The New Trial
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Peter Weiss
Peter Weiss
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- Paperback
- 9780822326908
- 03 april 2001
- 128 pagina's
Peter Weiss
"Peter Ulrich Weiss (Nowawes (het tegenwoordige Neubabelsberg) bij Berlijn, 8 november 1916 - Stockholm, 10 mei 1982) was een Duits-Zweedse (toneel)schrijver, beeldend kunstenaar, graficus en filmmaker van half Joodse komaf. De familie Weiss, tot het christendom bekeerde Joden, moest in 1935 vanwege het nationaalsocialisme naar Engeland vluchten. In Londen bezocht Peter Weiss voor korte tijd de Polytechnic School of Photography. Tussen 1935 en 1938 studeerde hij op aanraden van zijn vaders vriend Hermann Hesse aan de Praagse kunstacademie. Voor het schilderij 'žGartenkonzert'œ ontving hij de academieprijs. Peter Weiss woonde daarna een tijdje bij Hesse in Montagnola in Zwitserland. Vanaf 1939 woonde hij in Zweden. (in 1946 kreeg hij het Zweedse staatsburgerschap). Weiss trouwde meerdere malen. In 1943 trouwde hij met schilderes en beeldhouwster Helga Henschen, in 1949 met Carlota Dethorey en in 1964 met kunstenares Gunilla Freiherrin Palmstierna. In 1966 ontving hij de Heinrich-Mann-Preis van de Duitse Academie voor Kunsten in Oost-Berlijn. Hij was ook politiek actief als lid van de Communistische Partij van Zweden.
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Fusing Marxist and capitalist perspectives in a manner that anticipates aspects of the current global market expansion, the author evokes a world in which nothing is private and everything is for sale.
The New Trial is Peter Weiss’s final drama, completed only months before his death in 1982 and never before published in English. One of Europe’s most important twentieth century playwrights—often considered as influential as Brecht and Beckett—Weiss is best known to American audiences as the author of the Broadway play Marat/Sade and the three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance, which has elicited comparison with Joyce’s Ulysses and Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Initially influenced by Franz Kafka and later by the American Henry Miller, Weiss worked to expose the hypocrisy, the deception, and the nature of aggression in the contemporary world.
A transformative “updating” of Kafka’s novel The Trial, The New Trial presents a surreal, hallucinatory look at the life of “Josef K.,” chief attorney in an enormous multinational firm that exploits both his idealism and his self-doubt in order to present to the world a public face that will mask its own dark and fascistic intentions. Fusing Marxist and capitalist perspectives in a manner that anticipates aspects of the current global market expansion, Weiss evokes a world in which nothing is private and everything is for sale.
This edition of The New Trial is designed to facilitate theatrical teaching and stage production of the play. An extensive introduction by James Rolleston and Kai Evers situates the work in the full context of Weiss’s life, including his Swedish exile during the regime of the Third Reich. In addition, the play’s text is followed by interviews with Weiss and his original codirector (and wife) Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss, as well as an account of the challenges of the first English staging by director Jody McAuliffe.
The New Trial is Peter Weiss’s final drama, completed only months before his death in 1982 and never before published in English. One of Europe’s most important twentieth century playwrights—often considered as influential as Brecht and Beckett—Weiss is best known to American audiences as the author of the Broadway play Marat/Sade and the three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance, which has elicited comparison with Joyce’s Ulysses and Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Initially influenced by Franz Kafka and later by the American Henry Miller, Weiss worked to expose the hypocrisy, the deception, and the nature of aggression in the contemporary world.
A transformative “updating” of Kafka’s novel The Trial, The New Trial presents a surreal, hallucinatory look at the life of “Josef K.,” chief attorney in an enormous multinational firm that exploits both his idealism and his self-doubt in order to present to the world a public face that will mask its own dark and fascistic intentions. Fusing Marxist and capitalist perspectives in a manner that anticipates aspects of the current global market expansion, Weiss evokes a world in which nothing is private and everything is for sale.
This edition of The New Trial is designed to facilitate theatrical teaching and stage production of the play. An extensive introduction by James Rolleston and Kai Evers situates the work in the full context of Weiss’s life, including his Swedish exile during the regime of the Third Reich. In addition, the play’s text is followed by interviews with Weiss and his original codirector (and wife) Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss, as well as an account of the challenges of the first English staging by director Jody McAuliffe.
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