Peter Weiss
Peter Weiss (1916–1982) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist and experimental filmmaker. He is best known for his plays Marat/Sade and Die Ermittlung, as well as the monumental three-volume historical novel Die Ästhetik des Widerstands. Born in Germany in 1916, he began his career as visual artist, studying at the Prague Art Academy in the late 1930s. After the German occupation of the Sudetenland, his family moved to Sweden where Weiss would spend the rest of his life, becoming a Swedish citizen in 1946. His work won many major German literary awards and Peter Brook’s production of Marat/Sade received the Tony Award for Best Play in 1966.
Peter Weiss (1916–1982) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist and experimental filmmaker. He is best known for his plays Marat/Sade and Die Ermittlung, as well as the monumental three-volume historical novel Die Ästhetik des Widerstands. Born in Germany in 1916, he began his career as visual artist, studying at the Prague Art Academy in the late 1930s. After the German occupation of the Sudetenland, his family moved to Sweden where Weiss would spend the rest of his life, becoming a Swedish citizen in 1946. His work won many major German literary awards and Peter Brook’s production of Marat/Sade received the Tony Award for Best Play in 1966.
Svenska teaterkritikerpriset (posthumous) 1982
De Nios Prize (posthumous) 1982
Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen for Die Ästhetik des Widerstands 1982
Heinrich Böll Prize 1981
New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award (Best Play) for Marat/Sade 1966
Heinrich Mann Prize 1966
Svenska arbetarrörelsens litteraturpris 1965
Carl Albert Anderson Prize (Stockholm) 1967
Lessing...
Svenska teaterkritikerpriset (posthumous) 1982
De Nios Prize (posthumous) 1982
Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen for Die Ästhetik des Widerstands 1982
Heinrich Böll Prize 1981
New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award (Best Play) for Marat/Sade 1966
Heinrich Mann Prize 1966
Svenska arbetarrörelsens litteraturpris 1965
Carl Albert Anderson Prize (Stockholm) 1967
Lessing Prize 1965
Charles Veillon Prize (Lausanne) for Fluchtpunkt 1963
PUBLICATIONS
The Aesthetics of Resistance
The three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is the crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned dramatist best known for his play Marat/Sade....
English world rights (Duke UP), Spanish world rights (Fondo de Cultura Económica), Chinese simplex rights (Henan UP), France (Klincksieck), Sweden (Bonniers), Korea (Moonji), Slovak Republic (slovart), Serbia (Kontrast), Turkey (Iletisim)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Netherlands (Historische Uitgeverij), Denmark (Rosinante), Norway (Pax)
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat
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The Investigation
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Leavetaking
A brilliant, brutally honest autobiographical novel, from one of the great artistic polymaths of the 20th century.
This is a Sebaldian account of the narrator’s...
English world rights (Melville House Books), Spanish world rights (Alpha Decay), Sweden (Bonniers), Czech Republic (Opus), Ukraine (Krapky),
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