Editing Heidelberg (section)

==In popular culture==
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===Movies, TV and games===
* Heidelberg appears, in fact, in the manga comic [[Monster (manga)]], by [[Naoki Urasawa]]. Heidelberg appears, too, in its correspondent adapatation to the anime [[Monster (TV)]]
* Heidelberg features in the 1968 film ''[[The Girl on a Motorcycle]]'', the university being the ultimate destination of [[Marianne Faithfull]]'s character.
* Heidelberg also features during a mission in the [[Electronic Arts]] strategy game ''[[Red Alert 3]]''.
* ''[[Morris from America]]'' takes places in Heidelberg.
* In the ''[[Watchmen (TV series)|Watchmen]]'' TV series which serves as alternate direct sequels to the original ''Watchmen'' graphic novel, Dr. Manhattan aka Jonathan "Jon" Osterman aka Calvin "Cal" Abar (né Jelani), is said to be born in Heidelberg, Germany and immigrates to the US along with his father.
* Heidelberg is also revealed to be the home town of [[Sergeant Schultz]] on ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]''.
* in a [[Hallmark Channel]] movie: ''A Heidelberg Holiday''. (15 November 2023)
* In the sitcom [[The Big Bang Theory]], [[Sheldon Cooper]] said he went to [[Heidelberg University]] as a visiting professor when he was a teenager. This is confirmed in the spin-off series [[Young Sheldon]], where several episodes in Season 7 take place there. 

===Literature===
* [[Heidelberg Castle]] forms the setting for the beginning of [[Mark Twain]]'s story ''[[The Awful German Language]]''.
* Most of [[David Lodge (author)|David Lodge]]'s novel ''[[Out of the Shelter]]'' takes place in Heidelberg in 1951 during the American occupation after [[World War II]].
* Heidelberg is the home of a professional [[Quidditch]] team operating within the fictional [[Harry Potter universe]]: the [[Heidelberg Harriers]] have been described as "fiercer than a dragon and twice as clever".<ref>{{cite book |first=Kennilworthy |last=Whisp |title=Quidditch Through the Ages |year=2001 |publisher=WhizzHard Books |pages=[https://archive.org/details/quidditchthrough00whis/page/31 31–46] |isbn=1-55192-454-4|title-link=Quidditch Through the Ages }}</ref>
* Heidelberg is the residence of fictional character Nina Fortner/Anna Liebert in the [[anime]]/[[manga]] series ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'', by [[Naoki Urasawa]].
* Heidelberg also features in [[Somerset Maugham]]'s ''[[Of Human Bondage]]'' and its film versions.
* Heidelberg also is he setting of some German crime novels, for example by [[Wolfgang Burger]] (protagonist: Detective Gerlach) or [[Carlo Schäfer]] (protagonist: Detective Theurer).