Artist in the "Aesthetics of Resistance"

The multitude of artists in the "Aesthetics of Resistance" , which Peter Weiss incorporated into his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance , form a kind of musée imaginaire (imaginary museum) with more than a hundred named artists and as many works of art , mainly the visual arts and the literature , but also the performing arts and music .

List of artists

The following list is a supplement to the list of works of art in the "Aesthetics of Resistance" and contains around one hundred names of artists who are discussed, named, enumerated or included in detail in the novel. They are largely arranged in the order in which they appear in the book. Exceptions are motifs which, after a brief mention, are given a more detailed description on later pages. By clicking on the arrow in the table headings, the list can be sorted differently; a detailed description of the sorting options can be found after the table .

Illustration / chronology	Artist / origin	Work / classification	In the novel
	Max Ernst 1891–1976 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, p. 57	listed as an example: in the ranking of some modern painters, especially Surrealism and Dadaism , whose pictures attacked social and political conditions and in which “lightning-like illumination of fermentation and rot, panic and upheaval” could be seen.
	Paul Klee 1879–1940 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, pp. 57, 79; AedW III, p. 84	listed as an example: in the ranking of some modern painters, especially Surrealism and Dadaism , whose pictures attacked social and political conditions and in which “lightning-like illumination of fermentation and rot, panic and upheaval” could be seen. Paul Klee is repeatedly taken up in the novel as an example of the relationship between art and politics again: "We insisted that Joyce and Kafka, Schoenberg and Stravinsky, Klee and Picasso were of the same series in which Dante was in." Culture and Politics grew together until 1933: "It was the entire atmosphere of vitality, unlimited imagination, and the joy of experimentation that made up cultural life."
	Wassily Kandinsky 1866–1944 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, p. 57; AedW II, p. 57	listed as an example: enumerated in the list of some modern painters, especially Surrealism and Dadaism , whose pictures attacked social and political conditions and in which "lightning-like illumination of fermentation and rot, panic and upheaval" could be seen. Kandinsky is also mentioned in the novel as one of the painters about whose artistic revolution Leon Trotsky had spoken.
	Kurt Schwitters 1887–1948 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, p. 57	listed as an example: in the ranking of some modern painters, especially Surrealism and Dadaism , whose pictures attacked social and political conditions and in which “lightning-like illumination of fermentation and rot, panic and upheaval” could be seen.
	Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, p. 57	listed as an example: in the ranking of some modern painters, especially Surrealism and Dadaism , whose pictures attacked social and political conditions and in which “lightning-like illumination of fermentation and rot, panic and upheaval” could be seen.
	René Magritte 1898–1967 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, p. 57	listed as an example: in the ranking of some modern painters, especially Surrealism and Dadaism , whose pictures attacked social and political conditions and in which “lightning-like illumination of fermentation and rot, panic and upheaval” could be seen.
	Otto Dix 1891–1969 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, p. 57; AedW III, p. 84	listed as an example: In the ranking of some modern painters, here in particular the New Objectivity , whose pictures attacked the social and political conditions and "reproduced the disintegration objectively and precisely" . Culture and politics grew together until 1933: "It was the entire atmosphere of vitality, unlimited imagination, and the joy of experimentation that made up cultural life."
	George Grosz 1893–1959 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, p. 57; AedW III, p. 84	listed as an example: In the ranking of some modern painters, here in particular the New Objectivity , whose pictures attacked the social and political conditions and "reproduced the disintegration objectively and precisely" . Towards the end of the novel, the idea is rounded off with his example, among other things. Culture and politics grew together until 1933: "It was the entire atmosphere of vitality, unlimited imagination, and the joy of experimentation that made up cultural life."
	Lyonel Feininger 1871–1956 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, p. 57, 336	listed as an example: In the ranking of some modern painters, whose pictures attacked the social and political conditions and whose pictures "sharply dissected and measured the existing reality" . The idea is taken up again in the discussion of Picasso's Guernica.
	Emil Nolde 1867–1956 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, p. 57; AedW III, p. 84	listed as an example: in the ranks of some modern painters whose pictures attacked social and political conditions and "made reality flare up hotly" . Towards the end of the novel, the idea is rounded off with his example, among other things. Culture and politics grew together until 1933: "It was the entire atmosphere of vitality, unlimited imagination, and the joy of experimentation that made up cultural life."
	Oskar Kokoschka 1886–1980 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, p. 57	listed as an example: in the ranks of some modern painters whose pictures attacked social and political conditions and "made reality flare up hotly" .
	Max Beckmann 1884–1950 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, p. 57; AedW III, p. 84	listed as an example: in the ranks of some modern painters whose pictures attacked social and political conditions and "made reality flare up hotly" . Towards the end of the novel, the idea is rounded off with his example, among other things. Culture and politics grew together until 1933: “It was the entire atmosphere of vitality, unlimited imagination, and the joy of experimentation that made up cultural life.” But the turning away from this idealism is also questioned. Beckmann belonged to the left veristic wing of the New Objectivity, his works were ostracized by the National Socialists as "degenerate", and he himself succeeded in emigrating in 1937. At a lecture in 1938 he maintained a strict separation between spirit and politics and stated that he would never have been politically active.
	Jean-François Millet 1814–1895 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, p. 62f.	discussed or mentioned: With the discussion of some of Millet's paintings, his personal background is also included and the question is asked whether his origins as a farmer's son reveal a certain resistance potential in his pictures.
	Vladimir Mayakovsky 1893–1930 writer	Literature / Person Mayakovsky was a leading exponent of Russian Futurism and was considered a model Soviet poet in the early 1920s. Towards the end of the 1920s, he criticized developments in Soviet society. On April 14, 1930, he shot himself in the heart with a pistol. AedW I, pp. 66f., 69, 249	discussed or mentioned: The protagonists take Mayakovsky in particular as an example of the upheaval in the cultural conception of the Soviet Union and the suppression of expressionist statements by Stalinism: "Mayakovsky (...) with his suicide anticipated the disaster that is now spreading over the Soviet state."
	Kasimir Malewitsch 1879–1935 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, p. 66f.	listed as an example: in a series of artists whose expressionist statements were suppressed in the early Soviet Union and in particular by Stalinism: "Why was an art that was revolutionary denied and ostracized, (...) why was a narrow limit on the capacity to be absorbed when a Mayakovsky, Blok , Bednij, Jesenin and Bely , a Malewitsch, Lissitzki , Tatlin , Wachtangow, Teirow , Eisenstein or Vertow had found the language that was identical to a new universal consciousness. "
	James Joyce 1882–1941 writer	Literature / person AedW I, p. 79	listed as an example: in a series of artists whose art could change social existence : "We insisted that Joyce and Kafka, Schönberg and Stravinsky, Klee and Picasso belong to the same series in which Dante was also."
	Franz Kafka 1883–1924 writer	Literature / Person AedW I, pp. 79, 178 ff.	discussed or mentioned: enumerated in a list of artists whose art could change social existence : "We insisted that Joyce and Kafka, Schönberg and Stravinsky, Klee and Picasso belong to the same series that Dante was in." Kafka's unfinished novel Das Schloss is one of the works that are discussed in detail in the novel.
	Arnold Schönberg 1874–1951 composer	Music / Person AedW I, p. 79	listed as an example: in a series of artists whose art could change social existence : "We insisted that Joyce and Kafka, Schönberg and Stravinsky, Klee and Picasso belong to the same series in which Dante was also."
	Igor Stravinsky 1882–1971 composer	Music / Person AedW I, p. 79	listed as an example: enumerated in a series of artists whose art could change social existence : "We insisted that Joyce and Kafka, Schönberg and Stravinsky, Klee and Picasso belong to the same series that Dante was in."
	Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, pp. 79, 332–337, 339 f., 343, 348 AedW II, pp. 38, 57, 299	discussed or mentioned: enumerated in a series of artists whose art could change social existence : “We insisted that Joyce and Kafka, Schönberg and Stravinsky, Klee and Picasso belong to the same series that Dante was in.” Picasso's painting Guernica is one of the works discussed in detail in the novel.
	Dante Alighieri 1265–1321 poet and philosopher	Literature / person AedW I, p. 79	discussed or mentioned: enumerated in a series of artists whose art could change social existence : “We insisted that Joyce and Kafka, Schönberg and Stravinsky, Klee and Picasso belong to the same series that Dante was in.” Dante's story The Divine Comedy is one of the works that are discussed in detail in the novel.
	Carola Neher 1900–1942 actress	Performing arts / person AedW I, p. 153 f.	discussed or mentioned: in the context of the protagonists' discussion of the Stalinist purges in the Soviet Union, Neher's arrest in July 1936 and indictment in the Moscow trials .
