Rolf Hochhuth

Rolf Hochhuth was born in 1931 in Eschwege, the son of a shoe manufacturer. An apprentice bookseller, he worked in bookshops in Marburg, Kassel and Munich and attended classes as an auditor, then became a reader at Bertelsmann in 1955. In 1957 he married a classmate whose mother, a member of the Resistance, had been executed by the Nazi regime. From 1963 he lived by his pen in Switzerland, in Riehen and then in Basel. In 1978, one of his books opened the debate that led to the resignation of the minister-president of Baden-Württemberg, a former navy judge. He died in Berlin in 2020.

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• TheatreThe DeputyDer StellvertreterRolf Hochhuth · 1963Literature