The Representative

Representative, The (Der Stellvertreter)

    Alternative Title: The Deputy

    Author: Rolf Hochhuth

    First Performance: 1963, Berlin

    Published: 1963

    First English Translation: 1963

    Genre: Hist. drama in 5 acts; German verse

    Setting: Berlin, Rome, and Auschwitz, 1942–4

    Cast: 36m, 4f, 2 children (1m, 1f)

In Berlin in 1942, Father Riccardo Fontana and a humane SS officer Kurt Gerstein plead with the Papal Nuncio to get the Pope to denounce the Nazi's slaughter of the Jews. In Rome, Riccardo begs his wealthy father Count Fontana to use his influence with the Pope to intercede on behalf of the Jews, but the Count supports the Pope's neutrality. As persecution of the Jews reaches Rome and the Pope still fails to speak out, Riccardo says that he will join the...

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