Peter Weiss
Peter Ulrich Weiss 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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Babelsberg
- Educated at
- Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
- Awards
- 🏆 Heinrich-Böll-Preis🏆 Heinrich Mann Prize
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Trending topics shown first"The Political Aesthetics of Holocaust Literature: Peter Weiss's The Investigation and Its Critics" by Robert Cohen, History and Memory Vol. 10, No. 2"
"I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. … That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the a…"
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Timeline
1916
Born
Birth1982
Died
Death
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