Rethinking Peter Weiss

Eight essays, two in German, revised from presentations at a November 1998 workshop at the University of Wisconsin consider whether the nearly total neglect of German painter, filmmaker, essays, novelist, and dramatist Weiss (1916-ca.1982) since the end of the Cold War can be and should be reversed. He was a committed socialist who burst on the scene in 1964 with his film Marat/Sade and dealt with many social and political themes during his career.