biography
| name: |
Weiss, Peter (Ulrich)
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pronunciation:
[viys]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1916–82)
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| biography:
| Playwright, film-maker, and novelist, born in Nowawes, NE Germany. He fled Nazi Germany, and settled in Sweden in 1939, becoming famous with his first play, The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1964), known more simply as Marat/Sade. His next play, The Investigation (1965), was a documentary based on transcripts of the Auschwitz trials. The Song of the Lusitanian Bogey (1967) was a more cogent attack on the capitalist system. He also wrote the autobiographical novels Leave Taking (1961) and Vanishing Point (1962). |
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