The Representative by Rolf Hochuth. Translated With a Preface by Robert David MacDonald (HQ147)

Published 1963: First UK Edition / Softcover / Very Good Condition

Original pictorial stiff card covers. 331 very clean and bright pages, speckled edges, previous owners details on the first free page. covers are rubbed, creased and faded with time consistent with age. (HQ147)

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Includes Historical Highlights by Hochhuth and the essays ""Hochhuth"" and ""Lessing"" by Walter Muschg and ""The Deputy "" by Hannah Arendt. The Representative is Hochhuths highly controversial epic about the Vaticans alleged complicity in the murder of the Jews by the Nazis.

Rolf Hochhuth was born in West Germany in 1931. Rolf Hochhuth’s provocative first drama, Der Stellvertreter. Ein christliches Trauerspiel (The Deputy, a Christian tragedy), also known as The Representative) (1963), accuses Pope Pius XII and the Roman Catholic clergy of tolerating Nazi crimes against the Jews. It received productions worldwide and caused great controversy, as well as recently being adapted for the film Amen, it was produced at the Finborough Theatre in 2006. His second play, Soldiers (1967), initially banned in England, received its world premiere in Berlin in 1967, and received its first UK revival at the Finborough Theatre in 2004. Later works include Guerrillas (1970), The Midwife (1972), The Survivor (1981) and the film A Love in Germany (1984). [Google Books]