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Weiss, Peter, 1916-1982

LC control no.n 80013064
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LC classificationPT2685.E5 German
PT9876.33.E5 Swedish
Personal name headingWeiss, Peter, 1916-1982
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Variant(s)Vais, Peter, 1916-1982
Veĭs, Peter, 1916-1982
Associated countryGermany Sweden
Birth date1916-11-08
Death date1982-05-10
Place of birthBabelsberg (Germany)
Place of deathStockholm (Sweden)
Field of activityLiterature Motion pictures Paintings
Profession or occupationAuthors Dramatists Essayists Painters Motion picture producers and directors
Found inHis Duellen, 1953.
His Der neue Prozess, 1984: t.p. (Peter Weiss) p. facing t.p. (d. 1982)
His Juurdlus, 1969: t.p. (Peter Weiss) Russian colophon (Peter Veĭs)
Die Situation, 2000: t.p. (Peter Weiss) back jkt. flap (b. 1916 in Berlin; d. 1982 in Stockholm; emigrated to Sweden in 1970; wrote in German and Swedish)
World wide web page devoted to Peter Weiss, Oct. 11, 2004 biography (b. Nov. 8, 1916 in Nowawes, near Berlin; d. May 10, 1982 in Stockholm; wrote plays, essays, novels; painter and filmmaker)
Wikipedia, January 3, 2019 (Peter Weiss; Peter Ulrich Weiss (8 November 1916 - 10 May 1982) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality; born Nowawes, Brandenburg, Germany; died Stockholm, Sweden)
Britannica online, January 3, 2019 (Peter Weiss, in full Peter Ulrich Weiss, (born Nov. 8, 1916, Nowawes, near Potsdam, Ger.--died May 10, 1982, Stockholm, Swed.), German dramatist and novelist; in 1934 he and his family were forced into exile by Nazi persecution. He lived in England, Switzerland, and Czechoslovakia before settling, in 1939, in Sweden)
Associated languageger swe