«The New Normal Reich»
CJ Hopkins is an award-winning playwright and novelist who has lived in Berlin for more than 20 years. He is also a political satirist and is married to a Jewish woman. His 2022 bestseller The New Normal Reich describes a new form of global totalitarianism emerging in the 21^(st) century. Early on, Hopkins described authoritarian Covid politics as part of the so-called ‘New Normal Reich’. However, his book, featuring a face mask bearing a transparent swastika on the cover, has effectively been banned in Germany.
The Berlin state prosecutor accused Hopkins of disseminating symbols of unconstitutional/National Socialist organisations due to...