Editing Felix Kersten (section)

==In popular culture==
Writer and journalist [[Joseph Kessel]] was the first to write about the life of Felix Kersten, in his book ''The man with the Miraculous Hands ''(1960). [[Woody Harrelson]] is set to portray Felix Kersten in the [[Oren Moverman]] feature film adaptation of Joseph Kessel's novel.<ref>Elsa Keslassy: [https://variety.com/2021/film/global/woody-harrelson-the-man-with-the-miraculous-hands-1234940690/ Woody Harrelson to Star in Oren Moverman's ‘The Man With the Miraculous Hands’]. ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', March 20, 2021. Retrieved April 2, 2021.</ref>

Finnish Filmmaker Arto Koskinen, when in the process of making a film about Felix Kersten, came to find archival evidence about Kersten showing his memoirs to be highly unreliable among other things,<ref>{{cite web |title=Felix Kersten’s story has held director Arto Koskinen in its grip for 20 years |url=https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2019/02/27/felix-kerstens-story-has-held-director-arto-koskinen-in-its-grip-for-20-years |website=yle.fi |access-date=24 July 2024 |language=en |date=27 February 2019}}</ref> and posted a podcast series about his findings.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Felix Kersten Files {{!}} Yle Areena |url=https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/1-50072937 |website=areena.yle.fi |access-date=24 July 2024 |language=fi}}</ref>

Felix Kersten is parodied in the [[Woody Allen]] book ''[[Getting Even (Woody Allen)|Getting Even]]'', in the chapter entitled "The Schmeed Memoirs", in which a fictional barber in wartime Germany describes his time as a hair stylist for [[Adolf Hitler]] and other high-ranking [[Nazi]] officers.

Kersten also appears as a character in the film [[Hitler: A Film from Germany|''Hitler: a Film from Germany'']], directed by [[Hans-Jürgen Syberberg]] and as the main character in the 2014 novel ''Gods and Devils''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Morgan |first=Jason |date=2014 |title=Gods and Devils |location=Australia |publisher=JJ&C Corporation |isbn=978-0-9925468-0-9 }}<!--|access-date=27 August 2014 --></ref>

Kersten is played by actor [[Martin Jarvis (actor)|Martin Jarvis]] in the radio play by Neville Watchurst ''A Vital Flaw'', about his work to help Heinrich Himmler's health. The play was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1994, then on [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]] on 5 September 2009.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mj27x | title=Neville Watchurst – A Vital Flaw | publisher=BBC | date=June 12, 2011 | access-date=March 27, 2012}}</ref>