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Peter Handke

Born	(1942-12-06) 6 December 1942 (age 82) Griffen, Austria
Occupation	Novelist, Playwright
Nationality	Austrian
Notable works	The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Slow Homecoming

Peter Handke (Template:IPA-de; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright and political activist. His body of work has been awarded numerous literary prizes. His writings about the Yugoslav Wars and subsequent NATO bombing of Yugoslavia with criticism of the Western position and his speech at the funeral of Slobodan Milošević have caused controversy.

Life

Early life

Handke and his mother (a Carinthian Slovene whose suicide in 1971 is the subject of Handke's A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, a reflection on her life) lived in the Soviet-occupied Pankow district of Berlin from 1944 to 1948 before resettling in Griffen. According to some of his biographers, his stepfather Bruno's alcoholism and the limited cultural life of the small town contributed to Handke's antipathy to habit and restrictiveness.

In 1954 Handke was sent to the Catholic Marianum boys' boarding school at Tanzenberg Castle in Sankt Veit an der Glan, Carinthia. Here, he published his first writing in the school newspaper, Fackel. In 1959, he moved to Klagenfurt, where he went to high school, and in 1961, he commenced law studies at the University of Graz.

Career

While studying, Handke established himself as a writer, linking up with the Grazer Gruppe (the Graz Authors' Assembly), an association of young writers. The group published the literary digest manuskripte. Its members included Elfriede Jelinek and Barbara Frischmuth.

Handke abandoned his studies in 1965, after the German publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag accepted his novel Die Hornissen (The Hornets) for publication. He gained attention after an appearance at a meeting of avant-garde artists belonging to the Gruppe 47 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, where he presented his play Publikumsbeschimpfung (Offending the Audience). Handke became one of the co-founders of the publishing house Verlag der Autoren in 1969 and participated as a member of the group Grazer Autorenversammlung from 1973 to 1977.

Handke has written many scripts for films. He directed Die linkshändige Frau (The Left–Handed Woman), which was released in 1978. Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide's description of the film is that a woman demands that her husband leave and he complies. "Time passes... and the audience falls asleep." The film was nominated for the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978, and won the Gold Award for German Arthouse Cinema in 1980. Handke also won the 1975 German Film Award in Gold for his screenplay Falsche Bewegung. Since 1975 Handke has been a jury member of the European literary award Petrarca-Preis.

After leaving Graz, Handke lived in Düsseldorf, Berlin, Kronberg (all in Germany), in Paris, France, in the USA (1978 to 1979) and in Salzburg, Austria (1979 to 1988). Since 1991, he has lived in Chaville near Paris. Handke has two daughters, Amina, from his relationship with Libgart Schwarz, and another daughter with Sophie Semin.

Yugoslavia wars controversies

In 1996 his travelogue Eine winterliche Reise zu den Flüssen Donau, Save, Morawa und Drina oder Gerechtigkeit für Serbien (A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia) created considerable controversy, as Handke portrayed Serbia among the victims of the Yugoslav Wars. In the same essay, Handke also attacked Western media for misrepresenting the causes and consequences of the war. This controversy still rages. Former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milošević asked that Handke be summoned as witness for the defence before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, but the writer declined. He did, however, visit the tribunal as a spectator, and later published his observations in Die Tablas von Daimiel (The Tablas of Daimiel). In 1999, Salman Rushdie wrote that Handke "has astonished even his most fervent admirers by his current series of impassioned apologias for the genocidal regime of Slobodan Milosevic." He noted that Handke received the Order of the Serbian Knight from Milosevic for his propaganda services during a visit to Belgrade, and that his "previous idiocies include the suggestion that Sarajevo's Muslims regularly massacred themselves and then blamed the Serbs; and his denial of the genocide carried out by Serbs at Srebrenica."

Handke's position regarding the war in Yugoslavia has been challenged by the Slovenian writer and essayist Drago Jančar, and the two have engaged in a long polemic.

