The Nazi and the Barber

The Nazi and the Barber

English edition (Barber Press 2013)
Author	Edgar Hilsenrath
Original title	Der Nazi & der Friseur
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	1971
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)

The Nazi and the Barber (also published as The Nazi Who Lived As a Jew, in the German original Der Nazi & der Friseur) is a 1971 novel by the German-Jewish writer Edgar Hilsenrath. It is a grotesque novel about the Holocaust during the time of Nazism 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.

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.

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 role".

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).

External links

• Bestselling German-Jewish Author Satirizes the Holocaust, Deutsche Welle, April 9, 2006