Peter Weiss (German-Swedish writer)
- Peter Ulrich Weiss
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- Weiss, Peter
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Date of birth
- 1916-11-08
- Place of birth
- Potsdam
- Date of death
- 1982-05-10
- Place of death
- Stockholm
Wikipedia
Peter Ulrich Weiss (8 November 1916 – 10 May 1982) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance.
Peter Weiss earned his reputation in the post-war German literary world as the proponent of an avant-garde, meticulously descriptive writing, as an exponent of autobiographical prose, and also as a politically engaged dramatist. He gained international success with Marat/Sade, the American production of which was awarded a Tony Award and its subsequent film adaptation directed by Peter Brook. His "Auschwitz Oratorium," The Investigation, served to broaden the debates over the so-called "Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit" (or formerly) "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" or "politics of history." Weiss's magnum opus was The Aesthetics of Resistance, called one of the "most important German-language work[s] of the 70s and 80s." His early, surrealist-inspired work as a painter and experimental filmmaker remains less well known.
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German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality.
Last modified: 2024-08-21 (revision #197135)
Editions
Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
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Die Ästhetik des Widerstands | Paperback | 978-3-518-11501-5 | 1988 |
Die Ermittlung: Oratorium in 11 Gesängen (edition suhrkamp) | Paperback | 3-518-10616-3 | 1994 |
Abschied von den Eltern/Fluchtpunkt | Hardcover | ? | 1982 |
Die Ermittlung: Oratorium in elf Gesängen (Bertelsmann Lesering, 1965) | Hardcover | ? | 1965 |
Abschied von den Eltern (1. Auflage, 1980, Suhrkamp Verlag) | Hardcover | 3-518-01700-4 | 1980 |
Die Ermittlung: Oratorium in 11 Gesängen (rororo theater) | Paperback | 3-499-11192-6 | 1977-07 |
Peter Weiss im Gespräch | Paperback | 978-3-518-11303-5 | 1986 |
Abschied von den Eltern | Paperback | 3-518-10085-3 | 1984 |
Briefe an Hermann Levin Goldschmidt und Robert Jungk: 1938–1980 | Paperback | 978-3-379-01424-3 | 1992 |
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- Peter Weiss(German-Swedish writer) is the subject of "Die Ermittlung" in Westberlin
- Peter Weiss(German-Swedish writer) is the subject of Peter Weiss zur Einführung
- Peter Weiss(German-Swedish writer) is the subject of "Die Ermittlung" von Peter Weiss
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