Returning the Büchner Prize

In 1999 Handke handed "back his Büchner Prize in protest against the bombing of Kosovo"; he was awarded the prize in 1973.

Speech at funeral of Slobodan Milošević

On 18 March 2006, in front of more than 20,000 mourners at the funeral of Slobodan Milošević in Pozarevac, Handke gave a speech in Serbian which sparked controversy in the West.

In fact, in a letter to the French Nouvel Observateur, he offered a translation of his speech: "The world, the so-called world, knows everything about Yugoslavia, Serbia. The world, the so-called world, knows everything about Slobodan Milošević. The so-called world knows the truth. This is why the so-called world is absent today, and not only today, and not only here. I don't know the truth. But I look. I listen. I feel. I remember. This is why I am here today, close to Yugoslavia, close to Serbia, close to Slobodan Milošević". (Handke has denied expressing "his happiness at being close to Milošević who defended his people".)

Ben Hutchinson said in 2011 that "Handke’s claim at Milosevic’s funeral that “this is not a day for strong words, but for weak words”, is of a piece with the disgust he expressed in his 1973 Büchner Prize speech at “the rationalizing violence of power”: he wants to change the world, but through literature, as he declared in his 1967 manifesto Ich bin ein Bewohner des Elfenbeinturms ("I am an Inhabitant of the Ivory Tower")".

City council withdrawing the Heinrich Heine Prize

In 2006 Handke was nominated for the Heinrich Heine Prize, but the prize money of €50,000 had to be approved by the city council of Düsseldorf. Members of the council's major parties stated they would vote against awarding the prize to Handke, resulting in the prize being withdrawn.

Conferment of the International Ibsen Award

In 2014, Handke was awarded the International Ibsen Award, which caused some calls for the jury to resign. The decision was condemned by PEN Norway. Bernt Hagtvet, an expert on totalitarianism, called the award an "unprecedented scandal," stating that "awarding Handke the Ibsen Prize is comparable to awarding the Immanuel Kant Prize to Goebbels." Several people protested against him when he arrived to receive the prize. On the other hand, Jon Fosse, former recipient of the prize, welcomed the decision, saying that Handke was a worthy recipient and deserved the Nobel Prize in Literature. In a 26 September 2014 Verdens Gang article Aage Borchgrevink said that Karl Ove Knausgård's defence of freedom of speech, slides on to become a laundering of Handke's role on the Balkans. Two days later Knausgård replied in the same newspaper "The claims about Handke that have been repeated and repeated in public in Norway during the last weeks, ought to be handled by a real court of justice, and not only in a people's court—such as the meetings of the Helsinki Committee, PEN Norway and Norwegian newspapers have become, in this matter. If Handke is convicted—in some nations (such as Switzerland), where there are laws against what Borchgrevink accuses Handke for, or in the Court of Human Rights or the International Criminal Court—then I will take seriously Borchgrevink's accusations, and also commit myself to not publishing Handke's books. If Borchgrevink does not follow through, then Borchgrevink's word and extremely rude and insinuating claims, mean nothing. Then his claims will be shameful for the Helsinki Committee, in the the same way that William Nygaard's statements were shameful for Norsk PEN".

Analysis of Handke

In 2011 Ben Hutchinson said that " Handke has been an outspoken critic of “Western” views on Serbia. Yet Herwig argues that Handke’s politics are a logical extension of his poetics: what drives him is not his pro-Serbian conviction per se, but rather his insistence on “another kind of language” to the party line propagated by the media. He is loyal not to Milosevic, argues Herwig, but to a language that is “not the journalistic orthodoxy”".

