International Peter Weiss Society

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The namesake Peter Weiss during the presentation of the Bremen Literature Prize 1982

The International Peter Weiss Society (IPWG) is a literary society that will take place on 22./23. April 1989 in Karlsruhe . The statutory seat of the company is Berlin . The impetus for founding the International Peter Weiss Society goes back to "Peter Weiss Days" and an international congress on the subject of "Aesthetics, revolt and resistance in the work of Peter Weiss" with readings, film and theater performances, panel discussions and lectures. which were carried out in November 1988 on the initiative of Ulrich Schreiber in the Hamburg Kampnagel factory.

The society serves to maintain and research the literary, cinematic and artistic work of Peter Weiss . It also supports and promotes cultural and political initiatives that, in the sense of Peter Weiss , are committed to an emancipatory aesthetic of resistance . The company's working meetings were held in Berlin, Zurich, Salzburg, Stockholm, Prague, Brussels, Paris and on the occasion of its 25th anniversary in Montagnola. The society has around 150 members from around 15 countries, including honorary members Manfred Haiduk , Robert Jungk (†), Youssri Khamis (†), Olof Lagercrantz (†), Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss , Theo Pinkus (†) and Jürgen Schutte ( †).

Since 1989 the society has published the “Notblätter” twice a year and since 1992 the “Peter Weiss Yearbook” once a year. The International Peter Weiss Society is institutionally involved in the awarding of the Peter Weiss Prize , which the city of Bochum launched in 1990. The society belongs to the working group of literary societies and memorials . Ulrich Schreiber was chairman until 1998, Jochen Vogt until 2000 and then Arnd Beise .

literature

  • Arnd Beise: The International Peter Weiss Society eV In: Der Deutschunterricht , 45th year, 2003, issue 6, p. 94f.
  • Literature on site. Literary societies, museums and memorials . Edited by the Association of Literary Societies and Memorials eV Berlin: Directmedia 2006 (Digital Library 137). Pp. 7093-7163.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Rector: Twenty-five Years The Aesthetics of Resistance . Prolegomena to a research report . In: Arnd Beise, Jens Birkmeyer, Michael Hofmann (eds.): "This quaking, tough, bold hope". 25 years of Peter Weiss: The Aesthetics of Resistance . Sankt Ingbert: Röhrig 2008. pp. 13–48, here p. 25f.