German author Norman Ohler in conversation with Olaf Mertelsmann (Professor of East European History at the University of Tartu)

Tuesday, May 12th
17:00
Tartu Public Library

The discussion will cover Ohler’s book The Magic Mountain, the Full Story (“Der Zauberberg, die ganze Geschichte”, 2024, Diogenes), which looks behind the scenes of Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain one hundred years after its publication, as well as the book that brought Ohler international fame, Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, and its sequel The Most Powerful Substance: Psychedelics — Medicine, Weapon, Pleasure. Both non-fiction titles have been published in Estonian by Helios, translated by Elina Adamson. An excerpt from The Magic Mountain, the Full Story, translated by Anne Arold can be read in Akadeemia no. 4, 2026.

The event will be held in German with simultaneous interpretation into Estonian.

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