Awards

1973: Georg Büchner Prize
2002: America Award
2008: Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste
2009: Franz Kafka Prize
2012: Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis
2014: International Ibsen Award

List of works

1966 Die Hornissen, (The Hornets), novel
1966 Publikumsbeschimpfung und andere Sprechstücke, (Offending the Audience and Other Spoken Plays), play, English version in Offending the Audience and Self-accusation
1967 Begrüßung des Aufsichtsrates, (Welcoming the Supervisor), prose texts
1967 Der Hausierer, (The Peddler), novel
1967 Kaspar, (Kaspar), play, English version also in Kaspar and Other Plays
1969 Deutsche Gedichte, German Poems, poetry
1969 Die Innenwelt der Außenwelt der Innenwelt, (The Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld), text collages
1969 Prosa, Gedichte, Theaterstücke, Hörspiele, Aufsätze, (Prose, Poems, Plays, Radio Plays, Essays), collected texts
1969 Das Mündel will Vormund sein, The Ward Wants To Be Warden), play
1970 Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter, (The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick), novel and screenplay of 1972 film
1970 Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald von Ödön von Horvath, (Stories from the Wienerwald by Ödon von Horvath), re-narration
1970 Wind und Meer. Vier Hörspiele, (Wind and Sea. Four Radio Plays)
1971 Chronik der laufenden Ereignisse, (Chronicle of Current Events)
1971 Der Ritt über den Bodensee, (The Ride across Lake Constance), play
1972 Short Letter, Long Farewell (Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied), novel
1972 Ich bin ein Bewohner des Elfenbeinturms, (I Am a Resident of the Ivory Tower), essays
1972 Stücke 1, (Plays 1)
1972 Wunschloses Unglück, (A Sorrow Beyond Dreams. A Life Story), story
1973 Die Unvernünftigen sterben aus, (They Are Dying Out), play
1973 Stücke 2, (Plays 2)
1974 Als das Wünschen noch geholfen hat. Gedichte, Aufsätze, Texte, Fotos, (When Hope still Helped. Poems, Essays, Texts, Photos)
1975 Der Rand der Wörter. Erzählungen, Gedichte, Stücke, (The Words' Edge. Stories, Poems, Plays)
1975 Die Stunde der wahren Empfindung, (A Moment of True Feeling), story
1975 Falsche Bewegung, (Wrong Move), novel
1976 Die linkshändige Frau, (The Left-Handed Woman), film version 1977
1977 Das Ende des Flanierens. Gedichte, (Strolling Comes to an End. Poems)
1977 Das Gewicht der Welt. Ein Journal, (The Weight of the World.), texts
1979 "Langsame Heimkehr", ("The Long Way Round"), story. also in Slow Homecoming
1980 "Die Lehre der Sainte-Victoire", ("The Lesson of MountSainte-Victoire"), story, in Slow Homecoming
1981 Über die Dörfer, (Walk about the Villages), theatrical poem
1981 "Kindergeschichte", ("Child Story"), story, in Slow Homecoming
1982 Die Geschichte des Bleistifts, (History of the Pencil), texts
1983 Der Chinese des Schmerzes, (Across), story
1984 Phantasien der Wiederholung, (Phantasies of Repetition),
1986 Die Wiederholung, (Repetition)
1987 Der Himmel über Berlin, (Wings of Desire) with Wim Wenders, screenplay
1987 Die Abwesenheit. Ein Märchen, (Absence), film version directed by Handke 1992
1987 Gedichte, (Poems)
1987 Nachmittag eines Schriftstellers, (Afternoon of a Writer), story
1989 Das Spiel vom Fragen oder Die Reise zum sonoren Land, (Voyage to the Sonorous Land or the Art of Asking), play
1989 "Versuch über die Müdigkeit", ("Essay About Tiredness")
