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| Born | (1942-12-06) 6 December 1942 (age 82) Griffen, Austria |
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Peter Handke (Template:IPA-de; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, film director and writer of screenplays and poet. In the late 1960s, he was recognized for thought-provoking works such as the play Publikumsbeschimpfung (Offending the Audience) and the novel Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick). Prompted by his mother's suicide in 1971, he reflected her life in the novel Wunschloses Unglück (A Sorrow Beyond Dreams).
Handke was a member of the Grazer Gruppe, an association of authors, of the Grazer Autorenversammlung, and co-founded the publishing house Verlag der Autoren in Frankfurt. In collaboration with director Wim Wenders, he wrote screenplays such as Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire). Handke, whose maternal grandfather was Serbian, had political positions about the Yugoslav Wars, critical of the Western position, which caused controversy, also his speech at the funeral of Slobodan Milošević, which was described as an apology of far-right Serbian nationalism.
Handke received many awards, from the 1973 Georg Büchner Prize to the 2018 Austrian Nestroy-Theaterpreis for his complete work. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019.
Life
Early life and family
Handke was born in Griffen in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the son of Erich Schönemann, a bank clerk and German soldier who was married before he met Handke's mother who made a living by helping in households. His mother was a Carinthian Slovene whose father was a farmer from Slovenia. She married Bruno Handke, a tram conductor and Wehrmacht soldier from Berlin, before Peter was born. The family lived in the Soviet-occupied Pankow district of Berlin from 1944 to 1948 where Peter's half-sister Monika was born in 1947. Then the family moved to the maternal family in Griffen. Peter experienced his stepfather as more and more violent due to alcoholism.
In 1954, Handke was sent to the Catholic Marianum boys' boarding school at Tanzenberg Castle in Sankt Veit an der Glan. There, he published his first writing in the school newspaper, Fackel. In 1959, he moved to Klagenfurt, where he went to high school, and commenced law studies at the University of Graz in 1961.
Handke's mother took her own life in 1971, reflected in his novel Wunschloses Unglück (A Sorrow Beyond Dreams).
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 a magazine on literature, manuskripte [de] which published Handke's early works. Group members included Wolfgang Bauer and Barbara Frischmuth.
Handke abandoned his studies in 1965, after the German publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag accepted his novel Die Hornissen [de] (The Hornets) for publication. He gained international attention after an appearance at a meeting of avant-garde artists belonging to the Gruppe 47 in Princeton, New Jersey in 1966. The same year, his play Publikumsbeschimpfung (Offending the Audience) premiered at the Schauspiel Frankfurt, directed by Claus Peymann, and caused a sensation. Handke became one of the co-founders of the publishing house Verlag der Autoren [de] in 1969, with a new economical concept as it belonged to the authors. He co-founded the Grazer Autorenversammlung in 1973, and was a member until 1977.
Handke has written several 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 for Falsche Bewegung (The Wrong Move). He collaborated with director Wim Wenders writing the screenplay for the 1987 film Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire), including the poem at its opening. Since 1975, Handke has been a jury member of the European literary award Petrarca-Preis.
In 1996, Handke's travelogue Eine winterliche Reise zu den Flüssen Donau, Save, Morawa und Drina oder Gerechtigkeit für Serbien (published in English as A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia) created 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. On 18 March 2006, in front of more than 20,000 mourners at Milošević's funeral, Handke gave a speech in Serbian which was controversial in the West. When Handke was awarded the International Ibsen Award in 2014 it caused some calls for the jury to resign, as Handke was widely described by critics in Norwegian media as a fascist with ties to war criminals.
After leaving Graz, Handke lived in Düsseldorf, Berlin, Kronberg, in Paris, the U.S. (1978 to 1979) and in Salzburg (1979 to 1988). Since 1990, he has lived in Chaville near Paris. He is the subject of the documentary film Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late (2016), directed by Corinna Belz.
Awards
Handke received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019. The jury cited "an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."
- 1973: Georg Büchner Prize
- 1987: Vilenica International Literary Prize
- 2000: Brothers Karić Award
- 2002: America Award
- 2002: Honorary doctor, University of Klagenfurt
- 2003: Honorary doctor, University of Salzburg
- 2008: Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste
- 2009: Franz Kafka Prize
- 2012: Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis
- 2014: International Ibsen Award
- 2018: Nestroy-Theaterpreis [de] for his complete work [de]
- 2019: Nobel Prize in Literature
Work
Handke's first play, Publikumsbeschimpfung (Offending the Audience), which premiered in Frankfurt in 1966 and made him known, was the first of several experimental plays without a conventional plot. In his second play, Kaspar, he treated the story of Kaspar Hauser as "an allegory of conformist social pressures".
