Norman Ohler
German novelist and screenwriter; author of Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany.
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- Norman Ohler is a German author, novelist and screenwriter.
- His first novel, Die Quotenmaschine, was a hypertext novel.
- Blitzed, on drug use in the Third Reich, appeared in German in 2015 and in English in 2016, and became a New York Times bestseller.
- Some historians praised it; others, including Richard J.
- Evans, called it inaccurate.
- He co-wrote the film Palermo Shooting with Wim Wenders.
Key facts
- Born
- 1970, Zweibrücken, West Germany1
- Non-fiction
- Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany (2016; German 2015); The Bohemians (2020); Tripped (2024)1
- Novels
- Die Quotenmaschine, Mitte, Stadt des Goldes (the City Trilogy); Die Gleichung des Lebens (2017)1
- Film
- Palermo Shooting (2008), co-written with Wim Wenders1
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