by Rolf Hochhuth · Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499232367
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«Die Berliner Antigone» is the short novel by Rolf Hochhuth, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (144 pages, in German).
The novel recounts how Anne, a nineteen-year-old girl, is executed in August 1943 for having removed the corpse of her brother, an officer hanged for high treason, from the anatomy depot and buried him in a cemetery. The edition adds the piece «Gasherd und Klistiere oder Die Urgroßmutter der Diätköchin», a requiem and farce in one act.
It belongs to the Rororo collection, number 23236, and was published in 2002. It includes final commentaries by Hans Georg Heepe and Fritz J. Raddatz.
Readers of German and historical fiction about the Second World War and moral resistance to 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.
