Peter Weiss
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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.
Awards (selection)
Georg Büchner Prize (posthumous) 1982
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
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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...
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Georg Büchner Prize (posthumous) 1982
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
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
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Year of Publication: 1981
Peter WeissYear of Publication: 1981
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....
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Netherlands (Historische Uitgeverij), Denmark (Rosinante), Norway (Pax)
Year of Publication: 1968
Peter WeissYear of Publication: 1968
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat
Peter Weiss’s play keeps close to historical facts and is founded on authentic material, but remains as far from a historical play as possible. Life and death of Jean Paul Marat are depicted as a...
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USA (Dramatic Publishing), UK (Marion Boyars), Spanish world rights (Adriana Hidalgo), France (L’Arche), Japan (Hakusuisha), Czech Republic (Artur), Turkey (Imge), Albania (K & B), Georgia (Ilia State UP)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Catalan rights (Institut del Teatre), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Peixoto), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Denmark (Niels Bings Forlag), Sweden (Bo Cafevors), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finnland (Otava), Korea (Sung Kyun Kwan UP), Slovakia (Slovenske Krasnej Literatury), Hungary (Hollo Es Tarsa)
Year of Publication: 1965
Peter WeissYear of Publication: 1965
The Investigation
Between December 1963 and August 1965, the Auschwitz trial was held in Frankurt/Main. In it, the ones responsible for the functioning of the machinery of annihilation stood in front of a...
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USA (Dramatic Publishing), UK (Marion Boyars), France (L’Arche Editeur), Italy (Einaudi), Sweden (Epix)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Grijalbo), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Denmark (Niels Bings Forlag), Norway (Pax), Korea (Hankook Munhwasa), Japan (Hakusuisha), Czech Republic (Orbis), Hungary (Europa), Romania (Paralela 45), Slovenia (Rilindja- Pristina), Turkey (Sinan)
Year of Publication: 1961
Peter WeissYear of Publication: 1961
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 attempt...
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English world rights (Melville House Books), Spanish world rights (Alpha Decay), Sweden (Bonniers)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: France (Seuil), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Denmark (Niels Bings), Finnland (Otava), Japan (Kawade Shobo), Poland (PIW), Slovakia (Slovensky Spisovatel), Serbocroatian world rights (RAD), Israel (Am Oved)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV)
DISCOVER
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World Premiere of Film Adaptation of Peter Weiss's The Investigation
On 4 July 2024, the world premiere of the feature film adaptation of Peter Weiss’s documentary play took place at Filmfest München.Film rights
Four Suhrkamp Books to Hit the Screens in 2024
Too Many Men, I'm Not Stiller, The Investigation and The Sound of Family are all being adapted for the screen.Film rights