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Rethinking Peter Weiss

by Jost Hermand (Volume editor) Marc Silberman (Volume editor)
©2001 Monographs XII, 204 Pages
Series: German Life and Civilization, Volume 32

Summary

Weiss’s substantial œuvre has become a casualty of the cold war’s end, the collapse of socialism, and the beginning of a new millennium – as one would call it. This strikes us a valid reason to reconsider Peter Weiss – to face the challenge of rethinking the work of a writer and artist who was a committed socialist and utopian thinker at a time when these very categories have been fundamentally called into question.

Details

Pages
XII, 204
Publication Year
2001
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820458199
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820448510
Language
English
Keywords
socialism new millenium challenge
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2000. XII, 204 pp., 6 ill.

Biographical notes

Jost Hermand (Volume editor) Marc Silberman (Volume editor)

The Editors: Jost Hermand is the William F. Vilas Research Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his research interests focus on German literature and culture from 1750 to the present, German-Jewish history, and the methodology of cultural studies. He has taught German literature, art history, and history at many German and American universities. His most recent publications are A Hitler Youth in Poland (1997) and Die deutschen Dichterbünde von den Meistersingern bis zum PEN-Club (1998). Marc Silberman is Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches twentieth-century German literature, culture, and cinema studies. He has published books, essays, and articles on GDR literature, theater, and cinema on Heiner Müller, Günter Grass, and Bertolt Brecht, and on the history of German cinema. He edited the Brecht Year Book from 1989 to 1995 and was involved in many projects surrounding the commemoration of Brecht’s one-hundredth birthday in 1998.

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