Publications
Main article: Peter Handke bibliographyHandke published novels, plays, screenplays, essays and poems, often published by Suhrkamp. Many works were translated to English. His works are held by the German National Library, including:
- 1966 Die Hornissen [de] (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 Kaspar, play, English version also in Kaspar and Other Plays
- 1970 Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick), novel and screenplay of the 1972 film The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty
- 1972 Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied (Short Letter, Long Farewell), novel
- 1972 Wunschloses Unglück (A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story), semi-autographical story
- 1973 Die Unvernünftigen sterben aus [de], play
- 1975 Die Stunde der wahren Empfindung, (A Moment of True Feeling), novel
- 1977 Die linkshändige Frau (The Left-Handed Woman), screenplay after his 1976 novel
- 1979 Langsame Heimkehr (The Long Way Round), begin of a tetralogy of stories, including Die Lehre der Sainte-Victoire (1980) Über die Dörfer and Kindergeschichte [de] (1981)
- 1983 Der Chinese des Schmerzes [de], story
- 1986 Die Wiederholung (Repetition), novel
- 1987 Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire), screenplay with Wim Wenders
- 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
- 2008 Die morawische Nacht (The Moravian Night)
- 2010 Immer noch Sturm (Storm Still), a play about the Slovenian uprising against Hitler in 1945, ISBN 978-3-518-42131-4; first performance: Salzburg Festival 2011
Films
Handke collaborated with director Wim Wenders on a film version of Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter, wrote the script for Falsche Bewegung (The Wrong Move) and co-wrote the screenplay for Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire) and Les Beaux Jours d'Aranjuez (The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez). He also directed films, including adaptations from his novels, The Left-Handed Woman after Die linkshändige Frau, and The Absence, after Die Abwesenheit.
References
- ^ Marshall, Alex; Alter, Alexandra (10 October 2019). "Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke Awarded Nobel Prizes in Literature". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ "Peter Handke". Britannica.com.
- ^ "Peter Handke / österreichischer Schriftsteller". munzinger.de (in German). Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- Curwen, Thomas (5 January 2003). "Choosing against life". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Wenders, Wim. "Peter Handke". wim-wenders.com. Archived from the original on 25 August 2010. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- Wakounig, Marija (2018). East Central Europe at a Glance: People - Cultures - Developments. Munster, Germany: LIT Verlag. p. 302. ISBN 9783643910462. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ "Peter Handke / österreichischer Schriftsteller". suhrkamp.de (in German). Suhrkamp Verlag. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Hutchinson, Ben (23 August 2011). "Peter Handke's wilful controversies". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- Martin Lüdke: 50 Jahre "Verlag der Autoren" / Mit Enthusiasmus gegründet Deutschlandfunk, 11 March 2019
- 40 Jahre Grazer Autorenversammlung ORF 15 June 2013
- "Petrarca Preis". www.petrarca-preis.de (in German). Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- Sage, Adam (29 July 2006). "Theatre boss's dismissal splits artistic community". The Times. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017.
- Krever at juryen går av, Klassekampen
- - Demoniseres på grunn av manglende kunnskap in Dagbladet
- Messie und Messias / Wie wohnt eigentlich der Schriftsteller Peter Handke? Ein Hausbesuch. Süddeutsche Zeitung 8 October 2011
- "Peter Handke – Bin im Wald. Kann sein, dass ich mich verspäte..." Filmportal.de (in German). Retrieved 14 May 2017.
- "Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung - Awards - Georg-Büchner-Preis - Peter Handke". www.deutscheakademie.de. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- "Kaj imata letošnja Nobelova nagrajenca za književnost s Slovenijo?". Mladina.si.
- "Award Laureates in 2000". www.karicawards.com. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- "Green Integer Books - America Awards". www.greeninteger.com. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- Handke wird Ehrendoktor der Universität Klagenfurt Wiener Zeitung. 5 Nov 2002. Retrieved 10 Oct 2019
- Peter Handke ist bald zweifacher Ehrendoktor Der Standard. 13 June 2003. Retrieved 10 Oct 2019
- Künste, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen. "Thomas-Mann-Preis der Hansestadt Lübeck und der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste". Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste (in German). Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- "Společnost Franze Kafky - Cena Franze Kafky". www.franzkafka-soc.cz. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- "Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis an Peter Handke - derStandard.at". Der Standard (in German). 8 June 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- Controversial writer wins €300,000 Ibsen award Irish Times. 21 March 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2014
- Peter Handke Archived 2014-10-17 at the Wayback Machine, The International Ibsen Award
- Peter Handke erhält Nestroy für sein Lebenswerk Die Presse. 10 October 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2018
- "Peter Handke". Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek (in German). German National Library. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
External links
- Literature by and about Peter Handke in the German National Library catalogue
- Peter Handke (geb. 1942) / Schriftsteller Literaturarchiv der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek
- Peter Handke / Schriftsteller, Dramatiker, Romancier, Lyriker, Essayist, Übersetzer, Drehbuchautor, Regisseur, Zeichner, Nobelpreisträger / Geboren: 1942, Griffen Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
- Peter Handke Library of the Free University of Berlin
- Peter Handke, Song of childhood
- Peter Handke at IMDb
- "A son's long good-bye", Svenska Dagbladet, Karl-Erik Tallmo, 23 September 1988
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