Peter Weiss

Peter Weiss, avant-garde German-language playwright and author, was born near Berlin to a Jewish father and Christian mother. Weiss began training as a painter in Berlin. He left Germany in 1934 and lived in London, where he studied photography. He then moved to Prague before finally settling in Sweden in 1939, remaining there for the rest of his life. Weiss studied art and later worked as a painter, film producer, and writer. Some of his plays achieved international fame, most notably, his Marat/Sade, adapted into a film version by Peter Brook in 1967.