1990 Noch einmal für Thukydides, (Once Again for Thucydides)', texts
1990 "Versuch über die Jukebox", ("Essay About the Jukebox"), Engl. version in The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling.
1991 Abschied des Träumers vom Neunten Land, (The Dreamer's Farewell to the Ninth Country), texts
1991 "Versuch über den geglückten Tag. Ein Wintertagtraum", ("Essay about the Successful Day. A Winterday's Dream")
1992 Die Stunde, da wir nichts voneinander wußten, (The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other), wordless play
1992 Die Theaterstücke, (The Theatrical Plays)
1992 Drei Versuche. Versuch über die Müdigkeit. Versuch über die Jukebox. Versuch über den geglückten Tag, (Three Essays. Essay about Tiredness. Essay about the Jukebox. Essay about the Successful Day.)
1992 Langsam im Schatten. Gesammelte Verzettelungen 1980-1992, (Slowly in the Shade. Collected Dispersals 1980-1992), texts
1994 Die Kunst des Fragens, (The Art of Questioning), texts
1994 Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht. Ein Märchen aus den neuen Zeiten, (My Year in the No-Man's-Bay), novel
1996 Eine winterliche Reise zu den Flüssen Donau, Save, Morawa und Drina oder Gerechtigkeit für Serbien, (A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia), essay
1996 Sommerlicher Nachtrag zu einer winterlichen Reise, (A Summary Addendum to a Winter's Journey), essay
1997 Zurüstungen für die Unsterblichkeit. Königsdrama, (Preparations for Immortality. A Royal Drama), play
1997 In einer dunklen Nacht ging ich aus meinem stillen Haus, (On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House), story
1998 Am Felsfenster morgens. Und andere Ortszeiten 1982 - 1987, (At the Mountain Window in the Morning. And Other Local Times 1982 - 1987), texts
1998 Ein Wortland. Eine Reise durch Kärnten, Slowenien, Friaul, Istrien und Dalmatien, with Liesl Ponger, (A Land of Words. A Journey through Carinthia, Slovenia, Friaul, Istria and Dalmatia), essay
1999 Die Fahrt im Einbaum oder Das Stück zum Film vom Krieg, (Voyage by Dugout), play
1999 Lucie im Wald mit den Dingsda. Mit 11 Skizzen des Autors, (Lucie in the Forest with the Thingie.), texts
2000 Unter Tränen fragend. Nachträgliche Aufzeichnungen von zwei Jugoslawien-Durchquerungen im Krieg, März und April 1999, (Asking through the Tears. Belated Chronicle from two Crossings through Yugoslavia During the War, March and April 1999), texts
2002 Der Bildverlust oder Durch die Sierra de Gredos, (Crossing the Sierra de Gredos)*2002 Mündliches und Schriftliches. Zu Büchern, Bildern und Filmen 1992-2000, (Spoken and Written. About Books, Images and Films 1992-2000), essays
2002 Untertagblues. Ein Stationendrama, (Underground Blues. A Station Play)
2004 Don Juan (erzählt von ihm selbst), (Don Juan - His Own Version), novel
2005 Die Tablas von Daimiel, (The Tablas of Daimiel), essay
2005 Gestern unterwegs, (Travelling Yesterday), texts
2006 Spuren der Verirrten, play
2007 Kali. Eine Vorwintergeschichte, novel
2007 Die morawische Nacht, previously announced as Samara
2009 Die Kuckucke von Velica Hoca, intimate reportage of a Serbian enclave in Kosovo
2010 Immer noch Sturm (Still Storm), a play about the Slovenian uprising against Hitler in 1945, ISBN 978-3-518-42131-4; first performance: Salzburg Festival 2011
2011 Der große Fall, ISBN 978-3-518-42218-2
2012 Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez. Ein Sommerdialog, ISBN 978-3-518-42311-0

