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Timur Vermes im Interview: Er ist wieder da - Hitler ist nicht komisch
Timur Vermes (born 1967) is a German writer.
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- Timur Vermes im Interview Er ist wieder da Hitler ist nicht komisch
- Review look who s back by timur vermes leereader
- Early life
- Career
- Popular culture
- References
Previously a ghostwriter, 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. The English version, Look Who's Back, was translated by Jamie Bulloch and published by MacLehose Press in April 2014. The paperback was released in March 2015.
Review look who s back by timur vermes leereader
Early life
Timur Vermes was born in 1967 to a German mother and Hungarian father.
Career
Vermes was born in Nuremberg in 1967. His father fled from Hungary after the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. After graduation, he studied history and politics in the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Since then he has been a journalist for tabloids such as the Munich Abendzeitung and the Cologne Express among other newspapers. In 2007 he started to ghostwrite books, including a book by a so-called crime scene cleaner entitled What's Left Of Death.
In 2012 he published his debut novel, Er ist wieder da. In the satire he wrote a scenario in which Adolf Hitler in 2011 wakes up in Berlin and through various comedy television shows eventually re-enters politics. After presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the novel rose to number one on the Spiegel Bestseller List. The audiobook read by Christoph Maria Herbst also reached the top spot. Since September 2012, the book has sold over 700,000 copies (as of June 2013) and has been translated into 27 languages. In December 2013 it was announced that Vermes' bestseller was to be produced by Constantin Film as a movie, which was released in 2015. Vermes also wrote the script for the film.
Popular culture
Constantin Film bought the rights to make a movie on his novel Er ist wieder da.
The film was released on Netflix in April 2016 as Look Who's Back.