Timur Vermes

Look Who's Back

Hitler awakes in 2011 Berlin and is taken for a brilliant comedian.

💡 Did you know? The 2015 film even sent the „real“ Hitler actor through actual streets.

the media

Instead of seeing through Hitler, TV and the public celebrate him as entertainment.

💡 Did you know? Precisely the first-person narration from Hitler’s viewpoint made the book controversial.

The Hungry and the Fat

A reality-TV host accompanies a refugee march, as a ratings spectacle.

💡 Did you know? Again Vermes uses bitter satire to mirror the media society.

Journalist

He wrote for newspapers and magazines before turning to fiction.

💡 Did you know? His journalistic eye on the media shapes his satires.

ghostwriter

He wrote several books that appeared under other people’s names.

💡 Did you know? Only „Look Who’s Back“ made him famous in his own right.

Hungary

His father fled to Germany after the 1956 Hungarian uprising: hence the name Vermes.

💡 Did you know? Timur Vermes himself was born in Nuremberg in 1967.

2015

Oliver Masucci played Hitler and mingled as such with real passers-by.

💡 Did you know? The documentary-style street scenes caused a great stir.

sold in the millions

This made the debut one of the biggest German book successes of the 2010s.

💡 Did you know? Few debut novels ever reached such a readership.

Timur Vermes