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.
Really? So when Mussolini invaded Albania in April 1939 he was just kidding?
And when Mussolini and his Fascists seized the Croatian coast by force in March 1924, that was just Mussolini showing his support for Croatians by shooting them and jailing them?
You are wrong for he was in Bosnia and he did witness the results of a Muslim Green Beret attack on a Serbian school in a UN controlled zone: the Muslims cut off the children's heads and put them on desks. That's how the Serbian parents found them.
That doesn't exonerate Milosevic of his crimes, nor does it provide a shred of evidence that US citizens flew arms from Iran to Croatia..
Yes, I was there every bit as much as you were - which is to say that I was not there at all.
You know, I've never been to Auschwitz - so I guess I'm really just guessing when I say that myriads of Jews were murdered there.
Interesting rule: unless one is physically present to witness an historical event, it didn't happen. Brilliant argument
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I'd have and post up photos but I'm in Iraq now continuing to fight islamic hordes you are defending. The smae ones that were in BiH as early as 1991.
That is right, you were not there. I was at Srebrenica, M.Potocari, Skelani and Milici region. What you fail to realize is what was hidden from you by the Clinton Administration and the media.
Do you realize the Serb Army offered an amnesty pass for ALL muslims that include the men of military age to get on the bus with full UN Escort to Tuzla? There, a split formed within the muslim army of those who wanted to leave v. those who wanted to stay.
Oric muslims were ordered to create the scene of violence and death to pin the blame on the Serbs (it actually worked). The infighting between the two created the bulk/majority of the casualties. The Serb Army, Mladic Garde and the other Drina Corps Serbs moved in to easily retake the town.
Know anything about the terrain of Srebrenica? Not very good for much fighting like the other areas. All slopes and very high degree climbs/descents. Tanks/tracked vehicles were negated due to that.
you know, i'd like to further comment more..but........... you don't know cr@p of what happened and you are easily swayed by your own weakmind.
Yeah. It's probably a good thing in the long run. Those little kids probably would have grown up to be socialists anyway.
Prove it. Give us a link and tell us how many didn't make it.
Can you give us the names of small children killed - any?
How many women and children do you claim were killed?
Tuzla was flooded with 10s of thousands of bused refugees after the fall and the numbers of women and children appear to be equal to the numbers there before the fall. Remember that the UN had told them to go to Potocari days before the Serbs arrived - and the UN even warned them about going back to their homes. They were all set to leave, and the UN had arranged it like that.
Plus when the men arrived, on foot about a week later, the Bosnian government kept the Red Cross from recording their names. Some of these men were in other fights during the last few months of war in Bosnia. They left their strong defenses all around Srebrenica to sneak out, and their leadership, including commander Naser Oric, left weeks before the fall.
In otherwords, preparations were being made to leave and desert Srebrenica by the Muslim leadership at least weeks before and by the UN about one week before the Serbs arrived.
It was set up.
Thank you for your service.
As for your analysis . . . blah, blah, blah - criticizing Milosevic equals defending Islam? Not much logic there.
Do you realize the Serb Army offered an amnesty pass for ALL muslims that include the men of military age to get on the bus with full UN Escort to Tuzla?
I'm sure the Serb Army would say anything that would reflect upon them favorably. Their main objective at the time was to gain as much territory as possible, of course.
There, a split formed within the muslim army of those who wanted to leave v. those who wanted to stay.
I'm sure a split did form. Various observers claim that at least half the men in Srebrenica fled on foot toward Tuzla.
Oric muslims were ordered to create the scene of violence and death to pin the blame on the Serbs (it actually worked).
Who gave this order? Which Muslims volunteered to die in order to make this whole ruse look convincing?
Not very good for much fighting like the other areas. All slopes and very high degree climbs/descents.
Bad for tanks, but decent for artillery emplacements on adjoining rises.
you know, i'd like to further comment more..but........... you don't know cr@p of what happened and you are easily swayed by your own weakmind.
Please clarify: are you saying that you were actually present in Srebrenica and/or surrounding communities at some point during July 6-22 1995?
LOL!!!
Can you give us the names of the American pilots who flew arms from iran to Croatia?
