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The Nazi and the Barber (also published as The Nazi Who Lived As a Jew, in the German original Der Nazi & der Friseur) of the German-Jewish writer Edgar Hilsenrath is a grotesque novel about the Holocaust during the time of Nazism in Germany.
Jan 3, 2019 · Edgar Hilsenrath, a German Jewish survivor of Nazi persecution who unsentimentally stoked the embers of the Holocaust with brutally satirical autobiographical novels, died on Sunday in...
Oct 8, 2018 · Satirical treatments of the extermination of the Jews was long a taboo in post-war Germany and countless publishers rejected Edgar Hilsenrath's manuscript.
Jan 4, 2019 · Edgar Hilsenrath, author of "The Nazi and the Barber" and "Night" and a Holocaust survivor, died at 92 in his native Germany.
Novel by Edgar Hilsenrath, 1971. One can scarcely imagine a tale more twisted, more deeply sarcastic, and more humorous than the story of Max Schulz, the "illegitimate, yet pure-blooded Aryan" hero of Edgar Hilsenrath's Der Nazi und der Friseur (1977; The Nazi and the Barber, 1971).
Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926 – December 30, 2018) was a German-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor. He wrote several fictional novels that gave an unvarnished view of the Holocaust which were partly based on his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp .
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Jan 13, 2019 · The black comedy of novels such as 1971’s The Nazi and the Barber – told from the standpoint of an SS officer – drew on his teenage years Liepzig, in a shtetl in Romania, and the Ukrainian...
