The Deputy - Softcover

Hochhuth, Rolf

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802142427 ISBN 13: 9780802142429

Publisher: Grove Press, 2006

Synopsis

Upon its premiere, The Deputy stirred up more controversy and caused greater repercussions than any other postwar work. Based on Rolf Hochhuth's research into the Vatican activities during World War II, the play's treatment of Pope Pius XII — the "deputy" of Christ on earth — and the Church during the Nazi persecution of the Jews made it the object of impassioned praise and violent denunciation. It is a powerful, shocking work that casts a penetrating eye on the role that supposed moral leaders must play in times of great humanitarian crises.

About this title

Book Description:

"Fierce and compelling... A remorseless, furious J'accuse." -- New York Times

About the Author:

Rolf Hochhuth was born in Germany in 1931. After working as an editor for a German publisher, he went to Rome in 1959 to begin his first draft of The Deputy. A shortened stage version of the play was first produced by Erwin Piscator in Berlin on February 23, 1963, and the complete text of the book was published on the same day. The play won the Young Generation Playwright Award of the 1963 Berliner Kunstpreis, and it shared the Gerhard Hauptmann Prize of 1962. Hochhuth is currently a freelance writer living in Basel, Switzerland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0802142427
• ISBN 13: 9780802142429
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112