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Timur Vermes (born 1967) is a German writer. Previously a ghostwriter, [1] his first novel Er ist wieder da, which has sold over a million copies in Germany, is a satire about Adolf Hitler and 21st-century Germany. [1]
Look Who's Back ( German: Er ist wieder da, pronounced [ˈeːɐ̯ ʔɪst ˈviːdɐ daː]; transl. "He's back again") is a bestselling [1] German satirical novel about Adolf Hitler by Timur Vermes, published in 2012 by Eichborn Verlag [ de]. The novel was adapted into a German film of the same name, which was released in 2015.
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May 2, 2013 · A satirical novel that follows a bemused Hitler on a journey through today’s Germany is a publishing sensation. But is the dictator responsible for the horrors of the Third Reich a fitting subject...
Apr 30, 2014 · Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes review – an oddly cosy resurrection of Hitler. This political satire was a thrillingly transgressive hit in Germany, but in Britain we've been making fun of ...
In the satire he wrote a scenario in which Adolf Hitler in wakes up in 2011 in Berlin and through various comedy television shows eventually re-enters politics. After presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the novel rose to. Vermes was born in Nuremberg in 1967.
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Apr 27, 2015 · Timur Vermes’s debut novel has created a sensation in Germany, been translated into many languages and generated endless essays asking whether it’s acceptable to laugh about Hitler.
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May 5, 2015 · It’s hard to know what he would have made of a novelist who dared to resurrect Adolf Hitler himself — but that’s exactly what the German satirist Timur Vermes has done in his first novel, “Look...