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== Portrayals in media == ===Books=== ====Non-fiction==== * {{cite book | last1=Bethge | first1=E. | last2=Barnett | first2=V.J. |author-link1=Eberhard Bethge| title=Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography | publisher=Fortress Press | year=1999 | isbn=978-1-4514-0742-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CJNypSrcyEoC&pg=PA625 }} * {{cite book |last1=Marsh |first1=Charles |title=Strange glory: a life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer |date=2014 |location=New York |publisher=Knopf |isbn=978-0-307-26981-2}} * {{cite book|last=Schlingensiepen|first=Ferdinand|title=Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906–1945: Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance|publisher=Continuum/T & T Clark|date=2010|isbn=978-0-7735-1531-4}} * {{cite book | last=Root | first=A. | title=Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker: A Theological Vision for Discipleship and Life Together | publisher=Baker Publishing Group | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-4412-2131-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LbyYBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT119 }} * [[Eberhard Bethge]], ''Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Theologian, Christian, Man for His Times: A Biography'', rev. ed. (Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2000) *Trey Palmisano (author), Reinhard Krauss (foreword), ''Peace and Violence in the Ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: An Analysis of Method'' (Wipf & Stock, 2016). {{ISBN|9781498287722}} * Diane Reynolds, ''The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer'' (Wipf & Stock, 2016) * Keith Clements, ''Bonhoeffer and Britain'' (Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, 2006). {{ISBN|0-85169-307-5}} * {{citation |last=DeJonge |first=Michael P. |title=Bonhoeffer's Theological Formation: Berlin, Barth, and Protestant Theology |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-19-963978-6}} * {{citation |last=DeJonge |first=Michael P. |title=Bonhoeffer's Reception of Luther |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-19-879790-6}} * {{citation |last=DeJonge |first=Michael P. |title=Bonhoeffer on Resistance: The Word against the Wheel |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-0-19-882417-6}} * {{citation |editor-last=Frick |editor-first=Peter |title=Bonhoeffer's Intellectual Formation: Theology and Philosophy in His Thought |publisher=Mohr Siebeck |year=2008 |isbn=978-3-16-149535-9}} *Donald Goddard, ''The Last Days of Dietrich Bonhoeffer'', Harper and Roe,1976, {{ISBN|0060115645}} * Stephen R. Haynes,''The Bonhoeffer Legacy: Post-Holocaust Perspectives'' (Fortress Press, 2006). {{ISBN|0-8006-3815-8}}. * Geffrey B. Kelly & F. Burton Nelson (editors), ''A Testament to Freedom: The Essential Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer'' (Harper San Francisco, 1990) {{ISBN|0-06-060813-7}} * Michael J. Martin, ''Dietrich Bonhoeffer''. Champion of Freedom series. (Morgan Reynolds Publishing, 2012). {{ISBN|978-1-59935-169-8}}. Winner of 2013 Wilbur Award for Best Book, Youth Audiences. * John W. Matthews, ''Bonhoeffer: A Brief Overview of the Life and Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer'' (Lutheran University Press, 2011) * John McCabe, ''Dietrich Bonhoeffer - The Last Eight Days'' (Baylor University Press, 2024) {{ISBN|9781481321679}} * John McCabe, ''Acht Tage im April - Dietrich Bonhoeffers letzter Weg nach Flossenbürg'' Trans. Thomas Görden (Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2025) {{ISBN|9783579082578}} * John A. Moses, ''The Reluctant Revolutionary: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Collision with Prusso-German History'' (New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2009) * Metaxas, Eric, ''Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.'' (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2010.) {{ISBN|978-1-59555-138-2}}. * {{cite book |first1=Mark Thiessen |last1=Nation |first2=Anthony G. |last2=Siegrist |first3=Daniel P. |last3=Umbel |title=Bonhoeffer the Assassin? Challenging the Myth, Recovering His Call to Peacemaking |publisher=Baker Grand Rapids |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-8010-3961-4}} * {{Citation | first = Stephen | last = Plant | title =Bonhoeffer | publisher =Continuum International Publishing | year = 2004 | isbn=0-8264-5089-X}}. *{{Citation | author-link = <!--Edwin H Robertson--> | first = Edwin | last = Robertson | title = The Shame and the Sacrifice: The Life and Teaching of Dietrich Bonhoeffer | publisher = Hodder & Stoughton | year = 1987 | isbn = 978-0-340-41063-9}}. * {{Citation | first = Edwin | last = Robertson | title = Bonhoeffer's Legacy: The Christian Way in a World Without Religion | publisher = Collier Books | year = 1989 | isbn = 978-0-02-036372-9}}. * {{Citation | author-link = <!--Ferdinand Schlingensiepen--> | first=Ferdinand | last=Schlingensiepen | title=Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945, Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance | publisher=Bloomsbury | year=2012 | isbn = 9780567493194 }}. * Kenneth Slack. ''George Bell''. S.C.M. Press, 1971. {{ISBN|0334000939}}. * Reggie L. Williams, ''Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance'' (Baylor University Press, 2014). {{ISBN|978-1-60258-805-9}} * Valentin Jeutner, ''[https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/sovereign-human-being-9780567717047/ The Sovereign Human Being: Carl Schmitt, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Responsible Decision-Making]'' (Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2024). {{ISBN|9780567717047}} ====Fiction==== * [[Denise Giardina]], ''Saints and Villains'' (Ballantine Books, 1999). {{ISBN|0-449-00427-9}}. A Fictional Account of Bonhoeffer's life. * Mary Glazener, ''The Cup of Wrath: The Story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Resistance to Hitler'' (Frederic C. Beil, 1992). {{ISBN|0-913720-71-2}}. * Daniel Jándula, ''El Reo'' (Tarragona: Ediciones Noufront, 2009). {{ISBN|978-84-937017-0-3}} * [[George Mackay Brown]], ''[[Magnus (novel)|Magnus]]'' (Hogarth Press, 1973)<!--A novel in which the imprisoned 10th century Orcadian saint [[Magnus Erlendsson]] is transformed into Bonhoeffer.--> * Simon Perry, ''All Who Came Before'' (Wipf and Stock, 2011)<!--, in which Bonhoeffer's ethics and actions give flesh to the historical figure, [[Barabbas]].--> * Elizabeth Strout, Abide with me (Simon and Schuster UK Ltd 2006) * Jack Saarela, ''Love Out of Reach'' (Can't Put it Down Books 2019). {{ISBN|978-0999462355}}<!--A lesser-known side of Bonhoeffer as he falls in love with [[Maria von Wedemeyer Weller]].--> ===Films=== * {{Citation |title=Bonhoeffer, A Life of Challenge |publisher=Panagraph |author=Dr. John F. Boogaert, director |place=US |year=1978}}. * {{Cite web |url=http://www.therestlessconscience.com/ |title=The Restless Conscience |first=Hava Kohav |last=Beller |place=US |year=1991 |access-date=19 December 2007 |archive-date=14 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114044119/http://www.therestlessconscience.com/ |url-status=dead}}. * ''A View From The Underside – The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer'' – Al Staggs, 1992 * Hanged on a Twisted Cross (1996)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Snodgrass |first1=Mary Ellen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LXyyYs2cRDcC&pg=PT41 |title=Encyclopedia of the Literature of Empire |date=2010 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-1906-9 |page=41 |language=en}}</ref> T.N. Mohan, 1996 * ''{{ill|Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace|de|3=Bonhoeffer – Die letzte Stufe}}'' (2000) [[Eric Till]], PBS, 2000 * ''[[Martin Doblmeier|Bonhoeffer]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Bonhoeffer Home |url=http://www.bonhoeffer.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207014435/http://www.bonhoeffer.com// |archive-date=7 February 2016 |work=bonhoeffer.com}}</ref> – Martin Doblmeier, 2003 * "Come Before Winter" (2016) Produced by Dr. Gary Blount, directed by Kevin Ekvall. * ''[[Bonhoeffer (film)|Bonhoeffer]]'' (2024) distributed by Angel Studios. Written and directed by [[Todd Komarnicki]]. ===Plays=== * ''Lies, Love and Hitler''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liesloveandhitler.com/|title=Lies, Love & Hitler 2014|access-date=22 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216081109/https://www.liesloveandhitler.com/|archive-date=16 February 2019|url-status=usurped}}</ref> – an Australian play written by Elizabeth Avery Scott. Premiered 2010 at The Street Theatre, Canberra, Australia (directed by P.J. Williams). * ''Bonhoeffer'' – a play written and performed by South African playwright, actor and human rights activist [[Peter Krummeck]] (directed by Christopher Weare) and premiered at Capitol Hill in Washington DC during the week commemorating the First Anniversary of 9/11.