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Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German and Swedish writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance, the latter of which has been called one of the "most important German-language work[s] of the 70s and 80s."

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culture · Swedish-German playwright and author (1916–1982) · playwright · writer · painter · director · film director · illustrator · prose writer · essayist · graphic artist · librettist · also Peter Weiss, Peter Ulrich Weiss, Weiss

Born 8 November 1916 · Died 10 May 1982 · Q57312

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Awarded Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen (1982).
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Awarded Georg Büchner Prize (1982).
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Jun 27, 2026Documented record75% confidence

The Guardian: ‘Not puff pieces and kid gloves’: why Bari Weiss is hiring British journalists at CBS News

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1982· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1982Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen (1982).

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Jun 15, 1982Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Georg Büchner Prize (1982).

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May 10, 1982Documented record86% confidence

Died 1982-05-10.

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1981· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1981Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Heinrich-Böll-Preis (1981).

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Jun 15, 1981Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Preis der SWR-Bestenliste (1981).

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1978· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1978Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Thomas Dehler Prize (1978).

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1967· 1 entry

1967Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Participated in the anti-war Russell Tribunal in Stockholm and in 1968 he joined the eurocommunist Swedish Left Party (VPK)

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1966· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1966Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Heinrich Mann Prize (1966).

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1966Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Visited the United States together with the West German writers group Gruppe 47

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1965· 1 entry

1965Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Weiss wrote the documentary play The Investigation (Die Ermittlung), on the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials

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1964· 1 entry

1964Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

It quickly brought Weiss notoriety

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1962· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1962Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Charles Veillon prize in the German language (1962).

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1960· 1 entry

1960Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

It put its 45-year-old writer at the forefront of the West German literary scene

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1959· 1 entry

1959Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Directed his only full-length (experimental) film Hägringen (The Disappeared)

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1952· 1 entry

1952Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Joined the Swedish Experimental Film Studio, where he directed several experimental short films, followed by several socially conscious documentary shorts: Gesichter im Schatten (Faces in the Shadow, 1956), Im Namen d

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1939· 1 entry

1939Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Joined his family in Stockholm, Sweden, where he lived for the rest of his life

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1938· 1 entry

1938Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

His family moved to Sweden, while Weiss was visiting Hermann Hesse in Switzerland

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1935· 1 entry

1935Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Emigrated with his family to Chislehurst, near London, England, where he studied photography at the Polytechnic School of Photography

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1916· 1 entry

Nov 8, 1916Documented record86% confidence

Born 1916-11-08.

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