Opisy(1)
Peter Weiss (1916-1982) has always felt like an outsider, just like the characters about which he wrote: Marat and Sade, Trotzki, Hölderlin, Kafka. In early childhood in Bremen and Berlin, he is already considered a “foreigner“ at school, being the son of a Jewish Hungarian and a Swiss. In the 1930’s he then emigrates with his parents to Sweden and definitely loses any sense of a “homeland“. He feels foreign within his own family which he defines as an empty place without any feelings. His only support is his six year-old sister. Shocked by her sudden death, the 18 yearold Weiss tries to transcend his pain through the arts. He starts painting apocalyptic pictures; Influenced by Hermann Hesse, Kafka, and, in particular, psychoanalysis and surrealism. It is not until the 1960’s that he becomes political, using his literary work as a forum for the liberation movements in the third world. But he soon realises that this politicization of his work reduces its literary qualities and he returns to his early preoccupations: the relationships between dreams and being awake, History and individual feelings, realism and vision. (DOK.fest München)
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