Claus von Bülow, the Catholic Herald’s former theatre critic, has died aged 92.
He made his debut on our books pages in 1998, with a review of Stalingrad by Antony Beevor. In 2002, he began to review plays, lacing his columns with pungent social observations. Reviewing six new plays from the Nordic countries, he criticised those who “believe that all Scandinavians, including their au pair babysitters, are indistinguishable” and claimed to be able to tell “even with my eyes closed which plays were written by Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders or by my fellow Danes”.
