Norman Ohler

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Norman Ohler (born February 4, 1970 in Zweibrücken ) is a German author who is best known for his novels , but also for his non-fiction book "Der totale Rausch" and for working on scripts . He lives as a freelance writer in Berlin .

Norman Ohler (2019)

education and profession

Ohler, son of the Zweibrücken judge and author Wolfgang Ohler , graduated from the Powers Catholic High School in Flint (Michigan) in 1988 with the US High School Diploma , and in 1990 he passed the German Abitur at the State Helmholtz Gymnasium in Zweibrücken. In 1991/92 he attended the Hamburg School of Journalism and worked for Stern , Spiegel and GEO . He is a co-founder of the Tribes Gallery in New York .

In the fall of 2004, Ohler was a town clerk in Ramallah , Palestine . He conducted the last interview with Yasser Arafat shortly before his death. In the same year he became the city clerk of Jerusalem . His experiences were printed and published online by the time ; they can be read in the German-Arabic literature forum MIDAD. In the winter of 2006, Ohler published a podcast from Iran about his trip. He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

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In 1995, Ohler published the detective novel "The Quota Machine", the story of the silent detective Maxx Rutenberg from New York, on the Internet as hypertext on the World Wide Web. "The Quota Machine" is considered the first Internet novel in literary history. Ohler's second novel Mitte was published by Rowohlt Berlin on September 11, 2001. His book “Der totale Rausch” about the role of drugs in the Third Reich was translated into over 30 languages ​​and was on the New York Times bestseller list.) The last part of his metropolitan trilogy is the Johannesburg novel City of Gold ( 2002). In 2007 Ohler co-wrote Wim Wenders on the script for the feature film Palermo Shooting . In 2008, at the invitation of Dennis Hopper , he lived for three months in his home in Venice Beach (California) and worked with Hopper on his legacy and final material, a screenplay with the working title "Kilo". In 2010 Ohler produced his first short film, “natural”, which he also directed. In September 2015, Norman Ohler's first non-fiction book The total intoxication was published . In it, Ohler examines the role that psychoactive drugs , such as the stimulant pervitin , played in the military history of the Second World War and interprets many decisions of the military and political leadership - above all Hitler's - as a result of drug abuse. Helena Barop, who reviewed the book for the time, accused the author of a problematic "mixture of sensation-hungry Hitler voyeurism and scientific non-fiction pose". # On Deutschlandradio Kultur, Christoph Ohrem opposed this: “All in all, Der totale Rausch is a very readable and important book that does not lose its historical accuracy due to its pictorial and scenic design.” A reviewer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung described Ohler's study as “one of the most interesting books in recent years ”. Ian Kershaw , a well-known Hitler researcher, commented on Ohler's book: “Very good and extremely interesting. An important scientific study that has been excellently researched. " Matthias Drobinski , the reviewer of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , wrote in 2015 that the book also convinced" even seasoned scientists. "Since 2016, The total intoxication - drugs in the Third Reich appeared in over 30 translations, including in England, USA, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Poland, China and Russia. In 2019, Ohler's second non-fiction book, Harro & Libertas, was published . A story of love and resistance about Harro Schulze-Boysen and his wife Libertas and their resistance against the Nazi regime.

Private

He lives in Berlin-Kreuzberg and has a son and a daughter.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hr2 de, Frankfurt Germany: "From 1943 on, the Führer hardly had another sober day." May 25, 2020, accessed on August 24, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ German-Arabic literary forum Midad: Weblog by Norman Ohler ( Memento of 19 March 2009 at the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b active value: The odds machine. Retrieved August 24, 2020 .
  4. ^ The New York Times Book Review, "Print Hardcover Bestsellers," March 26, 2017
  5. ^ Kiepenheuer & Witsch, ISBN 978-3-462-04733-2 .
  6. ↑ a b Review by Julia Encke : High Hitler . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , September 13, 2015, p. 39 ( online ).
  7. ↑ If the Führer only knew ... In: Die Zeit , December 3, 2015. Retrieved December 7, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Adolf Hitler and the drugs. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur . September 10, 2015, accessed January 29, 2016 .
  9. ↑ The total intoxication. Publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch, reviews. Retrieved January 22, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 8, 2015, p. 3.
  11. ^ High Hitler. Drugs in the Third Reich. Publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 22, 2016 ; accessed on January 22, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Harro & Libertas at Kiepenheuer & Witsch
  13. ↑ hr2 de, Frankfurt Germany: "From 1943 on, the Führer hardly had another sober day." May 25, 2020, accessed on August 24, 2020 (German).
  14. ↑ Article about the award ceremony in the Saarbrücker Zeitung , accessed on August 23, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Ohler, Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken