Philipp Weiss (born 5 February 1982 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer and playwright. In September 2018, he published his critically acclaimed debut novel, Am Weltenrand sitzen die Menschen und lachen .
Philipp Weiss (born 5 February 1982 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer and playwright. In September 2018, he published his critically acclaimed debut novel, Am Weltenrand sitzen die Menschen und lachen .
Weiss was born in Vienna in 1982. He studied German philology, philosophy and German as a foreign language at the University of Vienna. As a master's thesis, he wrote a deconstructivist essay on Peter Handke's A Sorrow Beyond Dreams with Wolfgang Müller-Funk. [1] After graduation, in 2008, he taught at the Baku State University in Azerbaijan. He currently lives and works in Vienna. [2]
His theatrical text Egon was published by Passagen Verlag in 2008 and was presented in the form of a scenic reading and performance at the Leopold Museum in Vienna. Weiss took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2009 with his text Blätterliebe. In 2010, his play Seifenblasenoper. Eine Kritik der runden Vernunft was presented at the Burgtheater Vienna. In 2011 he won the Hans Gratzer grant with his play Allerwelt, with a world premiere at the Schauspielhaus in Vienna, where he was the in-house author in the 2013/14 season. [2]
In January 2013 his story Tartaglia appeared in the Edition Atelier in Vienna. [3] From December 2013 to spring 2014, Projekttheater Vorarlberg put on a production of Weiss's Ein schöner Hase ist meistens der Einzellne , a play based on the real-life story of poet Ernst Herbeck (1920–1991) and artist August Walla (1936–2001), long-term schizophrenic artistic patients of the Gugging Mental Hospital near Vienna. [4]
In September 2018, Weiss published his critically acclaimed debut novel Am Weltenrand sitzen die Menschen at Suhrkamp Verlag (Berlin). The 1,056 pages were published as five volumes in a slipcase, but are a coherent novel. [5] The novel won the 2018 Literaturpreis der Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung [6] and Klaus-Michael Kühne-Preis [7] and 2019 Rauris Literature Prize awards. [8] In October 2019, his play Der letzte Mensch (The Last Man) premiered at Nestroyhof Hamakom, which deals with the future of mankind in various scenarios. [9]
Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century.
Christiane Hörbiger was an Austrian stage, film, and television actress. Her first major film role was Mary Vetsera in Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe in 1955. She appeared on the stage of the Burgtheater as Recha in Lessing's Nathan der Weise in 1959, became a member of Theater Heidelberg and later Schauspielhaus Zürich. From 1969 to 1972, she portrayed Die Buhlschaft in Hofmannsthal's Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival.
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