1 - 5 February 2024 | Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur

NORMAN OHLER

WRITER & FILMMAKER

Norman Ohler is a novelist and filmmaker. In 1995, he published the first hypertext-novel worldwide titled, Die Quotenmaschine, a detective story set in New York. In 2001, his acclaimed Berlin-novel Mitte was published, followed by a story about Johannesburg called Ponte City. 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. In 2015, his first nonfiction book Der totale Rausch was published. It was translated as Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Allen Lane and was a New York Times bestseller, currently translated into 28 languages. In 2017, Ohler’s fourth novel, Die Gleichung des Lebens, was published.

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