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Sönke C., Weiss
Sönke C. Weiss is an internationally awarded photographer, writer, journalist, theatre director and filmmaker. He was born in Itzehoe, Germany, in 1967. His first novel, The Girl and the War, was published in 2006. Two years later he received his first Pulitzer Prize nomination for his stage play Butterflies of Uganda.
His artistic roots go back to his college years. He studied under and worked with Edward Albee (Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Robert Wilson (Einstein on the Beach) and José Quintero (Co-founder of the Circle in the Square Theatre) at the University of Houston and the Alley Theatre. He is holding a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in directing and playwrighting next to a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Mass Communications and a second BA in German Literature from Indiana University. His ongoing photo project, ALL THAT I CAN’T LEAVE BEHIND, a visual essay of documentary and artistic narratives, reflects the tradition of engaged reportage in Africa. Weiss’ work has been widely shown and published since the 1990s (www.soenkecweiss.com).
His artistic roots go back to his college years. He studied under and worked with Edward Albee (Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Robert Wilson (Einstein on the Beach) and José Quintero (Co-founder of the Circle in the Square Theatre) at the University of Houston and the Alley Theatre. He is holding a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in directing and playwrighting next to a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Mass Communications and a second BA in German Literature from Indiana University. His ongoing photo project, ALL THAT I CAN’T LEAVE BEHIND, a visual essay of documentary and artistic narratives, reflects the tradition of engaged reportage in Africa. Weiss’ work has been widely shown and published since the 1990s (www.soenkecweiss.com).
GUAYAKILLS
It’s always hot and humid in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil, and it’s in this metropolis full of crime that some murders take place, one after the other. They are all linked to a mysterious femme fatale, our heroine. What’s the purpose behind these murders? And why can’t our heroine let go of the past?Composed like a Jazz Age novel, a mixture of pulp and detective fiction, GUAYAkills is a classical revenge novel with a twist, an opus out of the ordinary, highly emotional and suspenseful, a great mystery novella that will take the reader on a journey in one of the most dangerous cities of Ecuador, trying to understand the deep motive of our nameless and charming heroine.