Heinrich Mann Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 27 (1966) Winner
Peter Weiss
ペーター・ヴァイス
Pītā Vaisu
Aliases:
Peter Ulrich Weiss
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1916-11-08 （Nowawes (now Potsdam-Babelsberg), Brandenburg, German Empire）
- Died
- 1982-05-10 （Stockholm, Sweden） age 65
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Languages
- German, Swedish
- Religion
- Protestant Baptized in 1920
- Residence History
- Bremen, Germany → Berlin, Germany → Chislehurst, England → Prague, Czechoslovakia → Stockholm, Sweden
Career
- Occupations
- writer, painter, graphic artist, experimental filmmaker
- Active Years
- 1940-1982
- Memberships
- Swedish Left Party (VPK)
- Influenced By
- Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud, Hieronymus Bosch
- Influenced
- East German writers
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polytechnic School of Photography | — | Photography | — | 1935 | United Kingdom |
| Academy of Fine Arts, Prague | — | Fine Arts | — | 1936-1937 | Czechoslovakia |
Polytechnic School of Photography
Photography
Period:
1935
Country:
United Kingdom
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
Fine Arts
Period:
1936-1937
Country:
Czechoslovakia
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Tony Award for Best Play | Marat/Sade | Best Play | Tony Awards | 受賞 |
| 1982 | Georg Büchner Prize | — | — | Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung | 受賞 |
| 1966 | Heinrich Mann Prize | — | — | Akademie der Künste | 受賞 |
| 1982 | Bremen Literature Prize | — | — | City of Bremen | 受賞 |
Tony Award for Best Play
1966
Work:
Marat/Sade
Category:
Best Play
Organization:
Tony Awards
Result:
受賞
Georg Büchner Prize
1982
Organization:
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
Result:
受賞
Heinrich Mann Prize
1966
Organization:
Akademie der Künste
Result:
受賞
Bremen Literature Prize
1982
Organization:
City of Bremen
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Georg Büchner Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 57 (1982) Winner
Works
Major Works
Marat/Sade
1964 PlayA play set in an asylum depicting the conflict between Marat and de Sade during the French Revolution.
revolutionmadnessintellect
Adaptations
- [Film] Marat/Sade / Peter Brook (1967)
Translations
- Translated into many languages
Bibliography
- The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman
- Leavetaking
- The Aesthetics of Resistance
- The Investigation
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- avant-gardemeticulously descriptivesurrealist-influenced
- Recurring Motifs
- aesthetics of resistancepolitical strugglecoming to terms with the past
Health
-
heart attack1970Affected writing but completed major works
Legacy
Proponent of avant-garde writing in post-war German literature, politically engaged dramatist; The Aesthetics of Resistance is one of the most important German-language works of the 70s and 80s.