Peter Handke

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Austrian Peter Handke, the creative successor to Franz Kafka and Henrik Ibsen. His works excite the consciousness of a politically savvy public, and among his colleagues they cause an angry shiver. And all because once Peter Handke was not afraid to voice a subjective opinion that was at variance with the generally accepted one.

In 1942, the mother of Peter Handke, Slovenian Maria Sivets, met the German banker Erich Schönemann. Their fleeting romance led to pregnancy. Before the child was born, Maria married a Wehrmacht soldier Adolf Bruno Handke. Peter found out about his real father only at school.

The writer was born on December 6, 1942 in Griffen, in Hitler's Germany (now it is the territory of Austria). The war almost did not touch the Handke family, only at the end of the war indigenous Slovenes were deported to concentration camps.

In 1948, Handke - Peter's parents, himself and his younger sister Monica - returned to Griffen. Life in their hometown turned out to be difficult: the children worked in the fields, went to church, learned to slaughter cattle. Those years Peter Handke described in his debut novel "Hornets" (1966).

In 1954, after graduating from school, Handke entered the Tanzenberg Catholic Gymnasium. Here, in his free time from studying languages, he began to write books.

From the very first steps in literature, Peter Handke was known as a rebel. At the meeting of the "Group 47", which brought together German-speaking authors, he accused the luminaries of "impotence of description" and outlined his views on contemporary art. Some of them were reflected in the play "Insulting the Public" (1966). At first, colleagues laughed at the newcomer, but after the success of the play snapped it up for quotes.

The language of Peter Handke cut the minds of the public like a knife. At the same time, the playwright received the most prestigious awards - the Schiller Prize, the Georg Buchner Prize, and the Franz Kafka Prize. The crowning achievement was the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for influential work that explored the periphery and specificity of human experience through linguistic ingenuity."

Interestingly, in 2014, Peter Handke proposed canceling the Nobel Prize for Literature. The reasoning is that it is awarded to just about anyone (not the most flattering remark for Patrick Modiano, laureate of that year).

Literary connoisseurs believe that Peter Handke would have received the Nobel Prize earlier, if not for his political views. In the 1990s, the writer defended Slobodan Milosevic, the ex-president of Serbia, who was blamed for the collapse of Yugoslavia and bloody wars. He said that the inhabitants of Sarajevo "are killing themselves, and they blame the Serbs."

For these statements in 1999, Handke took 2nd place in the nomination "International Idiot of the Year" according to The Guardian journalist Salman Rushidi. However, having become a Nobel laureate, Handke stressed that he adheres to the previous position in relation to Milosevic.

In the bibliography of Peter Handke, there are more than a dozen works - these are large novels and short stories, plays and poems, essays and compositions. Many of them were filmed: "Left-handed woman", "Goalkeeper's fear of a penalty" and others. Films based on the books of the Austrian are most often directed by Wim Wenders, his good friend.

For the first time, the hardships of family life, Peter Handke came to know the actress Liebgart Schwartz, whom he married in 1967. On April 20, 1969, their daughter Amina was born. Fatherhood disappointed the playwright: in Children's Story (1981), Handke calls the child "the collapse of creative inspiration."

In the 1970s, the marriage between Handke and Schwartz began to fall apart, but the couple divorced only in 1994. This was demanded by the writer's personal life, which once again flourished in a magnificent color.

Handke's second wife was also actress Sophie Semyon, a Frenchwoman. On August 24, 1991, their daughter Leokadia was born, and in the fall of 1995, the couple got married. The couple are still together.

After receiving the Nobel Prize, the biography of Peter Handke did not change course: his character did not soften, and his views were less categorical. Probably, from the height of a new achievement, he will continue to promote innovative ideas.

The only thing that has changed is that the community has grown to hate Peter Handke more. In October 2019, a number of politicians posted a photograph of the writer with unflattering comments on their social networks. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama wrote:

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci noted that the announcement of the laureate "brought great pain to countless victims."

"To be a man, a person needs space and abandonment." "Adults know how to hide their despair in different ways, but in a child it is always on the face, and it is unbearable to see this hopelessness." "One night, returning home, he stands in a deafeningly quiet apartment, leaning against the wall, and begins to understand those people who fall dead from loneliness alone." “I would like to live with animals for a while. They don't sweat or whine about how hard life is. "

1966 - "Hornets" 1970 - "Goalkeeper's Fear of a Penalty" 1976 - "Left-handed Woman" 1979 - "Slow Return Home" 1980 - "Teachings of Mount Saint-Victoire" 1981 - "Children's Story" 1987 - "Absence" 1989 - " A Game of Questions, or a Journey to Resounding Lands "1997 -" One dark night I left my silent house "2004 -" Don Juan "

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