Death in the Black Forest: how a historical tragedy became a play for today
In 1936, five English schoolboys on a hike died at the whim of a foolhardy teacher " and became fodder for Nazi propaganda. Now the story of populist idiocy is being retold for our times The day after the Brexit referendum the playwright Pamela Carter wrote to her German publishers, Suhrkamp, to apologise. "I felt the need to say sorry to a European for the terrible mistake," she said. Two weeks later in a Dundee hot…