 "NME" and "The Wire" journalist Chris Bohn wrote under the pseudonym "Biba Kopf" from 1984 onwards in tribute to its central character.In 2005, the German Cultural Institute, having completed the reconstruction and restoration of Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin", decided to restore "Berlin Alexanderplatz", saying that the original 16mm film negative was in "catastrophic physical condition" and that it "must be restored.