based on the novel by Edgar Hilsenrath
Staatsschauspiel Dresden
"Masel Tov!" shout the wedding guests as hairdresser Itzig Finkelstein kisses fat Mira. It is a good day for the newlyweds in the newly founded state of Israel. The Finkelsteins survived the Holocaust. What Mira doesn't know, what nobody in the world is allowed to know: Itzig Finkelstein did not wear convict clothes in the concentration camp. Nor did he suffer from hunger. He was a little cold, despite his SS uniform, but winters in the Polish forests are icy. He never suffered fear of death until the partisans stopped the lorries of the SS troops and he was in danger of freezing to death and starving to death while fleeing in the forest. Itzig Finkelstein was in fact the mass murderer Max Schulz. A small fish, but one of the best. Outwardly, despite all his pure-bloodedness, he looks like the usual caricature of a Jew at the time, but after the end of the war he is able to capitalise on his appearance for the first time. With a bag full of gold teeth and a stolen Jewish identity, he travelled to Palestine and made a name for himself in the fight for the "Jewish state". A great disguise for a small fish.
A grotesque story that uses exaggeration and exaggeration to get closer to the unimaginability of reality than pure realism could. Edgar Hilsenrath, who died at the turn of the year 2018/2019, narrowly escaped the Holocaust himself and returned to Germany in 1975 for his love of the German language, succeeded in creating a bloody picaresque novel with Der Nazi und der Friseur.
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