Peter Weiss

Also known as Peter Ulrich Weiss

Swedish-German playwright and author (1916–1982)

Person · Open Library

Born: 8 November 1916
Died: 10 May 1982
Works: 126

Top works

Turandot oder Der Kongre der Weiwscher / Publikumsbeschimpfung / Helm / Genusien / Fulein Julie / Goldene Stdte / Der frhliche Weinberg (Spectaculum -
Gesang vom lusitanischen Popanz
Dem Unerreichbaren auf der Spur
Von Insel zu Insel
Avantgardefilm

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Acting · Nowawes, Berlin, Germany

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".

Known for

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters — Self (archive footage)2002
Strange Walks In and Through and Out1987
Memorandum — Himself - Playwright1967
The Flamboyant Sex — Madame's lover1961
Study III1953
Study II: Hallucinations1952
Study I Awakening1952

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: Germany
Active from: 1916
Active to: 1982

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 478
Total plays: 6,092

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 84,878x
A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,188x
QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,735x
RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,716x
<i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,314x

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Quotes

“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 age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country.”
“In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.”
“Only in his poetry did he have the courage to love.”
“We've got rights the right to starveWe've got jobs waiting for workWe're all brothers lousy and dirtyWe're all free and equal to die like dogs”
“Charlotte Corday walked aloneParis birds sang sugar callsCharlotte walked down lanes of stonethrough the haze of perfume stallsCharlotte smelt the dead's gangreneHeard the singing guillotine”
“Don't soil your pretty little shoesThe gutter's deep and redClimb up climb up and ride along with methe tumbrel driver saidBut she never said a wordnever turned her headDon't soil your pretty little pantsI only go one wayClimb up climb up and ride along with meThere's no gold coach todayBut she never said a wordnever turned her head”

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Key facts

Born: Peter Ulrich Weiss , ( 1916-11-08 ) 8 November 1916, Nowawes , Brandenburg, Germany
Died: 10 May 1982 (1982-05-10) (aged 65), Stockholm , Sweden
Citizenship: Swedish
Alma mater: Polytechnic School of Photography ; Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
Works: Marat/Sade ; The Aesthetics of Resistance
Movement: Avant-garde
Spouses: Helga Henschen (1943) Carlota Dethorey (1949) Gunilla Palmstierna (1964)

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Image: Peter Weiss 1982.jpg

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Commons category: Peter Weiss
date of birth: 1916-11-08
date of death: 1982-05-10
Commons gallery: Peter Weiss
date of burial or cremation: 1982-05-24
start of work period: 1947-00-00
name in native language: Peter Ulrich Weiss
end of work period: 1982-01-01
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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.