Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late

The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez

Griffen – On the Tracks of Peter Handke

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years

Days and Nights in Paris

Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us

The Malady of Death

Alice in the Cities

3 American LPs

Dichter Forum Graz

Deutscher Filmpreis

Bambi Awards

City of Angels

The Absence

Wings of Desire

Short Letter to the Long Goodbye

The Left-Handed Woman

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

Wrong Move

Kaspar

Chronik der laufenden Ereignisse

Offending the Audience

Peter Handke (German pronunciation: [ˈpeːtɐ ˈhantkə]; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century.
In the late 1960s, he earned his reputation as a member of the avant-garde with such plays as Offending the Audience (1966) in which actors analyze the nature of theatre and alternately insult the audience and praise its "performance", and Kaspar (1967). His novels, mostly ultra objective, deadpan accounts of characters in extreme states of mind, include The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1970) and The Left-Handed Woman (1976). Prompted by his mother's suicide in 1971, he reflected her life in the novella A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (1972).
A dominant theme of his works is the deadening effects and underlying irrationality of ordinary language, everyday reality, and rational order. Handke was a member of the Grazer Gruppe (an association of authors) and the Grazer Autorenversammlung, and co-founded the Verlag der Autoren publishing house in Frankfurt. He collaborated with director Wim Wenders, and wrote such screenplays as The Wrong Move and Wings of Desire.
In 1973, he won the Georg Büchner Prize, the most important literary prize for German-language literature. In 1999, as a protest against the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Handke returned the prize money to the German Academy for Language and Literature. Handke has drawn significant controversy for his public support of Serbian nationalism in the wake of the Yugoslav Wars.

Peter Handke