Posted on 06/26/2006 11:04:21 AM PDT by Bokababe
Peter Handke has once again shocked the German public but this time in such a way that not even the most extreme do not dare criticize him for it. He has given up the alternative Heinrich Heine award that the actors and intellectuals of Berlin wished to bestow upon him in favor of the Serbs of Kosovo, who live "surrounded by barbed wire and tanks".
www.novosti.co.yu Vecernje Novosti daily, Belgrade
June 24, 2006 By D. Sekulic, June 23, 2006
Peter Handke has once again shocked the German public but this time in such a way that not even the most extreme do not dare criticize him for it. He has given up the alternative Heinrich Heine award that the actors and intellectuals of Berlin wished to bestow upon him in favor of the Serbs of Kosovo, who live "surrounded by barbed wire and tanks".
The Berlin Ensemble, headed by the also frequently controversial Klaus Peymann, the famous former head of the Vienna Burgtheater, recently organized donations with the help of numerous actors to award Handke an alternative Heinrich Heine award in the amount of 50,000 euros. The highly prestigious German language award was awarded to Peter Handke by an expert jury in Dusseldorf but the city council refused to accept its decision, stating quite literally that the award could not go to a writer who is of pro-Serb orientation!
The case provoked spirited discussion and many concluded that it represented an instance of brutal political censure of literature. Local politicians are judging one of the greatest living writers in the German language, warned eminent intellectuals, among them some, like Nobel laureate Gunther Grass who at one time advocated the bombing of Serbia.
At the same time Handke informed Peymann and his friends that he is renouncing the alternative award as well because, as he had previously stated, he did not wish his work to be the subject of meddling by local politicians. The money that they collect should be sent to the Serb enclaves in Kosovo and Metohija to people who are living under impossible conditions thanks to the supporters of "freedom" imposed upon them by NATO bombs.
Grass dismisses jury
In Dusseldorf it has now been openly admitted that the decision really was of a political nature and that the Heinrich Heine award allegedly has a clearly political character. In response to this, Grass, who is highly influential, has sent a request that in the future the city council be stripped of the right to approve or reject the decision of the expert jury.
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Disputed Author Handke Awarded German Literary Prize
DEUTSCE WELLE 25.05.2006
Großansict des Bildes mit der Bildunterscrift: Austrian writer Peter Handke is controversial because of his stance on Serbia
Controversial Austrian playwright and novelist Peter Handke was awarded the city of Düseldorf's Heine Prize for literature.
The Heine Prize, endowed for 50,000 euros ($64,000), is one of the three highest-paying literature prizes in Germany. The jury said Handke -- like Heinric Heine, the German poet after whom the prize is named -- obstinately follows the way to an "open truth." He puts forth his own poetic world view, in contrast to broader public opinion, they said. The prize will be awared on Dec. 13.
Handke wrote the groundbreaking experimental play "Offending the Audience" and the novel "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick", but may be best know for writing the novel "Wings of Desire", whic was turned into a film by Wim Wenders.
Pro-Serbian stance
He is controversial because of his pro-Serbian stance during the Balkan wars, and his support for the Serbian regime.
Recently, Frenc national theatre Comédie-Française removed the play "Voyage to the Sonorous Land or the Art of Asking" from its 2007 season lineup, after Handke spoke at the burial of former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic in Marc.
Handke, who lives in France, said in an esay in the Frenc newspaper Libération: "Let's stop laying the masacre . on the backs of the Serbian military and paramilitary. And listen -- at last -- to the survivors of the Muslim masacres in numerous Serbian villages around Srebrenica."
'Glad' aceptance
Last year, Handke's publisher, Suhrkamp Verlag, said the author would categorically refuse any more literature prizes; in Paris, however, Handke said he would "gladly" acept the Heine Prize.
Up to now, winners of the Heine Prize have included Walter Jens, Günter Kunert, Max Frisc, Wolf Biermann, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Elfriede Jelinek und Robert Gernhardt.
Now, Tuck your little tail between your legs and run like a mussie coward ALWAYS does!
The fact is that Ramadan was taken into account, while Serbian Easter was not. What does it tell you?
Like an infamous, infamous dicator once said... "how many divisions does the Pope have??"
Meaning, WHAT IS THAT POPE GOING TO DO TO STOP US....
NATO apparently felt the same way!
And you have won $5000 from Pavlov Psy-ops Wartime Propaganda machine!!!!!
Tomorrow's question: "Give us the single best reason why we should invade Cyprus and give it to our NATO ally Turkey!"
(Ding-ding-ding) Do I hear salivating yet?
While your claim is completely without basis, I'll point out that you are accusing US servicemen of participating in a war crime.
Worse than a liar, that makes you a traitor.
Did you know that German street cleaning equipment was used to clean up the "road pizza" mess of Serbs and their vehicles smashed and slaughtered on the way out?
German collusion with Croatia is well-established.