	Sergei Eisenstein 1898–1948 director	Performing arts / person AedW I, p. 157	content included: Example of a list of cultural contributions about Soviet film in the Arbeiter Illustrierte (AIZ): “It introduced many of us to the problems of art, literature and science. What the great (...) films Eisenstein, Pudowkins , Ekks , Vertow had suggested was continued in the picture . "
	Willi Bredel 1901–1964 writer	Literature / Person Willi Bredel was a Hamburg shipyard worker, involved in the Hamburg uprising in 1923 , and became an editor and writer from the mid-1920s. From 1937 to 1938 he joined the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War. AedW I, pp. 184, 259, 263	discussed or mentioned: Example in a list of contemporary workers' writers: "In the books by Kläber , Gotsche , Hoelz , Bredel, Marchwitza or Neukrantz , we encountered proletarian reality, between gloomy, gray exhaustion and open struggle." Bredel becomes even more in scenes of the Spanish civil war Times mentioned.
	Friedrich Hölderlin 1770–1843 poet	Literature / Person AedW I, p. 257; AedW II, p. 68	discussed or mentioned: List and comparison of some personalities in German cultural history: “It was not the insights of Hölderlin, his Hellenism, this disguise of the spirit of the French Revolution (...) that had become effective in the nature of the Germans, but the Germanizing chauvinism of Fichte. (...) This disproportion between the titans, these pillars of the authorities, who denied the people common sense and the right to independence and recommended them to obey, and revolutionary, ostracized, outcast figures like Forster , Kleist , Grabbe , Büchner , Heine never allowed the development of humanism in Germany. "
	Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762–1814 philosopher	Literature / person AedW I, p. 257	discussed or mentioned: List and comparison of some personalities in German cultural history: "It was not the insights of Hölderlin, his Hellenism, this disguise of the spirit of the French Revolution (...) that had become effective in the essence of the Germans, but the Germanizing chauvinism of Fichte."
	Ulrich von Hutten 1488–1523 humanist	Literature / person AedW I, p. 257	discussed or mentioned: List and comparison of some personalities in German cultural history: "(...) how the enlightened, rational Hutten was ousted by the folk-like Luther" .
	Martin Luther 1483–1546 theologian	Literature / person AedW I, p. 257	discussed or mentioned: List and comparison of some personalities in German cultural history: "(...) how the enlightened, rational Hutten was ousted by the folk-like Luther" .
	Johann Gottfried Herder 1744–1803 poet	Literature / person AedW I, p. 257	discussed or mentioned: List and comparison of some personalities in German cultural history: "(...) the sober scientific Herder was ousted by the soulful, idealistic Goethe" .
	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832 poet	Literature / person AedW I, p. 257	discussed or mentioned: List and comparison of some personalities in German cultural history: "(...) the sober scientific Herder was ousted by the soulful, idealistic Goethe" .
	Immanuel Kant 1724–1804 philosopher	Literature / person AedW I, p. 257	discussed or mentioned: List and comparison of some personalities in German cultural history: "(...) the dry Kant, who limited himself to human experience, was pressed against the wall by the metaphysical Hegel."
	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770–1831 philosopher	Literature / person AedW I, p. 257	discussed or mentioned: List and comparison of some personalities in German cultural history: "(...) the dry Kant, who limited himself to human experience, was pressed against the wall by the metaphysical Hegel."
	Richard Wagner 1813–1883 composer	Music / Person AedW I, p. 257	discussed or mentioned: List and comparison of some personalities in German cultural history: "This (...) is the reason for the fascist mass psychosis that wrapped itself in the sounds of Wagner and abused Beethoven."
	Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1831 philosopher	Music / Person AedW I, p. 257	discussed or mentioned: List and comparison of some personalities in German cultural history: "This (...) is the reason for the fascist mass psychosis that wrapped itself in the sounds of Wagner and abused Beethoven."
	Thomas Mann 1875–1955 writer	Literature / Person AedW I, p. 263f.	discussed or mentioned: Mention of the development from a liberal author to an opponent of the fascist dictatorship and a debate about his relationship between art and politics.
	Francisco de Goya 1746–1828 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, p. 271	discussed or mentioned: Francisco de Goya and especially his work is discussed several times in the course of the novel. It is first mentioned in the first-person narrator's ideas of the country and republic of Spain through memories of "Goya's Caprichos and Desastres, of poems by Lorca, of images from a surrealist film by Buñuel."
	Federico García Lorca 1898–1936 writer	Literature / Person AedW I, p. 271; AedW II, p. 153	discussed or mentioned: The first-person narrator's ideas of the country and republic of Spain are shaped by memories of "Goya's Caprichos and Disastres, of poems by Lorca, of images from a surrealist film by Buñuel."
