by Rolf Hochhuth · Rowohlt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499118425
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«Die Berliner Antigone» is the prose and verse book by writer Rolf Hochhuth, published by Rowohlt in 1975 in paperback (124 pages, in German).
The story is inspired by a real case in Berlin in 1943: a woman buries her brother executed as a traitor and disobeys the order that destined the corpses of the condemned to experiments at the Institute of Anatomy. From that act, the work reflects on conscience, justice and moral resistance against power.
The edition includes an introduction by Nino Erné and belongs to the rororo collection; the book carries the subtitle «Prosa und Verse».
It will interest readers of German literature and those seeking a re-reading of the Antigone myth in the context of Nazism.
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.