That's hardly surprising - Srebrenica was surrounded on all sides by Serbian-controlled territory. No non-Serbian force could hold out there for too long without resupply.
The UN more or less declared the area a Safe Area in order to hold off the Serb forces to evacuate the city in an orderly fashion.
You are not going to get any kind of feedback based on reality from this brainwashed bozo. Expect a rehash of Weasely and Mad Maddie comments...and their muslim butcher allies.
Another Milosevic supporter weighs in. Thanks.
Another Milosevic fan. Excellent. My condolences on the loss of your hero.
Well said Juanita Broderick is the real story behind Kosovo "liberation" (newspeak for "ethnic cleansing of Serbs and keeping the Saudi oil flowing").
I am? How so? Now you're making stuff up, why?
The Muslims had a large, battled-hardened army up to the day before the fall, and held the advantage of being in a defensive position and the terrain, yet most all of them MARCHED OUT WITHOUT FIGHTING.
This is the quote from one of the men who says they were ordered to leave their strong defenses all around. I seriously doubt the smaller Serb force coming could have entered Srebrenica if the Muslim army seriously tried to defend it. That's why I think it was a set up - the Serbs were allowed to take Srebrenica, probably as a way to wrap up the war and make a neater separation of the factions at the time.
After the Fall: Srebrenica Survivors in St. LouisP. 120 “Srebrenica Survivors in St. Louis: After the Fall” text and interviews by Patrick McCarthy:
Srebrenica’s fall was very sudden. We were in our village when the attack began. There were strong points, strong defenses all around. My brother was with me. My mother, wife, and child were together and they went to Potocari.
Around 7:30 in the evening, we got the news that women and children should go in one direction and that men should go in another direction because of the possibility of attack.
The order came from the brigade commander in Srebrenica and the people followed that direction.
It was really hard. My wife took our child and left. I stayed behind at our house and waited for others who were leaving, so that we could go together.
About 11:15 p.m., the men started to get together and we went to a nearby village where the men were also gathering. I was with my family, friends, and neighbors. At one point, there were, I think, something like eighteen thousand men together in that one place.
They told us it would be difficult to walk from the place where we had gathered, to walk to Tuzla, because it was hard to organize eighteen thousand people into one row so that they would go one after another.
People started leaving about 1:00 a.m. It wasn’t our time to go until about 6:00 a.m. Those ahead of us were moving for five hours and we still didn’t leave until 6:00 a.m. – my brother and the others I was with.
We crossed the Serb line and it immediately became more difficult because we were in their territory. There was one huge group of people walking in front of us, marking the way to go. Of course, after eighteen thousand people go, there is a mark of the way, there was a trail of the way out.
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I arrived in Tuzla on the seventh day.
You are defending the mujas as your proof shows it.
Izetbegovic and Oric ordered his his men to stay as they knew the circumstances. Cross line forays and entering Serbian villages with the purpose of killing, only will bring vengeance brought back onto the perps. Alas too, they did also make a raid across the Drina into Serbian Proper, an international incident that should have brought a military response from the Serbian Army but restraint was shown.
You lost me and probably others when you mention the 'Serbs will say anything'.
You have become a hopeless cause that upon completion of your college freshman year and reach the age of twenty, maybe you will begin seeing how the world of politics actually functions.
Uh, when people DIE, it is noted by relatives and the bodies have to be buried.
The names of the pilots would be known to the Pentagon, and there's no way for the public to know any information from them which they don't release.
However, when you make an accusation of murder, it should require a body and identification and some autopsy proof of how they died.
There's been an extreme amount of attention on Srebrenica, so it should be available and known the names of any children who died - or at least the number of them.
(2) No one denies that the Muslim forces in Srebrenica were battle-hardened or that the town was physically well-defended.
That's not the point.
When you are surrounded on all sides by Serbian territory, making it impossible to resupply, and the UN says "we will help you evacuate, but we will not help you fight", you evacuate.
So wideawake is actually a Muslim propagandist, who assumes the rest of the FReepers are fast asleep?
Makes perfect sense! "Case Closed"! LOL!
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