Heldenplatz, Paperback

Highly controversial in Austria, this play concerns a Jewish professor who returns to Vienna after the Second World War and discovers that his fellow Austrians are as anti-semitic as ever. Heldenplatz is the square in Vienna where the Austrian-born Hitler made his first speech after the Anschluss.

Meredith Oakes, an Australian playwright who has lived in London since 1970. She has written plays, adaptations, translations, opera texts and poems. She taught play-writing at Royal Holloway College and for the Arvon Foundation, and wrote music criticism for The Independent in London and The Daily Telegraph in Sydney, and is a regular contributor to magazines including The Listener.