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.
It's the "pancake-boy is on his knees helping the Muslims find their contact lenses" Outer Limits!
Such a good Dhimmi!
So you have no objection to Clinton's murder of over 2,000 Serb civilians which was part of his attack on the dictator, just support? He was only picking up where the Jihadists and the Ustashe left off. Thanks for straightening that out for the rest of us "dirty Untermensch."
Yes.
And who all spoke at Tito's funeral? Does that make them Communists?
Margaret Thatcher is a communist? Wow!
There is no question in my mind that we were always on the wrong side in the break-up of Yugoslavia.
Anyone notice how each of the republics "took turns" seceeding from Yugoslavia -- as it was all choreographed and planned from the very beginning? Never a "bolt and run" which would have been logical if their wartime propaganda was true. But that might make the world think that the Serbs had been "ganged up on" -- which they had been. First it was Germany's little proteges, Slovenia and Croatia. Then it was the Islamics, Bosnia and Kosovo. Finally, Montenegro, so that it will be easier to slice off more pieces of Serbia and Montenegro to please the Sandzak and Albanian Moslems when the time comes -- unfortunately the Montenegrins just don't see this strategy yet.
And what in the hell did any of this Balkan meddling do to promote US interests? Nothing! The only thing that we "accomplished" -- if you consider it "an accomplishment" -- was to bomb a group of people --the Serbs-- who have had 600 years of experience at fighting Islamic terrorism and who had always been our ally.
And now to make matters worse, unless we stop it, we are going to hand the last Christian Serbs in Kosovo over to the Albanian Moslems and give the Moslems "a country" that was never theirs and was always Serbian territory. There is no sense in this -- not for Serbs and not for America!
Kosovo is the basic blueprint for Atzlan. What the hell are we going to do when the UN steps in demanding that we hand California and Texas over to Vincente Fox on the same stupid basis?
Fortunately Mexicans are Catholics. They will not destroy the churches, they will build them.
I read his book, you did not.
Günther Grasse is a pompous buffoon in love with himself.
Helping the remaining Serbian survivors in Kosovo is a good gesture. God bless him!
Do you approve bombing Belgrade during Easter? Do you approve pogroms on Christians in Kosovo?
Too bad that Handke left the seminary. The next German Pope might have been named Peter!
You must understand that the Scumbags, Ceku, Ramush, etc...we are supporting. Much of the news and reports coming from the Balkans from Bosnia, and certainly Kosovo was absolutely fabricated. There is however, just enough truth to make the lies believeable. The Clinton Administation lied from the beginning to justify the war a hundred times more than people could ever think Bush did......The Balkans is a black mark in our history, equal to the Indian and the way our ancestors treated Blacks in the 19 century and early 20th century.
"Probably the only semi-decent thing Clinton did in his whole miserable life was attack this Communist dictator "
**** Clinton supported bring over Al Quida from Afghan to Bosnia and stirred up trouble......This caused the Serbs to react, heavily handed for sure, but they fell in the trap and was therefore demonized. The Klintoon Admin engineered many of the massacres and events to justify the bombing.....this is an old story.....
I have no doubt that we did just that. God Bless this man and may God save and protect the Serbian people.
Let's summarize.
False claim 1: Variations on the theme that "Milosevic was not a Communist dictator - he held elections, he opened the economy, etc."
Reality: Milosevic, as head of the Communist party, seized power in february 1988. He paid lip service to "reform" by holding elections in which his SPS Communists received 80.5% of the vote and the only other party of any size - the Communist JUL - received 10%. JUL was led, of course, by Milosevic's wife.
Some election.
And if awarding tons of state contracts and monopolies to regime supporters is "market economics" you guys need to go back to the drawing board.
Milosevic was a dictator and his party, the SPS, was and is an openly Marxist party.
