Rolf hochhuth biography of rory

German author and playwright (1931–2020)

Rolf Hochhuth (German:[ʁɔlfˈhoːxˌhuːt]^ⓘ; 1 April 1931 – 13 May 2020)^[1] 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 denierDavid Irving.

Life and career

Youth

Hochhuth was born in Eschwege, and was descended from a Protestant Hessian middle class family. His father was the owner of a shoe‐factory, which became bankrupt in the Depression.^[2] During World War II, he was a member of the Deutsches Jungvolk, a junior subdivision of the Hitler Youth; membership in the group had become legally compulsory in 1939.^[3] In 1948 he did an apprenticeship as a bookseller.

Between 1950 and 1955 he worked in bookshops in Marburg, Kassel and Mun