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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 was a German dramatist and novelist whose plays achieved widespread success in both Europe and the United States in the 1960s. The son of a textile manufacturer who was Jewish by origin but Christian by conversion, Weiss was brought up a Lutheran.
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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.
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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 8,...
Peter Weiss (* 7. júl 1952, Bratislava) je slovenský ľavicový politik a vysokoškolský učiteľ, v rokoch 2009 – 2013 veľvyslanec v Maďarsku, v rokoch 2013 až 2020 veľvyslanec v Česku. Pred Nežnou revolúciou.
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. In 1952 he joined the Swedish Experimental Film Studio, where he ...
Peter Ulrich Weiss. Playwright, filmmaker, and novelist, Peter Weiss was born in Nowawes, Germany to a textile Jewish manufacturer. In 1934, Weiss and his family were forced into exile by the Nazi persecutions. He lived in England, Switzerland, and Czechoslovakia before settling in Sweden in 1939.
