Talk:Peter Handke

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I added a bibliography for Handke. Wherever I couldn't find an existing English edition, I translated the titkes to the best of my ability. It seems I spent so long on tghe page that my login timed out. I'll add a list og English translations later. Asav 21:23, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Added a short biography, leaning heavily on the German Wikipedia. It is rather incomplete and should be expanded. The Works section is still a stub. Also needs weblinks. Asav 15:39, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

"On 18. March 2006, Handke spoke at the funeral of Slobodan Milošević in front of over 20.000 visitors." There were, actually, more than 80000 people gathered.

According to press reports, there were approx. 80,000 people present in Belgrade. But Handke spoke before an audience in Pozarevac, Milosevic's home town. That audience counted approx. 20,000, so the article seems to be correct on that point. Asav 14:14, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I have reverted the revision of the works section (which I originally compiled) to its former version. There is no point in lumping Handke's work into three categories (plays, novels and misc.), since Handke has a most ambiguous attitude towards literary genres, and most of his "Erzählungen" would normally be considered novels. Furthermore, the new (and erraneous) categorzation placed several of his books, which were marked as novels in the 'Other' category. Lastly, there was no reason to place a 'stub' marker in the section, since the list was complete at the time of revision. Asav 15:39, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Prize money

"In 2006 Handke was nominated for the Heinrich Heine Prize, but the prize money of 50,000 euros is subject to approval 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the council's major parties stated they would vote against awarding the prize to Handke, resulting in the prize being withdrawn]. [2]" -> Well, Handke spent Easter holidays in the Serbian enclave on Kosovo and Metohija (Velik Hoca, precisely) and he gave a gift to remaining Serbs. He stated that it was 50.000 euors that he got as a prize money for winning Heinrich Heine prize.

I'm litle confused here, cause this article says that he didn't receive prize money? Dragoljub Kojadinovic 20:51, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

He didn't receive it, but there was an initiative which collected the money. So he did get the 50 000 Euros, however not for winning the prize, but for the wise decision of Düsseldorf's council members not to award him. --84.152.59.199 22:40, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maturation

Has he mellowed? Is he still motivated by his adolescent feelings of rebelliousness?Lestrade (talk) 00:17, 25 February 2008 (UTC)Lestrade

Well, that depends on your perspective on time. His writings about the Balkan wars certainly were seen as rebellious. Asav (talk) 08:58, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Removed quote

There was a quote section consisting of one (newspaper article?) excerpt with a reference to someone called "Müller" without any further explanations. As it was, the quote was hanging in midair, and the reference link (pointing to the Frankfurter Rundschau web site was non-functional. Searching the FR site for the quote didn't result in anything either. Additionally, the quote related to a discussion with a Slovenian author about the Balkan conflict, which is covered in some depths in the preceding paragraphs. In short, I removed it. There are far more well-known Handke quotes; some of them some of them have even become part and parcel in German, such as "Die Angst des Torwarts beim Elfmeter". If there really is a need for a quote section, one should chose something representative for the author Handke. Asav (talk) 08:58, 29 May 2008 (UTC)