 English edition (Barber Press 2013) | |
| Author | Edgar Hilsenrath |
|---|---|
| Original title | Der Nazi & der Friseur |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Publication date | 1971 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
The Nazi and the Barber (also published as The Nazi Who Lived As a Jew, in the German original Der Nazi & der Friseur) is a 1971 novel by the German-Jewish writer Edgar Hilsenrath. It is a grotesque novel about the Holocaust during the time of Nazism in Germany. The work uses the perpetrator's perspective telling the biography of the SS mass murderer Max Schulz, who after World War II assumes a Jewish identity and finally emigrates to Israel in order to escape prosecution in Germany.
Hilsenrath wrote the novel in German, but because of choosing the perpetrator's perspective he initially had difficulties publishing it in Germany. The book was first published in the U.S. in an English translation by Andrew White in 1971 by Doubleday, one of the largest book publishing companies in the world, and in Germany only in 1977.
Miscellaneous
In 2018, it became public that Christoph Waltz had agreed to play the leading role in a film adaptation of the novel The Nazi and The Barber, and had described the main role, the role of the mass murderer Max Schulz, as "juicy role".
Bibliography
- Edgar Hilsenrath, The Nazi and The Barber, Barber Press 2013. (Hardcover ISBN 978-3-9816092-0-2, Paperback ISBN 978-3-9816092-1-9, doi:10.4444/10.2).
External links
- Bestselling German-Jewish Author Satirizes the Holocaust, Deutsche Welle, April 9, 2006
References
- Manfred Rieger: Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Schuld. Edgar Hilsenraths grotesk-realistischer Roman über einen Nazi, der Jude wurde Archived 2007-02-26 at the Wayback Machine (German), retrieved June 4, 2008
- "On the life and work of Edgar Hilsenrath. Obituary on the occasion of his death on December 30, 2018". Retrieved 16 September 2020.
 | This article about a novel on The Holocaust first published in the 1970s is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. |