The Nazi and the Barber

The Nazi and the Barber (also published as The Nazi Who Lived As a Jew, in the German original Der Nazi & der Friseur) of the German-Jewish writer Edgar Hilsenrath is a grotesque novel about the Holocaust during the time of National Socialism 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.

The Nazi and the Barber
English edition (Barber Press 2013)
AuthorEdgar Hilsenrath
Original titleDer Nazi & der Friseur
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
1971
Media typePrint (hardcover)

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.[1]

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 rôle".[2]

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).

References
  1. 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
  2. "On the life and work of Edgar Hilsenrath. Obituary on the occasion of his death on December 30, 2018". Retrieved 16 September 2020.
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