Peter Handke

Austrian writer, playwright and film director (born 1942)

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Peter Handke is an Austrian writer, playwright, and film director born in 1942 who has become one of the most influential literary figures of his time. His innovative works across multiple genres have shaped contemporary literature and theater, making him a significant voice in European culture.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 6 December 1942
Works: 344

Top works

Zurüstungen für die Unsterblichkeit
Wunschloses Unglück
Versuch über die Jukebox
PREGUNTANDO ENTRE LAGRIMAS
Bis dass der Tag euch scheidet

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Austria
Active from: 1942-12-06

Discography

Bienvenue au conseil d’administration1981

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 143
Total plays: 2,187

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 85,127x
A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,255x
QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,753x
RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,888x
<i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,329x

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Quotes

“Ich hörte auf, oberflächlich zu sein — ich dachte nichts mehr”
“A fine thing: suddenly to forget about one’s history, one’s past, to stop feeling that one’s present happiness is endangered by what one used to be.”
“My way of thinking is often so wrong, so untenable, because I think as if I were talking to someone else.”
“The main thing:... not to let myself be defined by history, not to take it as an excuse—despise it in those who hide their personal insignificance behind it—and yet know it, in order to understand people and above all to see through them (my hatred of history as a refuge for be-nothings).”
“I was angry at her for not being what I wanted.”
“Tense, unnerved, and close to madness before writing—and when I read what I’ve written it looks so calm.”

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Wikidata facts

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Commons category: Peter Handke
date of birth: 1942-12-06
name in native language: Peter Handke
start of work period: 1959-00-00
floruit: 2019-01-01
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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Peter Handke, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Die Fahrt im Einbaum oder Das Stück zum Film vom Krieg

Die Unvernünftigen sterben aus

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Article

Peter Handke ( German: [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).