Some famous Berlin locations seen in the film are the East Side Gallery, the Soviet War Memorial, and the former techno club E-Werk.
Shirk was the Station Manager, Sales Manager, Program Director, Production Manager and Afternoon Disc Jockey on WERK Radio, in Muncie, Indiana from 1968 to 1972.
The title is possibly a play on "Gottes Werk und Teufels Beitrag", the German title of John Irving's The Cider House Rules.
A Focke-Wulf Fw 190 (Werk Nr. 733682), preserved in the Imperial War Museum in London, was the fighter part of a Mistel system that was captured by British forces in 1945.
During World War II the Motorenbau Werk Kassel (Engineconstruction Factory Kassel - MWK) in Kassel was a branch factory of the Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG Dessau and supplier for strategic military technology among other things the first ready for serial production Turbostrahltriebwerk Jumo 004B (jet engine) of the world.
The main production plant, later called "Einser-Werk", was constructed in the south of Graz, in the district of Puntigam.
The ‘Ur’ in URWERK’s name refers to the ancient Sumerian city of Ur where over 6,000 years ago people used giant sundials to measure time; the ‘werk’ refers to the German noun ‘das Werk’ meaning ‘work’ or ‘creation’.
# Reemtsma, Jan Philipp, “Der Liebe Maskentanz”: Aufsätze zum Werk Christoph Martin Wielands, 1999, ISBN 3-251-00453-0.
In Zapfendorf is found Werk IV of the Bayerische Milchindustrie eGmbH (BMI for short, the “Bavarian Milk Industry”), which was founded in 1952 with the goal of processing and marketing the excess low-fat milk yield.