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Peter Weiss

1916 - 1982

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Weiss is the 958th most popular writer (down from 862nd in 2019), the 951st most popular biography from Germany (down from 820th in 2019) and the 60th most popular German Writer.

Peter Weiss was a German-born playwright and painter who was most famous for his play, "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade."

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Among writers, Peter Weiss ranks 958 out of 7,302. Before him are Samuel Butler, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, George Steiner, Ernesto Sabato, Hrotsvitha, and Horatio Alger. After him are Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Silius Italicus, John Updike, Panait Istrati, Juliette Récamier, and John Fante.

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Among people born in 1916, Peter Weiss ranks 44. Before him are Bernard Lewis, Emil Gilels, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Masaki Kobayashi, Virginia Satir, and Marcel Cerdan. After him are Peter Finch, Amha Selassie, C. Wright Mills, Raf Vallone, P. W. Botha, and Dino Risi. Among people deceased in 1982, Peter Weiss ranks 46. Before him are Jiro Horikoshi, Lee Strasberg, Varlam Shalamov, Walther Wenck, Ahmad al-Khatib, and John Belushi. After him are Hermann Balck, Helen of Greece and Denmark, E. H. Carr, Bachir Gemayel, Thelonious Monk, and Meša Selimović.

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Among people born in Germany, Peter Weiss ranks 951 out of 7,253. Before him are Hrotsvitha (935), Johannes Trithemius (1462), Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (1336), Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1557), Helmut Rahn (1929), and Herta Oberheuser (1911). After him are Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927), Frank Wedekind (1864), Carl Stamitz (1745), George, King of Saxony (1832), Johann Elert Bode (1747), and August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Peter Weiss ranks 60. Before him are Kurt Eisner (1867), Emanuel Schikaneder (1751), Marie d'Agoult (1805), Hans Sachs (1494), Stefan George (1868), and Hrotsvitha (935). After him are Frank Wedekind (1864), Hartmann von Aue (1160), Joost van den Vondel (1587), Bettina von Arnim (1785), Johann Peter Eckermann (1792), and August von Kotzebue (1761).

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