Conference Schedule
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• The Peter Weiss Page
• Peter-Weiss-Jahrbuch
• Betrachtungen zu "Die Ästhetik des Widerstands

Peter Weiss is one of Europe's major 20th century artists: an author whose novels rival the masterworks of Joyce, Proust, Musil or Grass; a playwright whose dramas compare with those of Beckett or Artaud; and an experimental painter a nd film maker who fully participated in the avantgarde movements of the postwar period.

(collage from 'Abschied von den Eltern')

In the United States, Weiss has been known primarily for his dramas, particularly Marat/Sade. The English translation of his three volume magnus opus, The Aesthetics of Resistance, will make Weiss's relevance for a rethinki ng of the European past and present accessible to many for the first time.

(Gunilla and Peter Weiss)

The organizers of the conference, EUROPEAN MEMORIES, hope to contribute to the re-introduction of this pre-eminent European artist-intellectual into the context of contemporary English-speaking literary-theoretical discourse.