False claim 2: "Handke is not a Communist. He met with Serbian Orthodox churchmen!"
reality: Handke was a founding member of Die Grzer Gruppe the writer's organization of the KPO - an openly Stalinist Austrian political party. Die Grazer Gruppe was founded in the winter of 1960/1961 - Handke was one of the first 10 or 20 people to join. As far as I'm concerned that makes him a founding member and any claim that he was not is simply semantics.
As far as people being "more liberal" in college than they are later: Handke was not a "liberal" in college. He was a Stalinist in college. And he remains a Communist along with his colleague Elfriede Jellinek.
Meeting with representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church means nothing - the Serbian Orthdox Church was the most notorious and disgustingly obsequious collaborator with Communism of any of the national churches.
False claim 3: "America's involvement in Serbia was illegal! It's wrong to bomb military targets on Easter! America murdered 2000 Serbs!"
Reality: Serbian troops - who themselves had no problem carrying out military operations on Easter and every other holiday in the Serbian Orthodox calendar, so quit whining about the US carrying out military operations on the same day - murdered easily hundreds and perhaps thousands of Kosovars including women and children. Srebrenica happened. It is ridiculous that I have to say it, but Srebrenica happened.
America's involvement was entirely legal - not only in terms of international law, but also by the only standard that really matters: the US Congress authorized the intervention.
Case closed.
America "murdered" no one in Serbia. If Milosevic had ceased his criminal activity, it would not have been necessary to intervene. All the blood is on your hero's hands.
False claim 4: "Since Clinton opposed Milosevic, he must have been a decent guy."
Reality: The GOP opposed Milosevic just as Clinton did. Every decent person in the world opposed Milosevic, and so did indecent opportunists like Clinton.
Who supported Milosevic? A who's who of scummy anti-American filth: Edward Herman, Noam Chomsky, Diana Johnstone, harold Pinter, Saddam Hussein's attorney Ramsay Clark, George Galloway, etc.
As for the claims that Clinton conspired with Al-Qaeda in Albania in order to create incidents hoping that Milosevic would react and enable Clinton to attack him - this belongs in the realm of lunatic conspiracy theory and should be debated on Counterpunch, not FR.
Reality: EVERYBODY living in that part of the world in the 50s, 60s, and 70s was a communist; the alternative was being a corpse. By the early 90s, Milosevic had grown out of it.
Just give it a try, please.
"Srebrenica happened. It is ridiculous that I have to say it, but Srebrenica happened.
America's involvement was entirely legal - not only in terms of international law, but also by the only standard that really matters: the US Congress authorized the intervention."
****With most of the posts I either agree or I didn't make claim to it anyway, except for these two, here.
Americans involvement was authorized, yes; but based on enormous fabrications based on partial truths to make them seem all true. There were no 10,000 Kosovo ALb murdered by an stretch. Srebrenica happened, yes....but no where near 8,000 as reported. Most of them departed, and only about a max of 3,000 were actually killed. This is what you do to insurgents, is you fight them. We're rightfully doing it in Afghanistan and Iraq, and very well. We have more to kill also. This is the true story, as Rajak was also a fabrication mostly designed by the KLA.... Did you know that in the 80's, Milosevic came to the U.S. to study as a Banker. As a matter of history, he was approached by CIA and long story short turned into a politician, with the support for his return to Serbia to become a presidential candidate. However, he became a nationalist, turned his back on the U.S., and we lost him. Clinton, in his infinite wisdom and to fulfill the strategy we started in 1948, to break up Yugoslavia; went to our Afganistan "allies against Russia", and brought them to Bosnia to do what they do best. Stir up trouble, an insurgency, and thus the Serbs fell into this trap. Oh yes, they came across heavy handed, no questioning that......but, a lot was instigation and their thoughtless response to the threat. It was Muzzies from Afghanistan joining with Bosnian Muzzies with our blessings....There are several bonified video tapes that actually show the Muh with Holbrooke, NATO repts etc...in Bosnia. It's on tape...........It's a captured tape that is actually quite common now among those who have been researching this even closely. Case closed.
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