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Peter Weiss (I) (1916–1982)

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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. Weiss describes, with Kafkaesqe photographic recall, his childhood in the one-paragraph autobiographical "Leavetaking"... See full bio »

Born:

Peter Ulrich Weiss
in Berlin, Germany

Died:

(age 65) in Stockholm, Sweden

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2002 Var finns min seger? (documentary) (segments "De besegrade" and "Die Ästhetik des Widerstands")
 
1992 Winternachtstraum (TV documentary) (play "Marat/Sade")
 
1992 Steinwelt (short) (story "Die Besiegten")
 
1986 Preámbulo a un silencio (short) (writings)
 
1970 Che Che Che (short) (book)
 
1970 Carnet de identidad (short) ('La indagación' texts adaptation)
 
1969 L'istruttoria (TV movie)
 
1967 Gesang vom lusitanischen Popanz (TV movie) (play)
 
1967 Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats (TV movie) (play)
 
1967 Jean-Paul Marat förföljd och mördad så som det framställs av patienterna på hospitalet Charenton under ledning av herr de Sade (TV movie) (play "Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats")
 
1967 ITV Play of the Week (TV series)
– The Investigation (1967) (writer)
 
1967 Marat/Sade (play)
 
1966 Die Ermittlung - Oratorium in 11 Gesängen (TV movie) (play)
 
1966 Die Ermittlung (TV movie) (play)
 
1966 Het onderzoek (TV movie) (play)
 
1959 Mirage (writer)
 
1958 Vad ska vi göra nu då? (short)
 
1957 Ingenting ovanligt (documentary short)
 
1957 Enligt lag (documentary short) (idea)
 
1955 Studie V: Växelspel (short)
 
1955 Studie IV: Frigörelse (short)
 
1953 Studie III (short) (writer)
 
1952 Studie II: Hallucinationer (short)
 
1952 Studie I: Uppvaknandet (short)
 
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1962 The Flamboyant Sex
 
1959 Mirage
 
1958 Vad ska vi göra nu då? (short)
 
1957 Enligt lag (documentary short)
 
1957 Ingenting ovanligt (documentary short)
 
1956 Stories in the Shadows (short)
 
1955 Studie IV: Frigörelse (short)
 
1955 Studie V: Växelspel (short)
 
1953 Studie III (short)
 
1952 Studie II: Hallucinationer (short)
 
1952 Studie I: Uppvaknandet (short)
 
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1959 Mirage
 
1958 Vad ska vi göra nu då? (short)
 
1957 Enligt lag (documentary short)
 
1957 Ingenting ovanligt (documentary short)
 
1956 Stories in the Shadows (short)
 
1955 Studie IV: Frigörelse (short)
 
1955 Studie V: Växelspel (short)
 
1953 Studie III (short)
 
1952 Studie II: Hallucinationer (short)
 
1952 Studie I: Uppvaknandet (short)
 
Show ShowActor (3 titles)
1953 Studie III (short)
 
1952 Studie II: Hallucinationer (short)
 
1952 Studie I: Uppvaknandet (short)
 
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1959 Mirage
 
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1957 Enligt lag (documentary short)
 
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1952 Studie I: Uppvaknandet (short) (producer)
 
Show ShowSelf (2 titles)
1979 Zur Ansicht: Peter Weiss (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1967 Memorandum (documentary)
Himself - Playwright
 
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2005 Deutsche Lebensläufe (TV series documentary)
 
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(1966) His play, "The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of Marquis De Sade," was performed in a Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York City with Ian Richardson, Glenda Jackson, and... See more »

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Won Broadway's 1966 Tony Award as author of Best Play winner "Marat/Sade." See more »

Star Sign:

Scorpio