It is rare nowadays for a playwright to trigger public controversy and furore to the same extent as did the German writer Rolf Hochhuth in the 1960s, with stage dramas about the alleged indifference ...

His play “The Deputy,” from 1963, took issue with Pius XII’s stance toward Nazi atrocities and caused a furor. “The theater,” Susan Sontag wrote, “is courtroom.” By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Rolf ...

Rolf Hochhuth, the controversial German dramatist whose play “The Deputy” sparked protests and ignited an ongoing reappraisal of Pope Pius XII’s World War II-era legacy, died May 13 at his home in ...

German playwright Rolf Hochhuth, who has died at the age of 89, became famous for his work addressing Pope Pius XII's indifference to Hitler's extermination of the Jews, which stirred up international ...

Provocative German dramatist Rolf Hochhuth, whose most famous play "The Deputy" explored Vatican complicity in the Holocaust, has died aged 89, his publisher said Thursday. He died unexpectedly from ...

At the conclusion of five short acts, the flag of the European Union is burning on stage and a demonstrator shouts: “A lack of imagination and submissiveness towards our master, the US, has led us ...

The Deputy, by Rolf Hochhuth. The sound of police sirens and chanting pickets (“Ban the hate show”) filtered in to the opening-night audience to provide tension not common on Broadway. Fittingly, the ...

Amid the welter of shows about the first world war, Rolf Hochhuth's play is something of a rarity: an epic mix of history lesson, expressionist drama and Germanic Oh! What a Lovely War. Slimmed down ...