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=2054 |title=All About Jewish Theatre – One-man show revives intense tale of resolve |access-date=17 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215211421/http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=2054 |archive-date=15 December 2013 }}</ref> * ''Bonhoeffer'' – an American play by Tim Jorgenson, available in a print edition (Xulon Press, 2002 {{ISBN|1-59160-343-9}}), premiered in 2004 at the Acacia Theatre Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. * ''Bonhoeffer''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seinajoenkaupunginteatteri.fi/ohjelmisto/bonhoeffer.html |title=Bonhoeffer – Seinäjoen kaupunginteatteri |access-date=13 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001142204/http://www.seinajoenkaupunginteatteri.fi/ohjelmisto/bonhoeffer.html |archive-date=1 October 2008 }}</ref> – a Finnish [[Monologue|monologue play]] written and performed by Timo Kankainen and directed by Eija-Irmeli Lahti, premiered in January 2008 at the [[Seinäjoki]] city theatre. * ''Personal Honor: Suggested by the Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer'' – by Nancy Axelrad and performed by the Ricks-Weil Theatre Company (directed by Thom Johnson), premiered 1 May 2009 at the H.J. Ricks Centre for the Arts in Greenfield, Indiana. * ''The Beams are Creaking'' – an American play by Douglas Anderson, Baker's Plays, Boston ({{ISBN|0-87440-963-2}}). Premiered at Case Western University in October 1978. Won the Marc A. Klein Playwright Award and Wichita State National Playwright Competition that same year. * ''Bonhoeffer's Cost'' – Mary Ruth Clarke with Timothy Gregory, presented by Provision Theatre, Chicago, 17 September – 30 October 2011. *'' True Patriot'' – BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) (1977) Director Ronald Wilson. Written by Don Shaw. Michael York plays Bonhoeffer. Notable for ending with incomplete execution scene made to resemble Nazi film such as those known to have been made of the executions of actual and accused participants in the 20 July Bomb Plot, such as Bonhoeffer; Beethoven's Sonata No. 8 Op. 13 (Pathetique) Adagio cantabile accompanies the final scene.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903028/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt|title=True Patriot|date=19 October 1977|access-date=6 March 2022|website=IMDb.com}}</ref> ===Choral theater=== * "Bonhoeffer"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.philly.com/2013-03-13/entertainment/37654210_1_dietrich-bonhoeffer-choral-theater-music|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912003434/http://articles.philly.com/2013-03-13/entertainment/37654210_1_dietrich-bonhoeffer-choral-theater-music|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 September 2015|title=David Patrick Stearns: Premiere of 'Bonhoeffer' reveals an important work|work=articles.philly.com 2013}}</ref> – a choral theater piece by Thomas Lloyd, with text adapted from the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and [[Maria von Wedemeyer]]. Premiered 10 March 2013 at the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral (performed by the chamber choir [[The Crossing (choral ensemble)|"The Crossing"]] conducted by [[Donald Nally]]). * [[Peter Janssens]] composed a musical play ("Musikspiel") ''Dietrich Bonhoeffer'' in 1995 on a text by Priska Beilharz. ===Verse about Bonhoeffer=== * "[[Friday's Child (poem)|Friday's Child]]"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://faculty.smu.edu/nschwart/2312/FridaysChild.htm|title=Friday's Child|work=smu.edu|access-date=6 November 2009|archive-date=4 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104035942/http://faculty.smu.edu/nschwart/2312/FridaysChild.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> reading by [[W.H. Auden]], 1958 ===Opera=== * ''Bonhoeffer''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anngebuhr.com/ |title=Ann Gebuhr |work=anngebuhr.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116121103/http://www.anngebuhr.com/ |archive-date=16 January 2016 }}</ref> Ann Gebuhr, 2000 ===Oratorios=== * ''Bonhoeffer-Oratorium'' – composed from 1988 to 1992 by Tom Johnson for orchestra, soloists, and choir * ''Ende und Anfang'' – composed in 2006 by Gerhard Kaufmann for orchestra, soloists, and choir and based on the writings of Bonhoeffer ===Songs=== * "Dietrich Bonhoeffer,"<ref name="Bandcamp">{{cite web |title="Dietrich Bonhoeffer" by The Chairman Dances |url=https://thechairmandances.bandcamp.com/track/dietrich-bonhoeffer |website=Bandcamp |access-date=16 November 2022}}</ref> by the band The Chairman Dances<ref>{{cite web |title=Time Without Measure – The Chairman Dances |url=https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2016/09/01/the-chairman-dances-time-without-measure/ |website=Various Small Flames |date=September 2016 |access-date=16 November 2022}}</ref><ref name="Christ and Pop Culture">{{cite web |title=Time Without Measure by The Chairman Dances |url=https://christandpopculture.com/time-without-measure-chairman-dances-free-capc-members/ |website=Christ and Pop Culture |date=24 November 2016 |access-date=16 November 2022}}</ref> ===Radio=== * [[Focus on the Family]] Radio Theatre produced a dramatized radio show depicting Bonhoeffer's life starring [[Brian Deacon]] as Bonhoeffer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.focusonthefamily.com/radio-theatre/historical-biographies/|title=Historical Biographies|date=2024-07-31}}</ref>
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