by Rolf Hochhuth · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9783150083468
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«Die Berliner Antigone» is a volume of short stories and poems by Rolf Hochhuth, published by Reclam Philipp Jun. in paperback (86 pages, in German).
The title story is inspired by a real case: in Berlin in 1943, a woman buries her executed brother, defying the order to use the bodies of the condemned for anatomical experiments. The book is completed with other stories and poems.
The volume belongs to the Reclams Universal-Bibliothek collection. This edition is from 1986; the volume was originally published in 1975.
Aimed at reading in German and studying post-war German literature.
Rolf Hochhuth was a German author and playwright, best known for his 1963 drama The Deputy, which insinuates Pope Pius XII's indifference to Hitler's extermination of the Jews, and he remained a controversial figure both for his plays and other public comments and for his 2005 defense of British Holocaust denier David Irving.
