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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 earned his reputation in the post-war German literary world as the proponent of an avant-garde, meticulously descriptive writing, as an exponent of autobiographical prose, and also as a politically engaged dramatist. He gained international success with ''Marat/Sade'', the American production of which was awarded a Tony Award and its subsequent film adaptation directed by Peter Brook. His "Auschwitz Oratorium," ''The Investigation'', served to broaden the debates over the so-called "Vergangenheitspolitik" or "politics of history." Weiss' magnum opus was ''The Aesthetics of Resistance'', called the "most important German-language work of the 70s and 80s.〔Klaus Beutin, Klaus Ehlert, Wolfgang Emmerich, Helmut Hoffacker, Bernd Lutz, Volker Meid, Ralf Schnell, Peter Stein und Inge Stephan: Deutsche Literaturgeschichte. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. 5., überarbeitete Auflage. Stuttgart-Weimar: Metzler 1994, S. 595.〕 His early, surrealist-inspired work as a painter and experimental filmmaker remains less well known. == Life == Weiss was born in Nowawes (now part of Potsdam-Babelsberg) near Berlin, to a Hungarian Jewish father and a Christian mother. After the First World War and the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Weiss's father became a Czech citizen and the son acquired his father's citizenship – Weiss was never a German citizen. At age three he moved with his family to the German port city of Bremen, and during his adolescence back to Berlin where he began training as a painter. In 1935 he emigrated with his family to Chislehurst, near London, where he studied photography at the Polytechnic School of Photography. In 1936–1937 the family moved to Czechoslovakia. Weiss attended the Prague Art Academy. After the German occupation of the Czech Sudetenland in 1938, his family moved to Sweden, while Weiss was visiting Hermann Hesse in Switzerland. In 1939 he joined his family in Stockholm, Sweden, where he lived for the rest of his life. He became a Swedish citizen in 1946. Weiss was married three times: to the painter Helga Henschen, 1943; to Carlota Dethorey, 1949; and from 1964 until his death to the Swedish artist and stage designer Gunilla Palmstierna. In the 1960s Weiss became increasingly politically radical, taking stands for revolutionary Cuba and against US intervention in Vietnam and visiting both countries. In 1966 he visited the United States together with the West German writers group ''Gruppe 47''. During a conference at Princeton University he denounced the US war against North Vietnam〔See Peter Weiss: "I Come out of my hiding place." ''The Nation'', May 30, 1966, pp. 652, 655. (Written in English by Peter Weiss.)〕 which seems to have scandalized his German colleagues more than his US hosts.〔See Robert Cohen: ''Understanding Peter Weiss''. Trans. Martha Humphreys. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press 1993, p. 108.〕 In 1967 he participated in the anti-war Russell Tribunal in Stockholm and in 1968 he joined the eurocommunist Swedish Left Party (VPK). During the same year he also visited North Vietnam and published a book about his trip.〔See Peter Weiss: ''Notes on the Cultural Life of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam''. (Translator not named.) London: Calder & Boyars, 1971.〕 In 1970 Weiss suffered a heart attack. During the following decade, he wrote his monumental three-part novel, ''The Aesthetics of Resistance'', as well as two very different stage versions of Kafka's novel ''The Trial''. He died in Stockholm in 1982. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Weiss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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