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5:00 PM-6:00 PM

High Hitler?

Special Opening Week | Discussion

High Hitler? © Norman Ohler

Norman Ohler discusses his NYT bestseller Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich with neuropsychiatrist Dr Chandrasekhar Mukherji and Raju Raman, as part of the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2018.
 
Norman Ohler is an award-winning German novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. In 1995 he published the first hypertext-novel worldwide: Die Quotenmaschine, a detective story set in New York. In 2004, Ohler was writer-in-residence in Ramallah, and wrote his Ramallah-Blog. In 2008, Ohler co-wrote Palermo Shooting, a film by Wim Wenders. Ohler’s first non-fiction book Der totale Rausch (Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich) appeared in 2015 and it is currently translated into 28 languages. In 2017, Ohler’s fourth novel appeared in Germany: Die Gleichung des Lebens.