No, the transgender plotline was not part of the original book series.The character Toni Schmidt, who undergoes gender confirmation surgery at the Institut fur Sexualwissenschaft, is a completely original creation for the television show. The show creators added this storyline to explore the real history of LGBTQ+ rights, pioneering medical procedures, and the famous sexology research institute led by Magnus Hirschfeld in Weimar era Berlin.In the original Gereon Rath novels written by Volker Kutscher, this character and plot do not exist. The TV show makes many major deviations from the books, expanding the narrative to include a much wider portrait of Berlin subcultures and social movements.
>>223187943>making up information and people to "explore the real history" of somethingWhy not simply explore the real history without inventing anything
