An Introduction To The Works Of Peter Weiss

Author : Olaf Berwald
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571132321
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Works of Peter Weiss written by Olaf Berwald and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Weiss's plays, fiction, autobiography, and non-fiction prose. Pp. 22-25 illuminate "Die Ermittlung", an oratorio based on Weiss's 1964 attendance at the Frankfurt war crimes trial. He used actual documents both aesthetically and politically. 18 of the defendants appear with their real names, either defending themselves with the jargon of doing their duty or totally denying their guilt. Among the charges against these Nazis were conducting medical experiments, torture, and murder. Ch. 7 (pp. 107-129) elucidates Weiss's three-volume novel "Die Ästhetik des Widerstands", about resistance to Nazism in thought and action. The characters in the novel are based on members of the Rote Kapelle resistance group. Politics and creative thinking (art) are shown as complementary, not contradictory.

Author : Peter Weiss
Publisher : German List
ISBN 13 : 9780857427137
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Hölderlin written by Peter Weiss and published by German List. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hölderlin, distinguished German playwright Peter Weiss brings to the page the life and times of one of Germany's greatest poets. Like Trotsky in Exile, Hölderlin presents a biography in the form of a two-act drama. Following its opening in 1971 in Stuttgart, the play was staged numerous times in Germany and Switzerland, and as Robert Cohen explains in his introduction, it was "greeted by accolades as well as by intense criticism since Weiss had dared to revise the image of one of the great heroic figures of German Culture." Weiss explains that he was motivated "to describe something of the conflict that arises in a person who suffers to the point of madness from the injustices, the humiliations in his society, who completely supports the revolutionary upheavals, and yet does not find the praxis with which the misery can be remedied."

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Download or read book Peter Weiss. --. written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Weiss
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826409638
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman written by Peter Weiss and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Weiss (1916-1982) was virtually unknown in the mid-1960s when Peter Brook made Marat/Sade into a film. The weaving of time, space, plot, real-and-imagined characters, sexual liberation, and surrealist imagery made Marat/Sade a sensation. Little did audiences realize that this counterculture classic was written by a German Jew. At that time, Weiss was also at work on a play about Auschwitz: The Investigation. These two dramas are in this volume along with The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman. All are cogently introduced and edited by Robert Cohen.

Author : John David Pizer
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571135170
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Age of Goethe in German Literature, 1970-2010 written by John David Pizer and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first book-length study devoted to modern German "author-as-character" fiction set in the Age of Goethe. It shows for the first time in a sustained manner the powerful hold the Goethezeit continues to exercise on the imagination of many of Germany's leading writers. This inner-German dialogue across the ages provides an important corrective to the dominant critical view that contemporary German-language literature is composed primarily under the sign of both globalization and the influence of mass American culture." -- Book cover.

Author : Ana Margarida Abrantes
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631595930
Total Pages : 382 pages
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Download or read book Meaning and Mind written by Ana Margarida Abrantes and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Portugal, for the degree of Doctor of German Language and Literature, 2007.

Author : Franz P. Haberl
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 4 pages
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Download or read book Peter Weiss: a Progress Report written by Franz P. Haberl and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gene A. Plunka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139477412
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Drama written by Gene A. Plunka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holocaust - the systematic attempted destruction of European Jewry and other 'threats' to the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 - has been portrayed in fiction, film, memoirs, and poetry. Gene Plunka's study will add to this chronicle with an examination of the theatre of the Holocaust. Including thorough critical analyses of more than thirty plays, this book explores the seminal twentieth-century Holocaust dramas from the United States, Europe, and Israel. Biographical information about the playwrights, production histories of the plays, and pertinent historical information are provided, placing the plays in their historical and cultural contexts.

Author : Matthew D. Miller
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810137348
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The German Epic in the Cold War written by Matthew D. Miller and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Miller’s The German Epic in the Cold War explores the literary evolution of the modern epic in postwar German literature. Examining works by Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, and Alexander Kluge, it illustrates imaginative artistic responses in German fiction to the physical and ideological division of post–World War II Germany. Miller analyzes three ambitious German-language epics from the second half of the twentieth century: Weiss’s Die Ästhetik des Widerstands (The Aesthetics of Resistance), Johnson’s Jahrestage (Anniversaries), and Kluge’s Chronik der Gefühle (Chronicle of Feelings). In them, he traces the epic’s unlikely reemergence after the catastrophes of World War II and the Shoah and its continuity across the historical watershed of 1989–91, defined by German unification and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Building on Franco Moretti’s codification of the literary form of the modern epic, Miller demonstrates the epic’s ability to understand the past; to come to terms with ethical, social, and political challenges in the second half of the twentieth century in German-speaking Europe and beyond; and to debate and envision possible futures.

Author : Peter Weiss
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822326908
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Trial written by Peter Weiss and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFirst-time publication in English, one of Peter Weiss' last works which takes a surreal look at the fortunes of "Josef K," attorney, whose law firm appears to be sincere and appealing to the public while masking a dark, fascistic impulse to ach/div