The training was done by the U.S. MPRI which was "retired" U.S. officers - many who "retired" temporarily to train the Croats and then official rejoined after that. It was only a formality.
US line officers do not retire temporarily.
But thanks for slandering the USA again.
Ah, yes - the monolithic, evil west. Quite the conspiracy theorist.
Abdic was the Serbian candidate in Bosnia, and he was not "swept aside", he withdrew in order to organize a unit that fought alongside the VRS.
He's currently serving time for the war crimes he committed while leading that unit against Izetbegovic's forces.
I'm not sure what kind of "moderate" executes 121 civilians.
Not at all. The thread is about an individual who supported Milosevic, met with him and was an honored speaker at his funeral.
Of course it is not possible in a prolonged civil war for any side to remain innocent.
Of course. That's obvious.
This provided propaganda cover for the two main crimes of this civil war
Yes, the media did spin against the Serbs. That's a far cry from establishing that NATO controls the media and instructed them to do so.
Incorrect. He committed to a position and he is now holding it to the bitter end. I point out again that he was a dedicated Stalinist and joined a Stalinist political party after Stalin was dead and after Khruschev declared deStalinization. Handke is a deadender.
Abdic is a Bosnian Muslim - both his first and last names are common Bosniak names. He wasn't Serb nor from Serbia.
The kind of "civilians" who were doing things like planting explosives and throwing grenades most likely.
If by "slammed" you mean insulted by morons like yourself, then you're absolutely right.
If you meant that my points have been refuted, they haven't. Handke is still a Communist and Milosevic's legacy as a war criminal and dictator is intact.
So sorry.
Now, Tuck your little tail between your legs and run like a mussie coward ALWAYS does!
Count your blessings that you didn't make that comment to my face. You are indeed living proof that luck is better than candlepower.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/05-10-99/why_kosovo.htmAdditionally, the Croatian military campaign received tactical support from NATO. As Croat forces began their attack, U.S. aircraft under NATO command destroyed Serbian radar and anti-aircraft defenses in the region. American EA-6B electronic warfare aircraft patrolled the skies in support of the unfolding offensive, jamming communications between Serb units. But there was also a covert American presence on the ground in support of the Croats. Military Professional Resources Incorporated (MPRI), a private military and intelligence consulting firm based in Virginia, had been hired by Tudjman in early 1995 to upgrade his Soviet-created Ministry of Defense into a modern fighting force. According to MPRI information officer Joseph Allred, the firm exists so that "the U.S. can have influence as part of its national strategy on other nations without employing its own army."
Thanks in large measure to training it received from MPRI, the "ex"-Communist Croatian military, which had previously been dismissed as bumbling and inept, performed its grisly mission in Krajina with unexpected efficiency and professionalism. By focusing primarily on civilian targets, the Croats minimized their casualties: Croatia admitted to suffering only 118 dead or wounded, as compared to an estimated 14,000 civilian casualties among the Serbs. An AP dispatch filed during the offensive reported that Croat forces shelled and strafed columns of Serb refugees.
Canadian General Alain Forand, who was assigned to UN "peacekeeping" duty in Krajina during Operation Storm, has testified, "There is no doubt in my mind that the Croats knew they were shelling civilian targets" in the city of Knin, which was where the Krajina Serb parliament was located. Colonel Andrew Leslie, another Canadian "peacekeeper," estimated that of the more than 3,000 shells fired at the city, no more than 250 hit military targets; accordingly, he concluded, "the fire was deliberately directed against civilian buildings." Leslie has also described seeing bodies of the dead at Knin Hospital "stacked in the corridors … in piles."
I never claimed he was a Serb. He is a Bosnian Muslim, but he was the candidate for the presidency favored by the Serbian electorate.
he was the candidate favored by Yugoslavia and he wound up fighting on the Serb side against Bosnian Muslims.
HA!! HA! LOL!!
Again you made my day!!
I MADE YOU MAD!!!
I am so happy now.... haha!!!
They kicked you good and now I get a HUGE laught at YOUR expense.
This too rich!!! THIS IS WONDERFUL!!!
You are soooooo angry, LOL!!
If I made those kind of assumptions about the Serbs killed by Oric and his thugs, you'de be screaming your head off. But without any specific knowledge, you make this assumption.
Interesting.
Let's see you post and pictures, autopsy results or evidence of the alleged civilians killed by Abdic.
Sorry, I don't consider cut-and-paste jobs from tinfoil-hatted Buchananite sites authoritative.
The croats of 1995-1998 got away with more war crimes just they did after WWII.
I guess TITO, that old Croat commie did not want his fellow CROATS to suffer TOO much, even if they had been BIG HITLER LOVING NAZIS IN WWII.
This Man seems to a leftist fighter against Jihad. Maybe he'll sway other leftists
Abdic's crimes are a matter of public record and he is serving time in prison for them right now.
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