mortar”).Described as Meyer’s most ambitious book to date, “Bricks and Mortar” tells the story of the sex trade in a big eastern German city, from the communist era just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the present day.
The novel charts the development of the industry from prohibition to legality, focusing on the rise and fall of a soccer hooligan-turned-property magnate who rents apartments to prostitutes.Comparing it to Alfred Doeblin’s famed novel “Berlin Alexanderplatz” (itself adapted as a TV series in 1980 by the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder), literary critic Wiebke Porombka called the book “magnificent and dark” and “deeply moral precisely because it forgoes moral judgment.”“That’s the most
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