Summer 2013. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a neglected patch in the middle of Berlin. In the deepest peace, without his party, without his loyalists, without Eva. Alone and alone in a sea of immigrants. 66 years after his presumed death, he is stuck in the present and against all odds launches a new career - on YouTube! And eventually - how else - he'll go into politics! This bitter political satire shows contemporary Germany as a cynical society driven forward by an unscrupulous desire for success, which, despite decades of democracy, is completely defenceless against demagogues of the coarsest kind. "On the one hand, this is a hilariously comic book, but on the other hand, it will soon freeze the smile on your face." (Stern). You can look forward to a great black grotesque that works perfectly in the Czech environment.
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The book, written by Milan Kundera's great friend Benoît Duteurtre in 2008, is hauntingly timeless. Much of what he cynically joked about at the time really happened with startling accuracy. Against a world floating in catastrophically polluted air and overwhelmed by all sorts of prohibitions, against a government of ill-mannered emancipated children, the book's hero, a forty-something employed by the municipality, rebels childishly: he goes to the toilet at work to smoke a cigarette in secret. He is caught by a five-year-old girl and thus begins a hellish spiral of investigation, imprisonment and a futile attempt to defend himself by participating in the apocalyptic reality TV show MartyrSuperStar leads.
Timur Vermes
(* 1967, Nuremberg) is a German journalist and writer. After graduating from high school he studied history and political science in Erlangen. He worked as a journalist for the Munich Abendzeitung and the Cologne Express. In 2007 he started writing as a ghostwriter - for example Was vom Tode übrig bleibt. He published his debut novel in 2012 under the title Er ist wieder da - a satire about Hitler, who wakes up in a meadow in Berlin in 2011, starts appearing on various TV shows and gains popularity again. After the book was presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the novel became a bestseller.