Rolf Hochhuth (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rolf Hochhuth (born 1 April 1931, in Eschwege) is a German author and playwright. He is best known for his 1963 drama The Deputy and remains a controversial figure for his plays and other public comments, such as his insinuation of Pope Pius XII's sympathies for Hitler's extermination of the Jews in the 1963 play The Deputy and his 2005 defense of Holocaust denier David Irving.Rolf Hochhuth is descended from an old-established Hessian burgess family. During World War II, he was a member of the Deutsches Jungvolk. In 1948 he did an apprenticeship as a bookseller. Between 1950 and 1955 he worked in bookshops in Marburg, Kassel and Munich. At the same time he attended university lectures as a guest student and began with early attempts at writing fiction. Between 1955 and 1963 he was a lector at a major West-German publishing house.