	Luis Buñuel 1900–1983 director	Performing arts / person AedW I, p. 271	discussed or mentioned: The first-person narrator's ideas of the country and republic of Spain are shaped by memories of "Goya's Caprichos and Disastres, of poems by Lorca, of images from a surrealist film by Buñuel."
	Aeschylus 525-456 BC BC poet	Literature / Person Aeschylus is the oldest of the three great Greek tragedy poets . He took 490 BC As a soldier for Athens in the battle of Marathon against the Persians. AedW I, p. 287	discussed or mentioned: He is mentioned as a role model for a protagonist in the Spanish Civil War: “In politics, in the art of the possible, there is no room for feelings, and also in the art of the impossible, which encompasses our emotions, our sense of form, our poetic sense, now has to stand everything under the sign of the necessary. (...) Our role model is Aeschylus, who went into the field heavily armed. "
	Eugène Delacroix 1798–1863, painter	Fine arts / Person AedW I, p. 347	discussed or mentioned: Reflections on the personal background with which Delacroix painted the dispute in Paris in 1830: “Up until now he had sent his extravagant fantasies into hell and carnage (...) now he was trying to give shape to this July day, in which he was raging . Driven by idealism and arrogance, which was part of the feeling of uselessness that sometimes overshadowed his life, he wanted to participate in the unstoppable force that urged change. "
	Théodore Géricault 1791–1824, painter	Fine arts / Person AedW I, p. 347	discussed or mentioned: Examination of the painter's personal background: “Likewise, Géricault's vision emerged from a haunted, disturbed life in which the instability, the constant flight from oneself initially found expression in the military campaigns and the collapse of the Napoleonic empire, in broad and violently painted martial ones Scenes, later in wild horses. "
	Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890 painter	Fine arts / person AedW I, 66, 185, 343 AedW II, p. 34ff.	discussed or mentioned: Several sections of the novel deal with Van Gogh's oeuvre, especially within the depiction of an imaginary scene in which the protagonists encounter the artist in Montmartre: “He wanted nothing more than his right to work, his right to dispose of his own work , he wanted the free community of art workers. "
	Émile Bernard 1868–1941 painter	Fine arts / Person Bernard was a friend of Van Gogh and is considered to be instrumental in Synthetic Symbolism . AedW II, p. 35	discussed or mentioned: Mentioned in an imaginary scene of the encounter with Van Gogh in Café Tambourin in Montmartre.
	Henri Rousseau 1844–1910 painter	Fine arts / person AedW II, p. 38	discussed or mentioned: Description of the legendary banquet in the Bateau-Lavoir in 1908, which was celebrated on the occasion of the sale of a painting by Rousseau. The representation in the novel is stylized like a self-portrait of the painter.
	Hans Arp 1886–1966 painter and poet	Fine arts / person Hans Arp is considered to be one of the most important representatives of Dadaism and Surrealism both in the fine arts and in literature. He was a member of the Abstraction-Création group . AedW II, pp. 55, 58	discussed or mentioned: List of artists who stood up for a revolting art: “Living between international newspapers and magazines, between leaflets, manifestos, traveling emissaries, the inventions of a Cravan , Picabia , Duchamp , Arp, Apollinaire had entered us, nobody could say From where we had obtained the openness for such experimentation, the explanation was perhaps only that our senses had been sharpened by all the humiliations and chastisements. "
	Ernst Toller 1893–1939 writer	Literature / Person Ernst Toller was a participant in the Munich Soviet Republic , and in the 1920s he created theater plays in the New Objectivity style, which received much public attention . In 1933 he emigrated from Germany, from 1935 he supported the Spanish republic with publications and money collections. After the defeat was announced, he committed suicide. AedW II, pp. 130, 173f.	discussed or mentioned: Depictions of the life of Toller and the debate about his political impact and his suicide after numerous personal setbacks and the defeat in the Spanish Civil War. He killed himself because he saw no political way out. "All his work was an accusation against the disempowerment of the individual, (...) he had to let himself be ground up, and in his defenselessness he was more honest than the others who hide behind restraint."
	Carl von Ossietzky 1889–1938 writer and journalist	Literature / Person Carl von Ossietzky was editor of the magazine Die Weltbühne , was arrested, interned and badly mistreated in 1933. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for 1935 , but the National Socialist government forbade him to accept it personally. He died of the consequences of imprisonment in 1938. AedW II, p. 131 ff.	discussed or mentioned: Report by Rosalinde von Ossietzky , the daughter of Carl von Ossietzky, who is included as the protagonist in the novel, about the persecution and death of her father.
