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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 (born Nov. 8, 1916, Nowawes, near Potsdam, Ger.—died May 10, 1982, Stockholm, Swed.) was a German dramatist and novelist whose plays achieved widespread success in both Europe and the United States in the 1960s.
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 .
Peter Weiss. Writer: Mirage. Peter Ulrich Weiss was born in Berlin in 1916. His family was prosperous, educated, and middle-class; his father had been in the military, and his mother had given up her acting career in order to marry Peter's father and raise a family.
In his work Peter Weiss was confronted with the fundamental problems of an artistic reckoning with the Holocaust as well as the representability of the Holocaust. He was himself an eyewitness of the Nazi regime, though not a witness to the destruction of the European Jewry in the death camps.
Peter Ulrich Weiss (vis) is considered one of the most prominent playwrights and novelists of the German postwar era. Born in a suburb of Berlin to a Jewish family on November...
Aug 30, 2022 · Peter Weiss was 45 years old when his first work of literary fiction, The Shadow of the Coachman’s Body, came out in 1960. He had spent some 30 years studying painting and...
The plays and prose works of the German writer, director, and political activist Peter Weiss (1916-1982) were immensely influential in the shaping of European M...
Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, and artist of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his play Marat/Sade and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance. Weiss' first art exhibition took place in 1936. His first produced play was Der Turm in 1950.
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.
