Jaipur Literature Festival brings Indian language literature to the international stage. This year German author
Norman Ohler, invited by the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, will be in conversation with Australia’s most acclaimed writer
Anna Funder and well-known Indian writer, critic and literary historian
Rakshandha Jalil at JLF on
Saturday, 27 January 2018 from
17:15 hrs. to discuss the horror of the Nazi regime and the risks and sacrifices of those who fought it.
The session
Hitler and His Times will examine the perverted psychology and pathology of the Third Reich and the heroic courage of the resistance movements that stood against it. Anna Funder’s
All That I Am brings to light the tragic story of German activists who mounted a fierce and cunning resistance. Norman Ohler’s book,
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany, speaks of the chemically induced confidence that Hitler’s drug fortified regime fueled.
Norman Ohler is a novelist and filmmaker. 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. In 2015, Ohler’s first non-fiction book
Der totale Rausch appeared. It was translated as
Blitzed - Drugs in Nazi Germany by Allen Lane (Penguin Randomhouse).
Blitzed is a New York Times bestseller, currently translated into 28 languages. In 2017, Ohler’s fourth novel appeared in Germany:
Die Gleichung des Lebens.
Anna Funder is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and awarded writers. Her 2012 novel
All That I Am, about some of the earliest resistance to Hitler won many prizes including Australia’s most prestigious, the Miles Franklin.
Dr Rakhshanda Jalil is a well-known Indian writer, critic and literary historian. She is best known for much-acclaimed book on Delhi's lesser-known monuments called
Invisible City.
For more information:
https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/
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