The people who buy paintings like this aren’t just driven by aesthetic desire. People who buy paintings like this want a story. A story that catapults them into the orbit of the Führer.As Nicola and Philipp are clearing out their late father’s house, they find an old painting stashed in the attic: a quaint watercolour of a church on a pale summer day, signed ‘A. Hitler’.Nicola wants to sell it. Philipp wants to keep it. Philipp’s wife Judith wants to burn it.A jagged satire from one of Germany''s foremost playwrights, Nachtland opened at the Young Vic Theatre, London, in February 2024.