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Peter Weiss (1916-1982) was a prolific and influential writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker. He is known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation, his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance, and his political activism.
Peter Ulrich Weiss (Pseudonym: Sinclair; * 8. November 1916 in Nowawes bei Potsdam; † 10. Mai 1982 in Stockholm) war ein deutsch-schwedischer Schriftsteller, Maler, Grafiker und Experimentalfilmer.
Aug 30, 2022 · A review of Weiss's first novel, The Shadow of the Coachman's Body, which explores the limitations of language and reality through a surrealist micro-fiction. The reviewer traces Weiss's artistic journey from painting to writing and his experience of exile and displacement.
In Peter Weiss. Die Ermittlung (1965; The Investigation) is a documentary drama re-creating the Frankfurt trials of the men who carried out mass murders at Auschwitz; at the same time, it attacks later German hypocrisy over the existence of concentration camps and investigates the root causes of aggression. Weiss’s other plays….
Jan 14, 2021 · To the extent that the German writer Peter Weiss is known in the US, it is for his verse play The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.
Peter Weiss was a German-born Swedish writer and playwright who fled Nazi Germany and wrote politically and autobiographically. He won a Tony Award for his play "Marat/Sade" and had three marriages and a daughter.
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 .
