Timur Vermes

Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed - no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. People certainly recognise him, albeit as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break character. The unthinkable, the inevitable happens, and the ranting Hitler goes viral, becomes a YouTube star, gets his own T.V. show, and people begin to listen. But the Führer has another programme with even greater ambition - to set the country he finds a shambles back to rights. Look Who's Back stunned and then thrilled 1.5 million German readers with its fearless approach to the most taboo of subjects. Naive yet insightful, repellent yet strangely sympathetic, the revived Hitler unquestionably has a spring in his step.

Look Who's Back

2011 erwacht Adolf Hitler unter freiem Himmel mitten in Berlin. Wieder gelingt es ihm, die Massen zu mobilisieren: Er beginnt eine Karriere beim Fernsehen. Eine Satire, bei deren Lektüre einem das Lachen im Halse steckenbleibt.

Er ist wieder da

Lui è tornato

Die Hungrigen und die Satten

Germany has imposed an upper limit on the number of asylum seekers, and Europe's borders are closed. Beyond the Sahara, huge camps have been built for millions of people who have no choice but to wait. They have been waiting so long that they could have walked to Europe by now... if it didn't spell certain death. When German model and TV star Nadeche Hackenbusch visits the largest of the camps with a camera crew, young refugee Lionel recognizes a unique opportunity: to use the media attention to organize 150,000 refugees to set off on a march to Europe. The viewing ratings are off the scale! and advertising money pours in. But Germany's politicians only look away helplessly. As the convoy moves closer, through Jordan and Syria and into Turkey, interior minister Joseph Leubl faces his greatest challenge yet and two urgent questions: What do we do now? And what kind of country do we want to live in? Giving readers exactly what they loved about Look Who's Back, this new book is explosive, radical and full of Timur's trademark wit. Timur pulls no punches and aims directly where it hurts the most. This book that will have enthusiastic fans and bitter opponents. But we can promise that it will leave no one indifferent.

The Hungry and the Fat

Už je tady zas

O Geri Döndü

Op een braakliggend terrein ergens in Berlijn ontwaakt in 2011 Adolf Hitler. Hij weet zich snel aan te passen aan de 21e eeuw.

Daar is hij weer / druk 1

Der neue Roman von Timur Vermes Nur noch fünf U-Bahn-Stationen trennen die junge Lektorin Anke Lohm von einer Dusche und dem frisch bezogenen Bett im Gästezimmer ihrer besten Freundin. Zwar nervt sie nach einer Bahnreise mit allen Komplikationen der einzige andere Fahrgast im leeren Zug, aber beim nächsten Halt will der junge Mann aussteigen, und dann ist endlich, endlich Ruhe. Sollte diese nächste Station nicht eigentlich längst da sein? Als aus zwei Minuten fünf werden, dann zehn, zwanzig, in denen die Bahn ungebremst durch die endlose Dunkelheit schießt, ahnt Anke Lohm, dass dies mehr sein könnte als nur eine U-Bahn-Fahrt: der größte Fehler ihres Lebens. Suggestiv erzählt, überraschend und nicht mehr aus der Hand zu legen: Timur Vermes erweist sich als Virtuose literarischer Spannung.

U-Bahn

Opet on

او بازگشته است

On wrocil

Is kvlav ak̕ aris

Astrid Nordang

Han er her igjen

Gli affamati e i sazi

He's back. Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of ground, alive and well. Things have changed - no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognizes his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. And he's führious. People certainly recognize him, albeit as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break character. The unthinkable, the inevitable happens, and the ranting Hitler goes viral, becomes a Youtube star, gets his own T.V. show, and people begin to listen. But the Führer has another programme with even greater ambition - to set the country he finds a shambles back to rights.

È l’estate del 2011. Adolf Hitler si sveglia in uno di quei campi incolti e quasi abbandonati che ancora si possono incontrare nel centro di Berlino. Non può fare a meno di notare che la guerra sembra cessata, che intorno a lui non ci sono i suoi fedelissimi commilitoni, che non c’è traccia di Eva. Non può non sentire un forte odore di benzina esalare dalla sua divisa sudicia e logora, e non riesce a spiegarsi l’intorpidimento delle sue articolazioni e la difficoltà che prova nel muovere i primi passi in una città piuttosto diversa da come la ricordava. Regna infatti la pace, ci sono molti stranieri e una donna (sì, proprio una donna, per giunta goffa), tale Angela Merkel, è alla guida del Reich. 66 anni dopo la sua fine nel Bunker, contro ogni previsione, Adolf inizia una nuova carriera, stavolta a partire dalla televisione. Questo nuovo Hitler non è, tuttavia, né un imitatore né una controfigura. È proprio lui, e non fa né dice nulla per nasconderlo, anzi, è tremendamente reale. Eppure nessuno gli crede: tutti lo prendono per uno straordinario comico, tutti lo cercano, tutti lo vogliono, tutti lo imitano. Il mondo che Hitler incontra infatti, è cinico, spudorato, bramoso di successo e incapace di opporre qualsiasi resistenza al “nuovo” demagogo. Farsa, satira, pura comicità, analisi spietata e corrosiva del nostro tempo, il romanzo d’esordio di Timur Vermes è un gioiello di intelligente umorismo, ed è divenuto in breve tempo, grazie al passaparola, un fenomeno editoriale con pochi precedenti.

Philippe Claudel

Samar Yazbek

David Lan

Burhan Sonmez

Nizar Zuabi

Andre Liohn

Good Chance Theatre Company

The official companion title for 'The Walk', where a 3.5m-high puppet will walk 8,000 km along the refugee route though Europe to the UK, in celebration of the contribution that migrants and refugees make to the cultures and communities through which they pass and to the countries in which they find a new home.

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