Films

Handke collaborated with director Wim Wenders on a film version of his novel Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick), wrote the script for Wenders' The Wrong Move, and co-wrote the screenplay for Wenders' Wings of Desire. He has also directed films, including from his own novels, The Left-Handed Woman and L'absence.

English editions

Many of Handke's works have been published in several English-speaking countries by different publishers. Only one edition of each work is listed.

1970 Kaspar and Other Plays, Hill and Wang, ISBN 0-8090-1546-3
1971 Offending the Audience/Self-accusation, Methuen Publishing Ltd, ISBN 0-416-19570-9
1972 The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-16376-6
1973 The Ride Across Lake Constance, Methuen Publishing Ltd, ISBN 0-413-29690-3
1974 Slow Homecoming, Collier Books, ISBN 0-02-051530-8
1974 Short Letter, Long Farewell, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-26318-3
1974 The Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld, A Continuum Book/The Seabury Press, ISBN 0-374-28745-7
1976 They Are Dying Out, Eyre Methuen, ISBN 0-413-33690-5
1976 Ride Across Lake Constance and Other Plays, Noonday Press, ISBN 0-374-51272-8
1976 Nonsense and Happiness, Urizen Books, ISBN 0-916354-20-2
1977 A Moment of True Feeling, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-17291-9
1978 The Left-Handed Woman, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-18497-6
1979 Two Novels by Peter Handke, Avon, ISBN 0-380-48033-6
1984 3 X Handke, Collier Books, ISBN 0-02-020761-1
1984 The Weight of the World, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-28745-7
1985 Three by Peter Handke, Avon, ISBN 0-380-00968-4
1986 Across, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-52764-4
1989 The Afternoon of a Writer, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-10207-4
1990 Absence, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-10022-5
1994 The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-18054-7
1996 Walk About the Villages : A Dramatic Poem, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 1-57241-000-0
1996 Voyage to the Sonorous Land : Or the Art of Asking and the Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-06273-7
1997 A Journey to the Rivers : Justice for Serbia, Viking, ISBN 0-670-87341-1
1998 Once Again for Thucydides, New Directions Publishing Corporation, ISBN 0-8112-1388-9
1998 My Year in the No-Man's-Bay , Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-17547-0
2000 On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-17547-0
2001 A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Pushkin Press, ISBN 15901285170
2002 A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, New York Review Books Classics, ISBN 1-59017-019-9
2003 Handke Plays, Methuen Publishing Ltd, ISBN 0-413-68090-8
2007 Crossing the Sierra de Gredos, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-28154-8
2009 Voyage by Dugout, Performing Arts Journal, May 2012
2009 Slow Homecoming, NYRB Classics, ISBN 978-1-59017-307-7
2010 Don Juan - His Own Version, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ISBN 978-0-374-14231-5
2013 Repetition, The Last Books, ISBN 978-94-91780-00-4
2014 Storm Still, Seagull Books, ISBN 978-0857421814

References

Øyvind Berg, Peter Handkes ultranasjonalisme, Ibsenprisen og fascismen, Vinduet, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag
"Peter Handke". Britannica.com.
"Peter Handke". Wim-wenders.com. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
"Peter Handke". IMDb.com. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
Salman Rushdie, "May 1999," in Step Across This Line, Random House, 2008
^ Peter Handke’s wilful controversies
"Sur l'"affaire Handke"".
May 31, 2006. "German Politicians to Block Prize for Milosevic Sympathizer". Retrieved 16 September 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Krever at juryen går av, Klassekampen
^ William Nygaard: - En lettelse om han sa fra seg prisen, Dagbladet, 19 September 2014
Raste mot Ibsenpris-vinner, NRK
"Raste mot Ibsenpris-vinner". nrk.no (in Norwegian). Norsk Rikskringkasting. 6 December, 2012. Retrieved 22 September, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
Kronikk: Knausgårds hvitvasking
Knausgård: Grove og insinuerende påstander - Å beskylde Peter Handke for revisjonisme, og assosiere det til Holocaust-benektelse, er så alvorlig og så graverende at det må få konsekvenser, skriver Karl Ove Knausgård. ]
Controversial writer wins €300,000 Ibsen award Irish Times. 21 March 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2014

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