	Bertolt Brecht 1898–1956, writer	Literature / Person AedW II, pp. 142ff., 239ff., 310ff. amongst other things	discussed or mentioned: Extensive discussion about the person and the artist Bertolt Brecht in Swedish exile.
	Helene Weigel 1900–1971 actress	Performing arts / person AedW II, p. 152	discussed or mentioned: Shown in a scene in the garden of the house in Lindigö, where the "Brechtian extended family" lived in exile until the end of 1939.
	Margarete Steffin 1908–1941 writer, actress	Literature / person AedW II, p. 152	discussed or mentioned: Shown in a scene in the garden of the house in Lindigö, where the "Brechtian extended family" lived in exile until the end of 1939.
	Ruth Berlau 1906–1974 actress	Performing arts / person AedW II, p. 152	discussed or mentioned: Shown in a scene in the garden of the house in Lindigö, where the "Brechtian extended family" lived in exile until the end of 1939.
	Diego Velazquez 1599–1660 painter	Fine arts / Person AedW II, p. 155	discussed or mentioned: listed as court painter whose pictures were exhibited in the Pardo Palace
	Carl Fredrik Hill 1849–1911 painter	Fine arts / person AedW II, p. 281	listed as an example: listed as an example of a Swedish artist who was misunderstood by his time, driven into madness: "This city, in which your reason is to be strangled by the philistines, in which you should perish between the lukewarm, the lazy."
	Ernst Josephson 1851–1906 painter	Fine arts / person AedW II, p. 281	listed as an example: listed as an example of a Swedish artist who was misunderstood by his time, driven into madness: "This city, in which your reason is to be strangled by the philistines, in which you should perish between the lukewarm, the lazy."
	August Strindberg 1849–1912 writer	Literature / person AedW II, p. 281	listed as an example: listed as an example of a Swedish artist who was misunderstood by his time, driven into madness: "This city, in which your reason is to be strangled by the philistines, in which you should perish between the lukewarm, the lazy."
	Alexander Girardi 1850–1918, actor	Performing arts / Person Girardi celebrated at the end of the 19th century and at the turn of the century well over 20 years of great success as a singing comedian in the Theater an der Wien . One of his famous roles was the Torelli in the piece Artist blood of Eysler . AedW II, p. 314	discussed or mentioned: listed during the extensive enumeration of Brecht's library as a statement by Brecht who could not part with a book about Girardi's life: “His Torelli, in the Singspiel artist's blood, (...) must have been Kafka's model when characterizing the painter Titorelli, in the process. "
	Karin Boye 1900–1941 writer	Literature Boyes poetry reflects all intellectual currents of the modern age . Her main work, the novel Kallocain, is heavily influenced by Jonathan Swift and deals with a very gloomy view of the future. On April 24, 1941, Karin Boye committed suicide by poisoning in a forest near Alingsås . AedW III, pp. 22-36	discussed or mentioned: The writer is the protagonist in the third part of the novel and influences the development of the first-person narrator as a writer in a field of tension contrasted with Brecht. Her last months in Alingsås and her suicide are also portrayed.
	Elisabeth Schumacher 1904–1942 graphic artist	Fine Arts / Person Elisabeth Schumacher was a resistance fighter in the Red Orchestra . She was executed on December 22, 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee prison. AedW III, p. 87 and a.	discussed or mentioned: Elisabeth Schumacher is named several times in the novel with her story in the resistance, her artistic work is not listed.
	Oda Schottmüller 1905–1943 dancer and sculptor	Performing arts / Person Oda Schottmüller was an active member of the Red Orchestra and was born on August 5, 1943 together with Liane Berkowitz , Cato Bontjes van Beek , Eva-Maria Buch , Hilde Coppi , Ursula Goetze , Emil Hübner , Adam Kuckhoff , Ingeborg Kummerow , Klara Schabbel , Rose Schlösinger , Maria Terwiel , Frida Wesolek and Stanislaus Wesolek executed in Berlin-Plötzensee prison. AedW III, pp. 179, 232f., U. a.	discussed or mentioned: Multiple mentions in the novel. The depiction in a scene of the execution of the members of the Red Orchestra on August 5, 1943 and further murders of resistance fighters against National Socialism is haunting, as described choreographically like a dance of death.
