Norman Ohler

Norman Ohler
Born	1970 Zweibrücken, West Germany
Occupation	Author, Screenwriter, Journalist
Language	German, English
Citizenship	Germany
Genre	Literary fiction, Nonfiction, History
Notable works	Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
Relatives	Wolfgang Ohler (father)
Website
normanohler.de

Norman Ohler (born 1970) is a New York Times bestselling author, novelist and screenwriter, best known for his book Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany, which has been published in over 25 languages.

Ohler was born in Zweibrücken, Germany in 1970 and attended journalism school in Hamburg. In 1995 he published Die Quotenmaschine, the world's first hypertext novel in German. His second novel, Mitte, was published in 2001 and praised by Der Spiegel as his 'masterpiece', followed by his third, Ponte City, in 2002. These three novels form Ohler's City Trilogy.

In 2004, Ohler was invited by the German Goethe-Institut to act as writer-in-residence in Ramallah. There, Ohler wrote about the life of the Palestinians in the West Bank and published the last interview Yassir Arafat gave, shortly before his death. Ohler has also worked as writer-in-residence in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

In 2008, he co-wrote the movie Palermo Shooting with Wim Wenders, starring Dennis Hopper.

In September 2015, Kiepenheuer & Witsch published Ohler's first non-fiction work, Der totale Rausch: Drogen im Dritten Reich, and the following year the book appeared in English as Blitzed: Drugs in Nazy Germany. Upon publication in the US, it became a New York Times bestseller. In the book, Ohler researches what role psychoactive drugs, particularly stimulants such as methamphetamine, played in the military history of World War II, concluding that many of the German military and political leadership—especially Adolf Hitler—abused psychoactive drugs during the war.

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