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Peter Weiss (German-Swedish writer)

  • Peter Ulrich Weiss
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Weiss, Peter
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Date of birth
1916-11-08
Place of birth
Potsdam
Date of death
1982-05-10
Place of death
Stockholm

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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)

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Goodreads Author ID
68593
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0000 0001 1033 2349
LibraryThing Author
weisspeter-1
MusicBrainz Artist ID
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OpenLibrary Author ID
OL396053A
VIAF
116044321
Wikidata ID
Q52191134

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