The Aesthetics of Resistance is a three-volume novel by the German-born playwright, novelist, filmmaker, and painter Peter Weiss which was written over a ten-year period between 1971 and 1981. Spannin
First editions (German)
Théodore Géricault The Raft of the Medusa 1819. Weiss uses 30-pages of immersion in volume I to examine the material, method, and motivations behind the production of the painting
Eugène Delacroix: Die Dantebarke 1822. One of over 100 works of art mentioned in the book and at the same time a symbol of the influence of Dante's Divina Commedia
The Aesthetics of Resistance. An exhibition on Peter Weiss' novel. Galerie im Turm, Berlin (Friedrichshain), June/July 2014 (curators: Moira Zoitl and Julia Lazarus)
The Red Orchestra was the name given by the Abwehr Section III.F to anti-Nazi resistance workers in Germany in August 1941. It primarily referred to a loose network of resistance groups, connected thr
The Aesthetics of Resistance
…passages of world literature – a moment by moment description of the execution, by hanging or beheading, of almost all members of the resistance group "Red Orchestra" ("Rote Kapelle") in 1942 in Berlin's Plötzensee prison. All of the characters whose end Weiss describes here, indeed all of the characters who appear…
2010 sculpture by Achim Kühn [de], at Schulze-Boysen-Straße 12, in Lichtenberg, Berlin
Harro Schulze-Boysen; East Germany (1964)
Memorial stone for Arvid and Mildred Harnack at Friedhof Zehlendorf cemetery in Berlin-Zehlendorf, Onkel-Tom-Straße 30–33