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. In January 2013 his story
Tartaglia appeared in the
Edition Atelier in Vienna. 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. 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. The novel won the 2018 and and 2019
Rauris Literature Prize awards. In October 2019, his play
Der letzte Mensch (
The Last Man) premiered at Hamakom, which deals with the future of mankind in various scenarios. ==Works==