Hochhuth

/ ˈhoːxhuːt /

noun

1. HochhuthRolf1933MSwissTHEATRE: dramatist Rolf (rɔlf). born 1933, Swiss dramatist. His best-known works are the controversial documentary drama The Representative (1963), on the papacy's attitude to the Jews in World War II, Soldiers (1967), German Love Story (1980), and Wessis in Weimar (1992)

Example Sentences

In 1965, Pope Paul VI ordered the release of some official Vatican records relating to the wartime period after Pius XII had been excoriated in Rolf Hochhuth’s 1963 play “The Deputy,” which attacked the pope for not having publicly condemned Hitler, even though he was aware of the Nazi crimes.

From New York Times

“The Deputy,” by Rolf Hochhuth, indicted Pope Pius XII for silence in the face of the Holocaust, drawing protests from local Catholics until UCLA's chancellor, Franklin D. Murphy, a Catholic, defended it as part of the free inquiry that should be welcome on a college campus.

From Los Angeles Times

In the early 1960s, however, the German playwright Rolf Hochhuth brought Pius XII’s wartime actions back into the headlines with a new play, the title of which was rendered in English as The Deputy.

From Time

In the play, Hochhuth put forward the argument that Pius actually saw Nazi Germany as an acceptable barrier between the atheist communist world and the Christian world, and that if he had truly wanted to stop Hitler from killing Jewish people he could have been perhaps the only man in the world who would have been capable of doing so with his word alone.

From Time

For the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Rolf Hochhuth’s 1963 play “The Representative”—about Pope Pius XII’s alleged complicity with the Nazis—he set it inside a gas chamber, with a red carpet leading to the papal throne.

From The New Yorker