	Kurt Schumacher 1905–1942 sculptor	Fine Arts / Person Kurt Schumacher was a resistance fighter in the Red Orchestra . He was executed on December 22, 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee prison. AedW III, pp. 184, 214 and a.	discussed or mentioned: Multiple mentions, especially his farewell letter, in which he comforted himself, "the sculptor saw himself next to Riemenschneider, Veit Stoss and Jörg Ratgeb, who were all drawn into the people's wars with their art."
	Tilman Riemenschneider 1460–1531 sculptor	Fine arts / Person Riemenschneider is one of the most important carvers and sculptors at the transition from the late Gothic to the Renaissance . AedW III, p. 214	discussed or mentioned: The sculptor mentioned by Kurt Schumacher in his suicide note was arrested and tortured after his involvement in the peasant wars.
	Jerg Ratgeb 1480–1526 sculptor	Fine arts / person Ratgeb lost his rights as a citizen of the city of Heilbronn because of his marriage to a serf and moved to Stuttgart. As a member of the council, he negotiated with the rebellious peasants in 1525, from whom he was elected as councilor and chancellor. After the rebels were put down, he was charged with high treason and executed in Pforzheim in 1526. AedW III, p. 214	discussed or mentioned: Kurt Schumacher includes the sculptor in his farewell letter.
	Veit Stoss 1447–1533 sculptor	Fine arts / person Veit Stoss is considered one of the most important sculptors and carvers of the late Gothic period . AedW III, p. 214	discussed or mentioned: The sculptor mentioned by Kurt Schumacher in his suicide note was branded with red-hot iron on both cheeks after being charged with forgery of documents.
	Hilde Rubinstein 1904–1997 painter and poet	Fine arts / Person Hilde Rubinstein was imprisoned as a member of the KPD in 1933 , was able to emigrate via Belgium and the Netherlands in 1934 and came to Sweden in 1935. In 1936 and 1937 she lived in the Soviet Union, but was threatened with extradition to the German Reich because of Trotskyist activities. She fled back to Sweden via Poland and Latvia. She secured her livelihood with various temporary jobs, later she worked as a painter and writer. After the war she stayed in Gothenburg. AedW III, pp. 152, 252	discussed or mentioned: Mentioned alongside many other listed artists who had wandered the streets and were looking for opportunities for their artistic work in Swedish exile.

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literature

• Peter Weiss: The Aesthetics of Resistance. Frankfurt (Main) 1988, ISBN 3-518-11501-4 , Volumes I to III
• Alexander Honold, Ulrich Schreiber (Ed.): The world of images of Peter Weiss. Argument special volume new series Volume 227, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-88619-227-X

Web links

• Klaus Müller-Richter: Peter Weiss and the journey of images. On the research situation (PDF; 180 kB), accessed on May 16, 2010
• Michael Hofmann: Is there an "aesthetic of resistance" shaped by Hinduism? , accessed on May 16, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nana Badenberg: The "Aesthetics" and their works of art. An inventory ; in: Alexander Honold, Ulrich Schreiber (ed.): The world of images of Peter Weiss , Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-88619-227-X , p. 115
2. ↑ ^{a b} The page numbers refer to the Suhrkamp paperback edition (es 1501): Peter Weiss, Die Ästhetik des Resistance , Frankfurt (Main) 1988, ISBN 3-518-11501-4 , volumes I to III, which is paginated in volumes. In the following, this reference is abbreviated in footnotes with AedW and corresponding to volumes I to III.
3. ↑ AedW I, p. 79
4. ↑ AedW II, p. 57
5. ^ ^{A b} Nana Badenberg: Annotated Directory , p. 194
6. ^ Nana Badenberg: Annotated Directory , p. 167
7. ↑ AedW I, p. 184
8. ↑ ^{a b} AedW I, p. 347
9. ^ Nana Badenberg: Annotated Directory , p. 176
10. ^ Nana Badenberg: Annotated Directory , p. 183 ff.
11. ↑ AedW II, p. 35
12. ↑ AedW II, p. 38; Nana Badenberg: Annotated Directory , p. 220
13. ↑ AedW II, p. 55; Nana Badenberg: Annotated Directory , p. 166
14. ↑ AedW II, p. 173
15. ↑ AedW II, p. 144
16. ^ Nana Badenberg: Annotated Directory , p. 228
17. ^ Nana Badenberg: Annotated Directory , p. 229
18. ↑ ^{a b} AedW I, p. 281
19. ^ Nana Badenberg: Annotated Directory , p. 192
20. ^ ^{A b} Nana Badenberg: Annotated Directory , p. 223
21. ↑ AedW I, p. 233
22. ↑ AedW III, p. 214